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| | Chaucer's House of Fame |
 | | But never was lightning-stroke, or that thing which men call the thunderbolt which sometimes has smitten a tower to powder and burned it by its swift onslaught that so swiftly descended as this bird, when it beheld me abroad in the field. |
 | | But truly I tell you I knew not what her reason was, for I knew full well that this folk had each deserved good fame, although they were diversely treated; even as her sister, dame Fortune, is ever wont to serve men. |
 | | But never was seen, and never again shall be, such a congregation of folk as I saw roaming around, some within, some without; certes there are not leftin the world so many formed by Nature, nor so many creatures dead, so that scarce had I one foot's breadth of room in that place. |
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