The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ l. 781
Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Reeve’s Prologue’ l. 3882
‘The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.’
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Reeve’s Tale’ l. 4054
So was hir joly whistle wel ywet.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Reeve’s Tale’ l. 4155
Thou lookest as thou woldest fynde an hare,
For evere upon the ground I se thee stare.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘Prologue to Sir Thopas’ l. 696
He hadde a semely nose.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘Sir Thopas’ l. 729
‘By God,’ quod he, ‘for pleynly, at a word,
Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!’
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘Sir Thopas’ l. 929
Experience, though noon auctoritee
Were in this world, is right ynogh for me
To speke of wo that is in mariage.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ l. 1
Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve!
Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.
For sothe, I wol nat kepe me chaast in al.
Whan myn housbonde is fro the world ygon,
Som Cristen man shall wedde me anon.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ l. 44
But—Lord Crist!—what that it remembreth me
Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee,
It tikleth me aboute myn herte roote.
Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote
That I have had my world as in my time.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ l. 469
And for to se, and eek for to be seye
Of lusty folk.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ l. 552
But yet I hadde alwey a coltes tooth.
Gat-tothed I was, and that bicam me weel.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ l. 602
Of which mayde anon, maugree hir heed,
By verray force, he rafte hire maydenhed.
‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ l. 887