[2016-10-05] An excerpt from The Canterbury Tales
Originally recorded and posted to Facebook on 2016-10-05.
Original caption on Facebook:
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"Ran cow and calf, and eek the verray hogges,
So fered they fered for berkyng of the dogges,
And shoutyng of the men and wommen eeke,
They ronne so, hem thoughte hir herte breeke;
They yolleden as feends doon in helle,
The dokes cryden as men wolde hem quelle,
The gees for feere flowen over the trees,
Out of the hyve cam the swarm of bees"
- excerpt from "The Nun's Priest's Tale", from "The Canterbury Tales", written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1389.
Read by André Rhine-Davis, in a pronunciation attempting to match the Middle English of the time.
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