Whanne that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.
Whanne that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.
- Source
- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Canterbury Tales. Prologue. Line 1.
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- attributed · historical anthology
Preserved as printed; independently unverified. - Historical coordinate
- c. 1364 AD · medieval
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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