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“Go, little booke! go, my little tragedie!”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

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

“For which he wex a litel red for shame,
Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen,
That to beholde it was a noble game,
How sobreliche he caste doun his yen.
Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen,
And let so softe it in her herte sinke
That to herself she seyde, “Who yaf me drinke?””

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 2, line 645-651
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“Harde is his herte that loveth nought
In Mey, …”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Romaunt of the Rose

The Romaunt of the Rose, Lines 85-86 http://books.google.com/books?id=bGhZAAAAYAAJ&q=%22harde+is+his+herte+that%22+%22nought+in+mey%22&pg=PA215#v=onepage

“That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Knight's Tale, l. 1524
The Canterbury Tales

“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.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 2, line 1335-37
The earliest known near-usage in English of the proverb "Great oaks from little acorns grow."
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“I am right sorry for your heavinesse.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 5, line 146
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 493
The Canterbury Tales

“Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book ii, line 470
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 4, line 1283
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 3, line 764
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“Fie on possession,
But if a man be vertuous withal.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Franklin's Tale, l. 10998
The Canterbury Tales

“Soun is noght but air ybroken,
And every speche that is spoken,
Loud or privee, foul or fair,
In his substaunce is but air;
For as flaumbe is but lighted smoke,
Right so soun is air ybroke.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The House of Fame

The House of Fame, bk. 2, l. 257-62

“The firste vertue, sone, if thou wilt lere,
Is to restreine and kepen wel thy tonge.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Manciples Tale, l. 17281
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales

“He coude songes make, and wel endite.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

General Prologue, l. 95
The Canterbury Tales

“Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde

Book 4, line 525
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“In his owen grese I made him frie.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Reeve's Tale, l. 6069
The Canterbury Tales

“And for to see, and eek for to be seie.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6134
The Canterbury Tales

“Allas! allas! that evere love was synne!”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 614
The Canterbury Tales

“What maketh this, but Juppiter the kyng,
That is prince and cause of alle thyng
Convertynge al unto his propre welle
From which it is deryved, sooth to telle,
And heer-agayns no creature on lyve
Of no degree availleth for to strive.

Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessity,
And take it weel, that we may nat eschue;
And namely, that to us alle is due.”

Geoffrey Chaucer The Knight's Tale

The Knight's Tale, lV 2177 - 2186
The Canterbury Tales