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• That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, White, Daisies

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1879). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer”

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• Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
  Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
  That neither by hir wordes ne hir face
  Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence,
  Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Patience, Space, Faces

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1874). “The Prioresses Tale: Sire Thopas, the Monkes Tale, the Clerkes Tale, the Squieres Tale, from the Canterbury Tales”, p.90

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• The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wise, Wisdom, Cat

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• And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wrens

  "Court of Love". Book by Geoffrey Chaucer, line 1,372,

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• A love grown old is not the love once new.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

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• Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The Knight's Tale' l. 1761

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• Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1867). “The Canterbury Tales: From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt : Condensed and Arranged Under the Text”, p.68

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• For many a pasty have you robbed of blood, And many a Jack of Dover have you sold That has been heated twice and twice grown cold. From many a pilgrim have you had Christ's curse, For of your parsley they yet fare the worse, Which they have eaten with your stubble goose; For in your shop full many a fly is loose.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Blood, Cooking

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• For I have seyn of a ful misty morwe Folowen ful ofte a myrie someris day.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Misty

  'Troilus and Criseyde' bk. 3, l. 1060

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• That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Walls Have Ears, Woods, Fields

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Cowden Clarke (1835). “The Riches of Chaucer: In which His Impurities Have Been Expunged, His Spelling Modernised, His Rhythm Accentuated and His Obsolete Terms Explained; Also Have Been Added a Few Explanatory Notes and a New Memoir of the Poet”, p.103

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• The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Wisest Man, Wisest

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The Reeve's Tale' l. 4054

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• That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1855). “Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.84

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• Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The Franklin's Tale' l. 1016

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• For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Fortune, Worst

  'Troilus and Criseyde' bk. 3, l. 1625.

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• Drunkenness is the very sepulcher
  Of man's wit and his discretion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Wit, Drunkenness

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• Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

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• He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Might, Diligence, Goodness

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.253

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• Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1933). “Chaucer”

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• And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Deeds

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The Knight's Tale' l. 1319

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• The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Grate

  "The Canterbury Tales (Persones Tale)". Book by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1387.

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• One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Hearing, Heard

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1851). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.308

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• 'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Wells

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1900). “The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales (Text)”

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• Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Two, Cheese

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1866). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.172

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• Nowhere so busy a man as he there was
  And yet he seemed busier than he was.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Busy, Busier

  "The Canterbury Tales".

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• To maken vertue of necessite.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1852). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales”, p.91

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