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Nevere yitWas non, which half so loste his witOf drinke, as thei of such thing doWhich cleped is the jolif wo.
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nevere yit Was non, which half so loste his wit Of drinke, as thei of such thing do Which cleped is the jolif wo.
— Bk. 6, line 31.
For hevene myghte nat holden it, so was it hevy of hymself,Til it hadde of the erthe eten his fille.And whan it hadde of this fold flessh and blood taken,Was nevere leef upon lynde lighter therafter,And portatif and persaunt as the point of a nedle,That myghte noon armure it lette ne none heighe walles.Forthi is love ledere of the Lordes folk of hevene,And a meene, as the mair is, [inmiddes] the kyng and the commune.
william langland— B-text, Passus 1, 153
Ac thorugh his science soothy was nevere no soule ysaved, Ne broght by hir bokes to blisse ne to joye.
william langland— c.1378 Piers Plowman (B text),'Passus12', l.134-5. The'science'and 'books'are those of pagan scholars who developed natural science from empirical observation only.
