““I am a beggar.”
“You are a travesty,” said Titus, “and when you die the earth will breathe again.””
Mervyn Peake book Titus Alone
Source: Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 16 (p. 829)
“For I am shave as neigh as any frere.
But yit I praye unto youre curteisye:
Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die.”
The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse, l. 19–21
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Beeth hevy again, or elles moot I die." by Geoffrey Chaucer?
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