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Be better far than manye a maudlin sote.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as aboute a tree, with many a twiste, 1230 Bitrent and wryth the sote wode-binde, Gan eche of hem in armes other winde.

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey

But the author of the "Remedie of Love," formerly attributed to Chaucer, says— "My chambre is strowed with myrrhe and incense With sote savouring Aloes and sinnamone, Breathing an aromaticke redolence."

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson

How flat and tame "sweet April showers," in comparison with "April with his shour�s sote."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

Whanne that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John