Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“A somonour was ther with us in that place
That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face,
For sawcefleem he was, with eyen narwe.
As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“on a Saterday
This carpenter was goon til Oseney,
And hende Nicholas and Alisoun
Accorded been to this conclusioun,
That Nicholas shal shapen hem a wile
This sely jalous housbonde to bigile,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age
In th’actes and in fruit of mariage.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)