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Letters to Dead Authors

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of Letters to Dead Authors is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Andrew Lang • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

Wherefore Englishmen be lightly moving, and far wandering.

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Chapter VI Reading 1/28

Letters to Dead Authors

Chapter VI · Chapter 6

Chapter 6 of Letters to Dead Authors is here in full — 142 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/28 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

Line 2

For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

Line 3

For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

Line 4

And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

Line 5

Wherefore Englishmen be lightly moving, and far wandering.

All words in this reading · 50

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and

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From this reading For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

be

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From this reading Wherefore Englishmen be lightly moving, and far wandering.

ben

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From this reading For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

by

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

climate

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

Contreyes

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

diverse

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

diversities

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

dyverse

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

Englishmen

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From this reading For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

Englond

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

far

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From this reading Wherefore Englishmen be lightly moving, and far wandering.

For

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From this reading For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

Fro

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

go

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

gon

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

have

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

in

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

is

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

it

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

John

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

lightly

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

many

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

men

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

Moon

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

moving

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

natheless

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

nymble

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From this reading For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

of

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

other

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

said

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

see

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

seventh

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

Sir

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

stirring

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From this reading For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

strange

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

that

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

the

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

they

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From this reading For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon.

things

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

to

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

true

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

very

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From this reading For Englishmen ben very stirring and nymble.

wandering

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From this reading Wherefore Englishmen be lightly moving, and far wandering.

ways

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

Wherefore

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From this reading Wherefore Englishmen be lightly moving, and far wandering.

Worlde

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

ye

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

Ynde

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From this reading Fro Englond men gon to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes.

yourself

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From this reading And the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and other diversities of the Worlde.

Chapter 6 of Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang holds 142 sentences, grouped into 29 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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Chapter 6 holds 142 sentences of Letters to Dead Authors, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.

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