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Geoffrey Chaucer - ... if gold rust, what then will...
... if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust.... (Geoffrey Chaucer)

... if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust....

Geoffrey Chaucer

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