Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
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The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
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And bathed every veyne in swich licour
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Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
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Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
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Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
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Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
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Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
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And smale foweles maken melodye,
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That slepen al the nyght with open ye
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(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
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Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
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And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
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To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
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And specially from every shires ende
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Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
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The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
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That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
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Bifil that in that seson on a day,
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In southwerk at the tabard as I lay
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Redy to wenden on my pilgrymage
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To caunterbury with ful devout corage,
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At nyght was come into that hostelrye
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Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye,
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Of sondry folk, by aventure yfalle
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In felaweshipe, and pilgrimes were they alle,
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That toward caunterbury wolden ryde.
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The chambres and the stables weren wyde,
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And wel we weren esed atte beste.
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And shortly, whan the sonne was to reste,
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So hadde I spoken with hem everichon
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That I was of hir felaweshipe anon,
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And made forward erly for to ryse,
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To take oure wey ther as I yow devyse.
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But nathelees, whil I have tyme and space,
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Er that I ferther in this tale pace,
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Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun
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To telle yow al the condicioun
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Of ech of hem, so as it semed me,
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And whiche they weren, and of what degree,
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And eek in what array that they were inne;
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And at a knyght than wol I first bigynne.
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A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man,
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That fro the tyme that he first bigan
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To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
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Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
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Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,
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And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre,
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As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse,
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And evere honoured for his worthynesse.
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At Alisaundre he was whan it was wonne.
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Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne
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Aboven alle nacions in pruce;
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In lettow hadde he reysed and in ruce,
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No cristen man so ofte of his degree.
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In gernade at the seege eek hadde he be
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Of algezir, and riden in belmarye.
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At lyeys was he and at satalye,
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Whan they were wonne; and in the grete see
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At many a noble armee hadde he be.
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At mortal batailles hadde he been fiftene,
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And foughten for oure feith at tramyssene
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In lystes thries, and ay slayn his foo.
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This ilke worthy knyght hadde been also
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Somtyme with the lord of palatye
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Agayn another hethen in turkye.
It’s all coming back to me now
So you should know that I am not a “shopper”. I live in shopping mall heaven — I’m ten minutes from the Broadway Mall, 15 from Roosevelt Field and 25 from Whitman Shoppes — but I seldom go to the mall. I prefer to shop on line. And when I do venture into a store, I usually know what I want and buy it as quickly as possible. I’m not one to browse through stores just to see what’s for sale. There’s a local chain, Baked By Melissa , that specializes in mini cupcakes. They’re primarily in Manhattan. A few years ago Becca introduced me to their product - delicate little cakes, exquisitely decorated, very tasty. I walk past their shop on 7th Avenue whenever we go to the theater. Well, last week I remembered that they used to have a second shop on 7th, right next to the original shop, but selling gluten-free versions of all their cupcakes. The gluten-free shop closed, but the company continues to make a gluten-free version of their product. So I thought that gluten-free cupcakes wou
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