Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himsel… - Geoffrey Chaucer

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Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more.

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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For he would rather have, by his bedside, twenty books, bound in black or red, of Aristotle and his philosophy, than rich robes or costly fiddles or gay harps.

Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more. - Geoffrey Chaucer

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