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Chaucer is wonderful, but it does take a bit of practice for a modern English speaker to get to grips with, largely because there are lots of French words (the English court, where Chaucer was employed, was still French-speaking at the time).
At least Middle English can be understood by a modern reader, unlike Old English, which is essentially a foreign language as far as a modern reader is concerned; it's almost completely incomprehensible.
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