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• One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Marriage, Wife, Secret

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• In the stars is written the death of every man.

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  Death, Stars, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1940). “The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Now First Put Into Modern English”

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

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  Food, Cooking, Woe

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• The fields have eyes, and the woods have ears.

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  Eye, Ears, Woods

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1990). “Canterbury Tales”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Men, World, Best Person

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• The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

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  Fate, Handsome, Talent

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

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  Knights, Spurs, Monk

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• In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

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  Husband, Desire, Lovers

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• Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange; And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men; And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.

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  Winning, Men, Years

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

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  Brother, Politics, Dear

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Bird, Empty

  "The Canterbury Tales".

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• Death is the end of every worldly pain.

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  Death, Pain, Ends

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Vincent Foster Hopper (1970). “Canterbury Tales (selected)”, p.180, Barron's Educational Series

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• 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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  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Time, May

  'Troilus and Criseyde' bk. 4, l. 1283

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• How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

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  People, Imagination, Fancy

  Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright (1965). “The Canterbury tales”, Vintage

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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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• If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

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  Foolish, Young, Folly

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• First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

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  Teaching, Firsts, Taught

  Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1798). “The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. To which are Added an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse Together with Notes and a Glossary”, p.17

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• Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

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  Pain, Rain, Heaven

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2012). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• . . . 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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  Men, Iron, Gold

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

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  Science, Moon, Iron

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• Men love newfangleness.

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  Men, Progress

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• If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

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  Iron, Gold, Rust

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• Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

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  Men, May

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

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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.

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  Cat, Flesh, Als

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