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1. Richard Rolle de Hampole
When Adam dalfe and Eve spane...
Where was than the pride of man?
Richard Rolle de Hampole c1290-1349: in G. G. Perry Religious Pieces (1914). Taken in the form 'When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?' by John Ball as the text of his revolutionary sermon on the outbreak of the Peasants' Revolt, 1381
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