[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 21, Issue 94

[Devra at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/16/2005 12:34:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
sca-cooks-request at ansteorra.org writes:

> Or maybe the season for going on 
> pilgrimage didn't start till after Lent.
> 

Wan that April with his showers sweet
The drought of March hath pierced to the root
And bathed every vein in swich liquor
Of which virtue engendered is the fleur...
Than longen folk to go on pilgrimages...

Geoffrey Chaucer, the prologue

     It seems as though the nicer weather was an impetus to travel, and with 
Easter as a movable feast, the two must have coincided occasionally.
     Apologies for a very rough copy
            Devra

Devra Langsam
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