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With bookës of his ornat endytyng,
That is to al þis land enlumynyng.

— Thomas Occleve Regement of Princes (1412)

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Line 1973; vol. 3, p. 71; translation from Terry Jones et al. Who Murdered Chaucer? (London: Methuen, 2004) p. 4.

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