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Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pisan

 

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's


III
IN SILENCE



When he is silent,
the fool is no different from the wise.
His tongue shows his stupidity.
Therefore he presses his finger to his lips
like an Egyptian pharoh.