Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Jalous he was, and heeld hire narwe in cage,
For she was wilde and yong, and he was old,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“With us ther was a doctour of phisik;
In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik,
To speke of phisik and of a surgerye,
For he was grounded in astronomye.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

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