Foreword from the Canterbury Tales

Foreword
This is an Anglish of the opening lines of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, first written in Middle English. by Wordwork. See the wender's leaf for more on the wordings.

English Spelling
1 When with its sweet showers

2 The drought of has  to

3 And bathed every in such

4 which  the  is  so

5 When eke its sweet

6 Has every holt and

7 The, and the young sun

8 In the Ram has half its run,

9 And small fowls with arise,

10 sleep all night with open eyes

11 (So has pricked 'em in  hearts' worth),

12 Then folk longingly go on a-

13 And for to seech  strands

14 To farn hallows, couth in sundry lands

15 And from every shires end

16 Of England to Canterbury wend,

17 The holy blissful for to seech

18 Who 'em had helped when.

Anglish Spelling
1 Hwen with its sweet scuers

2 The drowt of has  to

3 And bathed efery in suce

4 hwic  the  is  so

5 Hwen eke its sweet

6 Has efery holt and

7 The, and the yung sun

8 In the Ram has half its run,

9 And small fules with arise,

10 sleep all nigt with open eyes

11 (So has pricked 'em in  hearts' worth),

12 Then folk longingly go on a-

13 And for to seech   strands

14 To farn hallows, cooth in sundry lands

15 And from efery scires end

16 Of England to Canterbury wend,

17 The holy blissful for to seec

18 Hwo 'em had helped hwen.