Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire - Geoffrey Chaucer

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Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. Chaucer is most famous as the author of The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.

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It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.

Soun is noght but air y-broken, And every speche that is spoken, Loud or privee, foul or fair, In his substaunce is but air; For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke, Right so soun is air y-broke.

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.

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