Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Cited by

• Joseph Conrad (3)
  • IN: The Mirror of the Sea (1906) NULL, British
    EPIGRAPH: And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two
    FROM: The Frankeleyn's Tale, (1400), Book, UK
  • IN: The Rescue (1920) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Allas!" quod she, 'that ever this sholde happe! For wende I never, by possibilitee, That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!"
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales: The Frankeleyn's Tale, (1336), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Mirror of the Sea: Memories and Impressions (1906) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And shippes by the brinke comen and gon, And in swich forme endure a day or two.
    FROM: The Frankelyn's Tale, (None), Poem, UK
• Malcolm Lowry (1)
  • IN: Ultramarine (1933) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Taak any bryd, and put it in a cage, And do al thyn entente and thy corage To fostre it tendrely with mete and drynke, Of alle deyntees that thou kanst bithynke; And keepe it al so clenly as thou may, Although his cage of gold be nevere so gay, Yet hath this bryd, by twenty thousand foold, Levere in a forest that is rude and coold Goon ete wormes, and swich wrecchednesse
    FROM: Manciples Tale, (1400), Poem, UK
• Andrea Cremer (2)
  • IN: Snakeroot (2013) Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK
• Walter Scott (1)
  • IN: Woodstock (1826) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He was a very perfect gentle Knight.
    FROM: NULL, (1450), NULL, UK
• Ben Aaronovitch (1)
  • IN: Foxglove Summer (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: In th'olde days of the Kyng Arthour. Of which that Britons speken great honour, At this land fulfild of fayerye. The elf-queene, with her joly compaignye, Daunced ful ofte in many a grene made.
    FROM: The Wife of Bath's Tale, (1400), Poem, UK
• Karen Maitland (2)
  • IN: The Vanishing Witch (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So hideous was the noise, a benedicite! Certes he, Jack Straw and all his meinie, Ne made never shouts so shrill When that they would any Fleming kill.
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Vanishing With (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: So hideous was the noise, a benedicite! Certes he, Jack Straw and all his meinie, Ne made never shouts so shrill When that they would any Fleming kill.
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK
• Margaret Frazer (5)
  • IN: The Apostate's Tale (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: …for ye han falle in freletee, And knowen wel ynough the olde daunce, And han forsaken fully swich meschaunce For everemo…
    FROM: Canterbury Tales: The Physician’s Tale, (1400), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Clerk's Tale (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [B]ut God yeve hym meschaunce, That is so undiscreet of governaunce That jangleth whan he shoulde holde his pees.
    FROM: Canterbury Tales: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, (1400), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Hunter's Tale (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For in his huntyng hath he swich delit That it is al his joye and appetit To been hymself the grete hertes bane…
    FROM: Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale, (1400), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Bishop's Tale (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now lat us sitte and drynke, and make usmerie, And afterward we wol his body berie.
    FROM: Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale, (1400), Poem, UK
  • IN: The Servant's Tale (1993) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For, be we never so vicious withinne, We wol been holden wise and clene of synne.
    FROM: Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath’s Tale, (1400), Poem, UK
• Eric Tinsay Valles (1)
  • IN: A World in Transit (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is this world? And what doth man desire? Now with his love, and now in his cold grave Alone without any company.
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK
• Sara Paretsky (1)
  • IN: Brush Back (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He had but little gold within his suitcase; But all that he might borrow from a friend On books and learning he would swiftly spend …And gladly would he learn and gladly teach
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK
• Conn Iggulden (1)
  • IN: Bloodline (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.
    FROM: The Knight's Tale, (1400), Short story, UK
• George Macdonald (1)
  • IN: David Elginbrod (1863) Novel, British
    EPIGRAPH: And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
    FROM: The Canterbury Tales, (1400), Poem, UK