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Now, suete sone, ffayre fare thi fface, fful hertyly do I love the, ffor trewe herty love now in this place,
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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One may also use the index to discover that such terms as lemman, gent, suete brid, fetys, and other such specifically courtly terminology (which English poetry had inherited from the French romances) already seemed to Chaucer and his audience often démodé, déclassé -- no longer so groové, en effet.
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