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From:	VAX::LOU          "Lou Burnard"  2-FEB-1989 16:18:31.77
To:	ARCHIVE
CC:	LOU
Subj:	

 
 
      <%here bygynneth the book of the tales of caunterbury%>
 
       Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
      The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
      And bathed euery veyne in swich licour
      Of which vertu engendred is the flour
   5  Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
      Inspired hath in euery holt and heeth
      The tendre croppes and the yonge sonne
      Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne
      And smale foweles maken melodye \    10  That slepen al the nyght with open eye
      So priketh hem nature in hir corages
      Than longen folk to goon on pilgrymages
      And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
      To ferne halwes kouthe in sondry londes
  15  And specially from euery shires ende
      Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende
      The holy blisful martir for to seke
      That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke
       Bifel that in . . .