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

29 Geoffrey Chauer 1340-1400 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:29
AUTHOR:Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
QUOTATION:And for to see, and eek for to be seie. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6134.
 
Note 1.
To see and to be seen.—Ben Jonson: Epithalamion, st. iii. line 4. Oliver Goldsmith: Citizen of the World, letter 71.

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ (They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen).—Ovid: The Art of Love, i. 99. [back]