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“A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene –
Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,
Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.”
— William Langland, book Piers Plowman
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Short Furrows http://books.google.com/books?id=CboVAAAAYAAJ&q=%22ther's+still+a+few+honest+folks+left+but+they+never+seem+t'%22 (1913).
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"The Way of the World".
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For fair and fond was she;
But their sires disputed about the Mass,
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