Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.
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But for the love of god, at my preyinge,Go henne a-way, for certes, my deyinge
Wol thee disese, and I mot nedes deye;
Ther-for go wey, ther is no more to seye.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.
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And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.
Geoffrey Chaucer
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Iyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, Thassay so hard, so sharp the conquenng. .... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this newe 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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