DW100 new drabble: Chaucer's "The Physic's Tale", vignette

[applecameron]

An excerpt from Chaucer's 'The Physic's Tale', and pretty directly related to my picking up a copy of Canterbury Tales Saturday.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/dw100/18387.html

Ah, the joy of amusing one's self.


(edited much later to copy the entry in DW100 here)

Excerpt from The Physik's Tale (DW/Canterbury Tales)


Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,

[...]

And eek in what array that they were inne:
And at a physic than wol I first biginne.

A Physic ther was, and from a straunge shire
His eyen twinkled in his heed aright,
And he spak of freendes and TARDIS
And felawshipe with Aristotle and Aurelius.

Ther outsterte was also a Goddesse of maydens,
Hir brighte heer was kempt, untressed al;
She spak straunge but stronge of herte.

[...]

And the Physic and mayden abrayde up-on a hill
And left I gesse, thenne they I saugh namo.