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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular Middle English, rather than French or Latin.

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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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O moral Gower, this book I directe
To the.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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O yonge, fresshe folkes, he or she,
In which that love up groweth with youre age.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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And ther he saugh, with ful avysement
The erratik sterres, herkenyng armonye
With sownes ful of hevenyssh melodie.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Go, litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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For of fortunes sharpe adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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That lyf so short,
the craft so long to lerne.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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And she was fayr as is the rose in May.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee
As wel over hir housbond as hir love.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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A likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve!
Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Mordre wol out; that se we day by day.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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For pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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The bisy larke, messager of day.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Love wol nat been constreyned by maistrye.
When maistrie comth, the God of Love anon
Beteth his wynges, and farewel, he is gon!

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,
That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve.

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Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

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