But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
-- The Chanones Yemannes Tale, Line 16430
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
-- The Chanones Yemannes Tale, Line 16430
Related:
- All that glitters is not gold" is from _Parabolae_,
a book of poems written circa 1175 by Alanus de Insulis... - For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales,... - And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line... - Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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The Frankeleines Tale, Line... - In his owen grese I made him frie.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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The Reves Tale, Line... - To maken vertue of necessite.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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The Knightes Tale, Line... - For him was lever han at his beddes hed
A twenty bokes,
clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie... - Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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The Knightes Tale, Line... - The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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The Reves Tale, Line...
