Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.10
“Nevere yit
Was non, which half so loste his wit
Of drinke, as thei of such thing do
Which cleped is the jolif wo.”
Bk. 6, line 31.
Confessio Amantis
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