Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
love wells
'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'
fashion
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
may losing lost
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.
marriage wife curiosity
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
knights spurs habit
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.
murder conclusion
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
foolish young folly
If were not foolish young, were foolish old.
way may said
What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
science men corn
For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere; And out of olde bokis, in good fey, Comyth al this newe science that men lere.
flour
This flour of wifly patience.
husband desire lovers
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
littles
Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!
fire cold
Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
Or as an ook comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.