Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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Familiar Quotations

Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. - 23. Geoffrey Chaucer
Author Index · Concordance Index

AARON’S serpent	to	Abuses me to damn me
Abuses	to	Action action action
Action measured by the sentiment	to	Adversity blessing of the New Testament
Adversity	to	Age ache penury
Age	to	Aim
Aim	to	Alexander and Darius
Alexandrine	to	Almighty difference of purpose between
Almighty form	to	Amiable weakness
Amicably if they can	to	Angels alone enjoy such liberty
Angels trumpet-tongued	to	Antidote
Anti-everythings	to	Aprons of fig leaves
Aprons	to	Armed at all points
Armed thus am I doubly	to	Article of luxury
Articles	to	Atmosphere of dreams
Atomies	to	Awe and majesty
Aweary of the sun	to	Balaam’s ass
Balance	to	Barkis is willin’
Barleycorn	to	Be
Be no better than you should	to	Beauteous
Beauteous eye of heaven	to	Beauty
Beauty smile from partial	to	Before and after
Before we’ve fought the Bear	to	Bells and the Fudges
Bells have knolled to church	to	Best
Best of womankind	to	Bevy of fair women
Bewaileth the fall of the year	to	Biscay
Biscuit	to	Blent
Bless me this is pleasant	to	Bliss
Bliss	to	Blow a shepherd’s reed
Blow on the head	to	Body
Body	to	Book
Book only read perhaps by me	to	Borrow its mirth
Borrow	to	Bower
Bower by Bendemeer’s stream	to	Bray a fool in a mortar
Brayed with minstrelsy	to	Breath
Breath thou art	to	Bright-eyed fancy
Brightly breaks the morning	to	Brothers
Brothers in peace	to	Build as chance will have it
Build the ladder by which	to	Business
Business	to	Calf near three centuries dead
Calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs	to	Cane
Canker and the grief are mine	to	Care
Care	to	Cat and a rat and a coward
Cat will mew	to	Censer
Censure is the tax eminent men pay	to	Change
Change the place but keep the pain	to	Charter large as the wind
Chartered by sorrow and freighted	to	Chickens
Chickens come home to roost	to	Chimney
Chimney-corner	to	Church army physic law
Church	to	Cleanse me
Clear a heaven so	to	Cloud
Cloud	to	Cold and cruel winter
Cold marble leapt to life	to	Come after you with equal grace
Come	to	Companions
Companions for middle age	to	Condition
Conditions	to	Considereth the poor
Consisted of lines like these	to	Cool and gray
Cool sequestered vale	to	Counsel and speak comfort
Counsel	to	Courses even with the sun
Courses	to	Created
Created equal	to	Crier of green sauce
Cries	to	Crown
Crown	to	Cup afloat of the lake-lily
Cup of water	to	Cymbal
Cymbrian	to	Danger
Danger	to	Darkness
Darkness of the land	to	Day after the fair
Day	to	Days
Days are hastening on	to	Dead
Dead in look so woe-begone	to	Death a door that leads to light
Death	to	Death kneeling by his bed
Death the consoler	to	Dedes
Dedicate his beauty to the sun	to	Deeply beautifully blue
Deep-mouthed welcome	to	Delights
Delights to deck our girls for gay	to	Desire and mystery
Desire more love	to	Devil a monk was he
Devil hunting for one fair female	to	Die a bachelor
Die a more painful death	to	Differ
Differ	to	Discontent
Discontent	to	Distant prospects please us
Distant views of happiness	to	Do
Do you know old age may come	to	Done
Done	to	Down among the dead men
Down from his perch	to	Dream
Dream that I forget	to	Drink and to be merry
Drink with him that wears a hood	to	Dull as night
Dull dulness intuitive declares wit	to	Dwell below the skies
Dwell in such a temple	to	Early and provident fear
Early frost	to	Earth
Earth	to	Eat and drink as friends
Eat to live	to	Elder-gun
Eldorado	to	Employments
Employment of idle time	to	Endless cruise
Endless night	to	Enough for man to know
Enough	to	Error
Error welds men together	to	Eve
Eve span and Adam dolve	to	Everything advantageous to life
Everything that pretty is	to	Excess
Excess to be blamed	to	Exultations
Exulting	to	Eyes and eares and every thought
Eyes	to	Face
Face divine	to	Failed of act
Faileth	to	Faith a passionate intuition
Faith is like a lily	to	Falsehood and truth grapple
Falsehoods which we spurn to-day	to	Fancy’s child
Fancy’s course	to	Fast and loose
Fast bind fast find	to	Father’s brother
Father’s house	to	Fears and saucy doubts
Fears	to	Feet
Feet	to	Few and far between
Few immortal names	to	Fights and runs away
Fighter	to	Fire answers fire
Fire	to	Fitted him to a T
Fittest place man can die	to	Flesh and blood can’t bear it
Flesh	to	Flower
Flowers	to	Foe
Foe	to	Fool all of the people all
Fool must now and then be right	to	Force abated
Force is no remedy	to	Forgot
Forgot	to	Forward and frolic glee
Forward as occasion offers	to	Free and fetterless thing
Free as air	to	Friend
Friend	to	Friendship but a name
Friendship	to	Full age
Full fayre sight	to	Gain and gain is gain
Gain	to	Gate
Gate of the west	to	Gentil dedes
Gentil herte	to	Giant arms upbear
Giants in the earth	to	Given
Given us two ears but only one mouth	to	Gloom
Glooms	to	Go ahead
Go by	to	God bless the man who first
God	to	God
God	to	Gold
Gold	to	Good
Good	to	Good name better than precious ointment
Good thing out of Nazareth	to	Grace
Grace	to	Gratitude and love
Gratitude of place-expectants	to	Great Admiral sailed the
Great Hall	to	Greeks
Greeks in common	to	Groan
Groans of the dying	to	Guide in smoke and flame
Guide	to	Hal
Halcyon days	to	Hand
Hand that rounded Peter’s dome	to	Happier in the passion we feel
Happiest dream	to	Hark from the tombs
Harm me	to	Haters
Hathaway	to	Head and front of my offending
Head	to	Hearing ear
Hearings	to	Heart
Heart	to	Hearts and sentiments were free
Hearts	to	Heaven a time ordains
Heaven first taught letters	to	Heaven
Heaven was not heaven if Phaon	to	Hell
Hell from beneath is moved	to	Heritage
Heritage	to	Hill apart
Hill	to	Hole
Hole in a’ your coats	to	Hone
Honest and true	to	Hoodwinked
Hoofs of a swinish multitude	to	Hopeless anguish
Hopeless sons of clay	to	Hour
Hour of virtuous liberty	to	Howls along the sky
Hub of the solar system	to	Hungarian wight
Hunger	to	Ideas
Ideas	to	Illumine
Illusion given	to	Importune
Imposes an oath	to	Indubitable manifestation of the Divinity
Indued with sanctity of reason	to	Innocence and health
Innocency next thing to confession	to	Interpretations
Interpreter hardest to be understood	to	Israel
Issues at the last	to	John Barleycorn
John P. Robinson he	to	Joys
Joys flow from our own selves	to	Just
Just	to	Kin
Kind and gentle heart	to	Kings and republics
Kings come bow to it	to	Knew
Knew more	to	Knowledge
Knowledge	to	Ladies
Ladies	to	Land and sea
Land	to	Last
Last night	to	Law and the prophets
Law	to	Lead kindly Light
Lead to an enchanted land	to	Leave all in order
Leave to God God does	to	Lessons
Lest pleasureless ye die	to	Liberty’s tree
Liberty’s unclouded blaze	to	Life
Life distasteful	to	Life is but a span
Life	to	Life’s a flower I choose my own
Life’s means	to	Light from which they take
Light restore	to	Likeness of a kingly crown
Likewise	to	Lips are now forbid to speak
Lips drop gentle words	to	Little
Little	to	Lives a prayer
Lives no greater leader	to	Loiterers and malcontents
Loke who that is most vertuous	to	Look a gift horse in the mouth
Look through a milstone	to	Lore
Lorn	to	Love a bright particular star
Love	to	Love greater than his power
Love knoweth no laws	to	Love of your neighbour
Love thee dearly love thee still	to	Loveliest lassie
Loveliest	to	Lucifer
Lucifer son of the morning	to	Made a foe
Made light of it	to	Majesty
Majesty	to	Man a flower he dies
Man	to	Man does
Man	to	Man lay down his life for his friends
Man	to	Man perfect who understands for himself
Man	to	Man to mend God’s work
Man	to	Man-like is it to fall into sin
Manliness of grief	to	Marcival providence fashioned us
Marden	to	Masterdom and sway
Mastered whatever was not worth knowing	to	Meals
Mean and small	to	Meet again
Meets the ear	to	Memory
Memory thy lamp	to	Men
Men in the catalogue ye go for	to	Men propose
Men	to	Merit
Merit	to	Mien carries more invitation
Might and main	to	Mind
Mind	to	Minds
Minds led captive	to	Miserable comforters are ye all
Miseries	to	Modern
Modern instances	to	Mood
Moody madness	to	More and less than just
More you drink more you thirst	to	Mortals
Mortals share	to	Mount Abora
Mount to its summit round by round	to	Much an expedient as lighting
Much credit in that	to	Music and moonlight
Music	to	Mystery
Mystery	to	Names
Names that shall live unnumbered years	to	Nature abhors imperfect work
Nature and reason	to	Nature is but art unknown
Nature	to	Necessity
Necessity proper parent of an art	to	Never a song
Never loved sae blindly	to	Night
Night before Christmas	to	Night
Night	to	Noble and approved good masters
Noble to be good	to	North and south clasp hands
North	to	Nothing
Nothing is law that is not reason	to	Nutbrown ale
Nuther	to	Occur in the best regulated families
Occurs	to	Often
Often funny	to	On a lone barren isle
On ye brave	to	Operation
Opes the palace of eternity	to	Ormus and of Ind
Ornament	to	Overpowering knell
Over-refinement	to	Pain
Pain	to	Pangs and fears
Pangs of despised love	to	Parts
Parts	to	Past again
Past	to	Patron and the jail
Patron one who looks with unconcern	to	Peak and pine
Peaks of two eternities	to	Pent-up Utica
Penury and imprisonment	to	Perish
Perish with him the folly that seeks	to	Philosophers have judged
Philosophic mind	to	Pin a day’s a groat a year
Pins it with a star	to	Place
Place	to	Play
Play	to	Pleasure after pain
Pleasure of life is to	to	Poet be
Poet is made as well as born	to	Polished dart
Polished manners	to	Porcelain clay of humankind
Procupine	to	Powdered with stars
Power	to	Praise
Praise	to	Presence full of light
Presence of body	to	Prime
Prime conception of the joyous	to	Prodigal
Prodigal excess	to	Prose and poetry
Prose	to	Public amusements
Public man of light and leading	to	Purse
Purse is free	to	Questionings of sense
Qui desiderat pacem	to	Rage
Rage of the vulture	to	Rat
Rat in a hole	to	Reaped
Reaped	to	Recorded time
Recorders	to	Religion as healthy as life itself
Religion	to	Renowned Spenser
Rent is sorrow	to	Rest and be thankful
Rest nowhere	to	Rewards
Rewards	to	Rides in the whirlwind
Rider	to	Ring happy bells
Ring out the old ring in the new	to	Roar
Roar	to	Romantic
Rome	to	Roses and lilies and violets
Roses	to	Rueful conflict
Ruffian	to	Rustic life and poverty
Rustics	to	Said anything that was remembered
Said it	to	Sand an’ ginger when alive
Sand	to	Scabbard
Scabbards	to	Science
Science	to	Sea
Sea	to	Search men’s principles
Searches to the bottom	to	See a hand you cannot see
See with his half-shut eyes	to	Selling of pig in a poke
Selves	to	Serpent
Serpent	to	Shade
Shade	to	Shakespeare’s magic
Shaking	to	Shed no tear—O shed
Sheddeth man’s blood	to	Shock of corn
Shock of men	to	Shout and revelry
Shout	to	Sides
Sidelong looks of love	to	Silence accompanied
Silence envious tongues	to	Silver-white
Silver-white lady-smocks	to	Singer
Singers	to	Skies
Skies	to	Slain by arrows of the early frost
Slain	to	Sleep
Sleep will never lie where care lodges	to	Small
Small of all that human hearts endure	to	Smooth as monumental alabaster
Smoother than butter	to	Society among unequals
Society where none intrudes	to	Solitude
Solitude of his own originality	to	Song
Song jets forth so clear	to	Sorrow
Sorrow	to	Soul
Soul	to	Souls
Souls whose sudden visitations daze the world	to	Sow for him build for him
Sow thy seed in the morning	to	Speaks an infinite deal of nothing
Speaker	to	Spider’s touch how exquisitely fine
Spider-like we feel the tenderest touch	to	Spite
Spite the world	to	Spurn to-day
Spurned but spurned in vain	to	Standing
Standing with reluctant feet	to	Stars
Stars	to	Statue-like repose
Stature	to	Sterile promontory
Stern and distant shore	to	Stone
Stone	to	Straight down the crooked lane
Straight	to	Streets
Streets	to	Strong
Strong drink is raging	to	Subject not a slave
Subject of all verse	to	Suit lightly won
Suit of sables	to	Sun
Sun in the firmament	to	Sunset and evening star
Sunset’s turquoise marge	to	Sway
Sway	to	Sweet bells jangled out of tune
Sweet	to	Swift-winged arrows of light
Swim before my sight	to	Take all the gifts
Take I give it willingly	to	Tall ancestral trees
Tall men sun-crowned	to	Team of little atomies
Team of sparrows	to	Temper
Temper	to	Testy pleasant fellow
Testyment	to	Thievery
Thieves	to	Things above
Things	to	Think and act
Think there is nothing but immortality	to	Thought
Thought and joy	to	Thoughts
Thoughts of a child	to	Threescore
Three-tailed Bashaw	to	Tide and wind stay no man
Tide	to	Time
Time	to	Times
Times were not hard and money scarce	to	Toil and care
Toil	to	Tongue an unruly member
Tongue	to	Touch
Touch	to	Transcribed
Transfigures its golden hair	to	Trees are brown
Trees	to	Trouble
Trouble	to	Trust a little
Trust in money	to	Truth
Truth	to	Turph
Turquoise marge	to	Tyrants
Tyrants	to	Undone
Undone widow	to	University of these days
Unjust peace before a just war	to	Untimely death
Unto dying eyes	to	Utter
Utterance	to	Vantage-ground of truth
Vapour at the best	to	Verse
Verse	to	Village bells
Village cock	to	Virtue
Virtue she finds too painful	to	Voice and utterance
Voice of all the gods	to	Wails so in winter
Wailing cry	to	Wanders heaven-directed
Wandered by the brook-side	to	Wars and rumours of wars
Wars	to	Watchful and wary
Watching thee from hour to hour	to	Waving here
Wax	to	Weak against the strong
Weak	to	Web from their own entrails spin
Web	to	Well
Well	to	What a fall was there
What is her history	to	Whence and what art thou
Whence is thy learning	to	White
White and still	to	Wictim of connubiality
Wide	to	Will
Will	to	Winds and waters keep a hush
Winds of doctrine were let loose	to	Wingèd chalice of the soul
Wingèd spirits	to	Wise
Wise do never live long	to	Wit
Wit invites you	to	Woe
Woe	to	Woman
Woman therefore may be won	to	Woo her
Woo the voices	to	Words all ears took captive
Words are but empty thanks	to	Work a little
Work of God	to	World
World had wanted many an idle song	to	World knows me in my book
World she followed him	to	World’s altar-stairs
World’s shore	to	Would and we would not
Would it were bedtime	to	Write a verse or two
Write about it goddess	to	Year
Year	to	Yielded
Yielded with coy submission	to	Youth and I lived in ’t together
Youth	to	Zuyder Zee