The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; DAVID WRIGHT; Christopher Cannon

Author:Geoffrey Chaucer; DAVID WRIGHT; Christopher Cannon
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction.Historical, classics, A Match on Dry Grass, Poetry
ISBN: 9780199599028
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1948-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

The remedy’s not working; certainly,

If you could see, you’d never talk like that.

You have some glimmerings, no perfect sight.’

‘I can see’, said he, ‘as well as ever I could

Out of both eyes, thanks to almighty God:

And, on my word, that’s what I thought he did.’

‘You’re mazed and dazed, my good sir,’ said she.

‘This thanks I get for helping you to see!

Alas!’ cried she, ‘that ever I was so kind!’

‘There, there, my dearest, put it out of mind.

Come down, my life, and if I spoke amiss,

God help me, I am very sorry for it.

But by my father’s grave, I really thought

That I’d seen Damian take you, and your smock

Right up against his chest,’ said January.

‘Well, sir, you can think what you like,’ said she.

‘But, sir, a man that wakes up from his sleep

Can’t take in everything at once, or see

Things rightly till he’s properly awake.

A man who’s long been blind, in the same way,

When he recovers sight, won’t see as well

At first, as one whose eyesight has been back

A day or two—so, for a little while,

Until your vision’s settled, many a sight

May delude or mislead; and so, be careful,

I beg of you; because, by heaven’s King,

There’s many a man who thinks he’s seen a thing

And it’s quite different from what he thinks it.

Misunderstand a thing, and you’ll misjudge it.’

And saying this, she jumped down from the tree.

Who is so happy as old January?

He kisses and embraces her again,

And very, very gently strokes her womb,

And leads her home with him into the palace.

Now, gentlemen, I bid you all rejoice:

Thus ends my story of old January;

God bless us, and His mother, virgin Mary!

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