<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lament for Chaucer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable, <br>This landes verray tresor and richesse! <br>Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparable <br>Unto us doon: hir vengeable duresse <br>Despoiled hath this land of the swetnesse <br>Of rethorik; for unto Tullius <br>Was never man so lyk amonges us. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Also who was hier in philosophie <br>To Aristotle in our tonge but thou? <br>The steppes of Virgile in poesie <br>Thou folwedist eeke, men wot wel ynow. <br>Thou combre-worlde that the my maister slow-- <br>Wolde I slayn were!--Deth, was to hastyf <br>To renne on thee and reve the thi lyf... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She myghte han taried hir vengeance a while <br>Til that sum man had egal to the be; <br>Nay, lat be that! sche knew wel that this y1e <br>May never man forth brynge lyk to the, <br>And hir office needes do mot she: <br>God bad hir so, I truste as for the beste; <br>O maister, maister, God thi soule reste!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Hoccleve">Thomas Hoccleve</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529738" data-title="Lament for Chaucer de Thomas Hoccleve" data-description="ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable, This landes verray tresor and richesse! Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparable Unto us doon: hir vengeable duresse Despoiled hath this land of the swetnesse Of rethorik; for unto Tullius Was never man so ..."></div> </div> </div>

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