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Geoffrey Chaucer
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„Allas! allas! that evere love was synne!“
„Loke who that is most vertuous alway,Prive and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he can,And take him for the gretest gentilman.“
„For out of olde feldes, as men seith,Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;And out of olde bokes, in good feith,Cometh al this newe science that men lere.“
„Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.“
„Of all the floures in the mede,Than love I most these floures white and rede,Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.“
„Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.“
„For which he wex a litel red for shame,Whan he the peple upon him herde cryen,That to beholde it was a noble game,How sobreliche he caste doun his yen.Criseyda gan al his chere aspyen,And let so softe it in her herte sinkeThat to herself she seyde, “Who yaf me drinke?”“
„I am right sorry for your heavinesse.“
„He helde about him alway, out of drede,A world of folke.“
„The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.“
„The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.“
„In his owen grese I made him frie.“
„Of harmes two the lesse is for to cheese.“
„Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.“
„Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.“
„The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.“
„And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.“
„Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,And yet he semed bisier than he was.“
„Or as an ook comth of a litel spir,So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente,Encressen gan desir, of which he brente.“
„Wide was his parish, and houses fer asonder.“
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