"I haue hadde it wyth thes cursed by Seynt George snakes on this cursed by Seynt George shippe!"

[beautifulduckweed]

Geoffrey Chaucer hath ywrytten a review for Serpentes on a Shippe.

Ich may dye happye forthwith. For beholde thys connynge summarye:

And so the miscreant knightes wolde break ope the doore of Sir Seanes room and slaye him foullie, but that SIR NEVILLE DE FLYNN cam and seyde to Sir Sean, ‘Sir Knight, if thou shalt do my biddynge than thou shalt scape wyth thy lyf,’ and bad Sir Sean to hye hym from that place. And then Sir Neville made hym redy, wyth one spere he smote hem downe al thre over ther horses croups. This kynde of thynge was ful yn his style, for hys verye wallet hath ‘bad motherswyvere’ on it ywrit.

And also thysse:

Withinne the hulle of the shipe he had privilye yputte manye a caske fulle of serpentes and wormes and foul addres, and therto he put aboute the boate a philtre ycleped Far-Amoun by the Arabes, the which maketh serpentes to freke the helle oute and starte juste bitinge eny oon thei see.

(Fele thankes for the lynke, quietselkie!)

Comments

[theotherjay.livejournal.com]

Having actually read through that, I think it works better as a one-line joke in your blog than as an entire article. Though the bit about EXPENDABLES was cute.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

I thought the way Chaucer worked the ending was especially clever. Also the joke about the in-flight movie. And the language play made my inner English Major nerdlet swoon with happiness. In short: ich thoght the whole thynge was AWESOME. Ich woulde swyve the gentilhomme (or ladye) responsible for thatte blogge wyth pleyne quickness.

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

I got to "Badde Motherswyvere" and almost had to wipe my chair off. Mmmh, Inner Middle English Nerdlets are fun.