Geoffrey Chaucer — "And al was conscience and tendre herte."
And al was conscience and tendre herte.
And al was conscience and tendre herte.
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"Tell me also to what purpose or end the genitals have been made?"
"He was a verray, parfit praktisour."
"The Friar was very fond of playing and played so madly as if he were a puppy-dog in spite of this his eyes twinkled in his head in the same way as the stars do in the frosty night, while playing the h…"
"A man may do no synne but if he wole."
"And as for me, I love a lusty lyf, And in my bed I love a lusty wyf."
English poet, civil servant, and the father of English literature; The Canterbury Tales (~1387-1400) is the founding text of English-language storytelling. Closely associated with Giovanni Boccaccio (his Italian predecessor; the Decameron preceded the Canterbury Tales by ~40 years). For an intellectual contrast, see John Wycliffe, English theologian and Lollard reform-movement leader — Wycliffe and Chaucer were near-contemporaries in the same English Christian world — Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Pardoner are the canonical literary defense of fleshly humanity against the Lollard moral austerity that would later become English Puritanism. Earthy storytelling vs proto-Protestant moralism.
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Prioress ironically.
Date: c. 1387-1400
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