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• For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 445...
• And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 310...
• He coude songes make, and wel endite.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 95...
• He was a veray parfit gentil knight.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 72...
• For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.
  But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre....
• Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as, And yet he semed besier than he was.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 323...
• This noble ensample to his shepe he yaf,-- That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 498...
• But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, He taugh
  but first he folwed it himselve....
• A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 287...