[13] For example, "A clerk hadde litherly biset his whyle,/But if he koude a carpenter bigyle"; "What! thynk on God, as we doon, men that swynke"; "She was a prymerole, a piggesnye,/For any lord to leggen in his bedde,/Or yet for any good yeman to wedde" (I, 3299–300, 3491, 3268–70).

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