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Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Died: 1400
Died: October 25
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Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.
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Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
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Women naturally desire the same six things as I they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.
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He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.
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I gave my whole heart up, for him to hold.
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Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now and strange And yet they spake them so, time and again, And thrived in love as well as any men And so to win their loves in sundry days, In sundry lands there are as many ways.
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Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
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One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
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We little know the things for which we pray.
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Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?
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'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
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This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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The cat would eat fish but would not get her feet wet.
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Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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