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1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
 2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
 3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
 4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
 5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
 6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
 7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
 8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
 9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
 10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
 11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
 12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
 13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
 14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
 15: And specially from every shires ende
 16: Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
 17: The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
 18: That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

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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 therein and sire the flower;
 When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
 Quickened again, in every holt and heath,
 The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun
 Into the Ram one half his course has run,
 And many little birds make melody
 That sleep through all the night with open eye
 (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-
 Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,
 And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
 To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.
 And specially from every shire's end
 Of England they to Canterbury wend,
 The holy blessed martyr there to seek
 Who helped them when they lay so ill and weal