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Dunmowe

Dunmowe  

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Literature, Literary studies (early and medieval)
Little Dunmow, near Chelmsford in Essex. When the Wife of Bath says of her suffering husbands (III.218) ‘the bacon was nat fet [fetched] for him … | That som men ...
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer

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Current Version:
2005
Subject:
Literature, Literary studies (early and medieval)
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the English county (between Suffolk and the Thames). Chaucer's family had been merchants in Ipswich nearby, but he mentions the

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