Chaucer

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

    A somonour was ther with us in that place
    That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face,
    For sawcefleem he was, with eyen narwe.
    As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe,
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Now welcom, somer, with thy sonne softe,
    That hast this wintres wedres overshake,
    And driven away the longe nyghtes blake.
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age
    In th’actes and in fruit of mariage.
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)