More from Geoffrey Chaucer

  1. Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne, Entuned in hir nose ful semely, And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly, After the scole of Strat…
  2. For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fi…
  3. He coude songes make, and wel endite.
  4. Of studie took he most cure and most hede. Noght o word spak he more than was nede, And that was seyd in forme and reverence, And short and…
  5. He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
  6. Nowher so bisy a man as he ther nas, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
  7. And of his port as meke as is a mayde.
  8. His studie was but litel on the Bible.

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