Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

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

“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

“With hym ther rood a gentil pardoner
Of Rouncivale, his freend and his compeer,
That streight was comen fro the court of Rome.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)