Que force sormonte vertu. Bone est force et engins mius val… - Wace

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Que force sormonte vertu.
Bone est force et engins mius valt,
Là vaut engins où force falt;
Engins et ars font mainte cose
Que force commenchier ne n'ose.

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(c. 1110 – after 1174), sometimes referred to as Robert Wace, was a Medieval Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.

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Ci faut le livre Maistre Wace;
Qu'in velt avant fere, s'in face.

N'ont terre de Seingnor ki ne se pot aidier.

Cil due vassals, ki tant cunquistrent,
Tant orent terres, è tant pristrent;
Emprès la mort, de lor enor,
N'ont cescuns fors sa lunguor.

Que force sormonte vertu. Bone est force et engins mius valt, Là vaut engins où force falt; Engins et ars font mainte cose Que force commenchier ne n… - Wace

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