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Many of them are very long often thirty, forty, or fifty thousand lines written sometimes in a strophic form, sometimes in long Alexandrines, but commonly in the short, eight-syllabled rhyming couplet. Numbers of them were turned into English verse in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. The translations were usually inferior to the originals.
The Canterbury Tales had shown of what high uses the English language was capable, but the curiously trilingual condition of literature still continued. The last named is a dreary, pedantic work, in some fifteen thousand smooth, monotonous, eight-syllabled couplets, in which Grande Amour instructs the lover how to get the love of Bel Pucel. Early English Literature. Bernhard ten Brink.
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