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By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.
Approximate author period: c. 1364 AD · medieval
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- Geoffrey Chaucer
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- Approximate author period: c. 1364 AD · medieval
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