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I Hold A Mouses Wit Not Worth A Leke, That Hath But On Hole For To Sterten To.
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I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,
That hath but on hole for to sterten to.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
-- The Wif of Bathes Prologue, Line 6154
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