the guy who was reading it was an English prof here. There was a very large difference in the vowel sounds he was using from modern english... sounded dutch almost. However, after a few lines, it was pretty obvious which went where (to me anyway) and I had no trouble understanding it after that.

'Course, I was also reading it at the same time he was, just not out loud:)

That was back in the mid-eighties, when I was taking English, Ancient Greek, Latin, and Symbolic Logic.