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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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Soun is noght but air ybroken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air ybroke.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.
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The bisy larke, messager of day.
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Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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