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"english": "She was so fair and beautiful; her elegance seemed like / An elf out of another world, or else an angel.",
"ref": "c. 1450, Wars of Alexander, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, passus 24, line 5258",
"text": "Scho was so faire & so fresche · as faucon hire semed, / An elfe out of an-othire erde · or ellis an Aungell",
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"ref": "c. 1450, “The Second Shepherds' Play”, in The Towneley Plays, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 616",
"text": "he was takyn with an elfe / I saw it myself / when the clok stroke twelf / was he forshapyn",
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"english": "She was so fair and beautiful; her elegance seemed like / An elf out of another world, or else an angel.",
"ref": "c. 1450, Wars of Alexander, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, passus 24, line 5258",
"text": "Scho was so faire & so fresche · as faucon hire semed, / An elfe out of an-othire erde · or ellis an Aungell",
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"english": "He was taken by an elf; I saw it myself. / When the clock struck twelve, he was transfigured.",
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"text": "he was takyn with an elfe / I saw it myself / when the clok stroke twelf / was he forshapyn",
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