Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with … - Geoffrey Chaucer

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Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer. ' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.

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