“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.”

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

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