04c. 1364 ADThe lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne, Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
05c. 1364 ADFor out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere; And out of old bookes, in good faithe, Cometh al this new science that men lere.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
07c. 1364 ADO little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
08c. 1364 ADOf all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
09c. 1364 ADThat well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
12c. 1364 ADHis spirit chaunged house and wente ther,As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
17c. 1364 ADLo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
18c. 1364 ADBy God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
20c. 1364 ADThus in this heaven he took his delight And smothered her with kisses upon kisses Till gradually he came to know where bliss is.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
21c. 1364 ADChese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,And take youre aventure of the repairThat shal be to youre hous by cause of me,Or in som oother place, may wel be.Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
24c. 1364 ADI know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.Geoffrey Chaucer / quote ↗
