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by Schrodinger on February 22nd, 2009
The passage from Chaucer is in the Franklin's tale, the story of Aurelius wooing Dorigen who was married to the knight Arveragus:
"Pacience is an high vertue certayn
For it vanquysheth, as thyse clerks sayn
Thyngs that rigour should never attayn"
I read it when I was a student some ten years ago so the spelling might not be immaculate but, as I recall, that's how it went. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first appearance in print of the common maxim.
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