Word: fould
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English writers may have claimed St. Valentine's Day for the Christians when Geoffrey Chaucer linked the day to a medieval myth of mating birds. "For this was on Seynt Valentynes Day, /Whan every fould cometh there to chese his make," Chauser wrote in his "Parliament of Fowls." Apparently, the birds come together on St. Valentine's Day to celebrate the beauty of spring by enjoying their new mates. This was not such a happy occassion for the poet, who complains in the poem about swarms of mating birds, who tormented him with their noise and crowded the poor poet...