Source: The Canterbury tales
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Source: Troilus and Cressida
“Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With an Essay on His Language and Versification, and an Introductory Discourse; Together with Notes and a Glossary. By Thomas Tyrwhitt. [With a Portrait.]
“Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.”
“For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.”
Source: The Canterbury Tales in Plain and Simple English (Translated)
Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer
“And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.”
“Drunkenness is the very sepulcher Of man's wit and his discretion.”
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: The Canterbury tales
Source: The Canterbury tales
“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
Source: The poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, modernized ...
Source: The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer
“In the stars is written the death of every man.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Now First Put Into Modern English
“Nowhere so busy a man as he there was And yet he seemed busier than he was.”
“Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.”
Source: The Canterbury Tales ... From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt, Condensed and Arranged Under the Text. A New Edition. [Edited by Thomas A. W. Buckley.] Illustrated by Edward Corbould