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Yes, he probably had amorous liaisons with some of these women, and yes, he most likely frequented the “filles de joye” on the royal payroll as well, but despite his appetites he was far from the ribald lecher the novel portrays him to be.
Archive 2008-02-01 Julianne Douglas 2008
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Yes, he probably had amorous liaisons with some of these women, and yes, he most likely frequented the “filles de joye” on the royal payroll as well, but despite his appetites he was far from the ribald lecher the novel portrays him to be.
Will the Real François Please Stand Up? Julianne Douglas 2008
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Butt we fpeaketh fad & folemn wurdes to express oure wylde joye
Opposite Day: An Opposing View Windolf, Jim 2007
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Butt we fpeaketh fad & folemn wurdes to express oure wylde joye
Opposite Day: An Opposing View Windolf, Jim 2007
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Samuel the prophete in a faire tombe: and men clepen it Mount Joye; for it zevethe joye to pilgrymes hertes, be cause that there men seen first Jerusalem.
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Aftre that, is another yle, where that wommen maken gret sorwe, whan hire children ben y born: and whan thei dyen, thei maken gret feste and gret joye and revelle, and thanne thei casten hem into a gret fuyr brennynge.
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Instrumentes of Musick to sownen in an highe Tour, so merily that it was joye for to here; and no man scholde see the craft thereof: and tho, he seyde, weren aungeles of God, and that place was paradys, that God had behighte to his frendes, seyenge, Dabo vobis terram fluentem lacte et mel.
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And thanne men beren the dede body unto a gret hille, with gret joye and solempnyte.
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And thei saye, that there nys no purgatorie, and the soules schulle not have nouther joye ne peyne, tille the day of doom.
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And thanne men beren the dede body unto a gret hille, with gret joye and solempnyte.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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