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Quotation by Geoffrey Chaucer
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Balade de Bon ConseillGeneral PrologueMerciles BeautePandarus, in Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1385), repr. in The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898)"Parson's Tale: Sequitur de Luxuria" The Canterbury Tales, published in The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898)
Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
Withinne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho
That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so,
And spedde as wel in love as men now do;
Eek for to winne love in sondry ages,
In sondry londes, sondry ben usages.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400), British poet. Troilus and Criseyde, bk. 2, l. 22-8 (c. 1385), repr. In The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Alfred W. Pollard, et al. (1898).
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