“And thus love is founded otherwhile upon good prouffitable and this love endureth as longe as he seeth his prouffit. And herof men saye a comyn proverbe in England that love lasteth as longe as the money endureth and whan the money faylleth than there is no love.”

— William Caxton, book The Game and Playe of the Chesse

The Game and Playe of the Chesse, Bk. III (1474) http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/10672/73.html

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English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer 1422–1491

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