Remember any other culture that deliberately chose illiteracy over literacy?
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![page torn from old Oxford Book of EN Verse (QC)
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This World's Joy
WTYNTER wakeneth al my care, Nou this leves waxeth bare : Ofte I sike ant mourne sare When hit cometh in my thoht Of this worldes joie, hou hit goth al to noht.
C. 1300
Nou hit is. and nou hit nys, Al so hit ner nere. ywys; That moni mon seith. soth hit vs : Al goth bote Godes wille: Alle we shule deye, thah us like ylle.
Al that gren me graueth grene, Nou hit faleweth albvdene : Jesu, help that hit be sene Ant shild us from helle ! For y not whider y shal, ne hou longe her duelle.
5. this leves] these leaves. ike sigh. nysl is not. lso hit ner nere7 as though it had never been. soth] sooth. bote7 but, except. thah] though. faleweth] fadeth albydene] altogether. y not whiderl I know not whither. her duelle] here dwell.
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