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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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GROUP E.

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Geoffrey Chaucer·1343–1400
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HE CLERKES TALE. Mr. Stewart refers ll. 810-2 to Boethius, but these linestranslate Petrarch's sentence--'Nulla homini perpetua sors est.' Also ll.1155-1158, 1161; but these lines translate Petrarch's sentence--'Probattamen et sæpe nos, multis ac _grauibus flagellis exerceri sinit_, non utanimum nostrum sciat, quem sciuit antequam crearemur ... abundè ergoconstantibus uiris ascripserim, quisquis is fuerit, qui pro Deo suo sinemurmure patiatur.' I find no hint that Chaucer was directly influenced byBoethius, while writing this Tale. THE MARCHANTES TALE. Mr. Stewart refers ll. 1311-4 to Boethius, but theyare more likely from Albertanus Brixiensis, _Liber de Amore dei_, fol. 30 a(as shewn by Dr. Köppel):--'Et merito uxor est diligenda, qui donum estDei,' followed by a quotation from Prov. xix. 14. 1582. a mirour--B. v. met. 4. 8.
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