Epigraph 1
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All rising to Great Place is by a Winding Staire
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Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral (1625)
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Epigraph 2
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Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'.
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Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life
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Epigraph 3
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Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
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With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
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That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
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Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
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And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
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Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
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In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
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Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (1385)
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Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry been usages.
Geoffrey Chaucer, "Troilus and Criseyde", 2.4.22-28 (1385)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Troilus_and_Criseyde:Book_II
Epigraph 4
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Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
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As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
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— Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"
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Whan it cam him to purpos for to reste,
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I trowe he hadde thilke text in minde,
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That 'alle thing, repeiring to his kinde,
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Gladeth him-self'; thus seyn men, as I gesse;
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Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
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As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
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— Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"
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