For when your labours finish, And you’ve made your reckoning, Instead of rest and new things, You go home to your house anon; And, as dumb as any stone, You sit down to another book Till full dazed is your look, And live thus like a hermit,— Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame, c. 1374–85
For when your labours finish, And you’ve made your reckoning, Instead of rest and new things, You go home to your house anon; And, as dumb as any stone, You sit down to another book Till full dazed is your look, And live thus like a hermit,
