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Quotation from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
“Sounding in moral virtue was his speech, And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach”
The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, the Clerk (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized))
The poor Oxford scholar who spends all he has on books.
Citation: "Sounding in moral virtue was his speech, And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach" — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, the Clerk (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized)). (id the-canterbury-tales-q5)
Portrait: Chaucer ellesmere, Unknown, Public domain.
