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“Forbid Us Something and That Thing we Desire”

Geoffrey Chaucer

“Love will not be constrain'd by mastery.
When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon
Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone.
Love is a thing as any spirit free.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

Love , God

“Forbede us thing, and that desiren we;
Preesse on us faste, and thanne wol we flee.
With daunger oute we al oure chaffare:
Greet prees at market maketh dere ware,
And too greet chepe is holden at litel pris.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 525-529
The Canterbury Tales

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

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
The Canterbury Tales

Truth

“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
The Canterbury Tales

“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