Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.
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Love will not be constrain’d by mastery. When mast’ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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Look up on high, and thank the God of all.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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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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People can die of mere imagination.
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By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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Full wise is he that can himself know.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
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If gold rust, what then will iron do? For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.
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But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.
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Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

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