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April Fools' Day - Nun's Priest's Tale

Time: 1390s

Place: England

Details: In the "Nun's Priest's Tale", a vain cock Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox on Syn March bigan thritty dayes and two. Readers apparently understood this line to mean "32 March", i.e. April 1.

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