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1 Old and Middle English
1 Old and Middle English
1 Old and Middle English
1500
Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote
Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is
arguably the most important work to survive
from the Middle Ages. Written in Middle
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
1470 At Camelot lay the King...
C. 657 English, it is a secular (not religious) piece of
writing which provides us with a cross-section
of medieval society from the Fourteenth
Of which vertu engendred is the flour