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• To maken vertue of necessite. -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 3044
• Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 2408...
• Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 2275...
• For May wol have no slogardie a-night. The seson priketh every gentil herte, And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Knightes Tale, Line 1044...
• 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...
• Whanne that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 1...
• For of fortunes sharpe adversite, The worst kind of infortune is this,-- A man that hath been in prosperite, And it remember whan it passed is.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Troilus and Creseide, Book iii, Line 1625...
• They demen gladly to the badder end.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Squieres Tale, Line 10538...
• Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Nonnes Preestes Tale, Line 15058...