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Geoffrey Chaucer bol anglický básnik, ktorého diela, najmä Canterburské poviedky sa považujú za prelom v anglickej literatúre. Chaucer pôsobil aj ako diplomat a filozof.Canterburské poviedky, cyklus 24 príbehov, ktoré si rozprávajú pútnici na ceste z Londýna, začal písať v roku 1387. Wikipedia  

✵ 1343 – 25. október 1400   •   Ďalšie mená Джеффри Чосер
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Geoffrey Chaucer: Citáty v angličtine

“Love is a thyng as any spirit free.
Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee,
And nat to been constreyned as a thral;
And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.”

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The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770
The Canterbury Tales

“Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.”

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The Court of Love, line 178
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.”

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General Prologue, l. 72
The Canterbury Tales

“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”

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The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6752
The Canterbury Tales

“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.”

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The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 525-529
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“For out of olde feldes, as men seith,
Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;
And out of olde bokes, in good feith,
Cometh al this newe science that men lere.”

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Parlement of Foules, l. 22-25

“Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente”

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One ear heard it, at the other out it went
Book 4, line 434
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)

“Loke who that is most vertuous alway,
Prive and apert, and most entendeth ay
To do the gentil dedes that he can,
And take him for the gretest gentilman.”

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The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6695
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“Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.”

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Parlement of Foules, l. 379

“A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.”

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General Prologue, l. 287
The Canterbury Tales

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

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The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
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“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”

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The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
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“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”

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Zdroj: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales, L. 1201

“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”

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The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
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“Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.”

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The Knight's Tale, l. 2275
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“Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne,
Entuned in hir nose ful semely,
And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,
For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.”

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General Prologue, l. 122-126
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“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”

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The Reeve's Tale, l. 4051
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“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swych licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(So priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.”

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General Prologue, l. 1-12
The Canterbury Tales

“Of all the floures in the mede,
Than love I most these floures white and rede,
Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.”

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Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 41
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.”

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General Prologue, l. 565; referencing the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb".
The Canterbury Tales

“Certes, they been lyk to houndes, for an hound whan he comth by the roser, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a contenaunce to pisse.”

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The Parson's Tale, sect. 77
The Canterbury Tales

“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”

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About the Sergeant of Law
General Prologue, l. 323-324
The Canterbury Tales

“For I am shave as neigh as any frere.
But yit I praye unto youre curteisye:
Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die.”

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The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, l. 19–21

“That well by reason men it call may
The daisie, or els the eye of the day,
The emprise, and floure of floures all.”

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Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.”

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The Knight's Tale, l. 1141
The Canterbury Tales

“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.”

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General Prologue, l. 733
The Canterbury Tales

“This flour of wifly patience.”

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The Clerk's Tale, part v., l. 8797
The Canterbury Tales

“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”

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Persones Tale
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales

“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”

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General Prologue, l. 440
The Canterbury Tales

“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”

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The Reeve's Tale, l. 4153
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