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46.

_Poetical Example--probably written before 1380_.
"O Socrates, thou stedfast champion; She ne might nevir be thy turmentour, Thou nevir dreddist her oppression, Ne in her chere foundin thou no favour, Thou knewe wele the disceipt of her colour, And that her moste worship is for to lie, I knowe her eke a false dissimulour, For finally Fortune I doe defie."-- CHAUCER.
47.

_Reign of Edward III, 1377 to 1327 .-- Example written about 1360_.
"And eke full ofte a littell skare Vpon a banke, er men be ware, Let in the streme, whiche with gret peine, If any man it shall restreine.
Where lawe failleth, errour groweth; He is not wise, who that ne troweth."-- SIR JOHN GOWER.
48.

_Example from Mandeville, the English traveller--written in 1356_.
"And this sterre that is toward the Northe, that wee clepen the lode sterre, ne apperethe not to hem.

For whiche cause, men may wel perceyve, that the lond and the see ben of rownde schapp and forme.