minstrel: Be pes!

[Cynthia J Ley]

Stephan--how soon did you need it? I'm likely to be making a library trip
after Christmas is done and the Portland Library has the full Musica
Britannica (gotta admit I feel like an idjit for not thinking of looking
there too--thanks for finding it, Martha! :) ) and I could zap a copy for
you and send it, if you like.

Arlys

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:26:14 -0500 Martha Krieg <mkrieg at rc.net> writes:
> The copy I have of the lefthand words (and 3-part music) below has a 
> citation at the top: Musica Britannica: A National Collection of 
> Music. Volume 36. Early Tudor Songs and Carols. John Stevens, 
> Editor. 
> London:Stainer and Bell, Ltd. 1975.
> My personal interpretation from knowing just the first verse was 
> that 
> the scenario was a dialog between serving wench with her hands full 
> of steins of beer  and a patron by whom she was being 
> propositioned/molested ...(saw a picture of a German beer garden in 
> National Geographic once that matched this perfectly).... Those bits 
> 
> of the second verse make that seem even more likely...
> 
> >
> >
> >>Be peace!  Ye make me spill my ale!	Be pes!  Ye make me 
> spille my ale!
> >>Now thin ye this is a fair ray?	Now thyngke ye this is a 
> farye ray?
> >>Let go, I say! Straw for your tale!	Let go, y say!  Straw 
> for yeure tale!
> >>Leff work a twentyadevil away!	Leff werke a twenty adevell 
> away!
> >>Ween ye that ev'rybody list to play?	Wene ye that ev'rybody 
> lest to play?
> >>Abide a while! What have ye haste?	Abyde awhile!  What have 
> ye haste?
> >>I trow for all your great affray,	Y trow for all youre gret 
> affray,
> >>Ye will not make too huge a waste.	Ye will not make to huge 
> a waste.
> >
> >A MIDI file of the tune is at 
> >http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/midi/bepeace.mid for any 
> >that be interested.
> >
> >If any of you find the words to the second verse or any other 
> >information about the song, I would be very much interested to 
> hear.
> >
> >Stephen of Hunmanby JdL
> >
> >
> >
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