| To play Geoffrey Chaucer in A Knight's Tale, he made his entrance stark naked. |
| But for a poet concerned with scansion, as Chaucer was, that weak ending the final e offered was a blessing. |
| If Chaucer were alive today, and armed with a shotgun, there wouldn't be a jury in the land who'd convict. |
| In English literature, satire may be held to have begun with Chaucer, who was followed by many 15th-cent. writers, including Dunbar. |
| Because of her obnoxious attitude Chaucer makes her toothless, fat and large. |
| Though it is the painful season of Christ's agony and death, it belongs in Chaucer to the elemental happiness rising from the resurrecting earth. |
