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The worshipful fader and first foundeur and enbelissher of ornate eloquence in our Englissh. I mene Maister Geffrey Chaucer.

— William Caxton Epilogue to Boethius De Consolacione Philosophie (1478)

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He that wil wynne he muste laboure and aventure.

The History of Reynard the Foxe (1481)

And thus love is founded otherwhile upon good prouffitable and this love endureth as longe as he seeth his prouffit. And herof men saye a comyn proverbe in England that love lasteth as longe as the money endureth and whan the money faylleth than there is no love.

Al these thynges consydered, there can no man resonably gaynsaye but there was a kyng of thys lande named Arthur. For in al places, Crysten and hethen, he is reputed and taken for one of the nine worthy, and the fyrst of the thre Crysten men.

Preface to Sir Thomas Malory Le Morte Darthur (1485)

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