Gower sauing for his good and graue moralities, had nothing in him highly to be commended, for his verse was homely and without good measure, his wordes strained much DEALE out of the French writers, his ryme wrested, and in his inuentions small subtillitie: the applications of his moralities are the best in him, and yet those many times very grossely bestowed, neither doth the substance of his workes sufficiently aunswere the subtilitie of his titles.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
Wherefore I intended to runne away, but the remembrance of you put alwayes the thought out of my minde, and so I came homeward very sorrowful: but because I would not seeme to come to my mistresse sight with empty hands, I saw a man shearing of blowne goat skinnes, and the hayre which he had shorne off was yellow, and much resembled the haire of the Boetian, and I tooke a good DEALE thereof, and colouring of the matter, I brought it to my mistresse.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius
And then I put off all my garments, and greedily thrust my hand into the box, and took out a good DEALE of oyntment and rubbed my selfe withall.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius