“But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”

—  Geoffrey Chaucer , book The Canterbury Tales

The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales

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