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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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