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Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene contains affected Middle English diction that would've been as archaic to him as Shakespeare's diction is to us now. Earlier than that, did any Middle English authors attempt to write in a way that invoked pre-Norman Old English?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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