[higgmeister]

From The Canterbury Tales:
General Prologue
lines 1-42: Introduction

Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury

	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;
5	Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
	Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
	The tendre croppes , and the yonge sonne
	Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
	And smale foweles maken melodye,
10	That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
	(So priketh he Nature in hir corages );
	Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
	And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
	To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
15	And specially from every shires ende
	Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende,
	The hooly blisful martir for to seke
	That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seeke.

[higgmeister]

Where credit is due:

http://www.librarius.com/canttran/genpro/genpro001-042.htm

[wildbill]

So priketh he Nature in hir corages );

You can’t get by with pornography by cloaking it in Olde English, my friend. I’m always avidly watching for it.

Does that make me a dirty old man???