17 January, 2019

The Knight's Tale


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For God's love, take things patiently, have sense,
Think! We are prisoners and shall always be.
Fortune has given us this adversity,
Some wicked planetary dispensation,
Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation
Has given us this, and Heaven, 
though we had sworn
The contrary, so stood when we were born.
We must endure it, that's the long and short.
Geoffrey Chaucer