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Question 2: Measure for measure...
Incorrect
The right answer is ‘One Furlong’.
A furlong was (and still is) 220 yards, or one eighth of a mile. A league was an informal measurement of about three miles, while the measurements of a chain and a metre didn’t exist in Tudor times.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
acre of barren ground
The Tempest
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