Nat

Famous quotes containing the word nat:

    “nat every wight he sholde go selle
    Al that he hadde and yive it to the poore,
    And in swich wise folwe him and his fore:
    He spak to hem that wolde live parfitly—
    And lordinges, by youre leve, that am nat I.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “I have swich love-longinge,
    That lik a turtle trewe is my moorninge:
    I may nat ete namore than a maide.””
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “Boold was hir face, and fair, and reed of hewe.
    She was a worthy womman al hir lyve.
    Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyve,
    Withouten oother compaignye in youthe—
    But therof nedeth nat to speke as nowthe.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)