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• And she was fair as is the rose in May.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Flower, Rose, May

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Legend of Good Women: Easyread Large Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The latter end of joy is woe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Joy, Woe, Ends

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1861). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer: To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse, Togeher with Notes and a Glossary”, p.117

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• And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Ministry, Teach

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.20, Barron's Educational Series

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• Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thankfulness, Looks, Look Up

  Geoffrey Chaucer, “To Life's Pilgrim”

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• Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, May

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The Franklin's Tale' l. 1479

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• Men love newfangleness.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Progress

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• 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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, Games, Noon

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1931). “The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer”

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• And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Canterbury Tales, Middle English, Canterbury

  The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 308 (ca. 1387)

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• Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Cat, Flesh, Als

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• The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love... For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Long, Crafts

  "Parlement of Foules". Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, circa 1382.

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• By nature, men love newfangledness.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Invention

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• Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Farewell, Love Is, Gone Love

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• He is gentle that doeth gentle deeds.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Deeds, Gentle

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• Thou shalt make castels thanne in Spayne And dreme of joye, all but in vayne.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  'The Romaunt of the Rose' l. 2573

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• What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  May, Way, Said

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• 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.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Spiritual, Heart, Journey

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• He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Freedom, Honour

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1958). “Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader”

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• My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Feet, Space

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• To keep demands as much skill as to win.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Winning, Skills, Demand

  Geoffrey Chaucer, George Philip Krapp (2006). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• People can die of mere imagination.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  People, Imagination, Literature

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1956). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Use, Temperance, Temperament

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• Abstinence is approved of God.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Abstinence, Approved

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• Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
  The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Book, Hem, March

  The Canterbury Tales "The General Prologue" l. 1 (ca. 1387)

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• One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Grief, Heart, Flesh

  Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright (1998). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.247, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Gold, Thumbs, Golden

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1881). “The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby”

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