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And because the fyrste teachyng of chyldren is, to speake playnly and wythout faute, in this afore tyme the nourses and the parentes helpe not a lytle.

From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard

Ethelwerd had before acknowledged that he reported many things—"sicut docuere parentes;" and then he immediately adds, "Scilicet Aelfred rex Athulfi regis filius; ex quo nos originem trahimus."

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)