Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Abak he sterte, and thoughte it was amis,
For wel he wiste a womman hath no beerd.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“There saw I how the secret felon wrought,
And treason labouring in the traitor’s thought,
And midwife Time the ripened plot to murder brought.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Thou saist that dropping houses and eek smoke
And chiding wives maken men to flee
Out of hir owene hous: a, benedicite,
What aileth swich an old man for to chide?”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)