| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 2 |
| AUTHOR: | Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 13401400) |
| QUOTATION: | And smale foules maken melodie, That slepen alle night with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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