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To: dayglored
Well, it's a good thing nobody quoted Chaucer, he'd have really sprained something.

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,
That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

93 posted on 01/10/2011 7:38:09 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
> Well, it's a good thing nobody quoted Chaucer, he'd have really sprained something.
      I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,
      That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

Speaking of holes... :)

Hold up thy tayl, thou sathanas! -- quod he --
shewe forth thyn ers, and lat the frere se
Where is the nest of freres in this place!
Ol' Geoffrey seemed to have a thing about the brothers... but I have only the slimmest acquaintance with Chaucer, so I may be in error.
94 posted on 01/10/2011 8:27:00 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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