Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Povert is hateful good, and, as I gesse,
A ful greet bringer out of bisiness;”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Madame, ye been alle beautee shrine
As fer as cercled is the mapemounde:
For as the crystal glorious ye shine,
And like ruby been youre cheekes rounde.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“A cook they hadde with hem for the nones
To boille the chiknes with the marybones.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)