Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and … - Geoffrey Chaucer

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Truly she was of elegant deportment, and very pleasing and amiable in bearing. She took pains to counterfeit the manners of the court and to be dignified in behavior and to be held worthy of reverence.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales · February 4, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat. Chaucer is most famous as the author of The Canterbury Tales. He is sometimes credited with being the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin.

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How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.

A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean.

He who repeats a tale after a man,
Is bound to say, as nearly as he can,
Each single word, if he remembers it,
However rudely spoken or unfit,
Or else the tale he tells will be untrue,
The things invented and the phrases new.

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