"When Adam dalf and Eve span, go spire – if thou may spede – Where was than the pride of man that now marres his mede?"
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"When Adam dalf and Eve span", line 1, in The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse (1970) edited by Celia Sisam and Kenneth Sisam p. 617, translation, p. 404 — Anonymous, sometimes attributed to Richard Rolle; adapted by John Ball during the Peasants' Revolt as "When Adam dalf, and Eve span, who was thanne a gentilman".
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