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   From: innes8@verizon.net   
      
   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
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   >> Later. But Chaucer and Gower were the wordsmiths of the C13th!   
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   > Well no they weren't. They were of the 14thC. In fact Chaucer's first work   
   > wasn't until the 1370s.   
      
   I chose my words particularly, since they were both noted atavists ;)   
      
       Gye ys moche bemoonyd of all   
       In the erlys cowrte and in the kyngs halle.   
      
           //MS Cantab ff ii 38 f 148   
      
   BEMOON is A. Sax; pity.   
      
   PI   
      
   > Much nearer the 15thC than the 13thC. This is the same decade which saw   
   > the writing of "The Bruce" by Barbour which of course is written in Scots.   
      
   O Ay.   
      
   > Allan   
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