Chaucer Canterbury Tales Passage Meaning
Which of the following is closest in meaning to lines 3 and 4 of the excerpt below from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales?
'Whan that Aprille, with hise 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'
A
And bathed every vein in such alcohol, the power of which makes the drinker as weak as a flower.
B
And bathed every vine in such alcohol, which with virtue should be mixed with flowers.
C
And bathed every vein in such liquid, the power of which produces the flower.
D
And bathed every vein in such showers as to grow the grain for flour.