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Quotation from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
“But Christe’s lore, and his apostles’ twelve, He taught, and first he follow’d it himselve”
The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, the Parson (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized))
The poor Parson is the model of a priest whose life matches his preaching.
Citation: "But Christe’s lore, and his apostles’ twelve, He taught, and first he follow’d it himselve" — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, the Parson (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized)). (id the-canterbury-tales-q6)
Portrait: Chaucer ellesmere, Unknown, Public domain.
