Geoffrey Chaucer Quote
And as for me, though that I konne but lyte,On bokes for to rede I me delyte,And to hem yive I feyth and ful credence,And in myn herte have hem in reverenceSo hertely, that ther is game noonThat fro my bokes maketh me to goon,But yt be seldom on the holyday,Save, certeynly, whan that the month of MayIs comen, and that I here the foules synge,And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge,Farewel my bok and my devocioun!
Geoffrey Chaucer
And as for me, though that I konne but lyte,On bokes for to rede I me delyte,And to hem yive I feyth and ful credence,And in myn herte have hem in reverenceSo hertely, that ther is game noonThat fro my bokes maketh me to goon,But yt be seldom on the holyday,Save, certeynly, whan that the month of MayIs comen, and that I here the foules synge,And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge,Farewel my bok and my devocioun!
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About Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer also gained fame as a philosopher and astronomer, composing the scientific A Treatise on the Astrolabe for his ten-year-old son, Lewis. He maintained a career in public service as a bureaucrat, courtier, diplomat and member of the Parliament of England, having been elected as shire knight for Kent.
Amongst his other works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, and Parlement of Foules. A prolific writer, Chaucer has been seen as crucial in legitimising the literary use of Middle English at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were still Anglo-Norman French and Latin. His contemporary Thomas Hoccleve hailed him as "the firste fyndere of our fair langage" (i.e., the first one capable of finding poetic matter in English). Almost two thousand English words are first attested in Chaucerian manuscripts.