“That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, l. 1524
The Canterbury Tales
“Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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