[Elfsea] FW: Chaucer's Pick-Up Lines!

[Stefen & Rhonda Hays]

I want these on a t shirt...

Druinne

-- Original Message ----- 
From: "Betsy Marshall" <betsy at softwareinnovation.com>
To: "'Barony of Elfsea'" <elfsea at ansteorra.org>; <steppes at ansteorra.org>; 
"'The Barony of Northkeep'" <northkeep at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:08 AM
Subject: [Elfsea] FW: Chaucer's Pick-Up Lines!


> Too much fun!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+betsy=softwareinnovation.com at ansteorra.org] On
> Behalf Of Laura C. Minnick
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:39 PM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Chaucer's Pick-Up Lines!
>
> Just in time for 40-Year! Pick-up lines suitable for the Medieval Congress
> at Kalamazoo, and far too fun to not import into the SCA! (Change the 
> dorme
> roome to a pavilion, and you're in business!)
>
> Found (along with a LOT of other fun stuffe) at:
> http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2006/05/to-kalamazoo-wyth-love.html
>
>>GALFRIDUS CHAUCERES LYNES OF PICKE-VPPE:
>>
>>-Do sheriffs administere thee to those who breke the kinges peace? Bycause
>>thou lookst "fyne."
>>
>>-Yf thou were a latyn tretise ich wolde putte thee in the vernacular.
>>
>>-Ich do deuote myn diligence to studye of the anatomie of engendrure. Ich
>>haue happed vpon an abstruse passage in the werke of Constantyne the
>>Affrikan De Coitu, the which I kan nat construe. For lernynges sake and
>>the goode of wisdom, woldstow performe the acte of venus withe me so that
>>ich may interpret thys clause in propre wise?
>>
>>-Ich loved thy papere, but yt wolde looke much better yscattred across the
>>floore of myn rentede dorme roome at dawne.
>>
>>-Art thou a disastrous poll tax? Bycause I feele a risynge comynge on.
>>
>>-Nyce bootes. Wanna swyve?
>>
>>-Thou lookst so mvch lyk an aungel that the friares haue lefte the roome
>>yn terror!
>>
>>-Shulle we maken the cindreblokke to synge?
>>
>>-Woldstow haue me shyfte thyne voweles?
>>
>>-Were thou yn my seisin, ich wolde nevir escheat on thee.
>>
>>-Thy beaute ys more intoxicatyng than the OVP openne bar.
>>
>>-Yf thy beautee were an poeme, yt wolde make Dante looke lyk Marcabru.
>>
>>-The preeste telleth me that we aren more than VII degrees of
>>consanguinitee. Game on!
>>
>>-Ich notyce that myn demense and thyn do abutte. Wolde yt plese thee to
>>consolidate ovre powere-base in the midlands?
>>
>>-Makstow a pilgrymage heere often?
>>
>>-Let vs breake oure mornyng faste togedir tomorrowe. Shal ich sende a page
>>wyth a message for thee, or shal ich wake thee wyth an aubade composid ex
>>tempore?
>>
>>-Ich coude drynke a yearlye tun of thee.
>>
>>-Ys thy father a makere of walles? For how else dide he gyve thee svch a
>>tall and fayre forheed?
>>
>>-Ich haue the tale of Lancelot yn myn roome. Woldstow rede of yt wyth me?
>>
>>--By my soule, thou art a verye mappe of helle. For thy face lyk the
>>rivere Styx wil make me swere oothes neuer to be fforsworn, and thy
>>embrace lyk the Lethe shal make me foryet al else, and lyk vnto the
>>Flegeton thyn arse ys ON FYRE!
>>
>>-Woldstow be myn Gaveston?
>>
>>-Howe abovte a blancmange and the acte of Venus? Whatte, blancmange
>>pleseth thee nat?
>>
>>-If ich sayde that thou hadde a bele chose, woldstow holde it ayeinst me?
>
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