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Quotation from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

“Take the fruit, and let the chaff be still”

Geoffrey Chaucer (spoken by The Nun's Priest)

The Canterbury Tales, The Nun's Priest's Tale, ending (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized))

Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer

The Nun's Priest tells his hearers to take the moral from the fable of the cock and the fox.

Citation: "Take the fruit, and let the chaff be still" — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Nun's Priest's Tale, ending (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized)). (id the-canterbury-tales-q12)

Portrait: Chaucer ellesmere, Unknown, Public domain.

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