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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

25 Geoffrey Chauer 1340-1400 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:25
AUTHOR:Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
QUOTATION:Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. Line 3880.
 
Note 1.
E’en in our ashes live their wonted fires.—Thomas Gray: Elegy, Stanza 23. [back]