Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Forbede us thing, and that desiren we; Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee. With daunger oute we al oure chaffare: Greet prees at market maketh dere ware, And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.
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Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.
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Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and quik, and ful of hy sentence. Souninge in moral vertu was his speche, And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
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This flour of wifly patience.
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O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
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The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.
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Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.
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For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
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But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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And therfore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon other.
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Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!
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Love is a thyng as any spirit free. Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.
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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.