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THE CANTERBURY TALES by GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
This edition edited and digitized by Ted &
Florence Daniel, NEW WAVE PUBLISHERS,
2103 N. LIBERTY ST., PORTLAND, OR 97217.
Posted in July 1993.
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THE CANTERBURY TALES
by GEOFFREY CHAUCER
GROUP A
PROLOGUE
Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to . . .
