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A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance

Note 572 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 6)

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Chaucer himself expected his poem to be said or sung; he says to his book:

And red wher-so thou be, or elles songe; That thou be understonde, I God beseche! (Book v. st. 257.)

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