Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Where can ye saye in any manere age
That hye God defended mariage
By expres word? I praye you, telleth me.
Or where comanded he virginitee?”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

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

“Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!
Men may dien of imaginacioun,
So deepe may impression be take.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)