Chaucer Canterbury Tales Line Meaning
Which of the following is closest in meaning to the first two lines of the excerpt below from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales?
'Whan that Aprille, with hise 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'
A
The drought of March has pierced April's sweet showers to the root.
B
The root of the drought of March is April's sweet showers.
C
When April's sweet showers have pierced the drought of March to the root.
D
The drugs of March have grown from the root due to April's sweet showers.
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