Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes - Page 3

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• There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
  And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
  The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
  Successless wars, and poverty behind;
  Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
  And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
  The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
  And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, War, Fighting

  John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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• There's never a new fashion but it's old.

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  Fashion

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• We little know the things for which we pray.

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  Prayer, Littles, Praying

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• If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

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  Iron, Gold, Rust

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• This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.

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  World, This World

  1387 Canterbury Tales,'The Knight's Tale', l. 2847-8.

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• Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

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  Men, May

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The Franklin's Tale' l. 1479

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• And she was fair as is the rose in May.

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  Flower, Rose, May

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Legend of Good Women: Easyread Large Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• People can die of mere imagination.

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  People, Imagination, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1956). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

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  May, Way, Said

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

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  Canterbury Tales, Middle English, Canterbury

  The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 308 (ca. 1387)

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• But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
  He taught and first he followed it himself.

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  Twelve, Firsts, Taught

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.34, Barron's Educational Series

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• And as for me, thogh that I can but lyte, On bakes for to rede I me delyte, And to hem yeve I feyth and ful credence, And in myn herte have hem in reverence So hertely, that ther is game noon, That fro my bokes maketh me to goon, But hit be seldom, on the holyday; Save, certeynly, when that the month of May Is comen, and that I here the foules singe, And that the floures ginnen for to springe, Farwel my book and my devocion.

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  Book, Games, Noon

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1931). “The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer”

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• The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

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  Men, Long, Crafts

  "Parlement of Foules". Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, circa 1382.

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• Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

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  Lying, Men, Missing

  Geoffrey Chaucer, John Urban Nicolson (2015). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.242, Courier Corporation

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• Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  "The Canterbury Tales in Plain and Simple English (Translated)".

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• Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.

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  Cat, Flesh, Als

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• Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

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  Farewell, Love Is, Gone Love

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

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  'The Romaunt of the Rose' l. 2573

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• He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

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  Deeds, Gentle

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• My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.

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  Men, Feet, Space

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Abstinence is approved of God.

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  Abstinence, Approved

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• Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

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  Book, Hem, March

  The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 1 (ca. 1387)

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• Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!

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  Littles

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1843). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: With an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse; Together with Notes and a Glossary”, p.332

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• Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

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  Gold, Thumbs, Golden

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1881). “The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby”

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• He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

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  Love, Freedom, Honour

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1958). “Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader”

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