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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 (1328-1400) -- Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, Line 183...
• Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Prologue, Line 3880...
• Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Troilus and Creseide, Book iv, Line 525...
• I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Wif of Bathes Prologue, Line 6154...
• He knew the tavernes well in every toun. -- Geoffrey Chauce
• For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
  But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre....
• Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Court of Love, Line 178...
• And smale foules maken melodie, That slepen alle night with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corage
  Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages....
• Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as, And yet he semed besier than he was.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 323...