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"english": "\"My lord,\" he said, \"When the weather is good, and there is no wind or perturbations in the air, let a cart-wheel be brought into this hall, but ensure that it has all its spokes: a cart-wheel has twelve spokes, commonly. And bring me then twelve friars, do you know why? Because a thirteen's a convent, as I estimate.",
"ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Somnour's Tale\", in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Rev. Walter W. Skeat, editor, The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 4, Second Edition, Oxford at the Clarendon Press: Humphrey Milford, 1900, →OCLC, lines 2253–2261 (547–553)",
"text": "'My lord,' quod he, 'whan that the weder is fair,\nWith-outen wind or perturbinge of air,\nLat bringe a cartwheel here in-to this halle,\nBut loke that it have his spokes alle.\nTwelf spokes hath a cartwheel comunly.\nAnd bring me than twelf freres, woot ye why?\nFor thrittene is a covent, as I gesse.[']",
"translation": "\"My lord,\" he said, \"When the weather is good, and there is no wind or perturbations in the air, let a cart-wheel be brought into this hall, but ensure that it has all its spokes: a cart-wheel has twelve spokes, commonly. And bring me then twelve friars, do you know why? Because a thirteen's a convent, as I estimate.",
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"translation": "\"My lord,\" he said, \"When the weather is good, and there is no wind or perturbations in the air, let a cart-wheel be brought into this hall, but ensure that it has all its spokes: a cart-wheel has twelve spokes, commonly. And bring me then twelve friars, do you know why? Because a thirteen's a convent, as I estimate.",
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