A Knyght ther was, and that a worthy man, That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Trouthe and honóur, fredom and curteisie.

The General Prologue Whan that aprill with his shoures soote Line 1 The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, Line 2 And bathed every veyne in swich ...

The Middle English text is from Larry D. Benson., Gen. ed., The Riverside Chaucer, Houghton-Mifflin Company; used with permission of the publisher.

The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Lines 1–200. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340(?)–1400). WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote. The droghte of Marche hath perced ...

The Canterbury Tales. The General Prologue. (In a Modern English translation on the left beside the Middle English version on the right.) When April with his ...

The General Prologue is the key to The Canterbury Tales that narrates about the gathering of a group of thirty people in an inn that intend to go on a ...

Read by Larry Benson Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which ...

Translation ; Original in Middle English: Word-for-word translation into Modern English · Sense-for-sense translation into Modern English with a new rhyme scheme ...

We will read the Knight's Tale (KnT) and others in a translated version (Coghill), but we will attempt the General Prologue (GP) in Middle English. And to ...

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Опубликовано: 5 дек. 2017 г.