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Слушать(AI)Chaucers Words to His Scrivener
Adam Scrivener, if ever it thee
Boece or Troilus for to write anew,
Under thy long locks thou may'st have the
But after my making thou write more true!
So oft a day I must thy work renew,
It to correct, and eke to rub and scrape;
And all is through thy negligence and rape.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he
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