Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

“I may not telle you al at ones:”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

“Test IV.—Assonant rimes. Those who know nothing about the pronunciation of Middle English, and require an easy test, appreciable by any child who has a good ear, may observe this. Chaucer does not employ mere assonances, i. e. rimes in which only the vowel-sounds correspond. He does not rime take with shape, nor fame with lane. But the author of fragment B had no ear for this. He actually has such rimes as these: kepe, eke, 2125; shape, make, 2259; escape, make, 2753; take, scape, 3165; storm, corn, 4343; doun, tourn, 5469.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems