Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well … - Geoffrey Chaucer

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I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.

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