Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“And he was redy with his iren hoot,
And Nicholas amidde the ers he smoot:”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Our sons their fathers’ failing language see,
And such as Chaucer is shall Dryden be.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“They yelleden as fiendes doon in hell;
The duckes cryden as men would them quell;
The geese for feare flewen over the trees;
Out of the hive came the swarm of bees.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)