| 中古英語原文
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現代英語直譯[1]
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| Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
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When [that] April with his showers sweet
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| The droȝte of March hath perced to the roote
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The drought of March has pierced to the root
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| And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
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And bathed every vein in such liquor,
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| Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
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Of which virtue engendered is the flower;
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| Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
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When Zephyrus eeked with his sweet breath
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| Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
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Inspired has in every holt and heath,
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| The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
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The tender crops; and the young sun
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| Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
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Has in the Ram his half-course run,
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| And smale foweles maken melodye,
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And small fowls make melody,
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| That slepen al the nyght with open ye
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That sleep all the night with open eye
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| (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
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(So pricks them Nature in their courages);
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| Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
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Then folk long to go on pilgrimages
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| And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
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And palmers [for] to seek strange strands
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| To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
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To far-off hallows, couth in sundry lands;
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| And specially from every shires ende
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And, especially, from every shire's end
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| Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
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Of England, to Canterbury they went,
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| The hooly blisful martir for to seke
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The holy blissful martyr [for] to seek,
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| That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.
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That them has helped, when [that] they were sick.
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