„Das Leben so kurz, das Handwerk so lang zu lernen.“
The Parliament of Fowls, 1382
Original engl.: "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne."
Geoffrey Chaucer war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Dichter, der als Verfasser der Canterbury Tales berühmt geworden ist. In einer Zeit, in der die englische Dichtung noch vorwiegend auf Latein, Französisch oder Anglonormannisch geschrieben wurde, gebrauchte Chaucer die Volkssprache und erhob dadurch das Mittelenglische zur Literatursprache. Sein Familienname leitet sich vom franz. chausseur, „Schuhmacher“, ab. Wikipedia

„Das Leben so kurz, das Handwerk so lang zu lernen.“
The Parliament of Fowls, 1382
Original engl.: "The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne."
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770
The Canterbury Tales
“Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.”
The Court of Love, line 178
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 72
The Canterbury Tales
“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6752
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 525-529
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer buch Parlement of Foules
Parlement of Foules, l. 22-25
“Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch Troilus and Criseyde
One ear heard it, at the other out it went
Book 4, line 434
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6695
The Canterbury Tales
“Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch Parlement of Foules
Parlement of Foules, l. 379
“A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 287
The Canterbury Tales
“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
The Canterbury Tales
“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
The Canterbury Tales
“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
Quelle: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales, L. 1201
“O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?”
The Flower and the Leaf, line 59
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Up rose the sonne, and up rose Emelie.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, l. 2275
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 122-126
The Canterbury Tales
“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve's Tale, l. 4051
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 1-12
The Canterbury Tales
Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 41
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 565; referencing the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb".
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Parson's Tale, sect. 77
The Canterbury Tales
“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
About the Sergeant of Law
General Prologue, l. 323-324
The Canterbury Tales
The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, l. 19–21
Prologue of the Legend of Good Women, line 183
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Knight's Tale, l. 1141
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 733
The Canterbury Tales
“This flour of wifly patience.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Clerk's Tale, part v., l. 8797
The Canterbury Tales
“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
Persones Tale
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
General Prologue, l. 440
The Canterbury Tales
“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”
Geoffrey Chaucer buch The Canterbury Tales
The Reeve's Tale, l. 4153
The Canterbury Tales