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Quotation from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

“And specially, from every shire’s end Of Engleland, to Canterbury they wend, The holy blissful Martyr for to seek”

Geoffrey Chaucer (spoken by Narrator)

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

Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer

The pilgrims' destination is the shrine of St. Thomas Becket.

Citation: "And specially, from every shire’s end Of Engleland, to Canterbury they wend, The holy blissful Martyr for to seek" — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue (Purves edition, Project Gutenberg #2383 (spelling partly modernized)). (id the-canterbury-tales-q2)

Portrait: Chaucer ellesmere, Unknown, Public domain.

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