文档介绍：The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
(the first 18 lines of the Prologue)
1) Whan that April with his showres soote When that April with his sweet showers
2) The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, The drought of March had pierced to the root
3) And bathed every veyne in swich licour And bathed every vein in such liquor
4) Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Of which virtue engendered is the flower
5) When Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth When Zephyr also with his sweet breath
6) Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Has inspired in every grove and aheath
7) Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Tender crops, and the young sun
8) Hath in the Ram his halve cours yronne, Has run half way in the Ram
9) And smale foweles maken melodye, And small birds make melody
10) That slepen al the nyght with open ye That sleep all the night with open eye
11) (so priketh hem nature in hir corages): So nature pricks them in their courage
12) Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, Then people long to go on pilgrimages
13) And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, And palmer to seek foreign strands
14) To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; To distant saints, made holy in sundry lands
15) And specially from every shires ende And specially from every shire’s end
16) Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, Of England to Canterbury they went
17) The hooly bli