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<p>[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 2934787, member: 74968"]Funny. Thanks for posting that I really enjoyed it.</p><p><br /></p><p>It reminds me of these lines from Chaucer several centuries later</p><p><br /></p><p>To reden on this cursed book al nyght, </p><p> 789</p><p>Al sodeynly thre leves have I plyght </p><p> 790</p><p>Out of his book, right as he radde, and eke </p><p> 791</p><p>I with my fest so took hym on the cheke </p><p> 792</p><p>That in oure fyr he fil bakward <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CT/1:3.1?rgn=div2;submit=Go;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=adoun#hl2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CT/1:3.1?rgn=div2;submit=Go;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=adoun#hl2" rel="nofollow"> → </a>. </p><p> 793</p><p>And he up stirte as dooth a wood leoun, </p><p> 794</p><p>And with his fest he smoot me on the heed, </p><p> 795</p><p>That in the floor I lay as I were deed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 2934787, member: 74968"]Funny. Thanks for posting that I really enjoyed it. It reminds me of these lines from Chaucer several centuries later To reden on this cursed book al nyght, 789 Al sodeynly thre leves have I plyght 790 Out of his book, right as he radde, and eke 791 I with my fest so took hym on the cheke 792 That in oure fyr he fil bakward [URL='https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CT/1:3.1?rgn=div2;submit=Go;subview=detail;type=simple;view=fulltext;q1=adoun#hl2'] → [/URL]. 793 And he up stirte as dooth a wood leoun, 794 And with his fest he smoot me on the heed, 795 That in the floor I lay as I were deed.[/QUOTE]
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