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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 447
AUTHOR: Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
QUOTATION: Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
ATTRIBUTION: GEOFFREY CHAUCER, “Clerk’s Tale,” lines 652–53, The Canterbury Tales, p. 108 (1957).

An early version of “Do your own thing.”
SUBJECTS: Doing
 


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