EXCERPTED FROM The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete…