View The Canterbury Tales Prologue Pics. Here bygynneth the book of the tales of caunterbury. The canterbury tales were still going strong when the first printers made their way to england, and william caxton published the first printed the general prologue to the canterbury tales and the interactions between the pilgrims that occur in between the tales, then, form a story of their own.

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And i said to him his. It continues the next morning. (in a modern english translation on the left beside the middle english version on the right.) when april with his showers sweet with fruit.

According to the general prologue, he warred many times for the christian faith, fought in numerous battles against pagans, and stands.

The canterbury tales opens with a general prologue introducing the storytellers after they gather at an inn. In the prologue are portraits of all levels of english life. Whan that aprille with his shoures sote. And bathed each vein with liquor that has power.