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Quotation from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
“What is this world? what aske men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave”
The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized))
The dying Arcite laments the shortness of life and love.
Citation: "What is this world? what aske men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave" — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized)). (id the-canterbury-tales-q8)
Portrait: Chaucer ellesmere, Unknown, Public domain.
