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When all candels be out, all cats be grey,
All thingis are then of one colour, as who sey.
And this prouerbe faith, for quenching hot desyre,
Foul water as soone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.
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A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drink without he will.
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A man maie well bring a horse to the water,
but he can not make him drinke without he will.
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Much water goeth by the mill
That the miller knoweth not of.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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John Heywood
Born:
1497
Died:
1580
(aged 83)
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