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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
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The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.
— Part I, chapter 11. (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919))
There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene, With armes full strong and largely displayed, But of their leaves they were disarayde The bodie bigge, and mightely pight, Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight; Whilome had bene the king of the field, And mochell mast to the husband did yielde, And with his nuts larded many swine: But now the gray mosse marred his rine; His bared boughes were beaten with stormes, His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes, His honour decayed, his braunches sere.
Edmund Spenser— Shepheard's Callender, "Februarie".
