The smalest worm that crepeth by the weye, Is in his kynde as parfit as the grete.
Canterbury Tales
The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Canterbury Tales
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"A baggepipe wel koude he blowe and sowne, / And therwithal he broghte us out of towne."
Strange & Unusual"And he hadde been somtyme in chyvachie / In Flaundres, in Artoys, and Pycardie, / And born hym wel, as of so litel space."
Strange & Unusual"For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer, / Which that he seyde was Oure Lady veyl."
Strange & Unusual"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour;"
Strange & Unusual"A good wyf was ther, of biside Bathe, But she was somdel deef, and that was scathe."
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