But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. - Geoffrey Chaucer

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The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Geoffrey Chaucer

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

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But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.

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