The Rhyming Pattern of Chaucer's Poems

i'll read the passage in chaucer's middle english of the 13 hundreds, and then i'll read it a second time and shift the valel sounds to reflect the initial stages of the great vall shift. I'll keep the same vocabulary, so it will be a literal reading of the passage, but the pronunciation will be up dated to a modern english accent. As always, i'll try to render those versions as best i can, but there isn't universal agree ment about all the pronunciations,. nor is there universal agreement about chaucer's intended meaning in some of these passages. So this is one interpretation, and it's ultimately just an exercise to illustrate how the language has