Nat Devices

Famous quotes containing the words nat and/or devices:

    “I have swich love-longinge,
    That lik a turtle trewe is my moorninge:
    I may nat ete namore than a maide.””
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “So that with much ado I was corrupted, and made to learn the dirty devices of this world.
    Which now I unlearn, and become, as it were, a little child again that I may enter into the Kingdom of God.”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)