"Comparable with Chawcer, yet more occupyed in supersticious and odde matters than was requesite in so good a wytte."

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“Who lesethe his fredam, in faith! he loseth all.”

“Off oure language he was the lodesterre.”

“He is the first of our writers whose style is cloathed with that perspicuity, in which the English phraseology appears at this day to an English reader…Whether his subject be the life of a hermit or a hero, of saint Austin or Guy earl of Warwick, ludicrous or legendary, religious or romantic, a history or an allegory, he writes with facility.”

“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”

“Woord is but wynd; leff woord and tak the dede.”

“Odyous of olde been comparisonis.”

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