tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12698509.post8039539059266534009..comments2024-01-18T02:41:13.646-08:00Comments on Damselfly’s Delights: Those Darn RodentsLouisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11685532773952211627noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12698509.post-31732338613346311772009-02-05T08:06:00.000-08:002009-02-05T08:06:00.000-08:00Chaucer was a way cool dude! Though kind of hard t...Chaucer was a way cool dude! Though kind of hard to read in the original Middle English. :) A more modern translation reveals that people haven't changed much. <BR/><BR/>Note that I had an English Lit teacher who was a Chaucerian nut. She played us a recording of the Middle English version and I remember thinking it made our language sound quite lovely! But we could barely understand any of it. Though I can still pronounce "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" It's lovely...Louisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685532773952211627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12698509.post-16149764786544218802009-02-04T09:10:00.000-08:002009-02-04T09:10:00.000-08:00What a great quote! I need to read Chaucer.What a great quote! I need to read Chaucer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com