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In the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer's *The Canterbury Tales*, the Knight is described with the line, "He nevere yet no vileynye ne sayde," which translates to "He never yet said any villainy." The use of multiple negatives to strengthen, rather than cancel, the negation is a standard feature of Middle English grammar known as what?

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