Geoffrey Chaucer on Women
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“And she was fayr as is the rose in May.”
“"My lige lady, generally," quod he, "Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As wel over hir housbond as hir love."”
“But love a womman that she woot it nought, And she wol quyte it that thow shalt nat fele; Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.”
“Ther seyde ones a clerk in two vers: "what is bettre than gold? Iaspre. What is bettre than Iaspre? Wisdom. / And what is bettre than wisdom? Womman. And what is bettre than a good womman? No-thing."”