Eek

Famous quotes containing the word eek:

“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)

““Myn owene trewe wif,
Do as thee lust the terme of al thy lif;
Keep thyn honour, and keep eek myn estat,”
After that day we hadde nevere debat.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Povert ful ofte, whan a man is lowe,
Maketh his God and eek himself to knowe.
Povert a spectacle is, as thinketh me,
Thurgh which he may his verray frendes see.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)