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For Out Of The Old Fieldes, As Men Saithe, Cometh Al This New Corne Fro Yere To Yere
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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 (1328-1400)
-- The Assembly of Fowles, Line 22
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Fair weather cometh out of the north. -- Old Testament -- Job xxxvii, 22
Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Assembly of Fowles, Line 379...
He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.
-- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) -- Defence of Poesy...
Men are better when they are old; things when they are new.
The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Assembly of Fowles, Line 1...
For of the most High cometh healing. -- Old Testament -- Ecclesiasticus xxxviii, 2
The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Reves Tale, Line 4051...
The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere, Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Manciples Tale, Line 17281...
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...