Citations:Cecilia

English

(moved this folk etymology from the main page because of the obsolete spelling Cecilie)

• 13?? Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale:

  First will I you the name of Saint Cecilie / Expound, as men may in her story see. / It is to say in English, Heaven's lily, / For pure chasteness of virginity; / Or, for she whiteness had of honesty, / And green of conscience, and of good fame / The sweete savour, Lilie was her name. /Or Cecilie is to say, the way of blind; / For she example was by good teaching;