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O Little Booke, Thou Art So Unconning, How Darst Thou Put Thy-self In Prees For Drede?
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O little booke, thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
-- The Flower and the Leaf, Line 59
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