English poem
And rage he couthe and pleye as a whelpe
by William Langland (1332–1386)
And rage he couthe and pleye as a whelpe, In love-dayes, ther couthe he mochil helpe. For ther was he not like a cloysterer With a thredbare cope, as a pore scoler, But he was like a maister or a pope.—Cant. T. 249, 259.
5646. The quotation is made up from Job xxi, 7; and Jerem. xii, 2.
5651. Psal. lxxii, 12.