1. Read the poem aloud (your 10 lines).

2. Translate it

3. Identify the spellings: As we have explained in class, you have to identify

some spellings and changes in the English language. You have a couple of
files in Aula Virtual explaining these changes.

4. Identify 5 words similar to contemporary English and 5 which have no

similarity with contemporary English: This is the part in which you have to
talk about the etymology of some words. Just a few of them.

5. Free comments: All the previous parts are individual, but this one has to be
perfomed collectively. You have to speak about Chaucer, his context, the
general meaning of the poem, the style...

And in his hand a launcegay,

A long swerd by his side.

He priketh thurgh a fair forest,

Therinne is many a wilde best,

Ye, both bukke and hare,

And as he priketh north and est,

I telle it yow, hym hadde almest

Bitidde a sory care

Ther spryngen herbes, grete and smale,

The lycorys and cetewale,

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And held in hand a lance, I say,

With longsword by his side

He spurred throughout a fair forest

Wherein was many a dim wild beast,

Aye, both the buck and hare;

 And as he spurred on, north and east,

I tell you now he had, in breast,

A melancholy care.

There herbs were springing, great and small,

The licorice blue and white setwall,