Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.
She was a worthy womman al hir lyve.
Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve,
Withouten oother compaignye in youthe—
But therof nedeth nat to speke as nowthe.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“She was so propre and sweete and likerous,
I dar wel sayn, if she hadde been a mous,
And he a cat, he wolde hire hente anoon.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“An haberdasshere and a carpenter,
A webbe, a dyere, and a tapycer,
And they were clothed alle in o lyveree
Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)