| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 37640 |
| QUOTATION: | For like as herbs and trees bringen forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Thomas Malory (c. 14301471), British author. Le Morte dArthur, bk. 18, ch. 25 (1485). |
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