The following 58 quotes match your criteria:
| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Whanne that April with his shoures sote
The droughte of March hath perced to the rote. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
And smale foules maken melodie,
That slepen alle night with open eye,
So priketh hem nature in hir corages;
Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| And of his port as meke as is a mayde. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 69.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| He was a veray parfit gentil knight. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 72.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| He coude songes make, and wel endite. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 95.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Ful wel she sange the service devine,
Entuned in hire nose ful swetely;
And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly,
After the scole of Stratford atte bowe,
For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 122.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 287.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
For him was lever han at his beddes hed
A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red,
Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
But all be that he was a philosophre,
Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 295.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 310.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Nowher so besy a man as he ther n’ as,
And yet he semed besier than he was. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 323.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| His studie was but litel on the Bible. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 440. |
| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 445.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 493.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,—
That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 498.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,
He taught; but first he folwed it himselve. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 529.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| And yet he had a thomb of gold parde. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 565.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Who so shall telle a tale after a man,
He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,
Everich word, if it be in his charge,
All speke he never so rudely and so large;
Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,
Or feinen thinges, or finden word |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 733.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
For May wol have no slogardie a-night.
The seson priketh every gentil herte,
And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1044.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 1524.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2275.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 2408.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| To maken vertue of necessite. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Knightes Tale. Line 3044.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| And brought of mighty ale a large quart. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Milleres Tale. Line 3497.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Ther n’ is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Marchantes Tale. Line 585.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. Line 3880.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4051.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| So was hire joly whistle wel ywette. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4153.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| In his owen grese I made him frie. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 6069.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| And for to see, and eek for to be seie. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6134.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,
That hath but on hole for to sterten to. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6154.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
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. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Tale. Line 6695.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| This flour of wifly patience. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Clerkes Tale. Part v. Line 8797.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| They demen gladly to the badder end. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Squieres Tale. Line 10538.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Therefore behoveth him a ful long spone,
That shall eat with a fend. |
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Fie on possession,
But if a man be vertuous withal. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Prologue. Line 10998.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Frankeleines Tale. Line 11789.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Full wise is he that can himselven knowe. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Monkes Tale. Line 1449.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Mordre wol out, that see we day by day. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Nonnes Preestes Tale. Line 15058.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Chanones Yemannes Tale. Line 16430.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere,
Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge. |
| Canterbury Tales. The Manciples Tale. Line 17281.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate. |
| Canterbury Tales. Persones Tale.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese. |
| Troilus and Creseide. Book ii. Line 470.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
For of fortunes sharpe adversite,
The worst kind of infortune is this,—
A man that hath been in prosperite,
And it remember whan it passed is. |
| Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1625.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
He helde about him alway, out of drede,
A world of folke. |
| Troilus and Creseide. Book iii. Line 1721.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| One eare it heard, at the other out it went. |
| Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 435.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun. |
| Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 525.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| I am right sorry for your heavinesse. |
| Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 146.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie! |
| Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 1798.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse. |
| The Court of Love. Line 178.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, |
| The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe,
Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere;
And out of old bookes, in good faithe,
Cometh al this new science that men lere. |
| The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord. |
| The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede? |
| The Flower and the Leaf. Line 59.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
Of all the floures in the mede,
Than love I most these floures white and rede,
Soch that men callen daisies in our toun. |
| Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
That well by reason men it call may
The daisie, or els the eye of the day,
The emprise, and floure of floures all. |
| Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 183.
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| Author: Geoffrey Chaucer |
| For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away. |
| The Ten Commandments of Love.
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