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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Memorizing the periodic table is probably the high-school assignment I'm most angry about to this day.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You didn't have to memorize the Canterbury Tales?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd find that less-useless. You can't reference the Summoner's tale in 1 second.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I had to look up what the summoner's tale was. I can say this from memory.

"Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote,

The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,

And bathed every veyne in swich licóur

Of which vertú engendred is the flour;

Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,

And smale foweles maken melodye,

That slepen al the nyght with open ye,

So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages,

Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,

And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,

To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

And specially, from every shires ende

Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,

The hooly blisful martir for to seke,

That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke."