The Canterbury Tales, "The Manciple's Tale," l. 175ff (c. 1400) - Chaucer, Geoffrey | WIST Quotations
Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And lat him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to…
