Many a true word is spoken in jest.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERCertain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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Harde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
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He loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
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And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
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Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there’s little but an empty cask.
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Many small make a great.
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But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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A love grown old is not the love once new.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Men love newfangleness.
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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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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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