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== Allusion ==
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{{quote|On old Englis it is seid "unkissid is unknowun,"<br/>
And <keyword>many men speken of Robyn Hood and shotte nevere in his bowe</keyword>.<ref>[http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/frdawfrm.htm Dean, James, ed. ''Six Ecclesiastical Satires: Friar Daw's Reply'' (''TEAMS Texts'') (online source)], ll. 232-33.</ref><br/>
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== IRHB comments ==
This is an early occurrence of the well-known proverb. ''The Reply of Friar Daw Topias'', wriiten in 1419-1420, is usually attributed to John Walsingham.
== Notes ==
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== Editions ==
* {{:Anonymous 1441a}}.
* {{:Wright, Thomas 1859a}}, vol. II. Allusion p. 59.
* {{:Walsingham, John 1968a}}. Allusion p. 80.
* {{:Dean, James M 1991a}}.
* [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/frdawfrm.htm|Dean, James, ed. ''Six Ecclesiastical Satires: Friar Daw's Reply'' (''TEAMS Texts'') (online source)].

== Lists ==
* Not included in: {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}.
* {{:Sussex, Lucy 1994a}}, see p. 264.

=== Brief mention ===
* {{:Bennett, Henry Stanley 1947a}}, p. 156.
* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 2 & n. 4. Cites the allusion as the "most perfect expression" of the proverb, dating the source 1419-20.
* {{:Hilton, Rodney Howard 1976b}}, see p. 7.
* {{:Holt, James Clarke 1960a}}, see pp. 98, 109 n. 2. Cites the allusion as an occurrence of the proverb to which Chaucer alludes in Troilus and Criseyde.
* {{:Holt, James Clarke 1976a}}, p. 247 & n. 42.
* {{:Holt, James Clarke 1999a}}, p. 222 & n. 42.

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