“Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun.”
Geoffrey Chaucer book Troilus and Criseyde
Book 4, line 525
Troilus and Criseyde (1380s)
“This wonder (as wonders last) lasted nine daies.”
Part II, chapter 1.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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