Date: w. c. 1210
"The mind's hand shapes the entire house before the body's hand builds it."
preview | full record— Vinsauf, Geoffrey of [called Galfridus Anglicus] (fl. 1208-1213)
Date: 1386-1400
"That oon of hem was blynd and myghte not see, / But it were with thilke eyen of his mynde / With whiche men seen, after that they ben blynde."
preview | full record— Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340-1400)
Date: 1389
"The soule ... muste suffre for the bonde of the body that he is joyned to."
preview | full record— Trevisa, John (b. c. 1342, d. in or before 1402); Bartholomeus (1203-1272)
Date: c. 1420
"Thou woost wel, who shal an hous edifie / Gooth nat ther-to withoute avisament / If he be wys, for with his mental ye / First is it seen, purposid, cast & ment, / How it shal wroght been, elles al is shent."
preview | full record— Hoccleve [Occleve], Thomas (c.1367-1426)