ANST - Fw: [TY] period writers game 3

[Caley Woulfe]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan S McDaniel <kestrel at hawk.org>
To: TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu <TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 12:09 AM
Subject: [TY] period writers game


>Name title and author, if there is a known author.
>
>---------------------
>
>As I was washing under a span
>of the bridge of Cardigan
>and in my hand my lover's shirt
>with a golden beetle to drub the dirt,
>a man came to me on a steed,
>broad in shoulder, proud in speed,
>and he asked me if I'd sell
>the shirt of the lad I love so well.
>
>But I said I wouldn't sell
>for a hundred pounds and packs as well,
>nor if the grass of two ridges were deep
>in wethers and whitest sheep,
>nor if two hay meadows were choked
>with oxe which were ready yoked,
>nor if St. David's nave were filled
>with herbs all pressed but not distilled.
>Not even for all that would I sell
>the shirt of the lad I love so well.
>
>-------------------
>
>I loved a girl, way of obedience,
>and there were tears down my cheeks.
>If slim-shaped Venus was fair,
>truly bright and lovely of face,
>fairer and brighter in all the land
>is my love, to my distress.
>And if Minerva was fair,
>or sweet Diana for that matter,
>doubly fair in this year
>is my love in a corner of leaves.
>If long-wisdomed Pallas was splendid,
>or Juno, or wise Dido,
>sweeter and more splendid the face
>of the brightest girl who is my love.
>If fresh was the silver breast
>of Medea or lovely Lucretia,
>this one is fairer and trimmer,
>my fine-browed one and my true heart.
>If lovely Cressid was fair,
>with a skin of great tenderness,
>tenderer, yet quite unrustic,
>is my warm-featured mistress.
>If Hele once was fair,
>and a fair things is the jewel of the world,
>twice whiter is the face
>of my love, above all girls.
>Let my pretty one give thanks
>upon her knees that she's so beautiful.
>
>---------
>
>Kestrel of Wales
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Dilestair fid dy hynt, ac ni rusia ddim rhagot.
>"May your path be unhindered and may nothing hinder you."
>
>Bryan S. McDaniel      SCA aka Kestrel of Wales
>My statements are often my half groat worth.  Any opinions expressed are my
own and not necessarily the
>opinions of my employer, or any group that I am or have been a member.
>http://kestrel.hawk.org        http://kestrelw.webjump.com
>***************************************************************************
**********
>TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the Tavern Yard, fill out the form at:
>http://www.webforger.com/meridies/resources/tavernyard.html
>
>
============================================================================
Go to http://lists.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.