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Dame Sirith

Middle English fabliau

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place in English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: Verse romance

    …manuscript with this work is Dame Sirith, the earliest English fabliau. Another sort of humor is found in The Land of Cockaygne, which depicts a utopia better than heaven, where rivers run with milk, honey, and wine, geese fly about already roasted, and monks hunt with hawks and dance with…

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