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Middle English
[edit]Adverb
[edit]- in due course
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Frankeleyns Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- By proces, as ye knowen everichoon,
Men may so longe graven in a stoon,
Til som figure therinne emprented be.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)