Middle English Creole

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    “On the Coast of Coromandel
    Where the early pumpkins blow,
    In the middle of the woods
    Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.
    Two old chairs, and half a candle,—
    One old jug without a handle,—
    These were all his worldly goods:
    In the middle of the woods,”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)

    “He that would the daughter win
    Must with the mother first begin.”
    —17th-century English proverb, collected in J. Ray, English Proverbs (1670)