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Where did the prase "Patience is a Virtue" come from? 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...