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Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

_The Court of Love. Line 178._

The lyfe so short, the craft so long to lerne,[6-3] Th' assay so hard, so sharpe the conquering.

_The Assembly of Fowles. Line 1._

For out of the old fieldes, as men saithe, Cometh al this new corne fro yere to yere; And out of old bookes, in good faithe, Cometh al this new science that men lere.

_The Assembly of Fowles. Line 22._

Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.

_The Assembly of Fowles. Line 379._

O little booke, thou art so unconning, How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?

_The Flower and the Leaf. Line 59._

Of all the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures white and rede, Soch that men callen daisies in our toun.

_Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 41._

That well by reason men it call may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.

_Prologue of the Legend of Good Women. Line 183._

For iii may keep a counsel if twain be away.[6-4]

_The Ten Commandments of Love._

FOOTNOTES:

[2-1] In allusion to the proverb, "Every honest miller has a golden thumb."

[2-2] Fieldes have eies and woodes have eares.--HEYWOOD: _Proverbes,