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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Number: | 19 |
| Author: | Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) |
| Quotation: | That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. 1 |
| Attribution: | Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1524. |
| Note 1. Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.—John Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. v. Wode has erys, felde has sigt.—King Edward and the Shepherd, MS. Circa 1300. Walls have ears.—Hazlitt: English Proverbs, etc. (ed. 1869) p. 446. [back] |
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