With hope; love should end with hope .

[naamah_darling]

Oh, dear god. Just as I was preparing my own tribute, one month to the day after Heath's untimely departure, Geoffrey Chaucer one-ups everyone, and laments the death of Sir William Thatcher.

What a pleasure, to have tears of delight instead of sorrow.

". . . He chaungid hys sterres, ros out of lowlinesse

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[greydomani]

I didn't want to be the one to bring it up, but about two weeks ago I finally saw (rather than just listened to from another room) A Knight's Tale.

I loved it.

How could I not? :)

(My eyes were stinging through most of it, too, but that's also not surprising.)

[naamah_darling]

Just in case it vanishes from the original site, here is the entry as it appeared on Chaucer's blog:

Lament for Sir WilliamMy gentil rederes, yif it be nat oon thynge, it is an oothir. For a while, ich was bisy with werke building an "fortified compound" for Kynge Richard. It semeth parliament was merciles this yeere. That did ete up much of my tyme ovir the seson of Yule