But meend, my Maister dothn’nt want wit

Here well I weene , whenas these rimes be red With misregard

In Poland, for example, the unknown Bolesław Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.

[A]ye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.