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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
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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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Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.
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