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Geoffrey Chaucer

• A Knight ther was, and that a worthy man, / That from the tyme that he ferst bigan / To ryden out, he lovèd chyvalrye, / Trouth and honoúr, fredóm and curtesie.
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue, Lines 43-6)
  
  
• For tyme y-lost may nought recovered be.
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (IV, Stanza 184, Line 1283)
  
  
• If love be good, from whennes comth my wo? / If it be wikke, a wonder thinketh me, / When every torment and adversitee / That cometh of him, may to me savory thinke; / For ay thurst I, the more that I it drinke.
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (I, Stanza 58, Line 402-6)
  
  
• My lige lady, generally, quod he, / Wommen desiren to have sovereyentee / As wel over hir housbond as hir love, / And for to been in maistrie hym above.
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (The Wife of Bath's Tale, Lines 1043-6)
  
  
• 'Bet is' quod he, 'hye in the roof abyde, / Than with an angry wyfe doun in the hous, / They been so wikked and contrarious.'
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (The Wife of Bath's Prologue, Lines 784-6)
  
  
• With us ther was a DOCTOUR of PHISIK; / In al this world ne was ther noon hym lik, / To speke of phisik and of surgerye, / For he was grounded in astronomye.
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue, Lines 413-6)
  
  
• And eek I praye Jesu shorte hir lyves / That nat wol be governed by hir wyves; / And olde and angry nygardes of dispence, God sende hem soone verray pestilence!
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (Wife of Bath's Tale, Lines 1267-1270)
  
  
• Poverte ful ofte, whan a man is lowe, / Maketh his God and eek hymself to knowe.
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (The Wife of Bath's Tale, Lines 1207-1208)
  
  
• But first I make a protestacioun / That I am dronke, I knowe it by my soun; / And therfore, if that I mysspeke or seye, / Wyte it the ale of Southwerk I you preye.
  - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (The Miller's Tale, Lines 29-32)