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Here’s a tribute to a good man

A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also,
That unto logyk hadde longe ygo.
As leene was his hors as is a rake,
And he nas nat right fat, I undertake,
But looked holwe, and therto sobrely.
Ful thredbare was his overeste courtepy;
…
For hym was levere have at his beddes heed
Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,
Of Aristotle and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.
But al be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre;
But al that he myghte of his freendes hente,
On books and on lernynge he it spente,
…
Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede.
Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,
…
Sownynge in more vertu was his speche,
And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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