It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.
Geoffrey ChaucerFor if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
No wonder is a common man should rust"
-The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales-
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
Geoffrey ChaucerIf gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Geoffrey ChaucerStichwörter: inspirational gold flaws fallibility imperfection canterbury-tales iron rust
And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?
Geoffrey ChaucerBe nat wrooth, my lord, though that I pleye. Ful ofte in game a sooth I have herd seye!
Geoffrey ChaucerNo empty handed man can lure a bird
Geoffrey ChaucerIf no love is, O God, what fele I so?
And if love is, what thing and which is he?
If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?
If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me
Stichwörter: love
But Christ's lore and his apostles twelve,
He taught and first he followed it himself.
When that Aprille with his shoures sote.
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertue engendred is the flour.
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