The Canterbury Tales
Let's Get Medieval.
"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;"
(Chaucer l. 1-4)
Ye undstonde this? Ye devy that ye
myghte?
It dooth nat be of grate difficultee.
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Contrary to popular belief, Shakespeare is written in Modern English. The Canterbury Tales, however, is in Middle English, which is another language, as opposed to just an older version of the English we use today.