Alas I was not auised wel beforne,
Vnkonnyngly to speake such langage,
I should haue sayde how that he had an horne,
Or sought some terme wyth a fayre vysage,
To excuse my rudenesse of thys gret outrage:
And in some land Cornodo men do them cal,
And some affirme that such folke haue no gal.”
Fall of Prynces, B. ii. leaf lvi. ed. Wayland.
Page 65. v. 478.
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