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

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Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.[3:4]

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Prologue. Line 3880.

The gretest clerkes ben not the wisest men.

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4051.

So was hire joly whistle wel ywette.

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 4153.

In his owen grese I made him frie.[3:5]

Canterbury Tales. The Reves Tale. Line 6069.

And for to see, and eek for to be seie.[3:6]

Canterbury Tales. The Wif of Bathes Prologue. Line 6134.