JK> Geoffrey Chaucer appears to have been the first person to have
JK> put the proverb into print, in The Yeoman's Prologue and Tale,
JK> Canterbury Tales, circa 1386:
 
Chaucer died, in 1400, 40 years before the first printing press in Europe
started printing.
 
The Canterbury Tales were initially copied by hand and it lasted until 1478
until the first printed (incomplete) version came off the press. 78 years after
Chaucer's death.
 
Chaucer never put it into print ...
 
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