Re: [CH] Great Quotation from "Canterbury Tales"

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Cameron Begg wrote:
> 
> Hi C-H's,
> Randy quoted Chaucer:
> 
> "Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting"
> 
> Close. It comes from the prologue to the "Canterbury Tales":
> 
>       A Frankeleyn was in his compaignye;
>      Whit was his berd as is a dayesye.
>      Of his complexioun he was sangwyn.
>      Wel loved he by the morwe a sope in wyn,
>      To lyven in delit was evere his wone;  [My kinda guy! -CB]

(littlea snoop)

You left out the best one:

Wel loved he garleek, oynons, and eek lekes, 
And for to drynken strong wyn, reed as blood; 
Thanne wolde he speke and crie as he were wood. 
And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn, 
Thanne wolde he speke no word but latyn. 

JB
A thousand years of knuckle draggers can't be wrong
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