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— William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

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763. Felicitee clepe I my suffisaunce.--B. iii. pr. 2. 6-8.

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Geoffrey Chaucer·1343–1400
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1541-4. Fortune, whiche that permutaciounOf thinges hath, as it is hir committedThrough purveyaunce and disposiciounOf heighe Iove. B. iv. pr. 6. 75-77. *1809. (The allusion here to the 'seventh spere' has but a remote referenceto Boethius (iv. met. 1. 16-19); for this stanza 259 is translated fromBoccaccio's _Teseide_, Bk. xi. st. 1). It thus appears that, for this poem, Chaucer made use of B. i. met. 1, pr.2, met. 3, pr. 4, met. 5; ii. pr. 1, met. 1, pr. 2, pr. 3, met. 3, pr. 4,pr. 7, met. 8; iii. met. 1, pr. 2, met. 2, pr. 3, met. 11, 12; iv. pr. 6;v. pr. 2, pr. 3.
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