坎特伯雷故事集（总序1-18）翻译
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当四月温柔的甘霖普降，
浸润三月每寸干旱封疆，
把大地上生灵万物滋养，
它的力量催得百花芬芳；
和煦西风携带甜蜜气息，
泽被一片片丛林和荒地，
赐予给它们青春及生命，
朝升的太阳奔跑过半程；
鸟雀啁啾，欢唱爱情，
让沉寂的黑夜张开眼睛，
自然在撩拨众生的情怀：
心存敬仰之人将去朝拜，
人们踏上通向天国之路，
前往著名的遥远圣域；
他们在每一处村落集聚，
从英格兰到坎特伯雷去，
朝觐身受福泽的殉道者，
他曾护佑过广大受难者。
原诗:
Whan that Aprille
with hise shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the
rote,
And bathed euery veyne in swich
licour
Of which vertu engendred is the
flour;
Whan Zephyrus eek with his swete
breeth
Inspired hath in euery holt and heeth
The tendre croppes,and the yonge
sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours
y-ronne,
And smale foweles maken melod ye
That slepen al the nyght with open
ye,
So priketh hem nature in hir corages:
Thanne longen folk to goon
pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge
strondes
To ferne halwes,couthe in sondry
londes;
And specially from euery shires ende
Of Engelond to Caunterbury they
wende,
The hooly blisful martirfor to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were
seeke.
