I, p.

139.
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This was a favourite saying.

It occurs in the story of Melibeus, 'Trois choses sont qui gettent homme hors de sa maison, c'est assavoir la fumee, la goutiere et la femme mauvaise.'-- _Ibid_., I, p.

195.
Compare Chaucer's use of it: 'Men seyn that thre thynges dryven a man out of his hous,--that is to seyn, smoke, droppyng of reyn and wikked wyves.'-- _Tale of Melibeus_, Sec.15; and 'Thou seyst that droppying houses, and eek smoke, And chidyng wyves, maken men to flee Out of hir owene hous.' -- _Wife of Bath's Prologue_, LL, 278-80.
12.