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The Nun's Priest's Tale
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Whan that the month in which the world bigan,
That highte March, whan God first maked man.
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But yet that holden this tale a folly,
As of a fox, or of a cock and hen,
Taketh the morality, good men.
For Saint Paul saith that all that written is,
To our doctrine it is y-writ, ywis;
Taketh the fruit, and let the chaff be still.
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His coomb was redder than the fyn coral,
And batailled as it were a castel wal.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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Born:
1343
Died:
November 3, 1400
(aged 57)
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