Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
Chaucer
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Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
GEOFFREY CHAUCER As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: / Rooted and built up in him...
BIBLE Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleaser...
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We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass...
JOHN GAY Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, u...
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Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they ...
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Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.
DANA CARVEY Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of ...
BIBLE And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according ...
BIBLE Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the...
BIBLE As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye ...
BIBLE What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the
faces of the poor? saith the Lord God...
BIBLE But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting
salvation: ye shall be ashamed nor confo...
BIBLE As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater...
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Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.
C.S. LEWIS Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
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Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
DIANA GABALDON Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye...
BIBLE And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear...
BIBLE I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye tur...
BIBLE For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured fort...
BIBLE The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that ...
BIBLE But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, e...
BIBLE Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, whic...
BIBLE And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the LORD, and ye shall know that the...
BIBLE And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with jo...
BIBLE For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in ...
BIBLE And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them i...
BIBLE Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's tab...
BIBLE Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the...
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who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wher...
BIBLE And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
BIBLE I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye ...
BIBLE And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt? / And t...
BIBLE The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
BAHA'U'LLAH I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies gr...
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Ye need not be scairt of me," he said softly. "Nor anyone here, so long as I'm with ye." - Jaime
DIANA GABALDON Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
BIBLE For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not...
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I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you wil...
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Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath s...
PETER STUYVESANT In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
BIBLE Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and ...
BIBLE And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the compo...
BIBLE These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offer...
BIBLE Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device si...
JOANNE HARRIS If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
BIBLE As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the...
DUKE OF WELLINGTON This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye hav...
BIBLE We're all delighted to be enshrined in one of the icons of pop culture. Yow! Are we having fun!
DAVID HOLLAND I have a wish list of directors I want to work with and Floria has been on that list for as long as ...
BERT YUKICH Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that
ye be not servants unto the Hebrews...
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He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
JOHN DRYDEN Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord (Psalms 31:24).
BIBLE But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts there...
BIBLE Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Chri...
BIBLE And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as
unto children, My son, despise not...
BIBLE And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye sha...
BIBLE But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be...
BIBLE What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?
PETE HAMILL If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF For I have not sent them, saith the LORD, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you...
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What ye have been ye still shall be
When we are dust the dust among,
O yellow flowers!
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ![]()
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
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Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.
BRIAN JACQUES The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circ...
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You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything...
DIANA GABALDON And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the an...
BIBLE Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LO...
BIBLE Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
BIBLE When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side...
BIBLE When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the te...
BIBLE Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusa...
BIBLE Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither c...
BIBLE And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullo...
BIBLE Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto t...
BIBLE If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD ...
BIBLE Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all.
BIBLE Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with you...
BIBLE For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
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Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's troubl...
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill!
Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pi...
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A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill;
Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pi...
CHARLES DIBDIN Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of t...
BIBLE And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his i...
BIBLE We will continue on with our list as we are moving forward.
DAVE CERLANEK Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
BIBLE if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL "Christ the Lord is risen to-day,"
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your joys and triumphs hi...
CHARLES WESLEY So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and we...
BIBLE Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,...
BIBLE Christ the Lord is risen to-day,"
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sin...
CHARLES WESLEY And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his r...
BIBLE For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if t...
BIBLE And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; s...
BIBLE Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye
may know how ye ought to answer ev...
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We know little of the things for which we pray.
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People can die of mere imagination.
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
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Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see...
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).
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There's never a new fashion but it's old. - The Canterbury Tales.
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Time and tide wait for no man.
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Love is blind.
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
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Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that we ma...
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Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
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And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
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So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
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His studie was but litel on the Bible.
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She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.
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For gold in phisik is a cordial;
Therefore he lovede gold in special.
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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.
[Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pr...
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Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
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That of all the floures in the mede,
Thanne love I most these floures white and rede,
Suche as...
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That men by reason will it calle may
The daisie or elles the eye of day
The emperice, and flou...
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The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
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The thrustelcok made eek hir lay,
The wode dove upon the spray
She sang ful loude and cleere.
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And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
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But every thyng which schyneth as the gold,
Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
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Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be,
That may both werken wel and hastily.
This wol be done a...
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Frieth in his own grease.
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves
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First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
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It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.
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The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.
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Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
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Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
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One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
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Many a smale maketh a grate.
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Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
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Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
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Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
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In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde
And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.
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Patience is a conquering virtue.
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This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,--
That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
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There's never a new fashion but it's old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER ![]()
Time and tide wait for no man.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
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For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.
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Rose were sette of swete savour,
With many roses that thei bere.
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve
He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
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Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well
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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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Make a virtue of necessity.
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And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
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For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent in...
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The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne,
Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
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Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
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People can die of mere imagination.
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We little know the things for which we pray
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Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
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The life so short, the crafts so long to learn
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It is not all gold that glareth
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily
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Murder will out, this my conclusion
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doctors & druggists wash each other's hands
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Love is blind.
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean
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She loved right from the first sight
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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
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Love is blynde.
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Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon
That shal ete with a feend.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a
bicycle repair kit.
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Experience, though non auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynough to me
To speke of wo tha...
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For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
And out of ol...
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It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
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Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no
knight.
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Nowher so besy a man as he ther was,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.
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Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space
Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,
That neither by...
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He koude songes make and well endite.
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And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.
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Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity
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people have managed to marry without arithmetic
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, the' assay so hard, so sharp the conqueryinge
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The smiler with the knife under the cloak
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Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed...
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Forbid us something, and that thing we desire
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And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach
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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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... murder wol out
GEOFFREY CHAUCER have you killed me, false thief?
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Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
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That if gold rust, what shall iron do?/ For if a priest be foul, in whom we trust,/ No wonder is a l...
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By nature, men love newfangledness
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:
We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass... 
Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. 
Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem. 
Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well. 
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. 
I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you wil... 
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath s... 
He [Chaucer] is a perpetual fountain of good sense. 
What ye have been ye still shall be
When we are dust the dust among,
O yellow flowers! 
What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers! 
Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill. 
You're mine, damn ye, Claire Fraser! Mine, and I wilna share ye, with a man or a memory, or anything... 
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
A strong nor'wester's blowing, Bill;
Hark! don't ye hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pi... 
We know little of the things for which we pray. 
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. 
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And she was fair as is the rose in May. 
Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that we ma...