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Excerpt from Geoffrey Chaucer's: The Prologue to the Book of the Tales of Canterbury, the Knight's Tale, the Nun's Priest's Tale, Edited, With Notes and Glossary
Whan that° Aprille With his shoures sote The droughte of. March hath perced to the rote, And bathed every veyne in swich° lioour Of which vertu engendred is the ?our; Whan Zephirus eek With his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ra1n° his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale fowles maken melodye, Thatslepen al the night'with Open ye.
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