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Epigraphs

Epigraph 1

  All rising to Great Place is by a Winding Staire
  — Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral (1625)

Epigraph 2

  Hit's a-comin', boys. Tell yore folks hit's a-comin'.
  — Thomas Wolfe, O Lost, A Story of the Buried Life

Epigraph 3

  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 (1385)


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

  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"


  Whan it cam him to purpos for to reste,
  I trowe he hadde thilke text in minde,
  That 'alle thing, repeiring to his kinde,
  Gladeth him-self'; thus seyn men, as I gesse;
  Men loven of propre kinde newfangelnesse,
  As briddes doon that men in cages fede.
  — Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Squire's Tale"