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— William Blake

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Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:

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Or Love in a golden bowl?

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Bk. i. met. 5. 28. Cx. on the nekkes.

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Geoffrey Chaucer·1343–1400
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k. i. pr. 6. 54. Cx. funden (_but read_ founden). Bk. i. pr. 6. 65. Cx. norissing. (Perhaps better than _norisshinges_, as inthe MSS.; for the Lat. text has the sing. _fomitem_.) Cf. Bk. iii. met. 11.27. Bk. ii. pr. 3. 59. Cx. seeld (_better_ selde). It is clear that _yelde_ inMS. A. arose from a reading _[gh]elde_, which really meant _zelde_, theSouthern form of _selde_. See below. Bk. ii. met. 3. 14. Cx. selde (_correctly_). And so again in Bk. ii. pr. 6.15. Bk. ii. pr. 6. 63. Cx. may I most. (MSS. C. A. _omit_ I.) Bk. ii. pr. 8. 17. Cx. wyndy (which is right; see note, p. 434). Bk. iii. pr. 1. 26. Cx. thyne (_better_ thyn, _as in_ Thynne). Bk. iii. pr. 10. 10. Cx. denyed (_or read_ deneyed). Bk. iii. pr. 10. 51. Cx. that the fader. (MSS. that this prince.) Caxton'stranslation is closer; Lat. text, _patrem_.
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