Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:
“An haberdasshere and a carpenter,
A webbe, a dyere, and a tapycer,
And they were clothed alle in o lyveree
Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne,
Entuned in hir nose ful semely,
And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,
For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“Whoso will seeken acts of sundry realms
May read of dreames many a wonder thing.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)