English and Continental Poetry in the Fourteenth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote …
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.
With these words [The entire page is 16462 words long]
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