TYPE OF SCAFFOLD: PROVIDING A GLOSSARY (COULD BE “FRONT-LOADED” OR “BACK-LOADED”)

"shouressoote" = sweet showers [of rain]

"droghte" = drought, dry spell

"veyne" = vein [of a leaf]

"swich" = such

"Zephirus" = personification of the west wind, which in England blows in the Spring

"eke" = also

"the yongesonne … in the Ram" = in springtime, when the Sun is "young," he passes (as seen from the Earth) through that zone of background sky known as the Ram, corresponding to the first — i.e. the first after the Spring equinox — zodiac sign Aries.

"smalefoweles" = small birds

"priketh" = pierces

"hem … hir" = them … their

"palmeres" = palmers, holy pilgrims

"straungestrondes" = strange shores

"fernehalwes, kowthe in sondrylondes" = distant shrines, known in various lands

"blisful" = blessed

"sike" = sick