Geoffrey Chaucer — "Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat fayle."
Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat fayle.
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
"I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare."
"And as for me, I love a lusty lyf, And in my bed I love a lusty wyf."
"The smylere with the knyf under the cloke."
"Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their men to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed."
"In al the parisshe wif ne was ther noon / That to the offrynge bifore hire sholde goon."
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.