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“I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,
That hath but on hole for to sterten to.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6154
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“Ther nis no werkman, whatsoevere he be,
That may bothe werke wel and hastily.”

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The Merchant's Tale, l. 1832-1833
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“Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily. 4
This wol be done at leisure parfitly.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Merchant's Tale, l. 585
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“This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf, —
That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 498
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“For May wol have no slogardie a-night.
The seson priketh every gentil herte,
And maketh him out of his slepe to sterte.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 1044
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“And of his port as meke as is a mayde.”

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General Prologue, l. 69
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“For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.”

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Ten Commandments of Love
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 3, line 1625-1628
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,
He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 529
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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.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 295-300
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“Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Reeve's Tale, l. 388
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“Mordre wol out, that se we day by day.”

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The Nun's Priest's Tale, l. 232
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“For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.”

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General Prologue, l. 445
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“They demen gladly to the badder end.”

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The Squire's Tale, l. 10538
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“To maken vertue of necessite.”

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The Knight's Tale, l. 3044
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“And for ther is so gret diversite
In Englissh and in writyng of oure tonge,
So prey I God that non myswrite the,
Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tonge;
And red wherso thow be, or elles songe,
That thow be understonde, God I biseche!”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 5, line 1793-1798
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde,
Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Clerk's Tale, l. 62-63
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“But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales

“Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale, l. 2408
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“And brought of mighty ale a large quart.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Miller's Tale, l. 3497
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