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A32750 Canterbury tales composed for the entertainment of all ingenious young men at their merry meetings upon Christmas, Easter, Whitsontide, or any other time, especially in long winter evenings to keep good wits imply'd : intermixt with pleasant stories, witty jests and delightful songs very proper for either city, town, or country with an epistle dedicated to the bakers, smiths and millers by Chaucer junior. Chaucer, Junior. 1687 (1687) Wing C3737; ESTC R29212 11,083 25

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