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Quotation from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

“WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot”

Geoffrey Chaucer (spoken by Narrator)

The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, opening line (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized))

Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer

The famous opening sets the pilgrimage within the renewal of spring.

Citation: "WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot" — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, opening line (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized)). (id the-canterbury-tales-q1)

Portrait: Chaucer ellesmere, Unknown, Public domain.

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