28 October, 2013

Canterbury Tales

It's all fun and games until you get an email saying you need to read the text in the original Middle English.  Actually, it's still fun and games, take a peeker at this nugget:

"Of fustian he wered a gipoun
Al bismotered with his habergeoun;
For he was late-y come form his viage,
And wente for to doon his pilgrimage."

(Chaucer 75-78)

I'm getting the gist, though, don't worry.  Those first two lines above just knocked me for a loop :)

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