Canterbury Prologue - Rawson, Jeremy

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"A setting of the start of Geoffrey Chaucer's prologue to the Canterbury Tales, in Middle English. The text is printed phonetically for performance purposes, but the original and modern translations are also provided."

◈ Genre → Other ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 6

CPDL # 44667

Editor Jeremy Rawson

Posted 2017-05-23

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages.