The Canterbury Tales: The Clerk's Tale Quotes

A markys whilom lord was of that lond,As were his worthy eldres hym bifore,And obeisant and redy to his hondWere alle his liges, bothe lasse and moore.Thus in delit he lyveth, and hath doon yoore,B...

And of hir labour [they] took hir sustenanceAfter that the erthe yaf hem habundance. (202-203)

For God it woot, that children ofte beenUnlyk hir worthy eldres hem bifore;Bountee comth al of God nat of the streenOf which they been engendred and yboore. (155-158)

A markis whylom lord was of that londe,As were his worthy eldres him bifore;And obeisant, ay redy to his hondeWere all his liges, bothe lasse and more. (64-67)

And eek he nolde—and that was worst of alle—Wedde no wyf, for noght that may bifalle. (83-84)

Therwith he was, to speke as of linage,The gentilleste y-born of Lumbardye. (71- 72)

For if it so bifelle, as God forbade,That thurgh your deeth you lyne sholde slake,And that a straunge successour sholde takeYoure heritage, O, Wo were us alyve! (136-139)

I blame him thus, that he considered noghtIn tyme cominge what mighte him bityde,But on his lust present was al his thought,As for to hauke and hunte on every syde;We ny alle othere cures leet he s...