GCGeoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Life dates: 1328 AD — 1400 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1364 AD

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

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02c. 1364 AD

Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!

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03c. 1364 AD

Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

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04c. 1364 AD

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.

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05c. 1364 AD

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.

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06c. 1364 AD

Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.

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07c. 1364 AD

O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?

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08c. 1364 AD

Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.

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09c. 1364 AD

That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.

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10c. 1364 AD

For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.

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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

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12Undated

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.

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13Undated

... murder wol out

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14Undated

people have managed to marry without arithmetic

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15Undated

you will not be master of my body & my property

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16Undated

we know little of the things for which we pray

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17Undated

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.

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18Undated

By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.

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19Undated

Then the Miller fell off his horse.

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20Undated

Thus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.

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21Undated

Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,And take youre aventure of the repairThat shal be to youre hous by cause of me,Or in som oother place, may wel be.Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.

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22Undated

earn what you can since everything's for sale

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23Undated

you are the cause by which I die

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24Undated

I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.

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