“He felle dede doun colde as ony stone.”
Robert Mannyng (1275–1338) English chronicler
Thomas Hearne (ed.) Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, as Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne (1725) vol. 1, p. 56.
“Ryveris ran reid on spait with watir broune,
And burnys hurlys all thar bankis doune.”
Bk. 7, prologue, line 19.
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That soucht na nother sals thar-till
Bot appetyt.”
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With full good will they all fell to,
And sought no other sauce thereto
Than appetite.
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Than low or rek sall it discovyr.”
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Nor can a man a fire so cover
That smoke or flame shall not discover.
Bk. 4, line 123; p. 109
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Source: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006), Ch. 7, p. 109