For in this world, certeyn, no wight there is / That he ne dooth or seith somtyme amis.
Canterbury Tales
From The Physician's Tale, a rather bleak and universal statement on inherent human imperfection, somewhat 'weird' in its bluntness for a moral tale.
c. 1387-1400
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"A vernycle hadde he sowed upon his cappe. / His walet lay biforn hym in his lappe, / Bretful of pardoun, come from Rome al hoot."
Strange & Unusual"He coude songes make and wel endite, Juste and eek daunce, and wel purtreye and write."
Humorous"And yet he was to hym a greet encressour. / Noon auditour koude on his word so wel / Have caught hym in his sleighte, ne in his trayne."
Strange & Unusual"He was an outridere, that loved venerie; / A manly man, to been an abbot able."
Strange & Unusual"Out of the olde feldes, as men seyth, Cometh al this newe corn from yeer to yeer; And out of olde bokes, in good feyth, Cometh al this newe science that men lere."
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