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 engineers. And this man had given time and money to the university in his town and to his church, as I reminded him.

"You support colleges and churches, you and your kind do," I said. "What for?"

"For women and children," he snapped from his distance.

(Italian religious reformer, 1452-1498; hanged and burned by his enemies)

But dost thou know what I would tell thee? In the primitive church, the chalices were of wood, the prelates of gold. In these days the church hath chalices of gold and prelates of wood.

The Preacher

(From "The Canterbury Tales")

(Early English poet, 1340-1400)

Than peyne I me to strecche forth my necke, And est and west upon the people I bekke, As doth a pigeon, syttyng on a loft; Myn hondes and my tonge move so oft, That it is joye to see my busynesse. Of avarice and of suche cursedness Is al my preching, for to make hem free To give their pence, and namely unto me