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Podcast: Down with Bowne (The Uncut Version)
Episode: Yanks on Holiday
Description: GEOFFREY CHAUCER, REFURBISHED: A parody of the General Prologue from βThe Canterbury Tales.β Trafalgar Square on a Summer Evening. London. (link). First published on MuddyUm. https://medium.com/muddyum/yanks-on-holiday-fc8c64b684f1?sk=14e829da992877e8e1c7ffe05f3f8aa2
Here bygynneth the book ΕΜver behΕste tΕ the world
Here begins the book Overland to the World
When in June and the spring showers end β
And disperse the rains to the heavens, and send
The pigeons to peck the crumbs at Trafalgar β
And prompt the public to thumb the ve...