Wells/governance

Famous quotes containing the words wells and/or governance:

    “Here we’ll strip and cool our fire
    In cream below, in milk-baths higher;
    And when all wells are drawn dry,
    I’ll drink a tear out of thine eye.”
    —Richard Lovelace (1618–1658)

    “He yaf me al the bridel in myn hand,
    To han the governance of hous and land,
    And of his tonge and his hand also;”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)