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Excerpt from The Story of the Canterbury Pilgrims
The chief season for pilgrimages was Spring, when the sweet showers of April had put to ¿ight the dryness and cold weather of March. At that time of the year the west wind with his sweet breath is giving new life to all the plants and ¿owers. The young sun has just left the sign of the Ram in the heavenly Zodiac, and the little birds are beginning to sing again, and to sleep all night with one eye open. Men, too, like the ¿owers and birds, feel new strength in their veins, and early spring in those far-off days, five centuries and more ago, seemed to bid them leave their homes and use their fresh vigor in a journey to some distant place, to renew their vows and repent of their sins.
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