Quotes by Geoffrey Chaucer
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So hath your beaute fro your herte chaced
I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age In th'actes and in fruit of mariage.
Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
He yaf me al the bridel in myn hand, To han the governance of hous and land, And of his tonge and his hand also;
Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, were right ynogh to me To speke of wo that is in mariage.
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe (Very wise is he that can know himself.)
Men may conseile a womman to be oon, But conseiling nis no comandement....
For I am shave as neigh as any frere. But yit I praye unto youre curteisye: Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die.
There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;...
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