Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“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)

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

“Certes this dream, which ye han met tonight,
Cometh of the great superfluity
Of your redde colera,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)