Canterbury Prologue (Jeremy Rawson)
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- Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2017-05-23). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 105 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Canterbury Prologue
Composer: Jeremy Rawson
Lyricist: Geoffrey Chaucer
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Unknown
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2017
Description: 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.
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Original text and translations
Middle English 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.