Nevere yit
Was non, which half so loste his wit
Of drinke, as thei of such thing do
Which cleped is the jolif wo.
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Bk. 6, line 31.John Gower
And Men seye in theise Contrees, that Philosophres som tyme wenten upon theise Hilles, and helden to here Nose a Spounge moysted with Watre, for to have Eyr; for the Eyr above was so drye. And aboven, in the Dust and in the Powder of tho Hilles, thei wroot Lettres and Figures with hire Fingres: and at the zeres end thei comen azen, and founden the same Lettres and Figures, the whiche thei hadde writen the zeer before, withouten ony defaute.
John Mandeville
For fro what partie of the Erthe, that men duelle, outher aboven or benethen, it semethe always to hem that duellen, that thei gon more righte than ony other folk. And righte as it semethe to us, that thei ben undre us, righte so it semethe hem, that wee ben undre hem.
John Mandeville
He hath the sor which no man heleth,
The which is cleped lack of herte.John Gower
You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.
George Herbert
A man maie well bring a horse to the water,
but he can not make him drinke without he will.John Heywood
Gower, John
Graaf, Gerard de
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