"For hit seide þe king Alfred: "Selde erendeð wel þe loþe, an selde plaideð wel þe wroþe.""
— Alfred the Great

January 1, 1970

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The Owl and the Nightingale, line 942; as translated by Brian Stone in The Owl and the Nightingale, Cleanness, St. Erkenwald (1971), p. 214.