Quote#Wisdom
Gentle Paule, laie doune thy sweard
Quote byJohn Skelton · 1460–1529
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Couplet on Wolsey's Dissolution of the Convocation at St Paul's (c. 1523), in criticism of Cardinal Wolsey's dissolution of convocation at St Paul's Cathedral, quoted in The Complete English Poems of John Skelton: Revised Edition, ed. John Scattergood (2015), p. 315.
English (original)
Gentle Paule, laie doune thy sweard, For Peter of Westminster hath shaven thy beard.
— John Skelton
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