In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERLook up on high, and thank the God of all.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWith empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
GEOFFREY CHAUCEROne shouldn’t be too inquisitive in life Either about God’s secrets or one’s wife.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERTruth is the highest thing that man may keep.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThere’s no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERThe handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHarde is his heart that loveth nought In May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMany small make a great.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERWhat’s said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERHe loved chivalry, Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERBut manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou die a martyr, go to heaven.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERFor in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.
GEOFFREY CHAUCERMen love newfangleness.
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