A Digital Medievalist's Commonplace Blog

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Friday, March 7, 2008

Chaucer on Plain English

Speketh not in the heigh style, but so playn at this time,
I yow preye, that we may understonde what ye saye.

The Host to the Clerke of Oxenforde. Chaucer. Canterbury Tales. c. 1400.

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