Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury

[David Casseres]

Ah me.  Thanks to the late Prof. William Alderson of Reed College (a former
Shakespearean actor, with a face like a Gothic cathedral), I can still reel
that off in the best Middle English you ever heard (unless you heard
Alderson).  Thanks for the reminder.

On 4/3/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
> The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
> And bathed every veyne in swych licour
> Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
> Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
> Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
> The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
> Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne,
> And smale foweles maken melodye,
> That slepen al the nyght with open ye
> (So priketh hem nature in hir corages);
> Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
> And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
> To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
> And specially from every shires ende
> Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
> The hooly blisful martir for to seke
> That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke....
>
> http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gp.htm
>
> http://www.librarius.com/cantales/genpro.htm
>
> http://www.librarius.com/canttran/gptrfs.htm
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Prologue
>
> http://www.librarius.com/canttran/genpro/genpro001-042.htm
>
> http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/gp-par.htm
>
> http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2007/03/whan-that-aprille-weekend.html
>
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