Page 4 - FEN1(2)C01 LITERATURES IN ENGLISH PAPER I: From Chaucer to the Present

Thanne longen folk to Then folk long to go on
goon on pilgrimages, pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to And professional
seken straunge pilgrims (long) to seek
strondes, foreign shores,
To ferne halwes, kowthe To (go to) distant
in sondry londes; shrines, known in
And specially, from various lands;
And specially from every
every shires ende shire's end
Of Engelond, to Of England to
Caunterbury they Canterbury they travel,
wende, To seek the holy blessed
The hooly blisful martir martyr,
for to seke, Who helped them when
That hem hath holpen they were sick.
whan that they were
seeke.
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