Bishop Nicholas

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    “O falling fire and piercing cry
    and panic, and a weak mailed fist
    clenched ignorant against the sky!”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “on a Saterday
    This carpenter was goon til Oseney,
    And hende Nicholas and Alisoun
    Accorded been to this conclusioun,
    That Nicholas shal shapen hem a wile
    This sely jalous housbonde to bigile,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)