“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales
About the Sergeant of Law
General Prologue, l. 323-324
The Canterbury Tales
“Na thar may na man fyr sa covyr
Than low or rek sall it discovyr.”
Nor can a man a fire so cover
That smoke or flame shall not discover.
Bk. 4, line 123; p. 109
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