“The bad things can't matter more than the good things”
Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows
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“Comparable with Chawcer, yet more occupyed in supersticious and odde matters than was requesite in so good a wytte.”
William Webbe A Discourse of Englishe Poetry ([1586] 1970) p. 32.
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