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   I that in heill wes and gladnes Am trublit now with gret seiknes And feblit with infermite: Timor mortis conturbat me.
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I that in heill wes and gladness,Am trublit now with gret seiknes,And feblit with infermité;Timor mortis conturbat me.Our plesance heir is all vane glory,This fals warld is bot transitory,The flesche is brukle, the Fend is sle;Timor mortis conturbat me.

william dunbar

— "The Lament for the Makars", line 1

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And for ther is so gret diversite In Englissh and in writyng of oure tonge, So prey I God that non myswrite the, Ne the mysmetre for defaute of tonge; And red wherso thow be, or elles songe, That thow be understonde, God I biseche!

Geoffrey Chaucer

— Book 5, line 1793-1798.

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I du believe with all my soul In the gret Press's freedom, To pint the people to the goal An' in the traces lead 'em.

james russell lowell

— No. 6, st. 7.

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Wut's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle?

james russell lowell

— No. 10. (Series II (1866))

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For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.

john lydgate

— The Siege of Thebes, pt. 3, line 2716.

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Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

Geoffrey Chaucer

— c.1385  Troilus and Criseyde, bk.5, l.1629-30.

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