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Abstinence is approved of God. - [Abstinence] By nature, men love newfangledness. - [Novelty] Forbid us something, and that thing we desire. - [Forbidden] He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do. - [Goodness] He was a shepherd and no mercenary, And though he holy was and virtuous, He was to sinful men full piteous; His words were strong, but not with anger fraught; A love benignant he discreetly taught. To draw mankind to heavenly gentleness And good example was his business. - [Clergymen] It is but waste to bury them preciously. - [Funerals] Mincing she was, as is a wanton colt, Sweet as a flower and upright as a bolt. - [Coquette] Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. - [Nature] Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun. - [Daisies] One ear it heard, at the other out it went. - [Ears] That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all. - [Daisies] The busy lark, the messenger of day. - [Larks] To maken virtue of necessity. - [Necessity] We little know the things for which we pray. - [Prayer] With emptie hands men may no haukes lure. - [Proverbs] Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . . - Canterbury Tales--The Wife of Bath's Prologue [Marriage] And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. - ascribed to Court of Love (l. 1,372) [Wrens] O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thyself in prees for dred? - Flower and the Leaf (l. 591), (generally accepted as written by a fifteenth century lady admirer of Chaucer) [Books] Your eyen two will slay me suddenly, I may the beauty of them not sustain, So woundeth it throughout my herte kene. - Merciles Beaute [Love] Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight. - Testament of Love (bk. II), (Thomas Usk, Chaucer's contemporary, is generally accepted as author) [Appearance] Every honest miller has a golden thumb. - The Canterbury Tales, old saying [Gold] Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. - The Canterbury Tales, The General Prologue [Books (First Lines)] Many a smale maketh a grate. - The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale [Proverbs] The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray She sang ful loude and cleere. - The Canterbury Tales, The Tale of Sir Thopas [Doves] One eare it heard, at the other out it went. - The Canterbury Tales (bk. IV, l. 435) [Hearing] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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