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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Abstinence is approved of God.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
All good things must come to an end.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Death is the end of every worldly pain.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
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
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
In April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root, and all The veins are bathed in liquor of such power As brings about the engendering of the flower.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
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By AnonymGeoffrey Chaucer
In the stars is written the death of every man.
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