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Today's my essay-writing day. You can tell, can't you?
I just found this passage that amused me in the Tristran of Thomas, written c. 1160:
“London is a very noble city; there is none better in Christendom or any of higher worth, of greater renown, or better furnished with well-to-do people. For they much love honour and munificence and bear themselves very gaily. London is the mainstay of England - there is no need to seek beyond it. At the foot of its wall there flows the Thames, by which merchandise comes from every land where Christian merchants go. Its men are very clever.”
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