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Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest.
Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest.
Approximate author period: c. 1494 AD · medieval
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- John Skelton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1494 AD · medieval
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Poems against Garnesche.
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