soote

Why, Ruth studied Saxon, became clever in it, - that was two years ago, - and all that she remembers of it now is 'Whan that sweet Aprile with his schowers soote' - isn't that the way it goes?"

He had previously been twice wounded *** Among the latest wounded was Second Lieutenant DAVIDW Soote, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was hit in the left arm by a shell splinter.

"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; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye That slepen al the nyght with open ye (So priketh hem nature in hir corages) Thanne longenfolk to goon on pilgrimages ..."

"Whan that April with his showres soote The droughte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veine in swich licour, Of which vertu engendered in the flowr ...

Whan dat Aprille vith its shoures soote, the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote, and bathed every veyne in swich licour of which vertu engendred is the flour.

According to the Middle English Dictionary, apart from the basic 'pleasing to the sense of smell and/or taste', as in Under soote hony, couert bittirnesse, we find the metaphoric extension 'spiritually or psychologically pleasing, good, agreeable' as in Swete ihesu, mi soule bote, In min herte bou sette a rote Of bi loue bat is so swote.

Review WHAN that Aprill with his shoures soote, the droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

You might want to introduce the meanings of words that are tricky even in context: soote; swich; Zephirus; the Ram; palmeres; strondes; ferne; halwes; kowthe.