Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.

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GEOFFREY CHAUCER.  1328-1400.

(From the text of Tyrwhitt.)

Whanne that April with his shoures sote

The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1.

And smale foules maken melodie,

That slepen alle night with open eye,

So priketh hem nature in hir corages;