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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ummm, can someone translate? I still
haven’t figured out how to read Old English very well and it would take
me all morning to get through this message.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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namron-bounces+shadow-foster=ouhsc.edu@ansteorra.org
[mailto:namron-bounces+shadow-foster=ouhsc.edu@ansteorra.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Susan Campbell<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:00
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> namrom<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Namron] FW: Chaucer's
Pick-Up Lines!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I figured we could all use a pre beltane laugh!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ldy Susannah<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>>GALFRIDUS CHAUCERES
LYNES OF PICKE-VPPE:<br>
><br>
>-Do sheriffs administere thee to those who breke the kinges peace? Bycause <br>
>thou lookst "fyne."<br>
><br>
>-Yf thou were a latyn tretise ich wolde putte thee in the vernacular.<br>
><br>
>-Ich do deuote myn diligence to studye of the anatomie of engendrure. Ich <br>
>haue happed vpon an abstruse passage in the werke of Constantyne the <br>
>Affrikan De Coitu, the which I <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">kan</st1:place></st1:State>
nat construe. For lernynges sake and <br>
>the goode of wisdom, woldstow performe the acte of venus withe me so that <br>
>ich may interpret thys clause in propre wise?<br>
><br>
>-Ich loved thy papere, but yt wolde looke much better yscattred across the <br>
>floore of myn rentede dorme roome at dawne.<br>
><br>
>-Art thou a disastrous poll tax? Bycause I feele a risynge comynge on.<br>
><br>
>-Nyce bootes. Wanna swyve?<br>
><br>
>-Thou lookst so mvch lyk an aungel that the friares haue lefte the roome <br>
>yn terror!<br>
><br>
>-Shulle we maken the cindreblokke to synge?<br>
><br>
>-Woldstow haue me shyfte thyne voweles?<br>
><br>
>-Were thou yn my seisin, ich wolde nevir escheat on thee.<br>
><br>
>-Thy beaute ys more intoxicatyng than the OVP openne bar.<br>
><br>
>-Yf thy beautee were an poeme, yt wolde make Dante looke lyk Marcabru.<br>
><br>
>-The preeste telleth me that we aren more than VII degrees of <br>
>consanguinitee. Game on!<br>
><br>
>-Ich notyce that myn demense and thyn do abutte. Wolde yt plese thee to <br>
>consolidate ovre powere-base in the midlands?<br>
><br>
>-Makstow a pilgrymage heere often?<br>
><br>
>-Let vs breake oure mornyng faste togedir tomorrowe. Shal ich sende a page <br>
>wyth a message for thee, or shal ich wake thee wyth an aubade composid ex <br>
>tempore?<br>
><br>
>-Ich coude drynke a yearlye tun of thee.<br>
><br>
>-Ys thy father a makere of walles? For how else dide he gyve thee svch a <br>
>tall and fayre forheed?<br>
><br>
>-Ich haue the tale of Lancelot yn myn roome. Woldstow rede of yt wyth me?<br>
><br>
>--By my soule, thou art a verye mappe of helle. For thy face lyk the <br>
>rivere <st1:place w:st="on">Styx</st1:place> wil make me swere oothes neuer
to be fforsworn, and thy <br>
>embrace lyk the Lethe shal make me foryet al else, and lyk vnto the <br>
>Flegeton thyn arse ys ON FYRE!<br>
><br>
>-Woldstow be myn Gaveston?<br>
><br>
>-Howe abovte a blancmange and the acte of Venus? Whatte, blancmange <br>
>pleseth thee nat?<br>
><br>
>-If ich sayde that thou hadde a bele chose, woldstow holde it ayeinst me?<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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