6/11/2023 0 Comments Chaucer the general prologue![]() Reading in Original Middle English and TextĮvan, I think this is an extremely fine translation of Chaucer’s Middle English into Modern English. ![]() Becket’s shrine was associated with miraculous healings. ![]() Palmer: a pilgrim implying a pilgrim who once traveled all the way from England to the Holy Land (where Jesus lived and taught, in and around present day Israel), which was a significant distance at the time, and brought back a palm leaf.Ĭanterbury: the site of Canterbury Cathedral and the Archbishop of Canterbury (the priest with the highest position in England), and the site of the holy shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, who was a martyr (a person killed for his faith). Pilgrimage: a traveler, usually on a holy journey. Who helped them out when once they had been sick. The palmers seek to make their travel plansįor far-off shrines renowned in sundry lands. On pilgrimage then folks desire to start. (For Nature pricks them in each little heart), Who sleep all night eyes open in the trees ![]() His second half course through the Ram now run, The tender crops, and there’s a youthful sun, ![]() When Zephyrus too exhales his breath so sweet Through every vein with liquid of such power The drought of March is pierced right to the root When April’s sweetest showers downward shoot, The Canterbury Tales-General Prologue, Lines 1-18 ![]()
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