Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“Now welcom, somer, with thy sonne softe,
That hast this wintres wedres overshake,
And driven away the longe nyghtes blake.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

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

“Curteis he was, lowely, and servysable,
And carf biforn his fader at the table.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)