John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Geoffrey Chaucer. (c. 1340–1400) |
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| Whanne that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1. |
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| And smale foules maken melodie, That slepen alle night with open eye, So priketh hem nature in hir corages; Than longen folk to gon on pilgrimages. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 9. |
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| And of his port as meke as is a mayde. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 69. |
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| He was a veray parfit gentil knight. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 72. |
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| He coude songes make, and wel endite. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 95. |
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| Ful wel she sange the service devine, Entuned in hire nose ful swetely; And Frenche she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford atte bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 122. |
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| A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 287. |
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| For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre. |
| Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 295. |