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We have now come to fourteenth-century literature, which begins to wear a more modern aspect. This book, written in the Midland dialect in 1303, discourses of the Seven Deadly Sins and the best ways of living a godly life. A careful inspection of the following selection from the Handlyng Synne will show that, aside from the spelling, the English is essentially modern.
Concernyng diseasing lesse the countrie, and men, I saie that the ordinaunce, either evill or little that it bee, causeth not any disease, for that this order doeth not take menne from any of their businesse, it bindeth them not, that thei cannot go to doe any of their affaires: for that it bindeth them onely in the idell daies, to assemble together, to exercise them, the whiche thyng doeth not hurt, neither to the countrie, nor to the men, but rather to yong men it shall bryng delite: For that where vilie on the holy daies thei stande idell in tipplyng houses, thei will go for pleasure to those exercises, for that the handlyng of weapons, as it is a goodly spectacle, so unto yong men it is pleasaunt.
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