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In love there is but little rest.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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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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Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.
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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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And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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