Words similar to chaucer

Example sentences for: chaucer

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Like Chaucer.
Of more recent vintage is gay . Nobody used to snicker at Chaucer's line (No.
Neal should have been worried about Inga being jailbait but at that point he was pretty focused on medieval literature, and kept on reciting passages from Chaucer and El Cid and talking about how Giotto was a better painter than Van Gogh, nokidding.
Asked the about the expression "Suffer fools gladly" (Corinthians 11:19), the first 10 people surveyed ventured a source with disarming speed: "Wordsworth," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Wordsworth," "Beowulf ," "Chaucer," "Macbeth ," "Herrick," and "Gerard Manly Hopkins."
In some cases, Skeat's irritation stemmed from a reader's failure either to read correspondence that had been published decades earlier or to be intimately familiar with every last syllable of Skeat's seven-volume work on Chaucer.