Argument Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

“My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.”

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“Till we be roten, kan we not be rypen?”

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Venus me yaf my lust, my like rousnesse, And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardinesse.

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“For sondry scoles maken sotile clerkis; Womman of manye scoles half a clerk is.”

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