Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

“Of Eva first, that for hir wikkednesse
Was al mankinde brought to wrecchednesse,
For which that Jesu Crist himself was slain
That boughte us with his herte blood again—
Lo, heer expres of wommen may ye finde
That womman was the los of al mankinde.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Curteis he was, lowely, and servysable,
And carf biforn his fader at the table.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)