A clerk, that was of Oxenford also, / Unto the world as in a cloystre he go.
Canterbury Tales
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, emphasizing the Oxford Clerk's extreme detachment from worldly affairs, almost to an eccentric degree.
c. 1387-1400
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"And if he foond owher a good felawe, / He wolde techen hym to have noon awe / In swich caas of the ercedekenes curs, / But if a man's purs were in his ers."
Strange & Unusual"She koude muchel of wandrynge by the weye. / Gat-tothed was she, soothly for to seye."
Strange & Unusual"Upon the cop right of his nose he hade A werte, and theron stood a tuft of heres rede, As bristles of a sowes eerys olde."
Humorous"A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives."
Shocking"He coude songes make and wel endite, Juste and eek daunce, and wel purtreye and write."
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