On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:16:01 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


"William Claspy" wrote in message
...
On 4/3/05 1:43 PM, in article , "Wolfgang"
wrote:

who, somewhat exceptionally it would appear, doesn't know anyone who can
make him read what bores him.

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;


Actually, I once had about the first hundred lines of the Prologue committed
to memory back in college. I was enraptured by the sound of Middle English
for a period of a few months. I got over it.

Wolfgang

Okay, then there are two of you familiar with it. What's with the
line about every vein in such liquor that it turns to flour?

It occurred to me that it's Chaucerian English for flower, in which
case I can work it out, but if it's referring to people, I'm lost. I
am familiar with the olde tyme meaning of virtue. I liked it better
than the newfangled usage.

Cyli
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