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| | Robert Mannyng |
 | | Robert Mannyng, also known as Robert of Brunne, an English poet, was a native of Brunne, now Bourne, in Lincolnshire. |
 | | Mannyng entered this house in 1288, when, according to the rules, he must have been at least 24 years of age, if, as is supposed, he was a lay brother. |
 | | Mannyng wrote in the English tongue not for learned but for "lewd" men, "that talys and ryme wyl blethly here", to occupy the leisure hours during which they might otherwise fall into "vylanye, dedly synne or other folye." Each of his twenty-four topics has its complement of stories. |
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