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HIP-HOP ARTIST GIVES COLGATE STUDENTS NEW LOOK AT CHAUCER

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From: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
Date: 20061120
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Colgate University issued the following press release:

Sometime during the late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer began his enduring masterpiece The Canterbury Tales by describing in Old English the return of spring:

"Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote/The droghte of March hath perced to the roote/And bathed every veyne in swich licour/Of which vertu engendred is the flour." In today's vernacular - at least according to Canadian hip-hop artist and medieval scholar Baba Brinkman - that same passage would go something like this:

"It was April, you know, when the sweet rain showers come and soak ...

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