That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer For time lost may not recovered be.
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Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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