„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."
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“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.”
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General Prologue, l. 72
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“That he is gentil that doth gentil dedis.”
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The Wife of Bath's Tale, l. 6752
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue, l. 525-529
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“Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente”
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One ear heard it, at the other out it went
Book 4, line 434
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“Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.”
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Parlement of Foules, l. 379
“A Clerk ther was of Oxenforde also.”
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General Prologue, l. 287
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“Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.”
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The Franklin's Tale, l. 11789
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“Men sholde wedden after hir estat,
For youthe and elde is often at debat.”
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The Miller's Tale, l. 121-122
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“Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.”
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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.”
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The Knight's Tale, l. 2275
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“The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.”
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The Reeve's Tale, l. 4051
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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.”
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General Prologue, l. 565; referencing the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb".
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“Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas,
And yet he semed bisier than he was.”
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About the Sergeant of Law
General Prologue, l. 323-324
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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.”
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The Knight's Tale, l. 1141
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“This flour of wifly patience.”
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The Clerk's Tale, part v., l. 8797
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“The proverbe saith that many a smale maketh a grate.”
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Persones Tale
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
“His studie was but litel on the Bible.”
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General Prologue, l. 440
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“So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.”
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The Reeve's Tale, l. 4153
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