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
That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
-- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 498
Related:
- But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve,
He taught;
but first he folwed it himselve. -- Geoffrey Chaucer... - And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line... - And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line... - For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales,... - He coude songes make, and wel endite.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line... - He was a veray parfit gentil knight.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line... - Nowher so besy a man as he ther n' as,
And yet he semed besier than he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales,... - For him was lever han at his beddes hed
A twenty bokes,
clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie... - And of his port as meke as is a mayde.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line...
