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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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London
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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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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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What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
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He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.
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What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
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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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