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“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
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“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”

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The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
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“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”

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Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales, L. 1201

“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.”

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The Knight's Tale, l. 2275
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“Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne,
Entuned in hir nose ful semely,
And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,
For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.”

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General Prologue, l. 122-126
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“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”

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The Reeve's Tale, l. 4051
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“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swych licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.”

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General Prologue, l. 1-12
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“Of 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

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 41
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.”

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General Prologue, l. 565; referencing the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb".
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“Certes, they been lyk to houndes, for an hound whan he comth by the roser, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a contenaunce to pisse.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Parson's Tale, sect. 77
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“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”

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About the Sergeant of Law
General Prologue, l. 323-324
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“For I am shave as neigh as any frere.
But yit I praye unto youre curteisye:
Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, l. 19–21

“That 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

Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.”

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The Knight's Tale, l. 1141
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“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.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 733
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“This flour of wifly patience.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Clerk's Tale, part v., l. 8797
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“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”

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Persones Tale
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales

“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”

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General Prologue, l. 440
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“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Reeve's Tale, l. 4153
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