“Fie on possession,
But if a man be vertuous withal.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale, l. 10998
The Canterbury Tales
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

“Fie on possession,
But if a man be vertuous withal.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale, l. 10998
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 95
The Canterbury Tales
“Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha Troilus and Criseyde
Book 4, line 525
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
“In his owen grese I made him frie.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve's Tale, l. 6069
The Canterbury Tales
“And for to see, and eek for to be seie.”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6134
The Canterbury Tales
“Allas! allas! that evere love was synne!”
Geoffrey Chaucer kniha The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 614
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer The Knight's Tale
The Knight's Tale, lV 2177 - 2186
The Canterbury Tales