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Chaucer makes his Parson repudiate all ‘fables and swich wrecchednesse’. He would be glad, says the Parson, to give lawful pleasure to the company:
But trusteth wel, I am a Southren man,
I kan nat geeste ‘rum, ram, ruf’ by lettre,
Ne, God woot, rym holde I but litel bettre. [CT X, 42–4]
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© 1983 Derek Brewer
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Brewer, D. (1983). Alliterative Poetry. In: English Gothic Literature. Macmillan History of Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17037-1_8
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