Geoffrey Chaucer Hath A... Twitter

[rushthatspeaks]

A link at the end of a long, good day: And believestow yn rokke and rolle?

Bye, Bye, Englisshe Jakke of Dover, drove my palfrey almoste halfwey but the tourney was over...

The problem is, it scans. I am not sure whether this is a better or worse use of human intellect than Kate Beaton's Elizabethan Songbook (at the bottom).

Comments

[msilverstar]

I started singing that right away, cracked me up

[dorothean]

Oh my god, almost crying here.

I hope somebody sings this with a lute and I get to watch.

[wayman]

It may not surprise you to learn (or you may have already known) that LeVostreGC was a Swarthmore classmate of mine. I hadn't known he was tweeting, too! I'm just peripherally aware of his (chaucerian) blog goings-on via his (real-life) facebook updates.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Hurly burly yn the somer daye, the birdes flewe off of a trebuchet, VIII leagues heigh and fallinge swifte...

Tee-hee!

Nine

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

It seems silly to complain about anachronism in such a thing, but...wasn't the phrase "hurly burly" coined by Shakespeare?

(oh noes immersion ruined :P)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Not Shakespeare, but too late for Chaucer. "Hurly-burly," according to the OED, is first found in 1539, with "hurlynge and burlynge" slightly earlier. They add "formerly a more dignified word than now."

Nine

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I remain bothered by "thou'st". The Chaucer's brilliant.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I needed this link. NEEDED IT.

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is golden!

I sang large chunks of it for Andrew. He is being noticeably tolerant...

[ckd]

This clearly needs to be added to the filk canon.