Page 3 - FEN1(2)C01 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH PAPER I: From Chaucer to the Present
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Whan that Aprille with When April with its
his shoures soote, sweet-smelling showers
The droghte of March Has pierced the drought
hath perced to the roote, of March to the root,
And bathed every veyne And bathed every vein
in swich licóur (of the plants) in such
Of which vertú liquid
engendred is the flour; By the power of which
the flower is created;
Whan Zephirus eek with When the West Wind
his swete breeth also with its sweet
Inspired hath in every breath,
holt and heeth In every holt and heath,
The tendre croppes, and has breathed life into
the yonge sonne The tender crops, and
Hath in the Ram his the young sun
halfe cours y-ronne, Has run its half course
in Aries,
And smale foweles And small fowls make
maken melodye, melody,
That slepen al the nyght Those that sleep all the
with open ye, night with open eyes
So priketh hem Natúre (So,Nature incites them
in hir corages, in their hearts),
