minstrel: Be pes! Ye make me spill my ale!

Martha Krieg mkrieg at rc.net
Fri Dec 12 19:12:38 PST 2003


Abide has an e on the end, ye has no t... Sorry was about to help son unpack...
>Eureka, my fine friends!
>From the CD booklet from Salacious Chansons and other Renaissance 
>Ribaldry (New York Ensemble for Early Music's "Gleemen")  Musical 
>Heritage Society
>
>Be peace! Ye make me spill my ale!
>No think ye this is a fair ray?
>Let go, I say!
>Straw for your tale!
>Leff work a twentyadevil away!
>Ween ye that ev'rybody list to play?
>Abide a while!
>What have ye haste?
>I trow for you great affray,
>Ye will not make too huge a waste.
>After assay then may ye wit;
>Why blame ye me without offence?
>Iwis, wanton, ye shall not yet!
>Ah, can ye that? Now, good, go hence!
>What do you here within our spence?
>Reck ye not to make us shend?
>I would not yet for forty pence
>My mother come in, ere that ye wend.
>Come, kiss me! Nay! By God, ye shall!
>By Christ, I nill, what says the man?
>Ye hurt my leg against the wall;
>Is this the gentry that ye can?
>Take to give all, and be still then!
>Now ye have laid me on the floor;
>But had I wist when ye began,
>By Christ, I would have shut the door.
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