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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.
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. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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