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"Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse."
Geoffrey Chaucer / The Court of Love. Line 178.
The Court of Love. Line 178.
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"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering."
Geoffrey Chaucer / The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.
The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere; And out of old bookes, in good faithe, Cometh al this new science that men lere."
Geoffrey Chaucer / The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22.
The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22.
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"Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord."
Geoffrey Chaucer / The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379.
The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379.
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"O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?"
Geoffrey Chaucer / The Flower and the Leaf. Line 59.
The Flower and the Leaf. Line 59.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun."
Geoffrey Chaucer / Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41.
Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41.
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"That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all."
Geoffrey Chaucer / Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 183.
Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 183.
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"For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away."
Geoffrey Chaucer / The Ten Commandments of Love.
The Ten Commandments of Love.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain