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"A prowde hert in a begger's brest, it may well ryme but it accordith nought."
John Lydgate, Minor Poems, Ryme without accord, c. 1430.

Gumi English — Candle Queen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMhkIiapIA

Johannes Vermeer, The procuress, 1656:
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"An office to which she could afford no better name than that of procuress.
—This discovery had greatly discomposed her temper."
Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book XVII, Chapter VIII, 1749.