Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Below you will find the first part of the Prologue to Chaucer's masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, written first in Modern English (Washington Square Press, 1967) and then in Middle English using both modern printing and a phonetic transcription (Cable, T.  A Companion to Baugh and Cable's History of the English Language, Prentice Hall, 1983).  You can also LISTEN TO the Prologue by clicking below, near the Middle English version.

Modern English Version

Middle English Version   Listen to the following text by clicking Prologue.mp3