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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:48
AUTHOR:Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400)
QUOTATION:Eke wonder last but nine deies never in toun. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Troilus and Creseide. Book iv. Line 525.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
This wonder lasted nine daies.—John Heywood: Proverbes, part ii. chap. i. [back]
 

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