46+ The Canterbury Tales Prologue Background. In common with most of the rest of the work, it is written in verse. The canterbury tales were still going strong when the first printers made their way to england, and william caxton published the first printed the general prologue to the canterbury tales and the interactions between the pilgrims that occur in between the tales, then, form a story of their own.

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Whan that aprille with his shoures sote. The canterbury tales were still going strong when the first printers made their way to england, and william caxton published the first printed the general prologue to the canterbury tales and the interactions between the pilgrims that occur in between the tales, then, form a story of their own. And bathed each vein with liquor that has power.

Whan that aprille with his shoures sote.

The first sentence of the general prologue, is one of the most important 18 lines of poetry in english. After the prologue it is the knight who begins the first tale. Whan that aprille with his shoures soote, the droghte of march hath perced to the roote, and bathed every veyne in swich licóur. One spring day, the narrator of the canterbury tales rents a room at the tabard inn before he recommences his journey to canterbury.