Geoffrey Chaucer — "A clerk, that was of Oxenford also, / Unto the world as in a cloystre he go."

A clerk, that was of Oxenford also, / Unto the world as in a cloystre he go.
Geoffrey Chaucer — Geoffrey Chaucer Medieval · Canterbury Tales

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General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, emphasizing the Oxford Clerk's extreme detachment from worldly affairs, almost to an eccentric degree.

Date: c. 1387-1400

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