"Past and Gone."

Author / Editor
Olszewska, E. S.

Title
"Past and Gone."

Published
Notes and Queries 211 (1966): 209.

Description
Identifies four medieval instances (three from Mel) of collocation of forms of "passen" and "gon" that predate the OED's two quotations for "past and gone," from 1598 and 1897.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Tale of Melibee