Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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He taught; but first he folwed it himselve.

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 529.

And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.[2:1]

Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 565.

Who so shall telle a tale after a man,

He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can,

Everich word, if it be in his charge,

All speke he never so rudely and so large;

Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe,

Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.