Tag: Geoffrey Chaucer

(For) Love is blind…

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IMAGE: "(For) Love is blind always, and can not see." // "(But) Love is blind and lovers cannot see / The pretty follies that themselves commit." //

(For) Love is blind always, and can not see. [(ME) For loue is blynd alday and may nat see.] – Geoffirey Chaucer (c.1343 – 1400): The Canterbury Tales (The Merchant’s Tale) / (But) Love is blind and lovers cannot see… More »

Great oaks from little…

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IMAGE: Great [Mighty/Tall] oaks from little [tiny] acorns grow.

Great oaks from little acorns grow. [(ME) As an ook cometh of a litel spyr.] – Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343 – 1400): Troilus and Criseyde / Mighty [Tall] oaks from tiny acorns grow. / (Great things may come from small beginnings.) More »

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