Best of all is Chaucer’s incomparable portrait of the clerk of Oxenford, hollow, threadbare, unworldly – “For him was lever have at his beddes heed Twenty bokes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophye, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrye, . . . . Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.” The Rise of Universities by Charles Homer Haskins; p. 65
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