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A pilgrim's trail.

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From: Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content
Date: 20070420
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April has always been a contentious month, for investors and for financial scribes alike. For Geoffrey Chaucer: "When that Aprille with his showres swoot, The drought of Marche hath perced to the root... Thenne longen folk to go on pilgrimages" - but he could afford a holiday because, as Comptroller of the Customs for the port of London, the end of the medieval tax year meant a lot more tax groats for him. For TS Eliot, on the other hand: "April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land" - but then he was bound to be more pessimistic because, as someone who ...

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