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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

17 Geoffrey Chauer 1340-1400 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:17
AUTHOR:Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
QUOTATION:Who so shall telle a tale after a man,
He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,
Everich word, if it be in his charge,
All speke he never so rudely and so large;
Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,
Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.
ATTRIBUTION:Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 733.