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- imp. of
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In the mid-1500s, English writer John Heywood penned the phrase "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" in his book of proverbs entitled, A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue.
Sam Dudley: Melo Is Full of... Sam Dudley 2011
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In the mid-1500s, English writer John Heywood penned the phrase "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" in his book of proverbs entitled, A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue.
Sam Dudley: Melo Is Full of... Sam Dudley 2011
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“Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche” — so Chaucer says of his young scholar in TheCanterbury Tales.
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“Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche” — so Chaucer says of his young scholar in TheCanterbury Tales.
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“Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche” — so Chaucer says of his young scholar in TheCanterbury Tales.
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“Gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche” — so Chaucer says of his young scholar in TheCanterbury Tales.
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She, however, refused to name the rumor-mongers and explained in the letter that, if she did name names, people would then label her a tattletale: "that shulde be but a briding of a ivel name of me ... and so get the ivel wil of the people, wiche thinge I wolde be lothe to have."
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Add thereto the blood and spittle of ye who wolde traverse the mirrors.
The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010
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It all would sound about as realistic as creating a faery wolde downtown, except for three things.
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Icn do nat wisshe thee to take ydown the shirte, but a drynke (or thre) wolde plesen me.
Chaucer, Making a Quick Buck Richard Nokes 2006
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