"Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake."

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"And smale foules maken melodie, That slepen alle night with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages."

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"That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all."

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"I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to."

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"Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse."

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"Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe."

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"And yet he had a thomb of gold parde."

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"A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also."

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"For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,-- A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is."

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"Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done at leisure parfitly."

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"And of his port as meke as is a mayde."

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"They demen gladly to the badder end."

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"Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie."

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"Truth is the highest thing that man may keep."

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"Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!"

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"And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."

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"For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere; And out of old bookes, in good faithe, Cometh al this new science that men lere."

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"In his owen grese I made him frie."

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"That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis."

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"So was hire joly whistle wel ywette."

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"For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte."

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"Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal."

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"Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken."

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"And brought of mighty ale a large quart."

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"This flour of wifly patience."

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"Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman."

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"But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taught; but first he folwed it himselve."

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"But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told."

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"Mordre wol out, that see we day by day."

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"This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,-- That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught."

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"Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese."

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"The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge."

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"I am right sorry for your heavinesse."

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"Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord."

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"He coude songes make, and wel endite."

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"Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie."

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"To maken vertue of necessite."

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"Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe."

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"He helde about him alway, out of drede, A world of folke."

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"Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun."

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"Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun."

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"The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate."

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"WHANNE that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote."

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"O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?"

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"For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special."

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"And for to see, and eek for to be seie."

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"His studie was but litel on the Bible."

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"Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder."

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"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering."

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"The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men."

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