Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Short was his gowne, with sleves longe and wyde.
Wel koude he sitte on hors and faire ryde.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“He yaf me al the bridel in myn hand,
To han the governance of hous and land,
And of his tonge and his hand also;”
—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)