Nat

Famous quotes containing the word nat:

    Love is a thyng as any spirit free.
    Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee,
    And nat to been constreyned as a thral;
    And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    I have swich love-longinge,
    That lik a turtle trewe is my moorninge:
    I may nat ete namore than a maide.”
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    nat every wight he sholde go selle
    Al that he hadde and yive it to the poore,
    And in swich wise folwe him and his fore:
    He spak to hem that wolde live parfitly—
    And lordinges, by youre leve, that am nat I.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)