Geoffrey Chaucer — "He knew hir conseil, and hir pryvetee, And for to been a maister of his craft, F…"
He knew hir conseil, and hir pryvetee, And for to been a maister of his craft, Ful ofte hadde this man bigiled his maister.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Geoffrey Chaucer
"A man may do no synne but if he wole."
"But al be that I kan nat telle aright The murthe of mariage, but I kan telle the wo."
"For hooly chirche's right is to be fed, / Or elles wolde he have his breed of whete, / And of the flour of his owene seed, / And of his corn a very large meel."
"If gold ruste, what shal iren do?"
"And as for me, I love a lusty lyf, And in my bed I love a lusty wyf."
About Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
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.
Details
The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (describing the Reeve's ability to deceive his master)
Date: c. 1387-1400
GeneralVerification
Unverifiable
Found in 1 providers: gemini
1 source checked