Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

“There saw I how the secret felon wrought,
And treason labouring in the traitor’s thought,
And midwife Time the ripened plot to murder brought.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Abak he sterte, and thoughte it was amis,
For wel he wiste a womman hath no beerd.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)