[Y]e knowe ek (also) that in [the] fourme of speche is chaunge,
With-inne a thousand zeer (years), and wordes tho (then)
That hadden pris (value), how wonder (wonderfully) nyce (stupid) and straunge
Us thinketh hem; and zet thei spake hem so,
And spedde (succeeded) as well in loue (love) as men now do.
Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
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