Tuesday, May 12, 2009

CHAUCER: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida


Book 1
verse 51 “clipped his wings”
verse 102 “misery loves company”
verse 146 “hopes like a bubble burst”

Book 2
verse 6 “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
verse 116 “Nothing venture, nothing gain”
verse 124 “people in glass houses should be wary and especially of throwing stone in chary”
verses 147 – 48 [don’t harp on things] “if you find a word you think is clever, use it but once, don’t harp on it forever.”
verse 169 “a penny for your thought.”

Book 3
verse 110 “like sleeping dogs – just let them sleep”





Book 1 verse 35 reads:“ Men of greatest worth have deeply loved.”

Book 1 verse 44 reads:
“…yet suddenly he felt within him die all haughtiness of heart, by looking hurt. And blessed be love, which can men thus convert.”


Book 1 verse 45 reads:
“Yet made no sign, and never a man he told.”




Book 1 verse 58 reads:
“If love is good, whence cometh all my woe?
If love is bad, it seems then strange to me,
How every torment and adversity
That comes from love, itself with joy doth link,
For still I thirst the more, the more I drink.”



Book 1 verse 68 reads:
“as he fiercely loved, so fiercely fought…”

69 reads:
“…not for hate…nor to rescue…to… win his lady’s favor…”



Book 1 verse 85 reads:
“I will gladly share with you your pain.”
verse 100 reads:
“he who stand alone, for if he falls, there is none to help him rise.”
verse 109 reads:
“Fools alone their woes and griefs enjoy. And shun the remedies they might employ.”



Book 1 verse 92 reads:
“How might sweetness ever have been known to him who never tasted bitterness? Felicity exists for those alone who first have suffered...”
verse 93:
“by opposites does one in wisdom grow.”


Book 2 verse 111 reads:
“Since I am free, should I now love and risk my happy state? And maybe put in bonds my liberty?”

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