When march finishes the rains in APril bring the first
flowers of spring At this time the sun is warm and in english lots of people go to canterbury
To the tomb of saint Thomas Becket there they thank the Saint for his past help when they were ill
my name's Geoffrey Chaucer It was 16 april 1386 and l was in london at an Inn in southwark south of the river Thames
I was there with twenty-nine more people
we wanted to go to canterbury the next day
But before I say more I want to tell you about some of the people with me