The canterbury tales аудиокнига

1. Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote When fair April with his showers sweet, 2. The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, Has pierced the drought of March to the root 3. And bathed every veyne in swich licour And bathed each vein in such liquid, 4. Of which vertu engendred is the flour The strength of which creates the flower 5. Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth When the West Wind, with his sweet breath, 6. Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Has breathed life into every copse and heath, 7. The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Into each tender shoot, and the young sun 8. Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne, Has moved halfway through the house of Aries, 9. And smale foweles maken melodye, And small birds sing their songs, 10. That slepen al the nyght with open ye Those birds who sleep all night with open eye 11. (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages), (For nature stirs up their spirits), 12. Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, Then folk long to go on pilgrimage, 13. And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, And professional pilgrims to seek strange strands, 14. To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes And distant shrines, famous in foreign lands, 15. And specially from every shires ende And specially from every shire's end 16. Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende, Of England to Canterbury they wend, 17. The hooly blisful martir for to seke, The holy blessed martyr there to seek, 18. That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. Who watched over them when they were sick. 19. Bifil that in that seson on a day, It happened in that season that one day 20. In Southwerk at the Tabard as I lay In Southwark, at the Tabard, where I lay 21. Redy to wenden on my pilgrimage Ready to set out on my pilgrimage 22. To Caunterbury with ful devout corage, To Canterbury, filled with a devout spirit, 23. At nyght was come into that hostelrye There came that night to that hostelry 24. Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye A group of twenty-nine, a company 25. Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle Of various sorts of people, fallen 26. In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle, By chance into fellowship, and every one of them a pilgrim 27. That toward Caunterbury wolden ryde. Bound for the shrine in Canterbury. 28. The chambres and the stables weren wyde, The bedrooms and the stables were roomy 29. And wel we weren esed atte beste. And we were taken care of in the best way. 30. And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste, In brief, when the sun had sunk to its rest, 31. So hadde I spoken with hem everichon Since I had spoken to every one of them, 32. That I was of hir felaweshipe anon, I soon became one of the crowd, 33. And made forward erly for to ryse, Planning to be ready to leave early the next day 34. To take oure wey ther as I yow devyse. At first light for the destination Ive already told you about