Today's Fun Fact

​It was the morning of the sixth of May
And May had painted with her soft showers
A garden full of leaves and flowers.
And man's hand had arrayed it with such craft
There never was a garden of such price
But if it were the very Paradise.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400) from The Franklin's Tale in the Canterbury Tales

In the England during the 12th to 15th centuries, a franklin was a member of a certain social class or rank. In the Middle English period, a franklin was simply a freeman; that is, a man who was not a serf. ​