That's Modern English?
& where did the fruit come from? That's not even good horticulture
Lawrence
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From: pain <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 29 January 2000 04:34
Subject: RE: Hands up for Heaney & Beowulf
|Here is a J.U. Nicolson's
| rendering of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales into Modern English:
|
| When April with his showers sweet with fruit
| The drought of March has pierced unto the root
| And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
| to generate therin and sire the flower.
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