Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes - Page 7

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• Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  The Canterbury Tales "The Nun's Priest's Tale" l. 3052 (ca. 1387)

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• Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Writing, Men, Space

  'Troilus and Criseyde' bk. 5, l. 1629

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• Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Welcome

  The Canterbury Tales "TheWife of Bath's Prologue" l. 44 (ca. 1387)

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• But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Als, Canterbury Tales

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

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• Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Venus, Youth, Sin

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1959). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  1387 Canterbury Tales,'The Knight's Tale', l.1267.

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• So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Jolly

  "Canterbury Tales". Book by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reeve's Tale, line 4,155, 1387.

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• I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Holes, Wit

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1830). “The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay on His Language and Versification (etc.) - London, William Pickering 1830”, p.125

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• But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Herds, All Things

  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.485

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• Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Possession, Ifs

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Alois William BUCKLEY, Edward Henry Corbould, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1853). “The Canterbury Tales ... From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, Condensed and Arranged Under the Text. A New Edition. [Edited by Thomas A. W. Buckley.] Illustrated by Edward Corbould”, p.298

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• This flour of wifly patience.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Flour

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1775). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.40

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