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    1. I woot wel Abraham was an hooly man,                 I know well Abraham was a holy man, 56       And Jacob eek, as ferforth as I kan;                 And Jacob also, insofar as I know; 57       And ech of hem hadde wyves mo than two,                 And each of them had more than two wives,

      The speaker, by giving specific male figures, mentions the inequality of gender. Men can have many wives. However, why can women marry five times? The speaker wants to break the social inequality. In modern society, this kind of resistance to established social norms can be described as social disobedience.

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    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmita

      During shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting, is forbidden by halakha (Jewish law).

      The sabbath year (shmita; Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the sabbatical year or shǝvi'it (שביעית‎, literally "seventh"), or "Sabbath of The Land", is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah in the Land of Israel and is observed in Judaism.

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