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"When that Aprillé with his showerés soote [= sweet] The drought of March hath piercéd to the roote,

Then longen folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeken strangé strands, To ferme [=ancient] halwes [=shrines] knowthe [= known] in sundry lands And specially from every shirés end Of Engéland, to Canterbury they wend, The holy, blissful martyr for to seek That them hath holpen when that they were sick."