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''Rough prose translation'': When April's sweet showers have pierced the droughts of March to the root and bathed every vein in the liquor by which force flowers are brought forth; also, when Zephirus [the Spring wind] with his sweet breath has inspired the tender crops in every holt [small woods] and heath, and the young sun has run half its course in the Ram [the constellation Aries], and small fowls, which sleep all night with open eyes, make melody (as Nature spurs them in their hearts); then folk long to go on pilgrimages and palmers [pilgrims who have visited the Holy Land] to seek foreign shores for distant shrines, well-known in many lands; and especially, from the ends of every shire [county] of England they wend their way to Canterbury to seek the holy blessed martyr [Saint Thomas Becket] who helped them when they were sick.

''Rough prose translation'': When April's sweet showers have pierced the droughts of March to the root and bathed every vein in the liquor by which force flowers are brought forth; also, when Zephirus [the Spring wind] with his sweet breath has inspired the tender crops in every holt [small woods] and heath, and the young sun has run half its course in the Ram [the constellation Aries], and small fowls, which sleep all night with open eyes, make melody (as Nature spurs them in their hearts); then folk long to go on pilgrimages and palmers [pilgrims who have visited the Holy Land] to seek foreign shores for distant shrines, well known in many lands; and especially, from the ends of every shire [county] of England they wend their way to Canterbury to seek the holy blessed martyr [Saint Thomas Becket] who helped them when they were sick.

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