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An haberdasshere and a carpenter,
A webbe, a dyere, and a tapycer,
And they were clothed alle in o lyveree
Of a solempne and a greet fraternitee.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Attribution: Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400), British poet. General Prologue (l. 363–366). . ; from THE CANTERBURY TALES Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).

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