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• Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Rose, Legs, May

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• And for to see, and eek for to be seie.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  "The Canterbury Tales (The Wife of Bath's Tale)". Book by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1387.

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• Oon ere it herde, at tother out it went.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Troilus and Criseyde bk. 4, l. 434 (ca. 1385).

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• For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
  Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere;
  And out of olde bokis, in good fey,
  Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Men, Fey

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

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• If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Ifs

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 500

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• Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Fire, Cold

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”

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• The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  The Canterbury Tales "The Knight's Tale" l. 1999 (ca. 1387)

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• Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Soul, Literature, Body

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.273, The Floating Press

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• If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love Is, Wonder, Be Good

  Bernard O'Donoghue, Geoffrey Chaucer (2015). “Reading Chaucer's Poems: A Guided Selection”, p.61, Faber & Faber

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• At the ches with me she (Fortune) gan to pleye; With her false draughts (pieces) dyvers/She staal on me, and took away my fers. And when I sawgh my fers awaye, Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Queens, Pieces, Chess

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• Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Aspens, Quake

  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.299

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• Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes pryvetee Ye, blessed be alwey, a lewed man That noght but oonly his believe kan! So ferde another clerk with astromye, He walked in the feelds, for to prye Upon the sterres, what ther sholde bifalle, Til he was in a marle-pit yfalle.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Believe, Blessed, Men

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• Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Als, Appearance

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1967). “Publications”

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• Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, May, Dice

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Nature, Lord, Vicars

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1977). “The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition”, p.481, Penguin

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• For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gay, Twenties, Reeds

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 293

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• For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  May, Losing, Lost

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2014). “Troilus and Criseyde”, p.124, Trajectory Inc

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• But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Age, World, Als

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• And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Ale

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.140, The Floating Press

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• Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun. . . . . Til that myn herte dye. . . . . That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, May, Sake

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• Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Nine, Lasts, Wonder

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1868). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.309

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• The bisy larke, messager of day.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  The Canterbury Tales "The Knight's Tale" l. 1491 (ca. 1387)

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• I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Sorry

  "Troilus and Criseyde". Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1380s.

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• Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, And take him for the gretest gentilman.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1870). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.185

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• Murder will out, this my conclusion.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Literature, Murder, Conclusion

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