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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.


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But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.



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Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits.



In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.



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For if hevene be on this erthe, and ese to any soule,It is in cloistre or in scole.


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I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.



A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.



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Who will bell the cat?



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Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.





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