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The Canterbury pilgrims

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“O KINDLY Muse! let not my weak tongue falter In telling of this goodly company, Of their old piety and of their glee; But let a portion of ethereal dew Fall on my head, and presently unmew My soul; that I may dare, in wayfaring, To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing.”

[Keats: Endymion.]

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