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But first I make a protestacioun / That I am dronke, I knowe it by my soun; / And therfore, if that I mysspeke or seye, / Wyte it the ale of Southwerk I you preye.

- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (The Miller's Tale, Lines 29-32)
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