What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Pleasurable Canterbury Tales quotations
Patience is a conquering virtue.
And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.
With empty hand no man can lure a hawk.
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast.
For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.
But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.
I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.
Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
