“For the more paart, youthe is rebel,
Un-to reson & hatith her doctryne.”

—  Thomas Occleve

As for the moré part Youth is rebél
Unto Reasón, and hateth her doctrine.
Source: La Male Regle (c. 1405), Line 65; vol. 1, p. 27; translation p. 58.

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