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Chaucer quotes

  • Ialwayssay that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.

    - Robert Hamer
      Kind Hearts and Coronets (with  John Dighton).

  • Uncouth unkist, said the old famous poet Chaucer.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Shepherd's Calendar,'Letter to Gabriel Harvey'.

  •    Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Faerie Queen, bk.4, canto 2, stanza 32.

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