What if you trained a large language AI on texts from the 1700s?
> who is the fairest of them all?
The fairest of them all was that Lady which was come from the Castle of Lusignan, who came with a retinue of twenty Knights and Ladies, and so faire she was that none durst compare her to any other lady in the world. And when she was come to the King's Court, there was great joy amongst the people; for they were all glad to see her; and the King, seeing how fair she was, said to his Council: "I would fain have this Lady for my wife," but his Council told him it could not be done without his brother's consent, because he had promised his daughter to the Duke of Bretagne; so the King sent for his brother, and made him a long discourse about his desire to marry that Lady. But he answered: "My brother, I will not give you my daughter to marry, neither will I give her to the Duke of Bretagne." Then the King replied: "I am sorry that you do not give me your daughter to marry, but if you will not, I shall go and make war upon the Duke of Bretagne, and take the land from him; for since you will not give me your daughter, I will take the land from him, and then I shall marry her." After this, the King went to the Duke of Bretagne, and made war against him, and took the land from him, and then married the Lady that was come from the Castle of Lusignan; and when she was married, there was great joy amongst the people.
I have to say, that prose style seems perfectly natural to me. It reminds me that when some friends took me with them to Colonial Williamsburg several years ago, and we attended a gathering in the Governor’s mansion, when he (the actor or docent playing the Governor) asked me in character where I had come from, I (in jeans and sneakers), without thinking, curtseyed and said “Sir, I am but lately come from London”. This is what comes of reading all those historical novels (and of course some history) in childhood ……