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<p>[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 4128917, member: 84047"]I had a most curious dream last night. I was examining a Palaeologan silver coin in the collection of my friend, Bill M__, and translating for him its inscription, which, strangely enough, was a medieval Greek version of lines 455-457 of Chaucer's description of the Wyf of Bath, in his Prologue to his Canterbury Tales:</p><p><br /></p><p>Hir coverchiefs ful fyne weren of ground;</p><p>I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound</p><p>That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure from where all that came, save for the fact that last night before retiring I was examining 30-40 coins of 14th c. Latin Greece...Very strange.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Voulgaroktonou, post: 4128917, member: 84047"]I had a most curious dream last night. I was examining a Palaeologan silver coin in the collection of my friend, Bill M__, and translating for him its inscription, which, strangely enough, was a medieval Greek version of lines 455-457 of Chaucer's description of the Wyf of Bath, in his Prologue to his Canterbury Tales: Hir coverchiefs ful fyne weren of ground; I dorste swere they weyeden ten pound That on a Sonday weren upon hir heed. I'm not sure from where all that came, save for the fact that last night before retiring I was examining 30-40 coins of 14th c. Latin Greece...Very strange.[/QUOTE]
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