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Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes<ref>twigs, boughs, buds, young sprouts</ref>, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
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When Zephyr quickens with his sweet breath,
Has inspired in every holt and heath,
The
Into the Ram<ref>Tyrwhitt points out that "the Bull" should be read here, not "the Ram," which would place the time of the pilgrimage in the end of March; whereas, in the Prologue to the Man of Law's Tale, the date is given as the "eight and twenty day of April, that is messenger to May."</ref> one half his course has run,
And little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
Then on pilgrimage folk long to start,
And palmers<ref>Dante, in the "Vita Nuova," distinguishes three classes of pilgrims: palmieri - palmers who go beyond sea to the East, and often bring back staves of palm-wood; peregrini, who go the shrine of St Jago in Galicia; Romei, who go to Rome. Sir Walter Scott, however, says that palmers were in the habit of passing from shrine to shrine, living on charity -- pilgrims on the other hand, made the journey to any shrine only once, immediately returning to their ordinary avocations. Chaucer uses "palmer" of all pilgrims.</ref> to seek out strange strands,
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