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Any idea why so many lines end in ooooooo?
You can look at the manuscript. I don't think it's really supposed to be letters – more like a decorative doodle – but I'm not sure what the deal is: https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/1341...
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You can look at the manuscript. I don't think it's really supposed to be letters – more like a decorative doodle – but I'm not sure what the deal is: https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/1341...
Perhaps "pause for audience laughter"?
Got me thinking... what is the oldest, preserved joke? Is it still funny?
73-75. A dog entered a tavern and said: "I can't see a thing. I'll open this one!"
I saw a medieval comedy with a killer rabbit when i was a kid…by some troupe known as “Monty Python”
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Some better information in this article: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/23557334.librar... The manuscript itself seems to be available here: https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/1336... I freely admit I cannot read it :)
Interesting. The table of contents is rewritten in modern cursive, though I can't read everything even there. Contents The Hunttinge of the Hare. A Mock Sermon. ... From there we can flip forward to the actual content and ... yep, can't read it. Honestly the only reason I know it says "huntinge of the hare" centred at the top is because I read it in the table of contents. I can tell it's English, but that's about all…
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Any idea why so many lines end in ooooooo?
You can look at the manuscript. I don't think it's really supposed to be letters – more like a decorative doodle – but I'm not sure what the deal is: https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/1341...
The first three stanzas translated by gpt4:
A little tale I will tell you,
I trust it will please you well,
At it, you shall have good fun.
But where it was I dare not say,
Perhaps another day,
It might turn me to blame.
Now pay good heed everyone,
How a yeoman came riding along,
He found a very fair way.
He looked beside him light gliding,
He found a hare very fair sitting,
Upon a fallow land.
He marked well where she sat then,
He rode to the town as fast as he could,
The way then did he pursue.
The first man that he met with,
Was a husband named Howkin of the hall,
A good man and a true.
The yeoman said with laughing cheer,
'Does any gentleman dwell here,
Good man, as God save you?
Over there I have found a hare sitting,
If you have any greyhounds, bring them with you,
A chase there shall you have.'
In medieval England people joked about killer rabbits. Must be a direct ancestor of Monty Python's rabbit - connection! In medieval England there was a sketch about "Robin Hood, jousting bears, and partying pigs" yet there's no mention of Walt Disney. I'd say it's a load of hogwash but I'm sure somewhere Becky Ferreira has written about how medieval Britons used to bathe their swine.