A clerk, that was of Oxenford also, / Unto the world as in a cloystre he go.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, emphasizing the Oxford Clerk's extreme detachment from worldly affairs, almost to an eccentric degree.
c. 1387-1400
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