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A Clerk there was of Oxenford also,
That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.

Geoffrey Chaucer
But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.
Gat-toothed I was, and that bicam me weel.

Geoffrey Chaucer
He hadde a croys of latoun ful of stones,
And in a glas he hadde pigges bones.
But with thise relikes, whan that he fond
A povre person dwellynge upon lond,
Upon a day he gat hym moore moneye
Than that the person gat in monthes tweye.

Geoffrey Chaucer
Cupido,
Upon his shuldres wynges hadde he two;
And blynd he was, as it is often seene;
A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene.

Geoffrey Chaucer
She was a worthy womman al hit lyve,
Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

Geoffrey Chaucer
She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous
Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.
Of smale houndes hadde she that she fedde
With rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed.

Geoffrey Chaucer
And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn, Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.

Geoffrey Chaucer
A Somonour was ther with us in that place,
That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face,
For saucefleem he was, with eyen narwe.
As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe.

Geoffrey Chaucer
For him was lever han at his beddes hed
A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,
Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
But all be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Geoffrey Chaucer
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie, But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

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