That Well By Reason Men It Call May The Daisie, Or Els The Eye Of The Day, The Emprise, And Floure Of Floures All.

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 (1328-1400) -- Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, Line 41...
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....
A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 287...
And for to see, and eek for to be seie.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Wif of Bathes Prologue, Line 6134...
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 310...
And of his port as meke as is a mayde.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 69...
And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 565...
Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Frankeleines Prologue, Line 10998...
For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 445...