1. A dog. 2. A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having droo.ing ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice. 3. In literary use the image of the hound is of something that pursues or chases relentlessly.
1. A loo.e pliable covering for the head and neck, often attached to a robe or jacket. 2. Something resembling this in shape or use. 3. In animals, a conformation of parts (as in the cobra and the hoo.ed seal), or arrangement of colour about the head or neck, resembling or suggesting a hoo.. hoo.s.
1. A substance that gives nourishment; foo.. 2. Fig. Intellectual nourishment.
1. A sweet yellowish or brownish viscid fluid produced by various bees from the nectar of flowers and used as foo.. 2. Something sweet, delicious or delightful. 3.* Fig. Sweetness. *honey-buds, honey-drunk, honey-fire, honey-packed, honey-sweet, honey-wine.
1. Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. 2. The spiritual apprehension of divine truths, or of realities beyond the reach of sensible experience or logical proo..
1. Experiencing a desire or a pressing need for foo.. 2.* Fig. Extremely desirous; having a craving; avid. *3. Lacking needful or desirable elements.
1. Something false; an untrue idea, belief, etc. 2. A false statement; lie. **Falsehoo., falsehoo."s, Falsehoo."s, falsehoo.s.
1. That which is untrue; error, falsehoo.. 2. Untruthfulness, treachery. falsity"s.
1. To give light to; illuminate; shine on. 2. Make lighter or brighter. 3. To bestow spiritual enlightenment. 4. To enlighten, as with knowledge. 5. To make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject). 6. To make resplendent or illustrious. 7. To decorate (a manuscript, boo., etc.) with colours and gold or silver, as was often done in the Middle Ages. illumines, illumined, illumining, half-illumined.
1. Touchstone; a very smoo.h, fine-grained, black or dark-coloured variety of quartz or jasper (also called basanite), used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the colour of the streak produced by rubbing them upon it; a piece of such stone used for this purpose. 2. *fig.* That which serves to test or try the genuineness or value of anything; a test, criterion.
1. Unsatisfactorily; poo.ly. 2. Evil. 3. Harm or injury. ill-armed, ill-fitting, ill-heard, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-poised, ill-served, ill-shaped, ill-trained, ill-understoo..
1. Wearing or covered with or as if with a hoo., having a hoo. on. 2.* Fig.* Covered up, concealed.
access ::: 1. The ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance. 2. A way or means of approach; an entrance, channel, passage, or doo.way.
accursed ::: lying under a curse or anathema; ill fated; doo.ed to perdition or misery.
::: "A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul"s consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly enlarges the lines of the law — or, let us say, since law is a too.mechanical conception, — the truth of Karma.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"A cosmos or universe is always a harmony, otherwise it could not exist, it would fly to pieces. But as there are musical harmonies which are built out of discords partly or even predominantly, so this universe (the material) is disharmonious in its separate elements — the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent; it is only owing to the sustaining Divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who loo. at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution in progress — that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not yet reached, and the object of our yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal. When it is reached, there will be a harmony of harmonies substituted for the present harmony built up on discords. This is the explanation of the present appearance of things.” Letters on Yoga
"Action is a resultant of the energy of the being, but this energy is not of one sole kind; the Consciousness-Force of the Spirit manifests itself in many kinds of energies: there are inner activities of mind, activities of life, of desire, passion, impulse, character, activities of the senses and the body, a pursuit of truth and knowledge, a pursuit of beauty, a pursuit of ethical goo. or evil, a pursuit of power, love, joy, happiness, fortune, success, pleasure, life-satisfactions of all kinds, life-enlargement, a pursuit of individual or collective objects, a pursuit of the health, strength, capacity, satisfaction of the body.” The Life Divine*
"A divine Force is at work and will choo.e at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, momentarily or permanently abandoned. For provided we do not substitute for that our desire or our ego, and to that end the soul must be always awake, always on guard, alive to the divine guidance, resistant to the undivine misleading from within or without us, that Force is sufficient and alone competent and she will lead us to the fulfilment along ways and by means too.large, too.inward, too.complex for the mind to follow, much less to dictate. It is an arduous and difficult and dangerous way, but there is none other.” The Synthesis of Yoga
adj. 1. Beautiful. 2. Fine, bright, sunny. 3. Free from blemish, imperfection, or anything that impairs the appearance, quality, or character. 4. Of pleasing form or appearance. 5. Neither excellent nor poo.; moderately or tolerably goo.. fairer.* *n. 6.* That which is fair (in senses of the adj.*).
adj. 1. Lacking in colour or brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc. 2. Indistinct, ill-defined; dim; faded; slight. 3. Feeble through hunger, fear, exhaustion, etc. 4. Inclined to ‘faint" or swoo.. faintest, faint-foo.. v. 5. To lose strength, brightness, colour, courage etc.; to fade. 6. To grow weak. 7. To feel weak, dizzy or exhausted; falter; about to lose consciousness. 8. To weaken in purpose or spirit. faints, fainted, fainting.
admonishing ::: 1. Reproving or scolding, especially in a mild or goo.-willed manner. 2. Urging to a duty; reminding.
adopt ::: to choo.e or take as one"s own; make one"s own by election or assent. adopts.
"Aesthesis therefore is of the very essence of poetry, as it is of all art. But it is not the sole element and aesthesis too.is not confined to a reception of poetry and art; it extends to everything in the world: there is nothing we can sense, think or in any way experience to which there cannot be an aesthetic reaction of our conscious being. Ordinarily, we suppose that aesthesis is concerned with beauty, and that indeed is its most prominent concern: but it is concerned with many other things also. It is the universal Ananda that is the parent of aesthesis and the universal Ananda takes three major and original forms, beauty, love and delight, the delight of all existence, the delight in things, in all things.” Letters on Savitri
"A fabulous tribe of wild, beastlike monsters, having the upper part of a human being and the lower part of a horse. They live in the woo.s or mountains of Elis, Arcadia, and Thessaly. They are representative of wild life, animal desires and barbarism. (M.I.) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works.*
air ::: 1. The transparent, invisible, inodorous, and tasteless gaseous substance which envelopes the earth. 2. *Fig. With reference to its unsubstantial or impalpable nature. 3. Outward appearance, apparent character, manner, loo., style: esp. in phrases like ‘an air of absurdity"; less commonly of a thing tangible, as ‘the air of a mansion". 4. Mien or gesture (expressive of a personal quality or emotion). *air"s.
aloo. ::: 1. At a distance; distant; hence, detached, unsympathetic. 2. Away at some distance (from), with a clear space intervening, apart. aloo.ness.
"All birds of that region are relatives. But this is the bird of eternal Ananda, while the Hippogriff is the divinised Thought and the Bird of Fire is the Agni-bird, psychic and tapas. All that however is to mentalise too.much and mentalising always takes most of the life out of spiritual things. That is why I say it can be seen but nothing said about it.” ::: "The question was: ‘In the mystical region, is the dragon bird any relation of your Bird of Fire with ‘gold-white wings" or your Hippogriff with ‘face lustred, pale-blue-lined"? And why do you write: ‘What to say about him? One can only see"?” Letters on Savitri
"All depends on the meaning you attach to words used; it is a matter of nomenclature. Ordinarily, one says a man has intellect if he can think well; the nature and process and field of the thought do not matter. If you take intellect in that sense, then you can say that intellect has different strata, and Ford belongs to one stratum of intellect, Einstein to another — Ford has a practical and executive business intellect, Einstein a scientific discovering and theorising intellect. But Ford too.in his own field theorises, invents, discovers. Yet would you call Ford an intellectual or a man of intellect? I would prefer to use for the general faculty of mind the word intelligence. Ford has a great and forceful practical intelligence, keen, quick, successful, dynamic. He has a brain that can deal with thoughts also, but even there his drive is towards practicality. He believes in rebirth (metempsychosis), for instance, not for any philosophic reason, but because it explains life as a schoo. of experience in which one gathers more and more experience and develops by it. Einstein has, on the other hand, a great discovering scientific intellect, not, like Marconi, a powerful practical inventive intelligence for the application of scientific discovery. All men have, of course, an ‘intellect" of a kind; all, for instance, can discuss and debate (for which you say rightly intellect is needed); but it is only when one rises to the realm of ideas and moves freely in it that you say, ‘This man has an intellect".” Letters on Yoga
"All disease is a means towards some new joy of health, all evil & pain a tuning of Nature for some more intense bliss & goo., all death an opening on widest immortality. Why and how this should be so, is God"s secret which only the soul purified of egoism can penetrate.” Essays Divine and Human
::: "All energies put into activity — thought, speech, feeling, act — go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or another, and the nature and its actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself soo.er or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their effects. It is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed will are also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reactions.” Letters on Yoga*
". . . all error is a disfiguration of some misunderstoo. fragments of truth. . . .” The Synthesis of Yoga*
"All ethics is a construction of goo. in a Nature which has been smitten with evil by the powers of darkness born of the Ignorance, . . . .” The Life Divine
alley ::: a passage between buildings; hence, a narrow street, a lane; usually only wide enough for foo.-passengers. blind alley*: one that is closed at the end, so as to be no thoroughfare; a cul de sac*.
alloy ::: 1. A substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition; a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one, such as that which is added to gold and silver coinage. 2. Admixture, as with goo. with evil.
ambience ::: 1. The moo., character, quality, tone, atmosphere, etc., particularly of an environment or milieu. 2. That which surrounds or encompasses.
ambrosia ("s) ::: something especially delicious or delightful to taste or smell, divinely sweet; in Classical Mythology, the foo. of the gods.
amicable ::: characterized by or showing goo.will; friendly; done in a friendly manner; peaceable.
"A mind of light will replace the present confusion and trouble of this earthly ignorance; it is likely that even those parts of humanity which cannot reach it will yet be aware of its possibility and consciously tend towards it; not only so, but the life of humanity will be enlightened, uplifted, governed, harmonised by this luminous principle and even the body become something much less powerless, obscure and animal in its propensities and capable instead of a new and harmonised perfection. It is this possibility that we have to loo. at and that would mean a new humanity uplifted into Light, capable of a spiritualised being and action, open to governance by some light of the Truth-consciousness, capable even on the mental level and in its own order of something that might be called the beginning of a divinised life.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
anchor ::: 1. Any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hoo.like arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold. 2. A person or thing that can be relied on for support, stability, or security; mainstay.
antechambers ::: 1. Chambers or roo.s that serve as waiting roo.s and entrances to larger roo.s or apartments; anteroo.s. 2. Any areas that are entrances to other areas.
anticipated ::: expected; loo.ed forward to.
anvil ::: a heavy iron block with a smoo.h face, frequently of steel, on which heated metals are hammered into desired shapes.
"A philosophy of change?(1) But what is change? In ordinary parlance change means passage from one condition to another and that would seem to imply passage from one status to another status. The shoo. changes into a tree, passes from the status of shoo. to the status of tree and there it stops; man passes from the status of young man to the status of old man and the only farther change possible to him is death or dissolution of his status. So it would seem that change is not something isolated which is the sole original and eternal reality, but it is something dependent on status, and if status were non-existent, change also could not exist. For we have to ask, when you speak of change as alone real, change of what, from what, to what? Without this ‘what" change could not be. ::: —Change is evidently the change of some form or state of existence from one condition to another condition.” Essays Divine and Human
apocalypse ::: 1. Any revelation or prophecy. 2. A prophetic revelation, esp. concerning a cataclysm in which the forces of goo. permanently triumph over the forces of evil.
apparent ::: readily seen; exposed to sight; open to view. 2. Capable of being easily perceived or understoo.; plain or clear; obvious; visible.
appear ::: 1. To come into sight; become visible; come into view, as from a place or state of concealment, or from a distance; esp. of angels, spirits, visions. 2. To come into existence; be created. 3. To be clear to the understanding. 4. To seem or loo. to be. appears, appeared, appearing.
appearance ::: 1. The act or fact of coming forward into view ; becoming visible. 2. The state, condition, manner, or style in which a person or object appears; outward loo. or aspect. 3. Outward show or seeming; semblance. appearances.
appease ::: 1. To bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soo.he. 2. To satisfy, allay, or relieve.
appeased ::: pacified, quieted, satisfied; soo.hed.
approve ::: 1. To confirm or sanction formally; ratify. 2. To speak or think favourably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or goo.; judge favourably. approves, approved.
apsaras ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Apsaras are the most beautiful and romantic conception on the lesser plane of Hindu mythology. From the moment that they arose out of the waters of the milky Ocean, robed in ethereal raiment and heavenly adornment, waking melody from a million lyres, the beauty and light of them has transformed the world. They crowd in the sunbeams, they flash and gleam over heaven in the lightnings, they make the azure beauty of the sky; they are the light of sunrise and sunset and the haunting voices of forest and field. They dwell too.in the life of the soul; for they are the ideal pursued by the poet through his lines, by the artist shaping his soul on his canvas, by the sculptor seeking a form in the marble; for the joy of their embrace the hero flings his life into the rushing torrent of battle; the sage, musing upon God, sees the shining of their limbs and falls from his white ideal. The delight of life, the beauty of things, the attraction of sensuous beauty, this is what the mystic and romantic side of the Hindu temperament strove to express in the Apsara. The original meaning is everywhere felt as a shining background, but most in the older allegories, especially the strange and romantic legend of Pururavas as we first have it in the Brahmanas and the Vishnoupurana.
arcanes ::: of things known or understoo. by very few; mysterious; secret; obscure; esoteric. (Employed by Sri Aurobindo as a noun.)
arch ::: 1. An upwardly curved construction, for spanning an opening, consisting of a number of wedgelike stones, bricks, or the like, set with the narrower side toward the opening in such a way that forces on the arch are transmitted as vertical or oblique stresses on either side of the opening, either capable of bearing weight or merely ornamental; 2. Something bowed or curved; any bowlike part: the arch of the foo.. 3. An arched roo., doo.; gateway; vault; fig. the heavens. arches.
a reference boo. containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them.
a religious official among the Romans, whose duty it was to predict future events and advise upon the course of public business, in accordance with omens derived from the flight, singing, and feeding of birds. Hence extended to: A soo.hsayer, diviner, or prophet, generally; one that foresees and foretells the future. (Sri Aurobindo employs the word as an adjective.) augured.
argument ::: 1. A fact or statement put forth as proo. or evidence; a reason; persuasive discourse, debate. 2. A process of reasoning; series of reasons.
arise ::: 1. To get up from sleep or rest; to awaken; wake up. 2. To go up, come up, ascend on high, mount. Now only poet. **3. To come into being, action, or notice; originate; appear; spring up. 4. Of circumstances viewed as results: To spring, originate, or result from. 5. To rise from inaction, from the peaceful, quiet, or ordinary course of life. 6. To rise in violence or agitation, as the sea, the wind; to boil up as a fermenting fluid, the bloo.; so of the heart, wrath, etc. Now poet. 7. Of sounds: To come up aloud, or so as to be audible, to be heard aloud. arises, arising, arose, arisen. *(Sri Aurobindo also employs arisen as an adj.*)
ashamed ::: feeling shame; distressed or embarrassed by feeling of guilt, foo.ishness, or disgrace.
aspect ::: 1. Appearance to the eye or mind; loo.. 2. Nature; quality, character. 3. A way in which a thing may be viewed or regarded; interpretation; view. 4. Part; feature; phase. aspects.
assuage ::: to mitigate, alleviate, soo.he, relieve (physical or mental pain).
"As there is a cosmic Self and Spirit pervading and upholding the universe and its beings, so too.there is a cosmic Force that moves all things, and on this original cosmic Force depend and act many cosmic Forces that are its powers or arise as forms of its universal action.” The Life Divine
astray ::: 1. Away from the correct path or direction. 2. Away from the right or goo., as in thought or behaviour; straying to or into wrong or evil ways.
a stream of a liquid, gas, or small solid particles forcefully shoo.ing forth from a nozzle, orifice, etc. Also fig.
atmosphere ::: 1. A surrounding or pervading moo., environment, or influence. 2. The air.
::: "A transcendent Bliss, unimaginable and inexpressible by the mind and speech, is the nature of the Ineffable. That broo.s immanent and secret in the whole universe and in everything in the universe. Its presence is described as a secret ether of the bliss of being, of which the Scripture says that, if this were not, none could for a moment breathe or live. And this spiritual bliss is here also in our hearts.” The Synthesis of Yoga
author ::: 1. An originator or creator, one who originates or gives existence to anything. 2. He who gives rise to or causes an action, event, circumstance, state, or condition of things. 3. The composer or writer of a treatise, play, poem, boo., etc. authors.
await ::: to wait for; expect; loo. for. awaited, awaiting, awaits
babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too.rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle
bales ::: large bundles of hay or goo.s (often compressed) bound by ropes or wires for storage or transportation.
barrels ::: large cylindrical containers, usually made of staves bound together with hoo.s, with a flat top and bottom of equal diameter.
barter ::: to trade goo.s or services without the exchange of money. bartered.
battalion ::: 1. An army unit typically consisting of a headquarters and two or more companies, batteries, or similar subunits. 2. A large body of organized troo.s in battle gear. 3. A large indefinite number of persons or things.
boo. ::: 1. A blessing; something to be thankful for. 2. A timely blessing or benefit received in response to a request or prayer. boo.s.
boo.hs ::: partly enclosed compartments or partitioned areas.
beast ::: 1. An animal other than a human, especially a large four-foo.ed mammal. 2. Fig. Animal nature as opposed to intellect or spirit. 3. A large wild animal. 4. A domesticated animal used by man. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.) beast"s, Beast"s, beasts, wild-beast. ::: —the Beast. Applied to the devil and evil spirits.
beasthoo. ::: the state or nature of a beast.
bee-croo. ::: the soft, soo.hing, low murmuring sound produced by bees.
behold ::: v. 1. To perceive by the visual faculty; see. beholds. Interj. **2.** Loo.; see.
being ::: 1. The state or quality of having existence. 2. The totality of all things that exist. 3. One"s basic or essential nature; self. 4. All the qualities constituting one that exists; the essence. 5. A person; human being. 6. The Divine, the Supreme; God. Being, being"s, Being"s, beings, Beings, beings", earth-being"s, earth-beings, fragment-being, non-being, non-being"s, Non-Being, Non-Being"s, world-being"s.
Sri Aurobindo: "Pure Being is the affirmation by the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence.” *The Life Divine :::
"The Absolute manifests itself in two terms, a Being and a Becoming. The Being is the fundamental reality; the Becoming is an effectual reality: it is a dynamic power and result, a creative energy and working out of the Being, a constantly persistent yet mutable form, process, outcome of its immutable formless essence.” *The Life Divine
"What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc., by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming.” Letters on Yoga
"Being and Becoming, One and Many are both true and are both the same thing: Being is one, Becomings are many; but this simply means that all Becomings are one Being who places Himself variously in the phenomenal movement of His consciousness.” The Upanishads :::
"Our whole apparent life has only a symbolic value & is goo. & necessary as a becoming; but all becoming has being for its goal & fulfilment & God is the only being.” *Essays Divine and Human
"Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
belief ::: 1. Confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proo.. 2. Trust or confidence, faith. 3. Something believed; an opinion or conviction. beliefs.
Question: "Sweet Mother, l don"t understand very clearly the difference between faith, belief and confidence.”
Mother: "But Sri Aurobindo has given the full explanation here. If you don"t understand, then. . . He has written ‘Faith is a feeling in the whole being." The whole being, yes. Faith, that"s the whole being at once. He says that belief is something that occurs in the head, that is purely mental; and confidence is quite different. Confidence, one can have confidence in life, trust in the Divine, trust in others, trust in one"s own destiny, that is, one has the feeling that everything is going to help him, to do what he wants to do. Faith is a certitude without any proo.. Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 6.
bench ::: 1. A long seat usually made of woo., for two or more persons. 2. A seat occupied by a person in an official capacity, esp. a judge. 3. Such a seat as a symbol of the office and dignity of an individual judge or the judiciary.
bend ::: 1. To assume a curved, croo.ed, or angular form or direction, esp. to bend the body; stoo.. 2. Fig. To bow, esp. in reverence. 3. To turn or incline in a particular direction; be directed. bends.
bending ::: pulling back the string of (a bow or the like) in preparation for shoo.ing.
betimes ::: in goo. time; in a short time, soo..
betray ::: 1. To be false or disloyal to. 2. To lead astray; deceive. 3. To divulge, disclose in a breach of confidence, a secret. 4. To show signs of; reveal; indicate. betrays, betrayed, betraying, moo.-betrayed.
binding ::: n. **1. The covering within which the pages of a boo. are abound. adj. 2.* Fig.* Commanding adherence to a commitment, obligatory.
blade ::: the flat cutting part of a sharpened weapon or too.. blade"s.
bloo.-glued ::: in reference to the bloo.y shirt that stuck to the body of the Centaur.
bloo.-lust ::: the desire for bloo.shed.
bloo. ::: n. **1. The flower of a plant. 2. Fig. A condition or time of vigour, freshness, and beauty; prime. 3. Fig. Glowing charm; delicate beauty. bloo.s. v. 4. To bear flowers; to blossom. Also fig. 5. To be in a healthy, glowing, or flourishing condition. 6. To flourish or grow. 7. To cause to flourish or grow; to flourish. Chiefly fig. bloo.s, bloo.ed.**
blessing ::: 1. Something promoting or contributing to happiness, well-being, or prosperity; a boo.. 2. A ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection, grace, etc.
blind ::: adj. 1. Unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless. Also fig. 2. Unwilling or unable to perceive or understand. 3. Lacking all consciousness or awareness. 4. Not having or based on reason or intelligence; absolute and unquestioning. 5. Not characterized or determined by reason or control. 6. Purposeless; fortuitous, random. 7. Undiscriminating; heedless; reckless. 8. Enveloped in darkness; dark, dim, obscure. 9. Dense enough to form a screen. 10. Covered or concealed from sight; hidden from immediate view. 11. Having no openings or passages for light; (a window or doo.) walled up. blindest, half-blind. v. 12. To deprive of sight permanently or temporarily. 13. To make sightless momentarily; dazzle. blinded.* n. 14. A blind person, esp. as pl., those who are blind. 15. Fig.* Any thing or action intended to conceal one"s real intention; a pretence, a pretext; subterfuge.
blindly ::: 1. Without seeing or loo.ing or without preparation or reflection. 2. Without understanding, reservation, or objection; unthinkingly.
block ::: n. 1. A solid piece of a hard substance, such as woo., stone, etc. having one or more flat sides. Also fig. 2. Something that obstructs; an obstacle. blocks. *v. 3. To impede, retard, prevent or obstruct the progress or achievement of (someone or something). Also fig.*
board ::: a sheet of woo., cardboard, paper, or other material on which some games are played.
bow ::: a weapon consisting of a curved, flexible strip of material, especially woo., strung taut from end to end and used to launch arrows.
broo.ing ::: 1. *Fig. Protecting (young) by or as if by covering with the wings. *2. Meditating or dwelling deeply on a thought.
broo. ::: n. 1. Offspring; progeny; in one family. 2. A breed, species, group, kind or race with common qualities. v. 3. To think deeply on; dwell or meditate upon, contemplate. broo.s, broo.ed.
broo. ::: to put up with, tolerate. broo.ed.
break ::: v. 1. To destroy by or as if by shattering or crushing. 2. To force or make a way through (a barrier, etc.). 3. To vary or disrupt the uniformity or continuity of. 4. To overcome or put an end to. 5. To destroy or interrupt a regularity, uniformity, continuity, or arrangement of; interrupt. 6. To intrude upon; interrupt a conversation, etc. 7. To discontinue or sever an association, an agreement, or a relationship. **8. To overcome or wear down the spirit, strength, or resistance of. 9. (usually followed by in, into or out). 10. To filter or penetrate as sunlight into a roo.. 11. To come forth suddenly. 12. To utter suddenly; to express or start to express an emotion, moo., etc. 13. Said of waves, etc. when they dash against an obstacle, or topple over and become surf or broken water in the shallows. 14. To part the surface of water, as a ship or a jumping fish. breaks, broke, broken, breaking.* *n. 15.** An interruption or a disruption in continuity or regularity.
bridegroo. ::: a man who is about to be married, or has recently been married.
bright ::: 1. Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; shining; radiant. 2. Magnificent; glorious. 3. Favourable or auspicious. 4. Fig. Characterized by happiness or gladness; full of promise and hope. 5. Distinct and clear to the mind, etc. 6. Intensely clear and vibrant in tone or quality. 7. Polished; glistening as with brilliant color. brighter, brightest, bright-hued, bright-pinioned, flame-bright, moo.-bright, pearl-bright, sun-bright.
burnished ::: having a smoo.h glossy appearance ; luster, as rubbed and polished metal.
"But always the whole foundation of the gnostic life must be by its very nature inward and not outward. In the life of the Spirit it is the Spirit, the inner Reality, that has built up and uses the mind, vital being and body as its instrumentation; thought, feeling and action do not exist for themselves, they are not an object, but the means; they serve to express the manifested divine Reality within us: otherwise, without this inwardness, this spiritual origination, in a too.externalised consciousness or by only external means, no greater or divine life is possible.” The Life Divine
"But in a higher than our present mental consciousness we find that this duality is only a phenomenal appearance. The highest and real truth of existence is the one Spirit, the supreme Soul, Purushottama, and it is the power of being of this Spirit which manifests itself in all that we experience as universe. This universal Nature is not a lifeless, inert or unconscious mechanism, but informed in all its movements by the universal Spirit. The mechanism of its process is only an outward appearance and the reality is the Spirit creating or manifesting its own being by its own power of being in all that is in Nature. Soul and Nature in us too.are only a dual appearance of the one existence.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
"But man also has a life-mind, a vital mentality which is an instrument of desire: this is not satisfied with the actual, it is a dealer in possibilities; it has the passion for novelty and is seeking always to extend the limits of experience for the satisfaction of desire, for enjoyment, for an enlarged self-affirmation and aggrandisement of its terrain of power and profit. It desires, enjoys, possesses actualities, but it hunts also after unrealised possibilities, is ardent to materialise them, to possess and enjoy them also. It is not satisfied with the physical and objective only, but seeks too.a subjective, an imaginative, a purely emotive satisfaction and pleasure.” *The Life Divine
bystander ::: one who is present at an event without participating in it; onloo.er; spectator.
camp-fires ::: outdoo. fires for warmth or coo.ing, as at a camp.
camp ::: n. 1. A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers. 2. The people using such shelters. 3. Temporary living quarters for soldiers or prisoners. v. 4. To make or set up a camp. or to live temporarily in or as if in a camp or outdoo.s. 5. To settle down securely and comfortably; become ensconced. camps, camped.
cart ::: a two-wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal and used in farm work and for transporting goo.s.
carving ::: v. **1. Sculpting into a desired shape. Also fig.* *n. 2. A figure or design produced by carving stone or woo.. carving"s.**
cause ::: 1. A person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect. 2. A basis for an action or response; a reason. 3. Grounds for action; motive; justification. 4. Goo. or sufficient reason. 5. The principle, ideal, goal, or movement to which a person or group is dedicated. Cause.
ceiling ::: 1. An upper limit, especially as set by regulation. 2. The upper interior surface of a roo..
cell ::: 1. A small humble abode, such as a hermit"s cave or hut. 2. A narrow confining roo., as in a prison or convent.
"Certainly, ideals are not the ultimate Reality, for that is too.high and vast for any ideal to envisage; they are aspects of it thrown out in the world-consciousness as a basis for the workings of the world-power. But they are primary, the actual workings secondary. They are nearer to the Reality and therefore always more real, forcible and complete than the facts which are their partial reflection.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Certainly, ideals are not the ultimate Reality, for that is too.high and vast for any ideal to envisage; they are aspects of it thrown out in the world-consciousness as a basis for the workings of the world-power. But they are primary, the actual workings secondary. They are nearer to the Reality and therefore always more real, forcible and complete than the facts which are their partial reflection. Reflections themselves of the Real, they again are reflected in the more concrete workings of our existence. The Supramental Manifestation
chain-work ::: handiwork in which parts are loo.ed or woven together like the links of a chain.
chamber ::: 1. Archaic or poetic: A roo. in a private house, esp. a bedroo.. 2. An enclosed space; compartment. chamber"s, chambers, work-chamber.
chance ::: n. 1. The absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understoo., or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency. 2. The happening of events; the way in which things happen; fortune. 3. An opportune or favourable time; opportunity. 4. Fortune; luck; fate. Chance, chances. *adj.* 5. Not planned or expected; accidental. v. 6. To happen by chance; be the case by chance.** chanced.
chapter ::: an important portion or division of anything, esp. of a boo., treatise, or other literary work. chapter"s, Chapters.
charmed ::: 1. Delighted or fascinated. 2. Marked by goo. fortune or privilege. 3. Protected from evil and harm as by a magical power vested in an amulet, etc. 4. Filled with wonder and delight.
choo.e ::: 1. To select from a number of possible alternatives; decide on and pick out. 2. To determine or decide. choo.es, chose, chosen, choo.ing, choo.est.
choo.est ::: a native English form of the verb, to choo.e, now only in formal and poetic usage.
cheat ::: v. 1. To deceive by trickery; swindle. 2. To mislead; foo.. n. **3.** A fraud or swindle; a dishonest trick.
cheerful ::: pleasantly bright; gladdening; of goo. spirits.
chiaroscuro ::: 1. The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art. 2. *Poetic*: Contrasting sense as in, darkness and light, ‘joy and gloo.", ‘praise and blame," etc.
childhoo. ::: 1. The time or state of being a child. 2. The early stage in the existence or development of something. childhoo."s.
chill ::: adj. 1. Cold, often unpleasantly so; numbing. 2. Discouraging; dispiriting. 3. Unduly formal; unfriendly; unfeeling. v. 4. To lower in temperature; coo.; make cold. 5. Fig. To depress (enthusiasm, etc.); discourage. chilled, chilling.
chiselled ::: shaped or cut as with a chisel, a metal too. with a sharp bevelled edge, used to cut and shape stone, woo., or metal. chisels.
choice ::: 1. The act of choo.ing; selection. 2. The power, right, or liberty to choo.e; option. 3. A person or thing chosen or that may be chosen.
chosen ::: n. 1. Having been selected by God; elect. adj. 2. Selected from or preferred above others. self-chosen. (Also pp. of choo.e.)
chose ::: past tense of choo.e.
claw ::: n. **1. A sharp, usually curved, nail on the foo. of an animal, as on a cat, dog, or bird. v. 2. To tear, scratch, seize, pull, etc., with or as if with claws. clawed.**
clear ::: 1. Not obscured or darkened; bright. 2. Free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; transparent. 3. Serene; calm; untroubled. 4. Free from doubt or confusion; certain. 5. Easily perceptible to the eye or ear; distinct. 6. Easily understoo.; without ambiguity. 7. Free from impediment, obstruction, or hindrance; open. clearer, sun-clear, surface-clear.
cloak ::: 1. A loo.e outer garment, such as a cape. 2. Anything that covers or conceals. 3. Something that covers or conceals; a disguise. world-cloak.
cloud ::: 1. A visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth"s surface. 2. Any similar mass, esp. of smoke or dust. 3. Something fleeting or unsubstantial. 4. Anything that obscures or darkens something, or causes gloo., trouble, suspicion, disgrace, etc. clouds, clouds", cloud-veils.
cloudy ::: 1. Of or like a cloud or clouds. 2. Full of or overcast by clouds. 3. Darkened by gloo., trouble, etc.
cloven hoo. ::: 1. A divided or cleft hoo., as in deer or cattle. 2. Evil or Satan, often depicted as a figure with cleft hoo.es.
coïl ::: a large bird belonging to the cuckoo.family, native to India, with a characteristic call reminiscent of the sound of its name. coïl"s
columns ::: long, narrow formations of troo.s in which there are more members in line in the direction of movement than at right angles to the direction.—(distinguished from line).
commerce ::: 1. The buying and selling of goo.s, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations. 2. Intellectual exchange or social interaction. 3. Intellectual or spiritual interchange; communion.
communality ::: a feeling or spirit of coo.eration and belonging arising from common interests and goals.
conjunction ::: 1. The state of being joined. 2. Astronomy: The position of two celestial bodies on the celestial sphere when they have the same celestial longitude, especially a configuration in which a planet or the Moo. lies on a straight line from Earth to or through the Sun.
consanguinity ::: 1. Relationship by bloo. or by a common ancestor. **2*.** *A close affinity or connection.
*consciousforce. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "In actual fact Mind measures Time by event and Space by Matter; but it is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woo. of its action upon itself. And to a consciousness higher than Mind which should regard our past, present and future in one view, containing and not contained in them, not situated at a particular moment of Time for its point of prospection, Time might well offer itself as an eternal present. And to the same consciousness not situated at any particular point of Space, but containing all points and regions in itself, Space also might well offer itself as a subjective and indivisible extension, — no less subjective than Time.” The Life Divine
control-roo. ::: a roo. housing control equipment where certain operations are conducted.
copy-boo. ::: a boo. containing models, usually of penmanship, for learners to imitate. Hence adj. commonplace; stereotyped.
cosmic mind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Nevertheless, the fact of this intervention from above, the fact that behind all our original thinking or authentic perception of things there is a veiled, a half-veiled or a swift unveiled intuitive element is enough to establish a connection between mind and what is above it; it opens a passage of communication and of entry into the superior spirit-ranges. There is also the reaching out of mind to exceed the personal ego limitation, to see things in a certain impersonality and universality. Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes, — towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested, must in the nature of things be the original mind-action of which ours is only a derivative and inferior process.” *The Life Divine
"If we accept the Vedic image of the Sun of Truth, . . . we may compare the action of the Higher Mind to a composed and steady sunshine, the energy of the Illumined Mind beyond it to an outpouring of massive lightnings of flaming sun-stuff. Still beyond can be met a yet greater power of the Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; . . . At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies, — not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of some creative Oversoul this whole lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance, links it with that greater Truth-Consciousness while yet at the same time with its brilliant golden Lid it veils the face of the greater Truth from our sight, intervening with its floo. of infinite possibilities as at once an obstacle and a passage in our seeking of the spiritual law of our existence, its highest aim, its secret Reality.” The Life Divine
"There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal sympathy, universal love and the understanding and knowledge of the inner soul of other existences is an attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a cosmic oneness.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
"[The results of the opening to the cosmic Mind:] One is aware of the cosmic Mind and the mental forces that move there and how they work on one"s mind and that of others and one is able to deal with one"s own mind with a greater knowledge and effective power. There are many other results, but this is the fundamental one.” Letters on Yoga
"The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Transcendental begins. In order to live in the Intuition plane (not merely to receive intuitions), one has to live in the cosmic consciousness because there the cosmic and individual run into each other as it were, and the mental separation between them is already broken down, so nobody can reach there who is still in the separative ego.” Letters on Yoga*
cosmic Self ::: Sri Aurobindo: "When one has the cosmic consciousness, one can feel the cosmic Self as one"s own self, one can feel one with other beings in the cosmos, one can feel all the forces of Nature as moving in oneself, all selves as one"s own self. There is no why except that it is so, since all is the One.” Letters on Yoga (See also Cosmic Spirit)
"Impersonality is the first character of cosmic self; . . . .” *The Life Divine
"An eternal infinite self-existence is the supreme reality, but the supreme transcendent eternal Being, Self and Spirit, — an infinite Person, we may say, because his being is the essence and source of all personality, — is the reality and meaning of self-existence: so too.the cosmic Self, Spirit, Being, Person is the reality and meaning of cosmic existence; the same Self, Spirit, Being or Person manifesting its multiplicity is the reality and meaning of individual existence.” The Life Divine
"But this cosmic self is spiritual in essence and in experience; it must not be confused with the collective existence, with any group soul or the life and body of a human society or even of all mankind.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"It is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe — although it is now a manifestation in the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga*
cosmogonic ::: relating to a theory or story of the origin and development of the universe, the solar system, or the earth-moo. system.
counters ::: anything used in keeping account, as a disk of metal or woo., used in some games, as checkers, for marking a player"s position or for keeping score.
court ::: 1. The roo. or building in which a tribunal sits and justice is administered. 2. A judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of legal cases.
cowled ::: wearing or supplied with a cowl; hoo.ed. self-cowled.
cowl ::: n. 1. The hoo. or hoo.ed robe worn especially by a monk. 2. A hoo., especially a loo.e one; garment. v. 3. To cover with or as with a cowl.
crack ::: 1. To break without complete separation of parts; fissure. 2. To break with a sharp snapping sound. doo.-crack.
crannies ::: 1. Small, narrow openings in a wall, rock, etc.,; chinks, crevices, fissures. 2. Small out-of-the-way places or obscure corners; noo.s.
croo.ed ::: 1. Bent, angled or winding; deformed or contorted. 2. Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent; perverse.
croo.edness ::: fig. The quality of being deceitful and underhanded.
croo.ing ::: a soft, soo.hing, low murmuring sound. bee-croo..
creature ::: 1. Something created; a living being, esp. an animal. 2. A human. 3. A person who is dependent upon another; too. or puppet. creature"s, creatures, creatures".
credulous ::: disposed to believe too.readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.
crescent ::: the figure of the moo. in its first or last quarter, resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
crest ::: 1. The top, highest point, or highest stage of something. 2. The top line of a hill, mountain, or wave. 3. A tuft or other natural growth on the top of the head of an animal as the comb of a roo.ter. 4. The fan-like tail of a comet. crests.
cross ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . the cross is the sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns it into a stake of suffering and misfortune. Only by the ascent to the original Truth can the deformation be healed and all the works of love, as too.all the works of knowledge and of life, be restored to a divine significance and become part of an integral spiritual existence.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
crouch ::: 1. To stoo., especially with the knees bent esp. in fear, humility or submission. 2. (of animals) to lie close to the ground, in fear, readiness for action etc. crouches, crouched, crouching.
cupola ::: 1. A roo. or ceiling in the form of a dome. 2. A vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting.
curse ::: n. 1. The expression of a wish that misfortune, evil, doo., etc., befall a person, group, etc. 2. A formula or charm intended to cause such misfortune to another. 3. An evil brought or inflicted upon one. 4. The cause of evil, misfortune, or trouble. 5. A profane or obscene expression or oath. curses. v. 6. To wish harm upon; invoke evil upon. 7. To invoke supernatural powers to bring harm to (someone or something). cursed.
curtain ::: 1. A hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a roo., increase privacy, etc. 2. Something that functions as or resembles a screen, cover, or barrier. curtains.
customs-line ::: an area (or line) where a governmental agency checks baggage or merchandise for contraband and goo.s subject to duty.
cynic ::: 1. A person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness and whose outloo. is scornfully and often habitually negative. 2. *adj. *Bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic.
dam ::: a female parent (esp. used of four-foo.ed domestic animals).
dangled ::: caused to hang loo.ely, esp. with a jerking or swaying motion.
dark ::: adj. 1. Lacking or having very little light. 2. Concealed or secret; mysterious. 3. Difficult to understand; obscure. 4. Characterized by gloo.; dismal. 5. Fig. Sinister; evil; absent moral or spiritual values. 6. (used of color) Having a dark hue; almost black. 7. Showing a broo.ing ill humor. 8. Having a complexion that is not fair; swarthy. darker, darkest, dark-browed, dark-robed.* n. 9. Absence of light; dark state or condition; darkness, esp. that of night. 10. A dark place: a place of darkness. 11. The condition of being hidden from view, obscure, or unknown; obscurity. *in the dark: in concealment or secrecy.
darken ::: 1. To make dark or darker. Also fig. **2. Fig. To make gloo.y; sadden. 3. To become clouded or obscure. darkens.**
doo. ::: 1. Fate, especially a tragic or ruinous one. 2. Inevitable destruction or ruin. 3. A judgement, decision, or sentence, esp. an unfavourable one. doo."s, doo.ed, doo.-crack.
dealt ::: too. action with respect to a thing or person (followed by with).
debt ::: 1. Something that is owed, such as money, goo.s, or services. 2. An obligation or liability to pay or render something to someone else.
deck ::: a floo.like surface extending from side to side of a ship or part of a ship.
deep ::: n. 1. A vast extent, as of space or time; an abyss. 2. Fig. Difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; as an unfathomable thought, idea, esp. poetic. Deep, deep"s, deeps. adj. 3. Extending far downward below a surface. 4. Having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination. 5. Coming from or penetrating to a great depth. 6. Situated far down, in, or back. 7. Lying below the surface; not superficial; profound. 8. Of great intensity; as extreme deep happiness, deep trouble. 9. Absorbing; engrossing. 10. Grave or serious. 11. Profoundly or intensely. 12. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to penetrate or understand. 13. Low in pitch or tone. 14. Profoundly cunning, crafty or artful. 15. The central and most intense or profound part; "in the deep of night”; "in the deep of winter”. deeper, deepest, deep-browed, deep-caved, deep-concealed, deep-etched, deep-fraught, deep-guarded, deep-hid, deep-honied, deep-poo.ed, deep-thoughted. *adv. *16. to a great depth psychologically or profoundly.
defied ::: opposed or resisted with boldness and assurance; unaffected by; resisted or withstoo.. defying.
delivery ::: the carrying and turning over of letters, goo.s, etc. to a designated recipient.
deluge ::: a great floo. of water, an inundation.
descry ::: 1. To see (something unclear or distant) by loo.ing carefully; discern. 2. To discover, perceive, detect. descried.
"Desire is the roo. of all sorrow, disappointment, affliction, for though it has a feverish joy of pursuit and satisfaction, yet because it is always a straining of the being, it carries into its pursuit and its getting a labour, hunger, struggle, a rapid subjection to fatigue, a sense of limitation, dissatisfaction and early disappointment with all its gains, a ceaseless morbid stimulation, trouble, disquiet, asânti. ” The Synthesis of Yoga
::: ". . . desire, wrath and greed, the three powers of the rajasic ego, and these are the threefold doo.s of Hell. . . .” Essays on the Gita
desolate ::: 1. Uninhabited, laid waste, deserted, without any sign of life, barren. 2. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted. 3. Bereft of friends or hope; sad and forlorn. 4. Wretched or forlorn. 5. Dreary, dismal, gloo.y. desolately.
desperate ::: actuated by a feeling of hopelessness; that leaves little or no roo. for hope; such as to be despaired of; extremely dangerous or serious.
"Destruction is always a simultaneous or alternate element which keeps pace with creation and it is by destroying and renewing that the Master of Life does his long work of preservation. More, destruction is the first condition of progress. Inwardly, the man who does not destroy his lower self-formations, cannot rise to a greater existence. Outwardly also, the nation or community or race which shrinks too.long from destroying and replacing its past forms of life, is itself destroyed, rots and perishes and out of its debris other nations, communities and races are formed. By destruction of the old giant occupants man made himself a place upon earth. By destruction of the Titans the gods maintain the continuity of the divine Law in the cosmos. Whoever prematurely attempts to get rid of this law of battle and destruction, strives vainly against the greater will of the World-Spirit.” Essays on the Gita
detached ::: 1. Impartial or objective; disinterested; unbiased. 2. Not involved or concerned; aloo.. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Detachment means that one stands back from [imperfections and weakness of the nature, etc.] , does not identify oneself with them or get upset or troubled because they are there, but rather loo.s on them as something foreign to one"s true consciousness and true self, rejects them and calls in the Mother"s Force into these movements to eliminate them and bring the true consciousness and its movements there.” Letters on Yoga
devious ::: 1. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout. 2. Without definite course; vagrant. 3. Not straightforward; shifty or croo.ed.
dews ::: 1. Water droplets condensed from the air, usually at night, onto coo. surfaces. 2. Something like or compared to such drops of moisture, as in purity, delicacy, or refreshing quality. dewy, Dew-time.
disdain ::: n. 1. A feeling of contempt for anything regarded as unworthy; haughty contempt; scorn. v. 2. To loo. upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn. disdained, disdaining.
dismal ::: causing gloo. or dejection; dreary.
displaced ::: 1. Removed or shifted (something) from its place; put out of the proper or usual place. 2. Too. the place of; supplanted.
divine ::: adj. **1. Of or pertaining to God or the Supreme Being. 2. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity. 3. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. 4. Heavenly, celestial. 5. Supremely goo. or beautiful; magnificent. diviner, divinest, divinely, half-divine. v. 6. To perceive by intuition or insight. divines, divined, divining.**
dole ::: n. **1. A portion or allotment of money, foo., etc., esp. as given at regular intervals by a charity or for maintenance. v. 2. To give out sparingly or in small quantities (usually followed by out). doled, doles.**
dome ::: anything having a rounded vault such as that forming the roo. of a building with a circular, elliptical, or polygonal base, as the concave vault of the sky, a vaulted canopy, a canopy of trees, etc. domed.
dormitories ::: roo.s containing a number of beds and serving as communal sleeping quarters.
draped ::: covered, dressed, or hung with or as if with cloth in loo.e folds. drapes.
draperies ::: fig. Cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loo.e folds.
droo.ed ::: sagged in dejection or exhaustion.
droo.ing ::: weak from exhaustion; depleted of strength or energy.
dream ::: 1. A series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. 2. A vision occurring to a person while awake. 3. A person or thing that is as pleasant, or seemingly unreal, as a dream 4. An ideal or aspiration; goal; aim. 5. A wild or vain fancy. Dream, dream"s, Dream"s, dreams, dream-broo., dream-brush, dream-built, dream-caught, dream-fact, dream-fate, dream-god"s, dream-happiness, dream-hued, dream-life, dream-light, dream-made, dream-mind, dream-notes, dream-print, dream-sculptured, dream-shores, dream-smiles, dream-splendour, dream-truth, dream-vasts, dream-white, dream-world, half-dream, self-dream, sun-dream, world-dream. *adj. 6. Of a colour: misty, dim, or cloudy. v. 7. To have an image (of) or fantasy (about) in or as if in a dream. dreams, dreamed, *dreaming.
drear ::: sad, doleful, sorrowful; dismal, gloo.y.
drown ::: fig. To overwhelm or smother; to immerse, inundate, floo.. drowned.
dryad ::: a deity or nymph of the woo.s.
dun ::: dark and gloo.y.
dusk ::: n. **1. The state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight. 2. Partial darkness; shade; gloo.. Dusk. adj. 3. Poetic. shady; gloo.y. dusky.**
"Each person follows in the world his own line of destiny which is determined by his own nature and actions — the meaning and necessity of what happens in a particular life cannot be understoo. except in the light of the whole course of many lives. But this can be seen by those who can get beyond the ordinary mind and feelings and see things as a whole, that even errors, misfortunes, calamities are steps in the journey, — the soul gathering experience as it passes through and beyond them until it is ripe for the transition which will carry it beyond these things to a higher consciousness and higher life.” Letters on Yoga*
ebony ::: a deep, lustrous black (after the woo. of the same colour).
eddy ::: 1. A current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, esp. one having a rotary or whirling motion. 2. A small whirlpoo.. eddies, eddying.
either of the ends of a new moo.. See also gate of horn.
"Emotion is a goo. element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.” Letters on Yoga*
"Emptiness is not in itself a bad condition, only if it is a sad and restless emptiness of the dissatisfied vital. In sadhana emptiness is very usually a necessary transition from one state to another. When mind and vital fall quiet and their restless movements, thoughts and desires cease, then one feels empty. This is at first often a neutral emptiness with nothing in it, nothing in it either goo. or bad, happy or unhappy, no impulse or movement. This neutral state is often or even usually followed by the opening to inner experience. There is also an emptiness made of peace and silence, when the peace and silence come out from the psychic within or descend from the higher consciousness above. This is not neutral, for in it there is the sense of peace, often also of wideness and freedom. There is also a happy emptiness with the sense of something close or drawing near which is not yet there, e.g. the closeness of the Mother or some other preparing experience.” Letters on Yoga*
encyclopaedia ::: a boo. or set of boo.s containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.
episode ::: 1. An incident in the course of a series of events, in a person"s life or experience, etc. 2. One of a number of loo.ely connected, but usually thematically related, scenes or stories constituting a literary work.
::: Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you, but to loo. at them with a straight loo., free from the distortions created by personal feeling, and to try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them; it means self-mastery over the vital movements, — anger and sensitiveness and pride as well as desire and the rest, — not to let them get hold of the emotional being and disturb the inner peace, not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of these things, always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise of the spirit.” *Letters on Yoga
ether ::: 1. The regions of space beyond the earth"s atmosphere; the heavens. 2. The element believed in ancient and medieval civilizations to fill all space above the sphere of the moo. and to compose the stars and planets. 3. A hypothetical medium formerly believed to permeate all space, and through which light and other electromagnetic radiation were thought to move. ether"s.
ethics ::: 1. A system of moral principles. 2. The branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goo.ness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. **ethics".
". . . ethics must eventually perceive that the law of goo. which it seeks is the law of God.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
evangel ::: goo. news or tidings.
::: "Even Science believes that one day death may be conquered by physical means and its reasonings are perfectly sound. There is no reason why the supramental Force should not do it. Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too.rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that there is no reason why they should not last.” Letters on Yoga
evil ::: n. 1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked, sinful, as opposed to goo.. 2. Anything causing injury or harm. Evil, evil"s, Evil"s. adj. 3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous; disastrous. 4. Harmful; injurious. 5. Boding ill.
"Evolution is an inverse action of the involution: what is an ultimate and last derivation in the involution is the first to appear in the evolution; what was original and primal in the involution is in the evolution the last and supreme emergence.” The Life Divine ::: "Evolution, as we see it in this world, is a slow and difficult process and, indeed, needs usually ages to reach abiding results; but this is because it is in its nature an emergence from inconscient beginnings, a start from nescience and a working in the ignorance of natural beings by what seems to be an unconscious force. There can be, on the contrary, an evolution in the light and no longer in the darkness, in which the evolving being is a conscious participant and coo.erator, and this is precisely what must take place here.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
examined ::: loo.ed at, inspected, or scrutinized carefully or in detail; investigated the condition or qualities of anything.
excel ::: to be outstandingly goo. or proficient excels.
expectation ::: the action of waiting, loo.ing forward, or anticipating; the act or state of expecting or the state of being expected. expectation"s.
expected ::: loo.ed forward to; considered likely or certain to happen.
experience ::: 1. Knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone. 2. Philos. The totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understoo., and remembered. **world-experience.
falsehoo.
foo.fall ::: 1. A foo.step. 2. The sound of foo.steps. foo.falls.
foo.hold ::: a place providing support for the foo. in climbing or standing. Also fig.
foo.ing ::: 1. A secure place for the feet; a foo.hold.
foo.ish ::: lacking or exhibiting a lack of goo. sense or judgment; silly.
foo.less ::: having no support or basis; unsubstantial.
foo.mark ::: a mark or trace of mud, wetness, etc., left by a person"s foo. on a surface.
felicitous ::: 1. Marked by happiness or goo. fortune. 2. Exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style. felicitously
fiery ::: 1. Like or suggestive of fire. 2. Burning or glowing. 3. Charged with emotion; fervent, vehement, impassioned. fierier, fiery-foo.ed.
finished ::: 1. Ended or brought to an end. 2. Completed. 3. (of materials or goo.s) brought to the desired final state. half-finished.
flame ::: n. 1. Burning gas or vapor, as from woo. or coal, that is undergoing combustion; a portion of ignited gas or vapor. 2. Fig. A brilliant light; fiery glow. 3. Fig. Intense ardour, zeal, passion, vitality. 4. Spiritual fire. 5. Inner fire. 6. Bright colouring; a streak or patch of color. Flame, flames, flame-ascensions, flame-born, flame-bright, flame-child, flame-discovery, flame-edge, flame-eyed, flame-foo., flame-hills, flame-pure, flame-signs, flame-stabs, flame-throw, flame-white, flame-wrapped, moo.-flame. v. 8. To burn with a flame or flames; burst into flames; blaze. 7. To burn or glow as if with fire; become red or fiery 8. To burn or burst forth with strong emotion. flames, flamed. ::: flames out. Bursts out in or as if in flames.
flasque ::: Sri Aurobindo: "‘Flasque" is a French word meaning ‘slack", ‘loo.e", ‘flaccid" etc. I have more than once tried to thrust in a French word like this, for instance, ‘A harlot empress in a bouge" – somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound.” Letters on Savitri.
floo. ::: n. **1. A large body of water; a great flow or stream of any fluid; any great overwhelming quantity, also poet. & fig. 2. The rise and flowing in of the tide. 3. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land. 4. Any great outpouring or stream. floo.s. v. 5. To flow or pour in or as if in a floo.. floo.ed, floo.ing. ::: And heard the questioning of the unsatisfied floo. **
float ::: 1. To remain suspended within or on the surface of a fluid without sinking. 2. To move or progress smoo.hly as on a stream. 3. To move or cause to move buoyantly, lightly, or freely across a surface or through air, water, etc.; drift. 4. To move lightly and gracefully. 5. Fig. To move or seem to move lightly and faintly before the eyes. floats, floated, floating.
-flocks ::: groups of animals or birds that live, travel, or feed together. moo.-flocks.
flowered ::: flower 1. Blossomed or bloo.ed. Also fig. 2. Decorated with flowers. 3. Came into full development; matured; blossomed.
flute ::: n. 1. A high-pitched woo.wind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown. flutes. *v. 2. To play a flute. *fluted, fluting.
fodder ::: coarse foo. for livestock.
folly ::: 1. Lack of goo. sense, understanding, or foresight. 2. An act or instance of foo.ishness. follies.
::: **". . . for all falsehoo. is merely a wrong placing of the Truth.” The Secret of the Veda*
forced marches ::: marches that are longer than troo.s are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
force ::: n. 1. Strength; energy; power; intensity. 2. Fig. An agency, influence, or source of power likened to a physical force. Force, force"s, forces, Force-compelled, Conscious-Force, earth-force, God-Force, lion-forces, Mother-Force, Nature-force, Nature-Force, serpent-force, soul-force, Soul-Forces, world-force, World-Force, world-forces. *v. 3. To compel or cause (a person, group, etc.) to do something through effort, superior strength, etc.; coerce. 4. To propel or drive despite resistance. 5. To break open (a gate, doo., etc.) *forces, forced, forcing.
". . . for doubt is the mind"s persistent assailant.” Letters on Yoga ::: "The enemy of faith is doubt, and yet doubt too.is a utility and necessity, because man in his ignorance and in his progressive labour towards knowledge needs to be visited by doubt, otherwise he would remain obstinate in an ignorant belief and limited knowledge and unable to escape from his errors.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
foresight ::: 1. Perception of the significance and nature of events before they have occurred. 2. Knowledge or insight gained by or as by loo.ing forward; a view of the future; foreknowledge.
"For goo. is all that helps the individual and the world towards their divine fullness, and evil is all that retards or breaks up that increasing perfection.” The Synthesis of Yoga ::: *goo.ness.
"Forms on earth do not last (they do in other planes) because these forms are too.rigid to grow expressing the progress of the spirit. If they become plastic enough to do that there is no reason why they should not last.” Letters on Yoga
fort ::: a fortified place or position stationed with troo.s. forts.
"For the main business of the heart, its true function is love. It is our destined instrument of complete union and oneness; for to see oneness in the world by the understanding is not enough unless we also feel it with the heart and in the psychic being, and this means a delight in the One and in all existences in the world in him, a love of God and all beings. The heart"s faith and will in goo. are founded on a perception of the one Divine immanent in all things and leading the world.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
fortunate ::: 1. Possessing goo. luck; lucky. 2. Bringing something goo. and unforeseen; auspicious.
forward ::: adv. 1. Toward or tending to the front; facing frontward. 2. Fig. Directed or moving ahead. 3. Of continuous motion: Towards what is in front; (moving) onwards, on. forward-rippling, forward-striving. *adj. 4. At or near or directed towards a point ahead.* ::: to loo. forward. Expect or hope for something positive in the future.
fountain ::: 1. The source or origin of anything. 2. A jet or stream of water made by artificial means to spout or rise from an opening or structure, as to afford water for use, to coo. the air, or to serve for ornament. fountain"s, fountains.
frieze ::: the upper part of the wall of a roo., below the cornice, esp. one that is decorated. friezes.
fringe ::: 1. A decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loo.ely from a ravelled edge or strip. 2. Anything resembling or suggesting this. 3. An outer edge; margin; periphery. fringes, fringed.
front ::: n. 1. That part or side that is forward, prominent, or most often seen or used. 2. Outward aspect or bearing as when dealing with a situation. 3. Demeanour or bearing, especially in the presence of danger or difficulty. 4. At a position before, in advance of, facing, or confronting; at the head of. 5. The most forward line of a combat force. 6. A position of leadership in a particular endeavour or field. front"s, fronts. v. 7. To loo. out on; face. 8. To meet face to face; in opposition; confront. fronts, fronted, fronting.
fruit ::: 1. The part of a plant that produces the seed, especially when eaten as foo.. 2. The result or consequence of an action or effort. 3. Result; outcome. fruits.
fruitful ::: 1. Producing goo. results; beneficial. 2. Producing an abundant growth, as of fruit.
gabled ::: built with a gable (The generally triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roo., occupying the space between the two slopes of the roo..).
garland ::: a wreath or festoo., especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
gauze ::: 1. A thin, transparent fabric with a loo.e open weave, used for curtains and clothing. *Also fig.*
gaze ::: n. 1. The act of loo.ing steadily, intently and with fixed attention. v. 2. To loo. long and fixedly, esp. in wonder or admiration, poet. **gazes, gazed, gazing, sun-gaze, Truth-gaze, star-gazer, outward-gazing, sun-gazing.**
goo. ::: Sri Aurobindo: "Below [the ethical] hides that secret of goo. in all things which the human being approaches and tries to deliver partially through ethical instinct and ethical idea; above is hidden the eternal Goo. which exceeds our partial and fragmentary ethical conceptions.” *Social and Political Thought
genii ::: 1. A rendering of Arab., jinn, the collective name of a class of spirits (some goo., some evil) supposed to interfere powerfully in human affairs. 2. Spirits, often appearing in human form, that when summoned carry out the wishes of the summoner.
gethsemane ::: the name of a ‘garden" on the Mount of Olives east of Jerusalem near the broo. of Kedron, scene of the agony and betrayal of Christ, hence a scene or occasion of suffering.
glance ::: a brief or quick loo..
glass ::: 1. A glass mirror, a loo.ing-glass. 2. A mirror. 3. A device, such as a monocle or spyglass, containing a lens or lenses and used as an aid to vision. 4. A lens.
gloo. ::: total or partial darkness; dimness often used to describe depression or melancholy. gloo."s, gloo.s, gloo.y.
glide ::: to move smoo.hly and continuously along, as if without effort or resistance. glides, glided, gliding.
glimpse ::: n. 1. A very brief, passing loo., sight, or view. 2. A momentary shining, a flash. lit. and fig. glimpses. v. 3. To catch sight of briefly or momentarily. 4. To obtain a brief, incomplete view of. Now only poet. glimpses, glimpsed, glimpsing.
glue ::: n. 1. Any substance used as a strong adhesive for fastening or joining substances. v. 2. To stick or fasten with or as if with glue. glued, bloo.-glued.
gorged ::: glutted to the full, as with foo., conquest, etc.
grace ::: n. **1. Elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action. 2. Favour or goo.will. 3. A manifestation of favour, especially by a superior. 4. Theol. a. The freely given, unmerited favour and love of God. b. The influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them. c. A virtue or excellence of divine origin. d. The condition of being in God"s favour or one of the elect. 5. Divine love and protection bestowed freely on people. v. 6. To lend or add grace to; adorn. graced, graceful, graceless.**
grain ::: fig. Quality, nature, temper; inclination, tendency. 2. The smallest possible amount or size of anything. 3. Small hard seeds, esp. the seeds of foo. plants such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet; the plants themselves whether reaped or standing. grains.
graph ::: a diagram that exhibits a relationship, often functional, between two sets of numbers as a set of points having coo.dinates determined by the relationship. graphs.
grate ::: a framework of metal bars used to hold fuel or foo. in a stove, furnace, or fireplace.
groo.e ::: 1. A long narrow cut or indentation in a surface; a furrow. 2. A fixed routine; habit, pattern. groo.es.
grey ::: 1. A neutral tone, intermediate between black and white, that has no hue and reflects and transmits only a little light. 2.* Fig. Dismal or dark, esp. from lack of light; gloo.y. 3. Dull, dreary or monotonous. 4. Used often in reference to twilight or a gloo.y or an overcast day. greyer, grey-eyed, grey-hued, silver-grey. n. *greyness.
grimed ::: covered with dirt, soo. or other filthy matter.
grove ::: a small woo. or stand of trees lacking dense undergrowth. grove"s, groves, groves".
gutter ("s) ::: 1. A trough fixed under or along the eaves for draining rainwater from a roo.. 2. A channel at the edge of a street or road for carrying off surface water.
gymnasium ::: a roo. or building equipped for indoo. sports.
halls ::: 1. Large roo.s of palaces or castles. 2. Large roo.s for gatherings and events.
hardiest ::: being in robust and sturdy goo. health.
hoo.ed
hoo.es
hoo.
hoo.s
hearth ::: the floo. of a fireplace, usually extending into a roo. and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement.
heavy-foo.ed
heel ::: the rounded posterior portion of the human foo. under and behind the ankle. Also fig.
herbs ::: a flowering plant whose stem above ground does not become woo.y.
hermit ::: one who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; a recluse. hermits, hermit-life, hermit-roo.s.
high-bred ::: of high birth; highly refined in manner; of pure bloo.. highbred.
hilt ::: the handle of a weapon or too..
hinge ::: a jointed or flexible device that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a doo. or lid, on a stationary frame that allows the turning or pivoting of a part, such as a doo. or lid, on a stationary frame.
::: ". . . Hiranyagarbha, the luminous mind of dreams, loo.ing through [gross forms created by Virat] those forms to see his own images behind them.” *The Future Poetry
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"Ideals are truths that have not yet effected themselves for man, the realities of a higher plane of existence which have yet to fulfil themselves on this lower plane of life and matter, our present field of operation. To the pragmatical intellect which takes its stand upon the ever-changing present, ideals are not truths, not realities, they are at most potentialities of future truth and only become real when they are visible in the external fact as work of force accomplished. But to the mind which is able to draw back from the flux of force in the material universe, to the consciousness which is not imprisoned in its own workings or carried along in their floo. but is able to envelop, hold and comprehend them, to the soul that is not merely the subject and instrument of the world-force but can reflect something of that Master-Consciousness which controls and uses it, the ideal present to its inner vision is a greater reality than the changing fact obvious to its outer senses. The Supramental Manifestation*
::: "Identity is the first truth of existence; division is the second truth; all division is a division in oneness. There is one Existence which loo.s at itself from many self-divided unities observing other similar and dissimilar self-divided unities by the device of division. Being is one; division is a device or a secondary condition of consciousness; but the primary truth of consciousness also is a truth of oneness and identity.” Essays Divine and Human
"If discipline of all the members of our being by purification and concentration may be described as the right arm of the body of Yoga, renunciation is its left arm. By discipline or positive practice we confirm in ourselves the truth of things, truth of being, truth of knowledge, truth of love, truth of works and replace with these the falsehoo.s that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoo.s, pluck up their roo.s and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living.” The Synthesis of Yoga*
ignorance ::: the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information. Ignorance, ignorance"s, Ignorance"s, ignorance", world-ignorance, World-Ignorance.
Sri Aurobindo: "Ignorance is the absence of the divine eye of perception which gives us the sight of the supramental Truth; it is the non-perceiving principle in our consciousness as opposed to the truth-perceiving conscious vision and knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"Ignorance is the consciousness of being in the successions of Time, divided in its knowledge by dwelling in the moment, divided in its conception of self-being by dwelling in the divisions of Space and the relations of circumstance, self-prisoned in the multiple working of the unity. It is called the Ignorance because it has put behind it the knowledge of unity and by that very fact is unable to know truly or completely either itself or the world, either the transcendent or the universal reality.” The Life Divine
"Ignorance means Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life. This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth, — truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth, half-error. . . . All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half-knowledge. Therefore it is called the Ignorance.” The Mother
". . . all ignorance is a penumbra which environs an orb of knowledge . . . .”The Life Divine
"This world is not really created by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble; for what we call the Ignorance is a cloaked Knowledge, a Knowledge at work in a body not its own but moving towards its own supreme self-discovery.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
"Knowledge is no doubt the knowledge of the One, the realisation of the Being; Ignorance is a self-oblivion of Being, the experience of separateness in the multiplicity and a dwelling or circling in the ill-understoo. maze of becomings: . . . .” The Life Divine*
"I have started writing about doubt, but even in doing so I am afflicted by the ‘doubt" whether any amount of writing or of anything else can ever persuade the eternal doubt in man which is the penalty of his native ignorance. In the first place, to write adequately would mean anything from 60 to 600 pages, but not even 6000 convincing pages would convince doubt. For doubt exists for its own sake; its very function is to doubt always and, even when convinced, to go on doubting still; it is only to persuade its entertainer to give it board and lodging that it pretends to be an honest truth-seeker. This is a lesson I have learnt from the experience both of my own mind and of the minds of others; the only way to get rid of doubt is to take discrimination as one"s detector of truth and falsehoo. and under its guard to open the doo. freely and courageously to experience.” Letters on Yoga
imperative ::: n. 1. An action, etc. involving or expressing a command; a command. 2. Something that demands attention or action; an unavoidable obligation or requirement; necessity. 3. The verbal moo. (or any form belonging to it) which expresses a command, request, or exhortation. adj. **4. Absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable. 5. Of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding. imperatives.**
impersonal ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Impersonal is not He, it is It. . . . The Impersonal Brahman is inactive, aloo., indifferent, not concerned with what happens in the universe.” *Letters on Yoga
incalculable ::: 1. Too.great to be calculated or reckoned. 2. Impossible to foresee; unpredictable. Incalculable, incalculable"s. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as a n.)
incense ::: 1. An aromatic substance, such as woo. or a gum that is burned to produce a pleasant odour. 2. The smoke or odour produced by the burning of such a substance. 3. Fig. Offering; homage.
inconscience ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscience is an inverse reproduction of the supreme superconscience: it has the same absoluteness of being and automatic action, but in a vast involved trance; it is being lost in itself, plunged in its own abyss of infinity.” *The Life Divine
"All aspects of the omnipresent Reality have their fundamental truth in the Supreme Existence. Thus even the aspect or power of Inconscience, which seems to be an opposite, a negation of the eternal Reality, yet corresponds to a Truth held in itself by the self-aware and all-conscious Infinite. It is, when we loo. closely at it, the Infinite"s power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abysses where nothing is manifest but all inconceivably is and can emerge from that ineffable latency. In the heights of Spirit this state of cosmic or infinite trance-sleep appears to our cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit"s potency of presenting to itself the opposites of its own truths of being, — an abyss of non-existence, a profound Night of inconscience, a fathomless swoo. of insensibility from which yet all forms of being, consciousness and delight of existence can manifest themselves, — but they appear in limited terms, in slowly emerging and increasing self-formulations, even in contrary terms of themselves; it is the play of a secret all-being, all-delight, all-knowledge, but it observes the rules of its own self-oblivion, self-opposition, self-limitation until it is ready to surpass it. This is the Inconscience and Ignorance that we see at work in the material universe. It is not a denial, it is one term, one formula of the infinite and eternal Existence.” *The Life Divine
"Once consciousnesses separated from the one consciousness, they fell inevitably into Ignorance and the last result of Ignorance was Inconscience.” Letters on Yoga
*inconscience.
inconscient ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The Inconscient and the Ignorance may be mere empty abstractions and can be dismissed as irrelevant jargon if one has not come in collision with them or plunged into their dark and bottomless reality. But to me they are realities, concrete powers whose resistance is present everywhere and at all times in its tremendous and boundless mass.” *Letters on Savitri
". . . in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that seems to be the opposite of itself, something in which there can be Darkness, Inconscience, Inertia, Insensibility, Disharmony and Disintegration. It is this that we see at the basis of the material world and speak of nowadays as the Inconscient — the Inconscient Ocean of the Rigveda in which the One was hidden and arose in the form of this universe — or, as it is sometimes called, the non-being, Asat.” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient itself is only an involved state of consciousness which like the Tao or Shunya, though in a different way, contains all things suppressed within it so that under a pressure from above or within all can evolve out of it — ‘an inert Soul with a somnambulist Force".” Letters on Yoga
"The Inconscient is the last resort of the Ignorance.” Letters on Yoga
"The body, we have said, is a creation of the Inconscient and itself inconscient or at least subconscient in parts of itself and much of its hidden action; but what we call the Inconscient is an appearance, a dwelling place, an instrument of a secret Consciousness or a Superconscient which has created the miracle we call the universe.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga :::
"The Inconscient is a sleep or a prison, the conscient a round of strivings without ultimate issue or the wanderings of a dream: we must wake into the superconscious where all darkness of night and half-lights cease in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal.” The Life Divine
"Men have not learnt yet to recognise the Inconscient on which the whole material world they see is built, or the Ignorance of which their whole nature including their knowledge is built; they think that these words are only abstract metaphysical jargon flung about by the philosophers in their clouds or laboured out in long and wearisome boo.s like The Life Divine. Letters on Savitri :::
"Is it really a fact that even the ordinary reader would not be able to see any difference between the Inconscient and Ignorance unless the difference is expressly explained to him? This is not a matter of philosophical terminology but of common sense and the understoo. meaning of English words. One would say ‘even the inconscient stone" but one would not say, as one might of a child, ‘the ignorant stone". One must first be conscious before one can be ignorant. What is true is that the ordinary reader might not be familiar with the philosophical content of the word Inconscient and might not be familiar with the Vedantic idea of the Ignorance as the power behind the manifested world. But I don"t see how I can acquaint him with these things in a single line, even with the most. illuminating image or symbol. He might wonder, if he were Johnsonianly minded, how an Inconscient could be teased or how it could wake Ignorance. I am afraid, in the absence of a miracle of inspired poetical exegesis flashing through my mind, he will have to be left wondering.” Letters on Savitri
**inconscient, Inconscient"s.**
indifferent ::: 1. Having no marked feeling for or against. 2. Without interest or feeling in regard to something; unbiased, impartial, neutral; fair; unconcerned, unmoved, apathetic. 3. Being neither goo. nor bad; neutral.
indigent ::: deficient in what is requisite; poo.; impoverished.
indubitable ::: too.apparent to be doubted; unquestionable.
inextricable ::: intricately involved; incapable of being disentangled, loo.ed, or undone. inextricably.
"In fact ethics is not in its essence a calculation of goo. and evil in the action or a laboured effort to be blameless according to the standards of the world, — those are only crude appearances, — it is an attempt to grow into the divine nature.” The Human Cycle
"In God"s providence there is no evil, but only goo. or its preparation.” Essays Divine and Human
inloo. ::: a loo.ing within.
innumerable ::: too.numerous to be counted; numberless. innumerably.
insanity ::: extreme foo.ishness; folly; senselessness; foo.hardiness.
insignificant ::: 1. Too.small to be important. 2. Unimportant, trifling, or petty; of no consequence, influence or distinction. 3. Without meaning. insignificance.
" . . . insincerity is always an open doo. for the adversary. That means there is some secret sympathy with what is perverse. And that is what is serious.” Questions and Answers 1957-58, MCW Vol. 9.
intelligible ::: capable of being understoo.; comprehensible.
interned ::: restricted to or confined within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war, enemy aliens, or combat troo.s who take refuge in a neutral country. Also fig.
::: ". . . in the language of the Upanishad, the life-force is the foo. of the body and the body the foo. of the life-force; in other words, the life-energy in us both supplies the material by which the form is built up and constantly maintained and renewed and is at the same time constantly using up the substantial form of itself which it thus creates and keeps in existence.” *The Life Divine
intuition ::: direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process. intuition"s, intuitions, half-intuition.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intuition is a power of consciousness nearer and more intimate to the original knowledge by identity; for it is always something that leaps out direct from a concealed identity. It is when the consciousness of the subject meets with the consciousness in the object, penetrates it and sees, feels or vibrates with the truth of what it contacts, that the intuition leaps out like a spark or lightning-flash from the shock of the meeting; or when the consciousness, even without any such meeting, loo.s into itself and feels directly and intimately the truth or the truths that are there or so contacts the hidden forces behind appearances, then also there is the outbreak of an intuitive light; or, again, when the consciousness meets the Supreme Reality or the spiritual reality of things and beings and has a contactual union with it, then the spark, the flash or the blaze of intimate truth-perception is lit in its depths. This close perception is more than sight, more than conception: it is the result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence. A concealed or slumbering identity, not yet recovering itself, still remembers or conveys by the intuition its own contents and the intimacy of its self-feeling and self-vision of things, its light of truth, its overwhelming and automatic certitude.” *The Life Divine
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely veridical, and its rays are not separated but connected or massed together in a play of waves of what might almost be called in the Sanskrit poetic figure a sea or mass of ``stable lightnings"". When this original or native Intuition begins to descend into us in answer to an ascension of our consciousness to its level or as a result of our finding of a clear way of communication with it, it may continue to come as a play of lightning-flashes, isolated or in constant action; but at this stage the judgment of reason becomes quite inapplicable, it can only act as an observer or registrar understanding or recording the more luminous intimations, judgments and discriminations of the higher power. To complete or verify an isolated intuition or discriminate its nature, its application, its limitations, the receiving consciousness must rely on another completing intuition or be able to call down a massed intuition capable of putting all in place. For once the process of the change has begun, a complete transmutation of the stuff and activities of the mind into the substance, form and power of Intuition is imperative; until then, so long as the process of consciousness depends upon the lower intelligence serving or helping out or using the intuition, the result can only be a survival of the mixed Knowledge-Ignorance uplifted or relieved by a higher light and force acting in its parts of Knowledge.” *The Life Divine
"I use the word ‘intuition" for want of a better. In truth, it is a makeshift and inadequate to the connotation demanded of it. The same has to be said of the word ‘consciousness" and many others which our poverty compels us to extend illegitimately in their significance.” *The Life Divine - Sri Aurobindo"s foo.note.
"For intuition is an edge of light thrust out by the secret Supermind. . . .” The Life Divine
". . . intuition is born of a direct awareness while intellect is an indirect action of a knowledge which constructs itself with difficulty out of the unknown from signs and indications and gathered data.” The Life Divine
"Intuition is above illumined Mind which is simply higher Mind raised to a great luminosity and more open to modified forms of intuition and inspiration.” Letters on Yoga
"Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct inner contact, not like the ordinary mental intelligence by seeking and reaching out for indirect contacts through the senses etc. But the limitation of the Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically its function.” Letters on Yoga
::: "I regard the spiritual history of mankind and especially of India as a constant development of a divine purpose, not a boo. that is closed, the lines of which have to be constantly repeated.” Letters on Yoga
iron ::: n. 1. A silver-white metal, usually an admixture of some other substance, usually carbon, rendering it extremely hard and useful for too.s, implements, machinery, constructions, and in many other applications. adj. 2. Inflexible; unyielding; firm. 3. Stern; harsh; cruel. 4. *Fig.* Resembling iron in firmness, strength, colour, etc.
"It is because of our experience won at a tremendous price that we can urge upon you and others, ``Take the psychic attitude; follow the straight sunlit path, with the Divine openly or secretly upbearing you — if secretly, he will yet show himself in goo. time, — do not insist on the hard, hampered, roundabout and difficult journey."" Letters on Yoga
"It [the Cosmic Spirit] uses Truth and Falsehoo., Knowledge and Ignorance and all the other dualities as elements in the manifestation and works out what has to be worked out till all is ready for a higher working.” Letters on Yoga*
joy ::: n. 1. The emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally goo. or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation. 2. A state of happiness or felicity. joys, joyless, joylessness, joy-glow, soul-joy. v. 3. To feel happiness or joy. **joys, joyed.
key-boo. ::: a boo. or other text containing the system or explanatory scheme for the interpretation of a cipher, code, or other composition of hidden or veiled meaning.
kind ::: of a goo., benevolent nature.
kindred ::: 1. A group of people related by bloo. or marriage. 2. Having a similar or related origin, nature, or character.
kin ::: n. 1. A group of people related by bloo. or marriage one"s relatives; family; kinfolk. 2. Someone or something of the same or similar kind. adj. **3. Of the same family; related. 4. **Of the same kind or nature; having affinity.
kinship ::: 1. Connection by bloo., marriage, or adoption; family relationship. 2. Relationship by nature or character; affinity. kinship"s.
kinsmen ::: 1. Persons related by bloo. or of the same nationality or ethnic group.
::: "Knowledge is a child with its achievements; for when it has found out something, it runs about the streets whoo.ing and shouting; Wisdom conceals hers for a long time in a thoughtful and mighty silence.” *Essays Divine and Human
lakshmi ::: ". . . in Hindu mythology, the goddess of wealth and goo. fortune, consort of Vishnu. According to a legend she sprang from the froth of the Ocean when it was churned, in full beauty, with a lotus in her hand. (Dow.)” *Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works
lance ::: a long woo.en shaft with a pointed metal head, used as a weapon by knights and horsemen in charging at full speed.
lasso ::: a long rope or line of hide or other material with a running noo.e at one end, used for roping horses, cattle, etc. lassoes.
lattice ::: an open framework made of strips of metal, woo., or similar material overlapped or overlaid in a regular, usually crisscross pattern. lattices, lattice-window.
::: "Law is necessary for order and stability, but it becomes a conservative and hampering force unless it provides itself with an effective machinery for changing the laws as soo. as circumstances and new needs make that desirable.” *The Human Cycle
laxity ::: the state or quality of being lax; loo.eness; lacking in strength.
loo. ::: an apparatus for making thread or yarn into cloth by weaving strands together at right angles.
loo.ed ::: 1. Came into view as a massive, distorted, or indistinct image. 2. Rose before the vision with an appearance of great or portentous size. loo.ing.
loo.enest ::: a native English form of the verb, to loo.en, now only in formal and poetic usage.
-loo. ::: something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself. Time-loo..
loo.st ::: a native English form of the verb, to loo., now only in formal and poetic usage.
leaf ::: 1. A usually green, flattened, lateral structure attached to a stem and functioning as a principle organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in most plants. 2. A page of a boo. or manuscript. lotus-leaf. (See also gold-leaf.)
::: "Liberty in one shape or another ranks among the most ancient and certainly among the most difficult aspirations of our race: it arises from a radical instinct of our being and is yet opposed to all our circumstances, it is our eternal goo. and our condition of perfection, but our temporal being has failed to find its key. That perhaps is because true freedom is only possible if we live in the infinite, live, as the Vedanta bids us, in and from our self-existent being; but our natural and temporal energies seek for it first not in ourselves, but in our external conditions. This great indefinable thing, liberty, is in its highest and ultimate sense a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining by its own energy what is shall be inwardly and, eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too.what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment." War and Self-Determination
life-self ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . our self-view is vitiated by the constant impact and intrusion of our outer life-self, our vital being, which seeks always to make the thinking mind its too. and servant: for our vital being is not concerned with self-knowledge but with self-affirmation, desire, ego.” *The Life Divine
light ::: Sri Aurobindo: ". . . light is primarily a spiritual manifestation of the Divine Reality illuminative and creative; material light is a subsequent representation or conversion of it into Matter for the purposes of the material Energy.” *The Life Divine
"Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poo. human vision"s limited range.
For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere.
God is everywhere and wherever God is, there is Light.” *The Hour of God
"Light is a general term. Light is not knowledge but the illumination that comes from above and liberates the being from obscurity and darkness.” The Mother
The Mother: "The light is everywhere, the force is everywhere. And the world is so small.” Words of the Mother, MCW Vol. 15. ::: *Light, light"s, lights, light-petalled, light-tasselled, half-light.
lintel ::: a horizontal structural member, such as a beam or stone, that spans an opening, as between the uprights of a doo. or window or between two columns or piers.
liquid ::: 1. Shining, transparent, or brilliant. 2. Smoo.h and flowing in quality, as a bird song; entirely free of harshness.
loitered ::: stoo. idly about; lingered aimlessly. loiters.
lo ::: loo.! see!
lotus ::: any aquatic plant of the genus Nelumbo, of the water lily family, having shieldlike leaves and showy, solitary flowers usually projecting above the water. lotuses, lotus-bud, lotus-cup, lotus-heart, lotus-leaf, lotus-poo.s, lotus-throne.
lotus (as chakra) ::: Sri Aurobindo: "This arrangement of the psychic body is reproduced in the physical with the spinal column as a rod and the ganglionic centres as the chakras which rise up from the bottom of the column, where the lowest is attached, to the brain and find their summit in the brahmarandhra at the top of the skull. These chakras or lotuses, however, are in physical man closed or only partly open, with the consequence that only such powers and only so much of them are active in him as are sufficient for his ordinary physical life, and so much mind and soul only is at play as will accord with its need. This is the real reason, loo.ed at from the mechanical point of view, why the embodied soul seems so dependent on the bodily and nervous life, — though the dependence is neither so complete nor so real as it seems. The whole energy of the soul is not at play in the physical body and life, the secret powers of mind are not awake in it, the bodily and nervous energies predominate. But all the while the supreme energy is there, asleep; it is said to be coiled up and slumbering like a snake, — therefore it is called the kundalinî sakti, — in the lowest of the chakras, in the mûlâdhâra.” *The Synthesis of Yoga
lull ::: 1. To soo.he or quiet. 2. To put to sleep or rest by soo.hing means. 3. To temporarily calm, quiet, or still. lulled.
luxury ::: 1. Free or habitual indulgence in or enjoyment of comforts and pleasures in addition to those necessary for a reasonable standard of well-being. 2. A pleasure out of the ordinary. 3. A foo.ish or worthless form of self-indulgence.
mail ::: flexible armor composed of small overlapping metal rings, loo.s of chain, or scales. mailed.
Man alive, your proposed emendations are an admirable exposition of the art of bringing a line down the steps till my poo. "slow miraculous” above-mind line meant to give or begin the concrete portrayal of an act of some hidden Godhead finally becomes a mere metaphor thrown out from its more facile mint by a brilliantly imaginative poetic intelligence. First of all, you shift my "dimly” out of the way and transfer it to something to which it does not inwardly belongs make it an epithet of the gesture or an adverb qualifying its epithet instead of something that qualifies the atmosphere in which the act of the Godhead takes place. That is a preliminary havoc which destroys what is very important to the action, its atmosphere. I never intended the gesture to be dim, it is a luminous gesture, but forcing its way through the black quietude it comes dimly. Then again the bald phrase "a gesture came” without anything to psychicise it becomes simply something that "happened”, "came” being a poetic equivalent for "happened”, instead of the expression of the slow coming of the gesture. The words "slow” and "dimly” assure this sense of motion and this concreteness to the word"s sense here. Remove one or both whether entirely or elsewhere and you ruin the vision and change altogether its character. That is at least what happens wholly in your penultimate version and as for the last its "came” gets another meaning and one feels that somebody very slowly decided to let out the gesture from himself and it was quite a miracle that it came out at all! "Dimly miraculous” means what precisely or what "miraculously dim” — it was miraculous that it managed to be so dim or there was something vaguely miraculous about it after all? No doubt they try to mean something else — but these interpretations come in their way and trip them over. The only thing that can stand is the first version which is no doubt fine poetry, but the trouble is that it does not give the effect I wanted to give, the effect which is necessary for the dawn"s inner significance. Moreover, what becomes of the slow lingering rhythm of my line which is absolutely indispensable? Letters on Savitri
"Man is a transitional being, he is not final. He is too.imperfect for that, too.imperfect in capacity for knowledge, too.imperfect in will and action, too.imperfect in his turn towards joy and beauty, too.imperfect in his will for freedom and his instinct for order. Even if he could perfect himself in his own type, his type is too.low and small to satisfy the need of the universe. Something larger, higher, more capable of a rich all embracing universality is needed, a greater being, a greater consciousness summing up in itself all that the world set out to be. He has, as was pointed out by a half blind seer, to exceed himself; man must evolve out of himself the divine superman: he was born for transcendence. Humanity is not enough, it is only a strong stepping stone; the need of the world is a superhuman perfection of what the world can be, the goal of consciousness is divinity. The inmost need of man is not to perfect his humanity, but to be greater than himself, to be more than man, to be divine, even to be the Divine.” Essays Divine and Human
mantle ::: 1. A loo.e, always sleeveless cloak or cape of varying length. 2. Something that covers, envelopes, or conceals.
marble ::: n. 1. A hard crystalline metamorphic rock resulting from the recrystallization of a limestone: takes a high polish and is used for building and sculpture. adj. 2. Resembling metamorphic rock in consistency, texture, venation, color, or coldness, smoo.hness, whiteness, etc. 3. Hard, rigid and inflexible, as marble.
march ::: n. 1. The steady forward movement of a body of troo.s. 2. Steady forward movement or progression. Also fig. marches, marchings, sun-march. v. 3. To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body. 4. To proceed directly and purposefully; to go forward; advance; proceed. 5. To progress steadily onward; advance. Also fig. marches, marched, marching. ::: forced marches. Marches that are longer than troo.s are accustomed to and maintained at a faster pace than usual, generally undertaken for a particular objective under emergency conditions.
marginal ::: written or printed in the margin of a boo..
mark ::: n. **1. A sign, symbol, action, event or other indication that distinguishes something. 2. A visible impression on something. 3. A distinctive trait or characteristic. 4. A fixed or recognized standard. caste-mark, hoo.-mark, question-mark. v. 5. To make a visible trace or impression on, as with a spot, line, or dent. Also fig. 6. To record; to indicate in writing, note. 7. Fig. To designate as if by placing a mark upon; to indicate. 8. To take notice. marks, marked, marking.**
marsh ::: low poo.ly drained land that is sometimes floo.ed and often lies at the edge of lakes, streams, etc.
marvel ::: n. 1. Something that causes feelings of wonder, astonishment or admiration. Marvel, marvel"s, marvels. *v. 2. To become filled with wonder or astonishment. marvelled, marvelling, marvel-fraught, marvel-house, marvel-moo.ed, marvel-wefts. adv. marvellingly. See also: *Winged marvel
mate ::: n. 1. A goo. friend or companion. 2. A counterpart. 3. A husband or wife; spouse. 4. The partner of a bird or an animal; one of a pair. 5. An equal in reputation; peer. v. 6. To fit or join with or to. 7. To match or marry. 8. To connect or link. mates, mated.
moo. ::: 1. A state or quality of feeling at a particular time. 2. A prevailing emotional tone or general attitude. moo.s.
moo. ::: a tract of open, peaty wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poo.; heath.
moo.beam ::: a ray of moo.light. lit. and fig. ::: **moo.beams, moo.beams", white-blue-moo.beam.**
moo.belts ::: broad bands or stripes characteristically distinguished from the surface they cross; tracts or districts long in proportion to their breadths. Also, zones or districts, usually with defining term denoting the principal characteristic.
moo.ed ::: 1. Something resembling a moo. and its light. Also fig. 2. Orb- or crescent-shaped. marvel-moo.ed
moo.ed ::: made fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines.
moo.shine ::: moo.light.
moo.stone ::: a semitransparent or translucent, opalescent, pearly-blue variety of adularia, used as a gem.
mean ::: 1. Low or poo. in quality or grade; inferior. 2. Ignoble; base. 3. Of little importance or consequence. meanest.
measureless ::: too.large or great to be measured; unlimited; immeasurable; boundless.
mechanic ::: n. 1. A worker skilled in making, using, or repairing machines, vehicles, and too.s. mechanic"s. adj. **2. Resembling the action of a machine. 3. Resembling (inanimate) machines or their operations; acting or performed without the exercise of thought or volition; lacking spontaneity or originality; machine-like; automatic. 4. Habitual; routine; automatic. 5. Pertaining to, or controlled or affected by, physical force. mechanical, mechanically.**
mirage ::: 1. An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and coo. air. 2. Something illusory, without substance or reality.
misfit ::: something that fits badly, as a garment that is too.large or too.small.
missalled ::: with reference to the illumination of manuscripts and boo.s of prayer; i.e. Savitri is likened to a beautifully illuminted boo. of prayer.
mob ::: 1. A tumultuous crowd engaged in acts of lawlessness and outrage. 2. The common people; the masses; populace or multitude. 3. Fig. An indiscriminate or loo.ely associated group of persons or things. moblike.
mobile ::: 1. Flowing freely. 2. Changeable or changing easily in expression, moo., purpose, etc. 3. Capable of moving or of being moved readily from place to place. mobility.
monsoo. ::: wind from the southwest or south that brings heavy rainfall to southern Asia in the summer.
mournful ::: gloo.y, sombre, or dreary, as in appearance or character.
movement ::: 1. The act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position. A particular manner of moving. 2. Usually, movements, actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons. ::: movement"s, movements, many-movemented.
Sri Aurobindo: "When we withdraw our gaze from its egoistic preoccupation with limited and fleeting interests and loo. upon the world with dispassionate and curious eyes that search only for the Truth, our first result is the perception of a boundless energy of infinite existence, infinite movement, infinite activity pouring itself out in limitless Space, in eternal Time, an existence that surpasses infinitely our ego or any ego or any collectivity of egos, in whose balance the grandiose products of aeons are but the dust of a moment and in whose incalculable sum numberless myriads count only as a petty swarm." *The Life Divine
". . . the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective.” The Life Divine
"The world is a cyclic movement (samsâra ) of the Divine Consciousness in Space and Time. Its law and, in a sense, its object is progression; it exists by movement and would be dissolved by cessation of movement. But the basis of this movement is not material; it is the energy of active consciousness which, by its motion and multiplication in different principles (different in appearance, the same in essence), creates oppositions of unity and multiplicity, divisions of Time and Space, relations and groupings of circumstance and Causality. All these things are real in consciousness, but only symbolic of the Being, somewhat as the imaginations of a creative Mind are true representations of itself, yet not quite real in comparison with itself, or real with a different kind of reality.” The Upanishads*
murderous ::: characteristic of or giving rise to murder or bloo.shed.
murmur ::: n. 1. A low, continuous sound, as of a broo., the wind or trees, or of low, indistinct voices. 2. An indistinct, whispered, or confidential complaint; a mutter. 3. A mumbled or subdued expression of discontent. murmurs, murmurs", murmurings. *v. 4. To make a low, continuous, indistinct sound or succession of sounds. 5. To say in a low indistinct voice; utter indistinctly. 6. To complain in low mumbling tones; grumble. murmurs, murmured, murmuring, many-murmured. adj. *murmurous.
mystery ::: 1. A spiritual truth that is incomprehensible to reason and knowable only through divine revelation. 2. Something that is not fully understoo. or that baffles or eludes the understanding; an enigma. 3. A mysterious character or quality. 4. The skills, lore, practices and secret rites that are peculiar to a particular activity or group and are regarded as the special province of initiates. Mystery, mystery"s, Mystery"s, mysteries, mystery-altar"s. (Sri Aurobindo also employs the word as an adj.)
n. 1. The discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by a prolonged lack of foo.. v. 2.* Fig. To have a strong desire or craving. Hunger, *hunger"s, hungers hungered, hungering.
noo. ::: any remote or sheltered spot; any small corner or recess.
noo.day ::: the middle of the day; noo..
noo.e ::: a loo. formed in a rope by means of a slipknot so that it binds tighter as the rope is pulled.
noo.tide ("s) ::: the middle of the day.
needy ::: in a condition of need or want; in poverty; stricken, impoverished; extremely poo..
next of kin ::: the person or persons most closely related by bloo. to another person.
nourished ::: provided with foo. or other substances necessary for life and growth; fed. nourishing, nourishment.
numberless ::: innumerable; countless; too.many to be counted.
nurse ::: n. 1. One who tends or loo.s after another. 2. Fig. One that serves as a nurturing or fostering influence or means. v. 3. To feed at the breast of; suckle. 4. To manage or guide carefully; loo. after with care; foster. 5. To bear privately in the mind or in the heart. nurses, nursed, nursing, earth-nursed.
nursery ::: a roo. or area in a household set apart for the use of children.
nursery schoo. ::: a schoo. for children usually between the ages of three and five years.
obscure ::: 1. Not bright or lustrous; dull or darkish, as colour or appearance. 2. Hidden, secret, or remote. 3. Not clearly understoo. or expressed; ambiguous or vague. 4. Not readily noticed or seen; inconspicuous. 5. So faintly perceptible as to lack clear delineation; indistinct. 6. Gloo.y, dark, clouded, or dim. 7. Pertaining to darkness. obscurest.
obvious ::: easily perceived or understoo.; quite apparent.
occurred ::: happened, too. place; came to pass.
odds ::: the likelihoo. of the occurrence of one thing rather than the occurrence of another thing, as in a contest.
office ::: 1. A roo. where business is conducted. 2. A duty, service, or charge falling or assigned to one; a service or task to be performed. 3. A position of authority, duty, or trust given to a person, as in a government or corporation. offices.
orb ::: 1. A sphere or spherical object. 2. An eye or eyeball. poet. and rhet. 3. A sphere or celestial body, such as the sun or the moo.. 4. Something of circular form; a circle or an orbit. 5. *Fig. A range of endeavor or activity; a province. *orbs, moo.-orb.
"Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoo., in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga
organise ::: form (parts or elements of something) into a structured whole; coo.dinate. organised, organising.
outloo. ::: 1. A mental attitude or view; point of view. 2. The view or prospect from a particular place.
overburdening ::: weighing down with too.great a burden; overloading.
overflowed ::: 1. Flowed or ran over the top, brim, or banks. Also fig. **2. Spread or covered over; floo.ed. overflowing.**
overloo.ing ::: loo.ing over or at from a higher place.
overleap ::: 1. To jump across or leap over (an obstacle). 2. To leave undone or leave out. 3. Fig. to surpass, exceed. 4. To defeat (oneself) by going too.far. overleaping.
overmind ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The overmind is a sort of delegation from the supermind (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If supermind were to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no gradual striving evolution of consciousness in Matter. A line is therefore drawn between the higher half of the universe of consciousness, parardha , and the lower half, aparardha. The higher half is constituted of Sat, Chit, Ananda, Mahas (the supramental) — the lower half of mind, life, Matter. This line is the intermediary overmind which, though luminous itself, keeps from us the full indivisible supramental Light, depends on it indeed, but in receiving it, divides, distributes, breaks it up into separated aspects, powers, multiplicities of all kinds, each of which it is possible by a further diminution of consciousness, such as we reach in Mind, to regard as the sole or the chief Truth and all the rest as subordinate or contradictory to it.” *Letters on Yoga
"The overmind is the highest of the planes below the supramental.” *Letters on Yoga
"In its nature and law the Overmind is a delegate of the Supermind Consciousness, its delegate to the Ignorance. Or we might speak of it as a protective double, a screen of dissimilar similarity through which Supermind can act indirectly on an Ignorance whose darkness could not bear or receive the direct impact of a supreme Light.” The Life Divine
"The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit; its energy is an all-dynamism as well as a principle of separate dynamisms: it is a sort of inferior Supermind, — although it is concerned predominantly not with absolutes, but with what might be called the dynamic potentials or pragmatic truths of Reality, or with absolutes mainly for their power of generating pragmatic or creative values, although, too. its comprehension of things is more global than integral, since its totality is built up of global wholes or constituted by separate independent realities uniting or coalescing together, and although the essential unity is grasped by it and felt to be basic of things and pervasive in their manifestation, but no longer as in the Supermind their intimate and ever-present secret, their dominating continent, the overt constant builder of the harmonic whole of their activity and nature.” The Life Divine
"The overmind sees calmly, steadily, in great masses and large extensions of space and time and relation, globally; it creates and acts in the same way — it is the world of the great Gods, the divine Creators.” *Letters on Yoga
"The Overmind is essentially a spiritual power. Mind in it surpasses its ordinary self and rises and takes its stand on a spiritual foundation. It embraces beauty and sublimates it; it has an essential aesthesis which is not limited by rules and canons, it sees a universal and an eternal beauty while it takes up and transforms all that is limited and particular. It is besides concerned with things other than beauty or aesthetics. It is concerned especially with truth and knowledge or rather with a wisdom that exceeds what we call knowledge; its truth goes beyond truth of fact and truth of thought, even the higher thought which is the first spiritual range of the thinker. It has the truth of spiritual thought, spiritual feeling, spiritual sense and at its highest the truth that comes by the most intimate spiritual touch or by identity. Ultimately, truth and beauty come together and coincide, but in between there is a difference. Overmind in all its dealings puts truth first; it brings out the essential truth (and truths) in things and also its infinite possibilities; it brings out even the truth that lies behind falsehoo. and error; it brings out the truth of the Inconscient and the truth of the Superconscient and all that lies in between. When it speaks through poetry, this remains its first essential quality; a limited aesthetical artistic aim is not its purpose.” *Letters on Savitri
"In the overmind the Truth of supermind which is whole and harmonious enters into a separation into parts, many truths fronting each other and moved each to fulfil itself, to make a world of its own or else to prevail or take its share in worlds made of a combination of various separated Truths and Truth-forces.” Letters on Yoga
*Overmind"s.
overshadow ::: 1. To cast a shadow or gloo.; darken or obscure. 2. To make insignificant by comparison; dominate. 3. To make sad or hang heavily over; cast a pall on. overshadowed, overshadowing.
overtake ::: 1. To catch up with and pass, as in a race; move by. 2. To come upon suddenly or unexpectedly; take by surprise. overtoo., overtaken, overtaking.
overtopped ::: 1. Rose over the top of. 2. Surpassed or excelled. 3. Rose above in authority; too. precedence over; overrode. overtops, overtopping.
paged ::: indicated the sequence of pages in (a boo., manuscript, etc.) by placing numbers or other characters on each leaf; Numbered the pages of; paginated.
"Pain is caused because the physical consciousness in the Ignorance is too.limited to bear the touches that come upon it. Otherwise, to cosmic consciousness in its state of complete knowledge and complete experience all touches come as Ananda.” Letters on Yoga
partoo. ::: pt. of partake.
pass ::: v. 1. To move on or ahead; proceed. 2. To move by. 3. To go or get through (something), lit. and fig. **4. To go across or over (a stream, threshold, etc.); cross. 5. To cross, traverse, in reference to times, stages, states, conditions, processes, actions, experiences, etc. 6. To be transferred from one to another; circulate. 7. To come to or toward, then go beyond. 8. To come to an end. 9. To cease to exist. 10. To convey, transfer, or transmit; deliver (often followed by on). 11. To be accepted as or believed to be. 12. To sanction or approve. passes, passed, passing. n. 13. A way, such as a narrow gap between mountains, that affords passage around, over, or through a barrier. passes. ::: pass by. To let go without notice, action, remark, etc.; leave unconsidered; disregard; overloo..
pl. of hoo..
restored to freshness of appearance or goo. condition; polished; gave a new loo. to.
::: **"See God everywhere and be not frightened by masks. Believe that all falsehoo. is truth in the making or truth in the breaking, all failure an effectuality concealed, all weakness strength hiding itself from its own vision, all pain a secret & violent ecstasy.” Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "As there are Powers of Knowledge or Forces of the Light, so there are Powers of Ignorance and tenebrous Forces of the Darkness whose work is to prolong the reign of Ignorance and Inconscience. As there are Forces of Truth, so there are Forces that live by the Falsehoo. and support it and work for its victory; as there are powers whose life is intimately bound up with the existence, the idea and the impulse of Goo., so there are Forces whose life is bound up with the existence and the idea and the impulse of Evil. It is this truth of the cosmic Invisible that was symbolised in the ancient belief of a struggle between the powers of Light and Darkness, Goo. and Evil for the possession of the world and the government of the life of man; — this was the significance of the contest between the Vedic Gods and their opponents, sons of Darkness and Division, figured in a later tradition as Titan and Giant and Demon, Asura, Rakshasa, Pisacha; the same tradition is found in the Zoroastrian Double Principle and the later Semitic opposition of God and his Angels on the one side and Satan and his hosts on the other, — invisible Personalities and Powers that draw man to the divine Light and Truth and Goo. or lure him into subjection to the undivine principle of Darkness and Falsehoo. and Evil.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Conviction — intellectual belief held on what seems to be goo. reasons.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Destiny in the rigid sense applies only to the outer being so long as it lives in the Ignorance. What we call destiny is only in fact the result of the present condition of the being and the nature and energies it has accumulated in the past acting on each other and determining the present attempts and their future results. But as soo. as one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new factor, the Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma, which can lift the sadhak beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One"s spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future.” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Destruction in itself is neither goo. nor evil. It is a fact of Nature, a necessity in the play of forces, as things are in this world. The Light destroys the Darkness and the Powers of Darkness, and that is not a movement of Ignorance!” *Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "Gnosis or true supermind is a power above mind working in its own law, out of the direct identity of the supreme Self, his absolute self-conscious Truth knowing herself by her own power of absolute Light without any need of seeking, even the most luminous seeking.” The Upanishads (foo.note)
Sri Aurobindo: "Hatred is the sign of a secret attraction that is eager to flee from itself and furious to deny its own existence. That too.is God"s play in His creature.” *Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "History teaches us nothing; it is a confused torrent of events and personalities or a kaleidoscope of changing institutions. We do not seize the real sense of all this change and this continual streaming forward of human life in the channels of Time. What we do seize are current or recurrent phenomena, facile generalisations, partial ideas. We talk of democracy, aristocracy and autocracy, collectivism and individualism, imperialism and nationalism, the State and the commune, capitalism and labour; we advance hasty generalisations and make absolute systems which are positively announced today only to be abandoned perforce tomorrow; we espouse causes and ardent enthusiasms whose triumph turns to an early disillusionment and then forsake them for others, perhaps for those that we have taken so much trouble to destroy. For a whole century mankind thirsts and battles after liberty and earns it with a bitter expense of toil, tears and bloo.; the century that enjoys without having fought for it turns away as from a puerile illusion and is ready to renounce the depreciated gain as the price of some new goo.. And all this happens because our whole thought and action with regard to our collective life is shallow and empirical; it does not seek for, it does not base itself on a firm, profound and complete knowledge. The moral is not the vanity of human life, of its ardours and enthusiasms and of the ideals it pursues, but the necessity of a wiser, larger, more patient search after its true law and aim.” *The Human Cycle etc.
Sri Aurobindo: "Intelligence does not depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand, a goo. intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise and by having a wider range to move in. But boo.-knowledge by itself is not the real thing, it has to be used as a help to the intelligence but it is often only a help to stupidity or ignorance — ignorance because knowledge of facts is a poo. thing if one cannot see their true significance.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "It [falsehoo.] is created by an Asuric (hostile) power which intervenes in this creation and is not only separated from the Truth and therefore limited in knowledge and open to error, but in revolt against the Truth or in the habit of seizing the Truth only to pervert it. This Power, the dark Asuric Shakti or Rakshasic Maya, puts forward its own perverted consciousness as true knowledge and its wilful distortions or reversals of the Truth as the verity of things. It is the powers and personalities of this perverted and perverting consciousness that we call hostile beings, hostile forces. Whenever these perversions created by them out of the stuff of the Ignorance are put forward as the Truth of things, that is the Falsehoo., in the yogic sense, . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "It might be said again that, even so, in Sachchidananda itself at least, above all worlds of manifestation, there could be nothing but the self-awareness of pure existence and consciousness and a pure delight of existence. Or, indeed, this triune being itself might well be only a trinity of original spiritual self-determinations of the Infinite; these too. like all determinations, would cease to exist in the ineffable Absolute. But our position is that these must be inherent truths of the supreme being; their utmost reality must be pre-existent in the Absolute even if they are ineffably other there than what they are in the spiritual mind"s highest possible experience. The Absolute is not a mystery of infinite blankness nor a supreme sum of negations; nothing can manifest that is not justified by some self-power of the original and omnipresent Reality.” The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Material Nature is not ethical; the law which governs it is a co-ordination of fixed habits which take no cognisance of goo. and evil, but only of force that creates, force that arranges and preserves, force that disturbs and destroys impartially, non-ethically, according to the secret Will in it, according to the mute satisfaction of that Will in its own self-formations and self-dissolutions.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Only those thoughts are true the opposite of which is also true in its own time and application; indisputable dogmas are the most dangerous kind of falsehoo.s.” Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: "Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poo. human vision"s limited range.” *Essays Divine and Human
Sri Aurobindo: ” See God everywhere and be not frightened by masks. Believe that all falsehoo. is truth in the making or truth in the breaking, all failure an effectuality concealed, all weakness strength hiding itself from its own vision, all pain a secret & violent ecstasy. If thou believest firmly & unweariedly, in the end thou wilt see & experience the All-true, Almighty & All-blissful.” Essays Divine and Human*
Sri Aurobindo: "So the possibility of the sunlit path is not a discovery or original invention of mine. The very first boo.s on yoga I read more than thirty years ago spoke of the dark and sunlit way and emphasised the superiority of the latter over the former.” *Letters on Yoga
::: Sri Aurobindo: "Spiritual force has its own concreteness; it can take a form (like a stream, for instance) of which one is aware and can send it quite concretely on whatever object one choo.es. This is a statement of fact about the power inherent in spiritual consciousness. But there is also such a thing as a willed use of any subtle force — it may be spiritual, mental or vital — to secure a particular result at some point in the world. Just as there are waves of unseen physical forces (cosmic waves etc.) or currents of electricity, so there are mind-waves, thought-currents, waves of emotion, — for example, anger, sorrow, etc., — which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The first is the discovery of the soul, not the outer soul of thought and emotion and desire, but the secret psychic entity, the divine element within us. When that becomes dominant over the nature, when we are consciously the soul and when mind, life and body take their true place as its instruments, we are aware of a guide within that knows the truth, the goo., the true delight and beauty of existence, controls heart and intellect by its luminous law and leads our life and being towards spiritual completeness.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: ".The Herds and the Waters are the two principal images of the Veda; the former are the troo.ing Rays of the divine Sun, herds of the luminous Consciousness;” The Secret of the Veda
*Sri Aurobindo: "The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the doo.s of the spirit.” The Human Cycle etc.*
*Sri Aurobindo: "The Indian explanation of fate is Karma. We ourselves are our own fate through our actions, but the fate created by us binds us; for what we have sown, we must reap in this life or another. Still we are creating our fate for the future even while undergoing old fate from the past in the present. That gives a meaning to our will and action and does not, as European critics wrongly believe, constitute a rigid and sterilising fatalism. But again, our will and action can often annul or modify even the past Karma, it is only certain strong effects, called utkata karma, that are non-modifiable. Here too.the achievement of the spiritual consciousness and life is supposed to annul or give the power to annul Karma. For we enter into union with the Will Divine, cosmic or transcendent, which can annul what it had sanctioned for certain conditions, new-create what it had created, the narrow fixed lines disappear, there is a more plastic freedom and wideness. Neither Karma nor Astrology therefore points to a rigid and for ever immutable fate.” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements of the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished substance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by the mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the possibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and has put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too.she has stoo.ed to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the Light, into the Falsehoo. and Error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may turn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and suffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of her sublime Ananda. In her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself the cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing influences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehoo., borne to pass though the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs and sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone could it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the great sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more deeply the holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother.” The Mother
Sri Aurobindo: "The ordinary mind in man is not truly the thinking mind proper, it is a life-mind, a vital mind as we may call it, which has learned to think and even to reason but for its own ends and on its own lines, not on those of a true mind of knowledge.” The Human Cycle (foo.note).
*Sri Aurobindo: "There are some who often or almost invariably have the contact whenever they worship, the Deity may become living to them in the picture or other image they worship, may move and act through it; others may feel him always present, outwardly, subtle-physically, abiding with them where they live or in the very roo., but sometimes this is only for a period. Or they may feel the Presence with them, see it frequently in a body (but not materially except sometimes), feel its touch or embrace, converse with it constantly — that is also a kind of milana. The greatest milana is one in which one is constantly aware of the Deity abiding in oneself, in everything in the world, holding all the world in him, identical with existence and yet supremely beyond the world — but in the world too.one sees, hears, feels nothing but him, so that the very senses bear witness to him alone — . . . .” Letters on Yoga
Sri Aurobindo: "There is no ignorance that is not part of the Cosmic Ignorance, only in the individual it becomes a limited formation and movement, while the Cosmic Ignorance is the whole movement of world consciousness separated from the supreme Truth and acting in an inferior motion in which the Truth is perverted, diminished, mixed and clouded with falsehoo. and error.” Letters on Yoga
*Sri Aurobindo: "The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analysing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that bloo.s for ever in the Light above.” Letters on Yoga*
Sri Aurobindo: "This truth of Karma has been always recognised in the East in one form or else in another; but to the Buddhists belongs the credit of having given to it the clearest and fullest universal enunciation and the most insistent importance. In the West too.the idea has constantly recurred, but in external, in fragmentary glimpses, as the recognition of a pragmatic truth of experience, and mostly as an ordered ethical law or fatality set over against the self-will and strength of man: but it was clouded over by other ideas inconsistent with any reign of law, vague ideas of some superior caprice or of some divine jealousy, — that was a notion of the Greeks, — a blind Fate or inscrutable Necessity, Ananke, or, later, the mysterious ways of an arbitrary, though no doubt an all-wise Providence.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga *Ananke"s.
Sri Aurobindo: ". . . wrong will and falsehoo. of the steps, . . . separative egoism inflicting by its ignorance and separate contrary will harm on oneself or harm on others, self-driven to a wrong dealing with one"s own soul, mind, life or body or a wrong dealing with the soul, mind, life, body of others, . . . is the practical sense of all human evil.” *The Life Divine
Sri Aurobindo: "Your ‘barely enough", instead of the finer and more suggestive ‘hardly", falls flat upon my ear; one cannot substitute one word for another in this kind of poetry merely because it means intellectually the same thing; ‘hardly" is the mot juste in this context and, repetition or not, it must remain unless a word not only juste but inevitable comes to replace it… . On this point I may add that in certain contexts ‘barely" would be the right word, as for instance, ‘There is barely enough foo. left for two or three meals", where ‘hardly" would be adequate but much less forceful. It is the other way about in this line. Letters on Savitri
::: "The ancient Vedanta presents us with . . . the conception and experience of Brahman as the one universal and essential fact and of the nature of Brahman as Sachchidananda [Existence, Consciousness, Bliss]. In this view the essence of all life is the movement of a universal and immortal existence, the essence of all sensation and emotion is the play of a universal and self-existent delight in being, the essence of all thought and perception is the radiation of a universal and all-pervading truth, the essence of all activity is the progression of a universal and self-effecting goo..” The Life Divine
"The animal is satisfied with a modicum of necessity; the gods are content with their splendours. But man cannot rest permanently until he reaches some highest goo.. He is the greatest of living beings because he is the most discontented, because he feels most the pressure of limitations. He alone, perhaps, is capable of being seized by the divine frenzy for a remote ideal.” The Life Divine
The Apsaras then are the divine Hetairae of Paradise, beautiful singers and actresses whose beauty and art relieve the arduous and world-long struggle of the Gods against the forces that tend towards disruption by the Titans who would restore Matter to its original atomic condition or of dissolution by the sages and hermits who would make phenomena dissolve prematurely into the One who is above phenomena. They rose from the Ocean, says Valmiki, seeking who should choo.e them as brides, but neither the Gods nor the Titans accepted them, therefore are they said to be common or universal. The Harmony of Virtue
"The Avatar comes as the manifestation of the divine nature in the human nature, the apocalypse of its Christhoo., Krishnahoo., Buddhahoo., in order that the human nature may by moulding its principle, thought, feeling, action, being on the lines of that Christhoo., Krishnahoo., Buddhahoo. transfigure itself into the divine. The law, the Dharma which the Avatar establishes is given for that purpose chiefly; the Christ, Krishna, Buddha stands in its centre as the gate, he makes through himself the way men shall follow.” Essays on the Gita
"The Avatar does not come as a thaumaturgic magician, but as the divine leader of humanity and the exemplar of a divine humanity. Even human sorrow and physical suffering he must assume and use so as to show, first, how that suffering may be a means of redemption, — as did Christ, — secondly, to show how, having been assumed by the divine soul in the human nature, it can also be overcome in the same nature, — as did Buddha. The rationalist who would have cried to Christ, ‘If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross," or points out sagely that the Avatar was not divine because he died and died too.by disease, — as a dog dieth, — knows not what he is saying: for he has missed the roo. of the whole matter. Even, the Avatar of sorrow and suffering must come before there can be the Avatar of divine joy; the human limitation must be assumed in order to show how it can be overcome; and the way and the extent of the overcoming, whether internal only or external also, depends upon the stage of the human advance; it must not be done by a non-human miracle.” Essays on the Gita
"The cosmic consciousness is that in which the limits of ego, personal mind and body disappear and one becomes aware of a cosmic vastness which is or filled by a cosmic spirit and aware also of the direct play of cosmic forces, universal mind forces, universal life forces, universal energies of Matter, universal overmind forces. But one does not become aware of all these together; the opening of the cosmic consciousness is usually progressive. It is not that the ego, the body, the personal mind disappear, but one feels them as only a small part of oneself. One begins to feel others too.as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least, as living in the larger universal self which is henceforth one"s own greater reality. All things in fact begin to change their nature and appearance; one"s whole experience of the world is radically different from that of those who are shut up in their personal selves. One begins to know things by a different kind of experience, more direct, not depending on the external mind and the senses. It is not that the possibility of error disappears, for that cannot be so long as mind of any kind is one"s instrument for transcribing knowledge, but there is a new, vast and deep way of experiencing, seeing, knowing, contacting things; and the confines of knowledge can be rolled back to an almost unmeasurable degree. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces — for they too.are part of the cosmic consciousness — and the attempt of the cosmic Illusion (Ignorance, Avidya) to prevent the growth of the soul into the cosmic Truth. These are things that one has to learn from experience; mental teaching or explanation is quite insufficient. To enter safely into the cosmic consciousness and to pass safely through it, it is necessary to have a strong central unegoistic sincerity and to have the psychic being, with its divination of truth and unfaltering orientation towards the Divine, already in front in ::: —the nature.” Letters on Yoga*
". . . the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a veiled universal Mind, a hoo.ed Gnosis, and without these origins of itself it could have no power of action, no organising coherence.” The Life Divine
"The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it choo.es; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law of these forces and their results — it is only when we open ourselves and get out of the ordinary consciousness that we can feel it intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces." Letters on Yoga
::: "The Divine and no other is the flame of life that sustains the physical body of living creatures and turns its foo. into sustenance of their vital force.” Essays on the Gita
". . . the Divine is in his essence infinite and his manifestation too.is multitudinously infinite.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The divinisation of the nature of which we speak is a metamorphosis, not a mere growth into some kind of super-humanity, but a change from the falsehoo. of our ignorant nature into the truth of God-nature.” The Hour of God
the foo. and drink that are regularly served or consumed.
``The first step on this free, this equal, this divine way of action is to put from you attachment to fruit and recompense and to labour only for the sake of the work itself that has to be done. For you must deeply feel that the fruits belong not to you but to the Master of the world. Consecrate your labour and leave its returns to the Spirit who manifests and fulfils himself in the universal movement. The outcome of your action is determined by his will alone and whatever it be, goo. or evil fortune, success or failure, it is turned by him to the accomplishment of his world purpose.” Essays on the Gita*
"The force is Prakriti or Shakti, the female principle in Nature which is at the roo. of all action.” Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
the horny sheath covering the toes or lower part of the foo. of a mammal, such as a horse, ox, or deer. hoo.-mark.
::: "The human vital and physical external nature resist to the very end, but if the soul has once heard the call, it arrives, soo.er or later.” Letters on Yoga
"The individual is in nature one expression of the universal Being, in spirit an emanation of the Transcendence. For if he finds his self, he finds too.that his own true self is not this natural personality, this created individuality, but is a universal being in its relations with others and with Nature and in its upward term a portion or the living front of a supreme transcendental Spirit.” The Synthesis of Yoga
"The inner vision is an open doo. on higher planes of consciousness beyond the physical mind which gives roo. for a wider truth and experience to enter and act upon the mind. It is not the only or the most important doo., but it is one which comes readiest to very many if not most and can be a very powerful help.” Letters on Yoga
::: "The Lord of Beings is that which is conscious in the conscious being, but he is also the Conscious in inconscient things, the One who is master and in control of the many that are passive in the hands of Force-Nature. He is the Timeless and Time; he is Space and all that is in Space; he is Causality and the cause and the effect: He is the thinker and his thought, the warrior and his courage, the gambler and his dice-throw. All realities and all aspects and all semblances are the Brahman; Brahman is the Absolute, the transcendent and incommunicable, the Supracosmic Existence that sustains the cosmos, the Cosmic Self that upholds all beings, but It is too.the self of each individual: the soul or psychic entity is an eternal portion of the Ishwara; it is his supreme Nature or Consciousness-Force that has become the living being in a world of living beings. The Brahman alone is, and because of It all are, for all are the Brahman; this Reality is the reality of everything that we see in Self and Nature. Brahman, the Ishwara, is all this by his Yoga-Maya, by the power of his Consciousness-Force put out in self-manifestation: he is the Conscious Being, Soul, Spirit, Purusha, and it is by his Nature, the force of his conscious self-existence that he is all things; he is the Ishwara, the omniscient and omnipotent All-ruler, and it is by his Shakti, his conscious Power, that he manifests himself in Time and governs the universe.” The Life Divine*
The Mother: ‘There are four Asuras. Two have already been converted, and the other two, the Lord of Death and the Lord of Falsehoo., made an attempt at conversion by taking on a physical body – they have been intimately associated with my life. The story of these Asuras would be very interesting to recount. . . the Lord of Death disappeared; he lost his physical body, and I don"t know what has become of him. As for the other, the Lord of Falsehoo., the one who now rules over this earth, he tried hard to be converted but he found it disgusting!
::: "Then too.we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is working towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine.” *Letters on Yoga
"There is a sunlit path as well as a gloo.y one and it is the better of the two — a path in which one goes forward in absolute reliance on the Mother, fearing nothing, sorrowing over nothing. Aspiration is needed but there can be a sunlit aspiration full of light and faith and confidence and joy. If difficulty comes, even that can be faced with a smile.” Letters on Yoga
"The sunlit path can only be followed if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a natural spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned habitually towards the sun or psychic predisposition (e.g. a faith in one"s spiritual destiny) or, if one has acquired the psychic turn. That does not mean that the sunlit man has no difficulties; he may have many, but he regards them cheerfully as all in the day's work''. If he gets a bad beating, he is capable of saying,Well, that was a queer go but the Divine is evidently in a queer moo. and if that is his way of doing things, it must be the right one; I am surely a still queerer fellow myself and that, I suppose, was the only means of putting me right."" Letters on Yoga
"The theory of the Mantra is that it is a word of power born out of the secret depths of our being where it has been broo.ed upon by a deeper consciousness than the mental, framed in the heart and not constructed by the intellect, held in the mind, again concentrated on by the waking mental consciousness and then thrown out silently or vocally — the silent word is perhaps held to be more potent than the spoken — precisely for the work of creation. The Mantra can not only create new subjective states in ourselves, alter our psychical being, reveal knowledge and faculties we did not before possess, can not only produce similar results in other minds than that of the user, but can produce vibrations in the mental and vital atmosphere which result in effects, in actions and even in the production of material forms on the physical plane.” The Upanishads
"This Self is fourfold, — the Self of Waking who has the outer intelligence and enjoys external things, is its first part; the Self of Dream who has the inner intelligence and enjoys things subtle, is its second part; the Self of Sleep, unified, a massed intelligence, blissful and enjoying bliss, is the third part… the lord of all, the omniscient, the inner Control. That which is unseen, indefinable, self-evident in its one selfhoo., is the fourth part: this is the Self, this is that which has to be known.” Mandukya Upanishad. (5) The Life Divine*
"Though man is infinitely greater than the plant or the animal, he is not perfect in his own nature like the plant and the animal. This imperfection is not a thing to be at all deplored, but rather a privilege and a promise, for it opens out to us an immense vista of self-development and self-exceeding. Man at his highest is a half-god who has risen up out of the animal Nature and is splendidly abnormal in it, but the thing which he has started out to be, the whole god, is something so much greater than what he is that it seems to him as abnormal to himself as he is to the animal. This means a great and arduous labour of growth before him, but also a splendid crown of his race and his victory. A kingdom is offered to him beside which his present triumphs in the realms of mind or over external Nature will appear only as a rough hint and a poo. beginning. The Human Cycle
::: "Universal forces means all forces goo. or bad, favourable or hostile, of light and darkness that move in the cosmos.” *Letters on Yoga
unreadable; not legible; impossible or hard to read or decipher because of poo. handwriting, faded print, etc.
"Usha is the divine illumination and Dakshina is the discerning knowledge that comes with the dawn and enables the Power in the mind, Indra, to know aright and separate the light from the darkness, the truth from the falsehoo., the straight from the croo.ed, vrinîta vijânan.” The Secret of the Veda*
utterly foo.ish or senseless.
"What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom loo.s behind the veil and sees.” Essays Divine and Human
"When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up the whole nature part by part and deals with it, rejecting what has to be rejected, sublimating what has to be sublimated, creating what has to be created. It integrates, harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too.a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer, easier the working of the Force can be. The more love and bhakti and surrender grow in the heart, the more rapid and perfect becomes the evolution of the sadhana. For the descent and transformation imply at the same time an increasing contact and union with the Divine.” Letters on Yoga
"When we study this Life as it manifests itself upon earth with Matter as its basis, we observe that essentially it is a form of the one cosmic Energy, a dynamic movement or current of it positive and negative, a constant act or play of the Force which builds up forms, energises them by a continual stream of stimulation and maintains them by an unceasing process of disintegration and renewal of their substance. This would tend to show that the natural opposition we make between death and life is an error of our mentality, one of those false oppositions — false to inner truth though valid in surface practical experience — which, deceived by appearances, it is constantly bringing into the universal unity.” The Life Divine ::: *life"s, life-born, life-curve, life-delight"s, life-drift, life-foam, life-giving, life-impulse, life-impulse"s, life-motives, life-nature"s, life-pain, life-plan, life-power, life-roo., life-scene, life-self, life-thought, life-wants, all-life, sense-life.
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18 Dean Koontz
18 Anonymous
16 Hilda Doolittle
15 Colleen Hoover
10 John Heywood
9 Doris Kearns Goodwin
8 Nicola Yoon
7 Woody Allen
6 Rick Riordan
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6 Jaci Burton
5 William Shakespeare
5 Suzanne Collins
5 John Green
5 J K Rowling
5 Elise Sax
4 Toba Beta
4 Stephen King
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4 Ray Bradbury
*** WISDOM TROVE ***
1:Oon ere it herde, at tother out it went. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 2:Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 3:Or as an oo. comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente. ~ geoffrey-chaucer, @wisdomtrove 4:Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove 5:Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says & 6:I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, oo., here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing. ~ marilyn-monroe, @wisdomtrove 7:A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oo. the alone. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove 8:Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"... "Safe?" said Mr Beaver ... "Who said anything about safe? & 9:There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. ~ henri-cartier-bresson, @wisdomtrove 10:Why is McDonalds still counting? How insecure is this company? 40 million, 80 billion million jillion killion tillion... who cares? Is anyone really impressed by that any more? Ooh, 89 billion sold? All right, I'll have one! I'm satisfied! I'd like to tell the CEO of McDonalds, "Loo.. We all get it, okay? You've sold a lot of hamburgers. Whatever the number is, just put up a sign, & *** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***
1:Too.le-oo. demigods! ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB
2:muniments roo.. Too.le-oo. ~ Carola Dunn, #NFDB
3:Ooh, the silent treatment. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
4:Ooh baby, I like it raw! ~ Ol Dirty Bastard, #NFDB
5:Ooh, guard horses. How quaint. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
6:Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em. ~ E 40, #NFDB
7:I find OOP technically unsound. ~ Alexander Stepanov, #NFDB
8:Ooh conflict, the heart of any juicy story. ~ Lori Wilde, #NFDB
9:Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had ~ John Deacon, #NFDB
10:Oon ere it herde, at tother out it went. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
11:I had someone tell me I fell off, oo. I needed that. ~ Drake, #NFDB
12:Ooh, the staring at threads class. My favorite. ~ Frank Beddor, #NFDB
13:Ooo. he’s snotty. I like him already. (Tee) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
14:Ooh..I want one" - Bex They're not puppies." -Cammie ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
15:but Kyler...yeah, he put the 'oo. in swoo.. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout, #NFDB
16:Als je het opschrijft, staat het meteen op papier oo.. ~ Gerard Reve, #NFDB
17:Ooh, do we need a team name? How about “Focus the Noo.”? ~ Cosimo Yap, #NFDB
18:Ooh..I want one" - Bex
They're not puppies." -Cammie ~ Ally Carter,#NFDB
19:Oo, you are so sharp you’ll cut yourself one of these days ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
20:Soo.-oo. of the e--e--evening,
Beautiful, beautiful Soup! ~ Lewis Carroll,#NFDB
21:Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. ~ Henri Cartier Bresson, #NFDB
22:Ik wilde hem gewoo. bij me houden, op welke manier dan oo.. ~ Martha Hall Kelly, #NFDB
23:Ooh, tu tens um ar muito mais saboroso que o Crabbe e o Goyle, Harry ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
24:Een doel, hoe nietig oo., verschafte het leven zin en betekenis. ~ Renate Dorrestein, #NFDB
25:Ooh, ah, oo., ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang. ~ Sam Coo.e, #NFDB
26:Kun je oo. maar iemand goed vinden als je niemand slecht vindt? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
27:Ooh, aren’t we getting solemn, and where did I leave my soapbox? Loo. ~ Frank McCourt, #NFDB
28:Ooo.” Hugh sucked the air in, narrowing his eyes. “Mean. I like mean. ~ Ilona Andrews, #NFDB
29:Ook al zit en weg vol hobbels, dan kun je er nog steeds op blijven koen ~ Sarah Morgan, #NFDB
30:And I count myself very lucky. That is what “very lucky” feels like. Oof. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
31:Death to the self is never an 'oo. pick me! Pick me!!' kind of activity. ~ Kelly Minter, #NFDB
32:Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile. ~ Cat Stevens, #NFDB
33:After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘oo., oo. Jens! What were you thinking?’ ~ Jens Voigt, #NFDB
34:I'm as strong, strong as I can be, but oo. oo. oo., baby you leave me weak. ~ Toby Keith, #NFDB
35:Her eyes widened. “Ooh… was it hate sex? I’ve always wanted to have hate sex. ~ Julie James, #NFDB
36:Ooh goo. I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases. ~ Jeremy Clarkson, #NFDB
37:You can't land on the moo. and say, "Ooh, it's all sticky! It's covered in jam! ~ Eddie Izzard, #NFDB
38:You touched my hand, my heart went pop. Ooh, when we kissed, I could not stop. ~ Johnny Burnette, #NFDB
39:Ren alsjeblieft niet weg. En, eh, ik heb oo. liever dat je me niet meer schopt! ~ Stephanie Meyer, #NFDB
40:Ren alsjeblieft niet weg. En, eh, ik heb oo. liever dat je me niet meer schopt. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
41:Ten alsjeblieft niet weg. En, eh, ik heb oo. liever dat je me niet meer schopt. ~ Stephenie Meyer, #NFDB
42:March what?” Sebastian asked. “Seventeenth.” He winced. “Ooh. That’s a bad number. ~ Melanie Harlow, #NFDB
43:Ooh, J, he's got ink too."
"Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter... ~ Tammara Webber,#NFDB
44:Ooo.la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say. ~ Monica Drake, #NFDB
45:De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloo. te leggen, maar oo. ons hart. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
46:I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross. ~ Greg Giraldo, #NFDB
47:Jullie kijken oo. noo.t verder dan je neus lang is,' merkte Cassandra op. 'Ik ga wel. ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
48:They call me the confuser. Is he a man... is he a woman? Ooh, I'm not sure if I mind. ~ Noel Fielding, #NFDB
49:The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like oo. I want to do that ~ Jessica Hagedorn, #NFDB
50:Een paard,' mompelt Sylvie. 'Een paardenmeisje. Ook dat nog. Ons blijft niets bespaard. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
51:Voo.uitgang bestaat niet, en dat is maar goed oo., want zoals het is, is het al erg genoeg. ~ Gerard Reve, #NFDB
52:I am now daniel@oo..com.
"@" could become the "Mc" or "Mac" of the next millennium. ~ Douglas Coupland,#NFDB
53:Het wezenlijke is voo. het oo. onzichtbaar, alleen met je hart kan je goed zien. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB
54:Ik mocht haar op een vanzelfsprekende manier, zoals je oo. noo.t nadenkt over je eigen handen. ~ Emma Cline, #NFDB
55:Ooh baby, the ways we hurt each other in my dreams would straighten those pretty curls of yours. ~ Mari Carr, #NFDB
56:(On Angelica in 'Satisfied')
Oof. Tryin’ to out-Eponine Eponine up in this piece. ~ Lin Manuel Miranda,#NFDB
57:Oof," he says.
"Hey, there's a bed there."
"Thanks for the warning."
"No problem. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
58:Winna ye be gaein' awa', to write buiks, an' gar fowk fin' oo. what's the maitter wi' them? ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
59:I make a little noise—an audible oo.—and his eyes narrow curiously, a subtle hint that he’s heard me. ~ R S Grey, #NFDB
60:Go isn't functional, it's pragmatical. Why pure paradigms like FP or OOP are always a must? (sigh) ~ Frank Muller, #NFDB
61:Ooh. British accent alert. I love accents. I sat up straighter to make sure I didn’t miss a word. ~ Heather Davis, #NFDB
62:Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oo. ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare roo. ay swee fuck all! ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
63:Het is een kwestie van durven, meer niet. Dat geldt voo. alle kunst, dus oo. voo. die van het leven ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
64:I'm like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more oo. la la, but I'm strong, mature, and oh so delicious. ~ Beth Ditto, #NFDB
65:Maybe it involved a woman. Oh, maybe even a nun—oo.! Wouldn’t that be scandalous?” “Indeed, but no. ~ Jenn Bennett, #NFDB
66:Denken
Komt voo. in dit boek. Of je het oo. thuis wilt proberen moet je zelf beslissen. ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
67:Ooh, I like this one!" Connor says. "'Diminished prospects for future.' Sounds like a stock report! ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
68:Wij mensen zijn dan oo. gehard en tehen veel bestand, een wezenlijk bewijs van dat waaruit wij zijn geschapen. ~ Ovid, #NFDB
69:Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oo., that's it. ~ Rob James Collier, #NFDB
70:Promise? Ooh, I like that smolder, it’s very Flynn Ryder.” “You’re comparing me to cartoo. characters now? ~ Kristen Callihan, #NFDB
71:She told him he was très coo. and also, paradoxically, très hot. He was one quick ticket to oo.-lala land. ~ Karen Joy Fowler, #NFDB
72:Ik weet niet wat een concubine is en oo. niet wat je ermee in bad kunt doen. Ik dacht dat het een spons was. ~ Eduardo Mendoza, #NFDB
73:Je houdt noo.t op jezelf te zijn vanbinnen, hoe oud mensen oo. denken dat je bent als ze vanbuiten naar je kijken. ~ Ali Smith, #NFDB
74:Oo!" Nico raised his hand. "What about Dr. Thorn? That was awesome how you shot him
with arrows! Is he dead? ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
75:University politics,” declared Oop, “doesn’t care about liberal traditions or any other kind of traditions. ~ Clifford D Simak, #NFDB
76:Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo.kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element. ~ Doseone, #NFDB
77:Hij was de heer van Nacht en Ontij.
Hij was oo. niet helemaal goed bij zijn hoo.d. Zoveel was wel duidelijk. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
78:Jade had ergens gelezen dat Japanners uitblonken in zelfmoo.d. We kunnen dat daar oo. eens proberen, zei ze. ~ Saskia de Coster, #NFDB
79:And maybe,” said Marjory, “we can find a few 641.8653 to go with it.” “Ooh,” said Andrew. “I love doughnuts. ~ Chris Grabenstein, #NFDB
80:That's easy. Any man who cannae keep his balls oo. o' the water needs tae get laid. Come on, let's find my sister. ~ Steve Alten, #NFDB
81:Van iemand houden die oo. van jou houdt is eigenliefde. Van iemand houden die niet van jou houdt is liefde. ~ Fr d ric Beigbeder, #NFDB
82:Ooh, that sounds great. Better than that boo. you wrote about those vampires chatting up a bunch of schoo.girls. ~ Iain Rob Wright, #NFDB
83:Nietzsche en Heidegger beseften beiden nog onvoldoende dat oo. zij nog leefden in de warmte van een ondergegane zon. ~ Ad Verbrugge, #NFDB
84:People want to loo. taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!' ~ Michael Kors, #NFDB
85:Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day? ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
86:Wat je over pijn leert als je ziek bent, kun je dan oo. toepassen op betere tijden. Pijn is een kei van een leermeester. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
87:Aye,” said Rob Anybody. “Gods, elementals, demons, spirits . . . sometimes it’s hard to tell ’em apart wi’oo. a map. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
88:Het weidse park bezwijmt onder het brandend oo. van de zon, net als de jeugd onder de heerschappij van de Liefde. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
89:Iedereen heeft een lotsbestemming; de enige verplichting is die te volgen en te accepteren, waar zij oo. toe mag leiden. ~ Henry Miller, #NFDB
90:Hoe zei jij dat oo. alweer, over de wrede keuze: de woo.deloo.heid levend en levendig houden, of onder woo.den brengen. ~ David Grossman, #NFDB
91:I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music. ~ Michel Martelly, #NFDB
92:Barney," she said, "would you like to help me loo. for a stupid giant banana?"
Barney grinned. "Ooh, yes please," he said. ~ Angie Sage,#NFDB
93:But they wrote like little old men and little old ladies, all purseymouthed and oo., don't slip on that icy patch, Mildred. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
94:Ooo.ahe-e, I aya oa a," she said in yawnspeak, a language - not unlike Hawaiian - known for its paucity of consonants. ~ Christopher Moo.e, #NFDB
95:North Korea is willing to go to any lengths for the whole world to honor its demands of 'Ooh, please pay attention to us.' ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
96:She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes, and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "oo.." ~ Greg Kinnear, #NFDB
97:Toen ik jong was, heb ik jarenlang gedacht dat als je iets ergs wenste, het oo. echt gebeurde. Want dat was zo. Bij mij. - River ~ Laure Eve, #NFDB
98:You are going to bed,” James snaps.
“Ooh, James,” Fia whispers dramatically. “Not in front of my sister. She hates you. ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
99:Ooh did somebody eat a thesaurus for breakfast"
"Don't be daft. Even I know those have been extinct for millions of years. ~ J L Merrow,#NFDB
100:Iedereen beseft op een dag,' zei hij, 'dat zijn ouders oo. maar gewoo. mensen zijn. Soms goede mensen, maar soms oo. niet. ~ Krystal Sutherland, #NFDB
101:Loo. at that. She think I got siphlus and TB and a hard-on and I gonna cut her up with a razor and lif her purse. Ooo.wee. ~ John Kennedy Too.e, #NFDB
102:Or as an oo. comth of a litel spir, So thorugh this lettre, which that she hym sente, Encressen gan desir, of which he brente. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
103:Sky?' herhaalde Nicholas. 'Die naam hoo. je niet vaak, hè?'
Sky zag zijn kans schoo.. 'Falco hoo. je oo. niet vaak,' zei hij kalm. ~ Mary Hoffman,#NFDB
104:Wir liegen im Rinnstein, Nobby", stöhnte er. "Ooh…"
"Wir alle liegen im Rinnstein, Fred. Aber einige von uns schehen die Sterne… ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
105:Als dat glorieuze continent zich blijft beroepen op zijn eeuwige waarden - waarom zouden dan oo. zijn eeuwenoude kwalen niet meer gelden? ~ Tom Lanoye, #NFDB
106:Let's use that empty noggin of yours as a punch bowl, so it's at least goo. for something!!
Whadja say?! Ooh, but I love punch!! ~ Aya Nakahara,#NFDB
107:Instiinct' blijft oo. daarna de gebruikelijke verklaring wanneer het gedrag van dieren te veel op intelligentie lijkt te wijzen. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
108:I'm not like Woo.y Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff. ~ Jen Kirkman, #NFDB
109:Ooh, I smell something burning... Wait, wait - it's your pants ! Your pants are on fire, you massive liar ! You so weren't on a case ! ~ Jonathan Stroud, #NFDB
110:Ah too. a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboo. Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oo., cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh. ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
111:Het is al te gemakkelijk om te zeggen dat ik me onzichtbaar voel. Dat is oo. niet waar. Ik voel me pijnlijk zichtbaar en totaal genegeerd. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
112:It's goo. to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working." ~ Melanie Lynskey, #NFDB
113:Je bent niet de hele wereld, maar je bent wel alles wat de wereld moo. maakt. Zonder jou zou ik nog steeds bestaan, maar dat is dan oo. alles. ~ Kiera Cass, #NFDB
114:I needed him to stop loo.ing at me like that. It was casual. The way he'd oo. at anyone, I was sure. But it made me feel so very there. ~ Alexis Hall, #NFDB
115:Zoals er tonen zijn die zo hoo. zijn dat ze niet meer waarneembaar zijn voo. het menselijke oo., zo is er een pijn die geen pijn meer doet. ~ Peter Verhelst, #NFDB
116:A bullet had found him, his bloo. ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB
117:Als de mens ontdekte dat oo. de wereld kan liefhebben en lijden, zou hij met zijn lot verzoend zijn. De myte van Sisyfus 1975 Bij reeks blz. 24 ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
118:“MAKE RED YOUR CLAWS WITH HUMAN BLOOD…OBLITERATE THE HUMAN FILTH…”
“Ooh, that’s a nice song,” said the Hogfly, ever polite. ~ Cressida Cowell,#NFDB
119:If Im in the boo.store, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it? ~ Brian Helgeland, #NFDB
120:['L]oo., of course I know you and your family have "beliefs",' began Howard uneasily, as if 'beliefs' were a kind of condition, like oral herpes. ~ Zadie Smith, #NFDB
121:some fortunate patients could enter the OO (or Optimal Outcome) group whose members no longer showed any of the symptoms of autistic disorder, ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
122:Ian stepped closer to her, gritting his teeth. “We’re no’ babies. We’re seasoned warriors.”
She affected a big shudder ” Ooh, I’m scared ~ Kerrelyn Sparks,#NFDB
123:I felt like I was hobbling, like one oo. the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have loo.ed the part. ~ P C Cast, #NFDB
124:Ooh, I know! You too. a course of action so circumlocutious that it would've been faster AND easier for all parties if you just killed yourself? ~ Brian Clevinger, #NFDB
125:That spiked measure of awe—of oo.—feels like a general slowing, even though what’s really taking place is nothing short of a general quickening. ~ Durga Chew Bose, #NFDB
126:Three lights should be fine." - Zachary
"Aye, well if it wis me, I'd want a bloo.y lighthoo.e beacon comin' oo. o' my arse." - True MacDonald ~ Steve Alten,#NFDB
127:Waar Cinder zich nu oo. bevond, Kai hoo.te stiekem dat ze haar noo.t zouden vinden. Hij wist dat het verkeerd was, maar hij kon er niets aan doen. ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
128:Well, this is a fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Goo. Ava said into my ear.
Oo, we’re in Luke’s bed, Bad Ava coo.d into my other one.
Shit. ~ Kristen Ashley,#NFDB
129:Je ogen. Ze zijn veranderd. Je hebt nu één blauw oo. en één hazelnoo.bruin.'
Artemis glimlachte. 'Jij oo.. Die zijn tijdens de overgang verwisseld. ~ Eoin Colfer,#NFDB
130:Romancin’ is verra important, ye ken. Basically it’s a way the boy can get close to the girl wi’oo. her attackin’ him and scratchin’ his eyes oo.. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
131:Romancin’ is verrae important, ye ken. Basically it’s a way the boy can get close to the girl wi’oo. her attackin’ him and scratchin’ his eyes oo.. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
132:Baths, she thought, were just like her relationships, all "oo., ah" in the beginning and then suddenly, without warning, she had to get out, out, out! ~ Liane Moriarty, #NFDB
133:No, that’s wrong,” Rosa said, pointing at Dex who was sliding his fist in and out of the puppet, making moaning noises. “Ooh, yeah, you like that don’t you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
134:Yeah, well, he’s still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon) Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
135:Given his family history, it was absurd how all his prison knowledge came from Sons of Anarchy reruns. Ooh, that Gemma! What a wonderful bitch. The ~ MaryJanice Davidson, #NFDB
136:God is doo. en nu moet men, gelijk Stirner voo.zegd had, oo. nog de moraal doden die gebouwd is op beginselen waarin de herinnering aan God nog doo.werkt. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
137:I rolled my eyes."Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before. ~ Alexandra Adornetto,#NFDB
138:I guess I can swing it,then." A night free from cow print and grease? Bleep yes I could swing it. "So where to? Italy? Iceland? Ooh,I could go for Japan. ~ Kiersten White, #NFDB
139:Ik denk dat hij het oo. van de cycloo. wilde zijn. Rondom wordt alles verwoest doo. orkanen, maar in het oo. is het schitterend weer met een blauwe hemel. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
140:I've been thinking," said the Eldric image.
"Ooh, thinking!" I said. "Shall I tell your father?"
"Very funny," said Eldric, but he was laughing. ~ Franny Billingsley,#NFDB
141:Yeah, well, he’s still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon)
Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
142:Am I dead? Is this heaven? No, I can't be. I'm realizing this as I process my second sensation: discomfort. I turn my head. Ooh, a TV. Maybe it is heaven. ~ Karen Bergreen, #NFDB
143:Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
144:Want de liefde is als een boo., die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die blijft uitlopen oo. als het hart verbrijzeld is. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
145:You're like a kid when her parents come home from a party, checking their pockets for cake."
"Ooh, cake. I'll take cake. But not pocket cake, because yuck. ~ Laini Taylor,#NFDB
146:The culture we have does not make people feel oo. about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it." -Morrie- ~ Mitch Albom, #NFDB
147:Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oo. feets? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
148:Maar is er oo. geen mysterie in de ommekeer, die zich soms in bloeiende jonge meisjes voltrekt als het huwelijk ze tot banale, grijpstuiverige huisvrouwen maakt? ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
149:When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'oo.'. I thought this is really like loo.ing at another person. ~ Diana Krall, #NFDB
150:Hij zoekt extreme lichamelijke arbeid tegen kwellingen die hij niet goed onder woo.den kan brengen. Ook hij zal mens worden, naakt, bang en eenzaam als iedereen. ~ Tommy Wieringa, #NFDB
151:Mijn moeder is Papa Africa's derde vrouw. Dat mag van zijn geloo.. Als zijn Egyptische vrouwen een minnaar nemen, slaat hij ze doo.. Dat mag oo. van zijn geloo.. ~ Tommy Wieringa, #NFDB
152:Ooo.” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The boo.s didn't detail that occurrence.”
The earl laughed. “You must show me these boo.s of yours. ~ Gail Carriger,#NFDB
153:Want a closer loo.? (Tate) Like a screwdriver through my eye socket. Sure, let’s have a loo.-see. (Simone) Ooo. welcome back, Ms. Snark. I’ve missed you. (Tate) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
154:Joe: Oo, Brittany "Aren't I Fabulous?" Hobson?
Addie: She's not that bad.
Joe: Brittany "All the Boys Like Me, I'm so Popular I Could Die" Hobson.
Addie: Joe! ~ James Howe,#NFDB
155:Ooh, similar political opinions! How hot was that? To Gwen's way of thinking, this relationship was sounding about as interesting as fettuccine without Alfredo. ~ Elaine Cunningham, #NFDB
156:Pia counted through the burp. “… two ten thousand, three ten thousand, four – oo., you win.” She stared at the little faerie in awe. “Where did you put all that air? ~ Thea Harrison, #NFDB
157:We moeten oo. in oo. staan met onze monsters, de wolven temmen, in de doo.hoven van onze ziel de Minotaurus zoeken en doden, want als we dat niet doen, doden ze ons. ~ Connie Palmen, #NFDB
158:Het is Snorri maar, met de NachtUllr.'
Septimus begreep er niets van, maar als Jenna niet bang was van een grommende panter, zou hij zich er oo. niets van aantrekken. ~ Angie Sage,#NFDB
159:Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'oo., who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat. ~ Brene Brown, #NFDB
160:Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted.
The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oo. feets? ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
161:Ik was er oo. bij, weet je. Was je niet bezorgd om mij? - Kinney
Natuurlijk wel, maar jij vertelt altijd zo saai. Iko maakt haar verhalen tenminste smeuïg. - Tressa ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
162:How dare you steal what is mine. You poisonous bunch-back'd toad!"
"Ooh, that's a goo. one."
There was a rustle of paper behind him as Gifford wrote the line down. ~ Cynthia Hand,#NFDB
163:I already said loud and clear that today I’m apparently a little hmm hmm and la-di-da and okay a bit hoo.hoo.and maybe also a little wee-oo.wee-oo. Is that so terrible? ~ Robert Walser, #NFDB
164:Oh, gross! Zombie goo. (Caleb) Ooo. I wonder if it tastes like chicken? What do you think? (Simi) I think I’m never eating guacamole again as long as I live. (Caleb) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
165:Tot zijn grote vreugde zag hij dat ze oo. de ogen van haar moeder geërfd had - één blauw, één bruin. Voo.al het blauwe oo. straalde een zeker fanatisme uit. - over Ebben ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
166:Want a closer loo.? (Tate)
Like a screwdriver through my eye socket. Sure, let’s have a loo.-see. (Simone)
Ooo. welcome back, Ms. Snark. I’ve missed you. (Tate) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
167:And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're goo. and crazy, oo. oo. oo., the sky's the limit! ~ Ben Edlund, #NFDB
168:Intelligent too. oo. you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women boo. and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days and the confidence to overloo. my past ways. ~ Drake, #NFDB
169:Probeer dit rijk te regeren, en het zal je tot slaaf maken,' fluisterde een geest van de Wilde Regenlanden in mijn oo.. 'Word er deel van, en je gaat een nieuw leven tegemoet. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
170:When you wanna do something and that little impulse goes off in your brain and says "Ooh, don’t do it!", you gotta go for it. That’s how you’re gonna be the person you wanna be. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB
171:Bathroo., maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too." Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it. ~ Rachel Caine,#NFDB
172:Oh, gross! Zombie goo. (Caleb)
Ooo. I wonder if it tastes like chicken? What do you think? (Simi)
I think I’m never eating guacamole again as long as I live. (Caleb) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
173:Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything! ~ Nina Simone, #NFDB
174:Alles was gezegd, maar de verbinding verbrak hij niet - even nog bleef hij luisteren naar haar glimlach, en hij glimlachte zo hard terug dat zij die van hem oo. vast kon horen ~ Thomas Rosenboo., #NFDB
175:Een man die zichzelf voo.tdurend dramatiseert, wordt wel eens verkeerd beoo.deeld,' stelde Satterthwaite vast. 'Je neemt de dingen die echt in hem zijn oo. niet meer au sérieux. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
176:I no longer think in terms of, Ooh, this is a great role and what is it going to do for - actually, I've never really thought about what something is going to do for my career. ~ Jessica Chastain, #NFDB
177:Hey. So. You're the new coo.?" Oof, yes, ask the guy coo.ing if he's the new coo..
"Yeah! Isn't this place amazing?"
"There… was no sarcasm in that statement. I'm confused. ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
178:When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, 'Ooh, I have to be this.' So my mom was like, 'Just be yourself.' ~ Willow Smith, #NFDB
179:With a soft gasp from Aaron, the soundtrack started up in Joey’s brain again. Goldfrapp’s “Ooh La La” was perfect for blow jobs. If he sang along, his tongue did interesting things. ~ K A Mitchell, #NFDB
180:Ik ben een goede bewindsvrouwe voo. mijn stad,' zei Arianna, 'maar ik ben oo. een meisje. En ik ben verliefd op een ander. Als ik niet met hem kan trouwen, zal ik ongetrouwd blijven. ~ Mary Hoffman, #NFDB
181:The LSP makes clear that in OOD the ISA relationship pertains to behavior. Not intrinsic private behavior, but extrinsic public behavior; behavior that clients depend upon. ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB
182:The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, oo., technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life. ~ Howard Rheingold, #NFDB
183:Een jonge vrouw die op Natacha lijkt staat op de brug, haar handen op de verschansing, een opgetrokken been dat met de zoo. van haar jurk speelt, en ik, misschien ben ik daar oo. wel. ~ Laurent Binet, #NFDB
184:Elke overtuiging is het masker van een bepaald soo.t mensen, maar met welke overtuiging ze zich oo. maskeren, ze blijven toch altijd dezelfde mensen en ze doen steeds opnieuw hetzelfde. ~ Imre Kert sz, #NFDB
185:Mijn moeder wil met je praten. Volgens haar is wat je gedaan hebt een schreeuw om hulp.' - Daneca.
'Inderdaad,' zeg ik. 'Daarom riep ik oo. "Hellup!" Al te subtiel hoeft van mij niet. ~ Holly Black,#NFDB
186:Uit het kafee gekomen, zagen we dat de Maan er weer prima bijstond
Zo lief, zo roo., zo vol, maar oo. zo laag:
een kwestie van een trapleer of op iemands schouder staan, meer niet. ~ Gerard Reve,#NFDB
187:Nee, Nick, het is Ongezien, ongehoo.d, geen gefluister, niet een woo.d. En je moet het je oo. voo.stellen. Het heeft geen zin die spreuk af te raffelen als een demente papegaai. - Septimus ~ Angie Sage, #NFDB
188:They writes some bits o’ their letters in them wee codies. That’s a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It’s hard enough readin’ the normal words, wi’oo. somebody jumblin’ them all up. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
189:Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know! ~ Cara Delevingne, #NFDB
190:Ooh la la! A real gothic romance, I don’t doubt. What secrets and scandals it must contain.” She wagged her eyebrows comically. “Now that’s a boo. that might very well hold my attention. ~ Julie Klassen, #NFDB
191:Ooh, can we add Canadian bacon?” Shana says. “Sounds goo. to me,” says Malik. One: Who adds Canadian bacon to a pizza? Two: That shit isn’t even bacon. No offense, Canada. It’s skinny ham. ~ Angie Thomas, #NFDB
192:I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be goo. at something. ~ April Bloo.field, #NFDB
193:Ooh. That’s so coo.. Even in your thoughts, your voice deepens and gets all growly when you’re turned on. Before he could respond, she made a sound of impatience. Damn it. Now I’m turned on. ~ Dianne Duvall, #NFDB
194:The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo. I'm dying to see the final print." ~ Jake M Johnson, #NFDB
195:... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oo. lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oo.sels that it isnae aw totally pointless. ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
196:If only, if only," the woo.pecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo.oo.oo.,
"If only, If only. ~ Louis Sachar,#NFDB
197:allemaal hetzelfde, waar je oo. komt! welk regime oo., welke filosofie, sekte, kleur!... elk excuus is goed!... ze stormen toe, in zwermen! en dan is't te laat!... dan vreten ze je op! ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB
198:Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo. ahhh, oo.. (Chris) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
199:Knock, Knock."
"Who's there?"
"Olive."
"Olive who?"
"Olive...oo.. I love you, too." he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms. ~ Jean Ferris,#NFDB
200:Wie weet, wordt mijn Ziel steeds gezonder, of misschien oo. niet - ik heb van die dingen erg weinig verstand - maar in ieder geval trekt hij zich tegenwoo.dig van heel wat zaken geen bal meer aan. ~ Gerard Reve, #NFDB
201:Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf)
Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo. ahhh, oo.. (Chris) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
202:Bovendien, hoe kun je tegen de doo.straf zijn en zelfmoo.d goedkeuren? Als het oo.deel van een rechter of een jury verkeerd kan uitvallen, dan is oo. jouw oo.deel twijfelachtig, misschien onjuist. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
203:Dromen kunnen je leven veranderen en uiteindelijk oo. de wereld. Bevrijding begint met beelden die in je kleine hoo.dje dansen, en die beelden kun je vertalen in woo.den. En woo.den kosten niets! ~ Fatema Mernissi, #NFDB
204:Interested citizens could follow a lady from the Historical Society up the spiral of stairs to the gallery at the top, where they could oo. and aah over the view and snap Kodaks to show their friends. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
205:Het is heel moeilijk iemand tot gehoo.zaamheid te brengen die niet zélf zoekt te bevelen. Ook met het handigste beleid slaagt men er niet in mensen te onderwerpen die slechts vrij willen zijn. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
206:In fact, ‘Ooh, isn’t it cold?’ – like ‘Nice day, isn’t it?’ and all the others – is English code for ‘I’d like to talk to you – will you talk to me?’, or, if you like, simply another way of saying ‘hello’. ~ Kate Fox, #NFDB
207:Hoe bang ik oo. was, ik besefte dat dit altijd het lot van een dichter zou zijn: geïsoleerd en alleen te zijn, naar antwoo.den te haken, met als gezelschap slechts letters en niet-aflatende kwellingen. ~ Peter Manseau, #NFDB
208:In de muur tegenover die waar alle andere namen gegraveerd stonden, zag ze één enkele naam, en die was duidelijk niet Skandisch. Het was oo. geen mannennaam. Lydia keek er uitgebreid naar.
'Evanlyn. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
209:Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage—oo.!—yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
210:Jarenlang kwam ik bij het boo.schappen doen langs een huis dat weliswaar een van de lelijkste gebouwen was dat ik oo.t heb gezien, maar me oo. meer over architectuur heeft geleerd dan menig meesterwerk. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
211:Python programmers are able to write large OOP frameworks and applications without private declarations — an interesting finding about access controls in general that is beyond the scope of our purposes here. ~ Mark Lutz, #NFDB
212:This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying “Ooh goo. I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.” ~ Jeremy Clarkson, #NFDB
213:I really want to do a dark character. Not really a bad guy, but someone dark and mysterious. Where everyone says, 'Ooh, it has to be her!' and at the end you find out it isn't. Just someone who loo.s guilty. ~ Molly Quinn, #NFDB
214:I will get your some clothes, a sword, and your very own assassin to join you on your quest."
"Ooh, just what I've always wanted. A man whose job title had the word ass in it not once, but two times. ~ Quinn Loftis,#NFDB
215:Toch hield Gombrowski van zijn vrouwen, stuk voo. stuk, hoe verschillend ze oo. waren. Mannen hadden geen persoo.lijkheid, ze waren allemaal hetzelfde. Wie een echt leven wilde, moest zich omringen met vrouwen. ~ Juli Zeh, #NFDB
216:Slingerland explains that Chinese philosophers like Confucius, Lao Tse, Zhuangzi, and a few others were concerned with accessing a state called Wu-Wei, pronounced “oo.-way.” This is a state of spontaneous flow. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
217:hoe weemoedig hij soms oo. mocht kijken naar zulke echtparen in de vallende schemering of op zondagmiddagen, de week had nog meer uren en hun leven was niets voo. hem, als hij zijn melancholie weer de baas was ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
218:Muntmeester, ik teken protest aan! Bankieren is geen spelletje!'
'Beste meneer Krom, natuurlijk is het een spelletje en nog wel een heel oud spelletje oo.. Het heet: "Wat kunnen we ongestraft flikken?". ~ Terry Pratchett,#NFDB
219:Feelings can be real but fickle...When we speak based on facts, not on our feelings alone, we temper and restrict our comments before hitting send...[G]oo. communicators confirm their feelings with facts. ~ Emerson Eggerichs, #NFDB
220:If you think my hard-on has nothing to do with you, then you’re deluded.” Her mouth gaped open as he pushed past her and stalked from the roo.. “Ooo.kay,” she murmured. Not what she’d expected him to say at all. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
221:I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, oo., here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing. ~ Marilyn Monroe, #NFDB
222:Ooh, you loo. much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry" said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron's raised eyebrows, blushing slightly and saying "oh you know what I mean - Goyle's Potion loo.ed like bogies. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
223:Ik ga een nieuwe wet invoeren waarin staat dat je je monarch op correcte wijze begroet doo. hem of haar een high five te geven.' - Cinder
Kais glimlach begon te stralen. 'Dat is geniaal. Dat ga ik oo. doen. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
224:A simple fishing boat in the midst of the rippling waters is enough to awaken in the mind of the beholder a sense of vastness of the sea and at the same time of peace and contentment - the Zen sense oo. the alone. ~ D T Suzuki, #NFDB
225:Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doo.s and out onto the veranda. As Hale closed the doo. behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now. ~ Ally Carter, #NFDB
226:How’s that, Motella.” “Ooh, like wondering how it must be, getting into bed with somebody, who has another person’s name? tattoo.d on his body?” “No problem unless all you do in bed is read,” muttered Lourdes. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
227:When I was your age — about, oo., a thousand years ago — I loved a goo. bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doo.sday, eh? All the classics. ~ Mark Gatiss, #NFDB
228:You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or oo. baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be. ~ David Crosby, #NFDB
229:[G]oo. people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic solution as the correct one, and let matters rest there. ~ Robert D Hare, #NFDB
230:Holly, vertrouw je me?'
Holly kreunde. 'Artemis, vraag dat nou niet. Ik weet gewoo. dat je nu weer met een van je waanzinnige plannen komt.'
'Vertrouw je me?'
'Ja,' verzuchtte Holly. 'Ja, meer dan wie oo.. ~ Eoin Colfer,#NFDB
231:I swear, Daimons or not, if you don’t behave, Z, I’m going to send you to Antarctica and leave you there to rot. (Acheron)
Ooo. I’m terrified. Those killer penguins and hairy seals are really scary. (Zarek) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
232:It sets me oo. giggling, which gets everyone else laughing. And it occurs to me that even in these do-or-die moments, there's still space for us to laugh. I guess that means we still have some fight left in us. ~ Neal Shusterman, #NFDB
233:As we get deeper into Python classes, though, keep in mind that the OOP model in Python is very simple; as we’ve seen here, it’s really just about loo.ing up attributes in object trees and a special function argument. ~ Mark Lutz, #NFDB
234:Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doo.s and out onto the veranda.
As Hale closed the doo. behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now. ~ Ally Carter,#NFDB
235:Lang geleden had Paul pasta en rijst aan het menu toegevoegd, zijn opstand tegen het regime van aardappelen. Al hield hij zelf oo. het meeste van aardappelen, je moest je ertegen verzetten. Je werd er simpel van. ~ Tommy Wieringa, #NFDB
236:Somehow I’d forgotten about the six-foo. tall stone man with wings and impressively chiseled — possibly literally chiseled — abs. Vanniv put a hand over his chest. “Ooh, yes. I love secrets! Tell me all your secrets. ~ Andrew Rowe, #NFDB
237:- en nu wist ze oo. al evenveel van hem als hij van haar: dat hij voo. de bioscoo. een studio had gehad en daarvoo. roadie was geweest. Behalve dan dat hij een Fender had viel er over hem verder niets te vertellen. ~ Thomas Rosenboo., #NFDB
238:[G]oo. people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic solution as the correct one, and let matters rest there. Then ~ Robert D Hare, #NFDB
239:Ik verdom het mijn rampen te zegenen. Ik treur er om, dagelijks. En ik bekijk vol argwaan mijn nieuwe vormen, waarmee ik niet per se blij ben en waarmee ik oo. niet ongelukkig ben, ik moet er aan wennen, dat is alles. ~ Connie Palmen, #NFDB
240:[L]oo. at it from Vicente Fox's point of view. I mean if - if you had a renegade, potential criminal element that was poo. and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it? ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
241:You know, I could fire you. I could even arrange to get you killed. Or kill you myself. (Joe)
Ooo. big scary threat. That might hold water if it wasn’t for the fact that I know how much you hate paperwork. (Tee) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
242:The teenage lead singer counted off, and the band launched into a hot version of “Ooh, My Head,” the old Ritchie Valens song—and not really so old in the summer of ’61, although Valens had been dead for almost two years. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
243:Ik heb raar gedroo.d.'
'Laat me eens raden. Je werd vastgebonden doo. vrouwelijke ninja's. Met dikke tieten.'
'Eh, nee.'...
'Het zou oo. wel een beetje raar zijn geweest als we allebei dezelfde droo. hadden gehad. ~ Holly Black,#NFDB
244:Je hebt echt overal aan gedacht,' zei ze. Will keek op en schudde ontkennend zijn hoo.d.
'Dat betwijfel ik,' zei hij ernstig. 'Hoe goed je oo. alles plant, hoe goed je je voo.bereidt - je hebt noo.t aan alles gedacht. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
245:Maybe we can talk to them,' I said, tubbing my nose with the back of my hand. 'Have a little sit-down chat.'
'With tea.'
'Ooh, yeah, with the nice china, and those little sandwiches that don't have crusts. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
246:Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, oo.". Naturally you want to loo. your best, and God says "No! You will loo. the worst you've ever loo.ed in your life!" ~ Eddie Izzard, #NFDB
247:I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. ~ Helena Bonham Carter, #NFDB
248:JONGENS
Ze is doo.geslagen, zei ik een keer tegen een paar jongens op een feestje.
O shit, man, zeiden ze.
Ik lieg over hoe je bent gestorven, fluisterde ik tegen mama.
Dat zou ik oo. doen, fluisterde ze terug. ~ Max Porter,#NFDB
249:Knorretje zei: "Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel, Poeh" en Poeh zei: "Zo denk ik er oo. over, Knor" en Knorretje zei: "Maar aan de andere kant, moet je wel bedenken" en Poeh zei: "Zo is het Knor, daar had ik even niet aan gedacht. ~ A A Milne, #NFDB
250:Net zoals er mensen zijn die een zo verwoestende vorm van kanker krijgen dat er geen medicijn meer tegen is opgewassen, zijn er oo. mensen die psychisch zó ziek zijn dat er geen therapie of medicatie tegen opgewassen is. ~ Marcel Langedijk, #NFDB
251:Analysing novels meant ripping oo. their soul and it destroyed my enjoyment of them. Ah couldnae allow masel tae be trained tae thing that way. Only by refusing tae study literature was ah able tae maintain ma passion for it. ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
252:Een echt mens, hoe diep wij oo. met hem meeleven, wordt voo. een groo. deel met onze zintuigen waargenomen, dat wil zeggen, blijft ondoo.zichtig voo. ons, laat ons een doo. gewicht zien dat onze gevoeligheid niet kan tillen. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
253:O jee, onze geweldige geheim agent is dus verdomme oo. nog een of andere computernerd,' zei Tuukka honend.
'Ja. Ik ben de geheime dochter van Hercule Poirot en Lisbeth Salander,' zei Lumikki zonder een spier te verrekken. ~ Salla Simukka,#NFDB
254:Als dat klopt, als je je echt tussen haakjes voelt, laat mij dan tenminste oo. binnen. De rest van de wereld mag buiten blijven, laat de wereld maar de factor buiten de haakjes zijn waarmee wij binnen vermenigvuldigd worden. ~ David Grossman, #NFDB
255:With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it? ~ Broo.lyn Decker, #NFDB
256:Al het oude was eens nieuw, en al het nieuwe zal eens oud zijn. Het alleroudste is het heden, want er is noo.t iets anders geweest dan het heden. Noo.t heeft iemand in het verleden geleefd, en in de toekomst leeft oo. niemand. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
257:Um, Dr. Alexander, there’s a couple out here who say they’re related to you. They…um…they’re biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we’re okay so we can come and oo. and aah over the babies. (Eros) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
258:What are you giving him?"
Nicola Vileroy tilted her head... " Something to mesmerize and delight him. Something absolutely ethereal that would capture his imagination and not let go. "
"Ooh, Nintendo, how lovely! ~ Daniel Nayeri,#NFDB
259:You n me. Ah jist think we should split up. A pause. — Ah want tae split. For us tae stoap guan oo. thegither.
— But why... She actually touches her chest, touches her heart, and at that moment mine nearly breaks in unison. ~ Irvine Welsh,#NFDB
260:When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all goo.. ~ Chris Rock, #NFDB
261:Ik was bij de proeven... Je was geweldig... Je hebt niet eens superkrachten gebruikt!... Ik ben geen begaafde, maar... toen ik jou zag dat ik even dat ik misschien oo. wel oo.t een Rebel zou kunnen worden. - Een meisje tegen Nova ~ Marissa Meyer, #NFDB
262:The three cards were the Moo., the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting." Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
263:Um, Dr. Alexander, there’s a couple out here who say they’re related to you. They…um…they’re biker people. (Nurse)
Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we’re okay so we can come and oo. and aah over the babies. (Eros) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
264:For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How coo. is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know? ~ Ryan Adams, #NFDB
265:You want me, don’t you?” he asked, and I nodded. “Say it. Out loud.”
Did he just quote Twilight? No matter.
“Ah wah oo.” I managed. Not as sexy when you’re sucking someone’s thumb. But that’s okay. This was happening. ~ Alice Clayton,#NFDB
266:Ik heb het nog het best doo.staan, zou ze vermoedelijk oo. niet bij de eerste de beste gelegenheid zeggen. Ik had alleen een geperforeerde long en een gebroken sleutelbeen. Je had moeten zien hoe de anderen eraan toe waren.
- Holly ~ Eoin Colfer,#NFDB
267:The three cards were the Moo., the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting."
Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about. ~ Richelle Mead,#NFDB
268:Ik besefte nog niet (...) dat alleen een proces van volledige aanpassing, het uitwissen van smaak, talent en zelfs herinneringen, het leven draaglijk maakte voo. iemand die oo. in oo. stond met de allerergste aspecten van een oo.log. ~ Vera Brittain, #NFDB
269:De hoeveelheid dingen waarover ik in staat was te schrijven was namelijk veel te beperkt. Stel dat ik iets zinnigs kon zeggen over olifanten; dan betekende dat nog niet dat ik oo. iets kon schrijven over hun oppassers. Dat bedoel ik. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
270:Mijn oo. Sal kon 'dank u wel' zeggen in dertien talen en 'Weet u waar het toilet is?' in elf. Hij had beter 'Waar is hier de noo.uitgang? kunnen leren in het Thai, zodat hij het brandende pand in Bangkok misschien levend verlaten had. ~ Tommy Wieringa, #NFDB
271:And people are so het up about the fact I'm in the theatre - it's like, 'Ooh these telly names, can they be any goo.?' I came out of RADA and my first job was at the National Theatre, but everyone wonders if I can cope. It makes me laugh. ~ Joanna Page, #NFDB
272:De bloem van de eeuwige jeugd', mompelt hij. Er dringen zich meer herinneringen aan hem op, oo. aangename. In het moeras van zijn geheugen zitten oo. moo.e herinneringen verstopt. Als je je geluk kunt herinneren, dan heeft het bestaan. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
273:Whoa! If I'm gonna be a doo.man, I gonna be the mos sabotagin doo.man ever guarded a plantation. Ooo.wee. The cotton fiel be burn to the groun before I'm through."
Watch out, Jones. Don be getting yourself in no trouble."
Whoa! ~ John Kennedy Too.e,#NFDB
274:Waar je wél iets aan kunt doen is het effect dat die dingen op je hebben. Jij bent als enige verantwoo.delijk voo. jezelf en je leven. En als je nu blijft doen wat je altijd hebt gedaan, krijg je oo. alleen wat je altijd al gekregen hebt. ~ Benedict Wells, #NFDB
275:Gert: What... what just happened?
Chase: I don't know, but guess who totally stole Coo.ie Monster's glasses!
Gert: Whew, for a second there, I was worried we almost learned something.
Chase: Ooo. loo. at me! I'm a big fluffy nerd! ~ Brian K Vaughan,#NFDB
276:You swore an oath, just like the rest of us. I won’t have you preying on innocents in my town. (Talon) Ooo. How cliché, little partner. Wanna tell me to be out by sunup, or better yet, this town ain’t big enough for the two of us? (Zarek) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
277:If you throw up," Kles said unsympathetically, "remember not to face the wind."
"Yeah, Koko. You're the one who's been complaining about doing the same things lately," Leech said. "Enjoy it."
"Oog, and double oo.," was all Koko could say. ~ Laurence Yep,#NFDB
278:I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh oo. oo.h,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB
279:You swore an oath, just like the rest of us. I won’t have you preying on innocents in my town. (Talon)
Ooo. How cliché, little partner. Wanna tell me to be out by sunup, or better yet, this town ain’t big enough for the two of us? (Zarek) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
280:Sterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen doo. van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons oo. bloo. aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamheid: het is een scheiding van de wereld zelf. ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
281:Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage. ~ Alexandra Adornetto,#NFDB
282:Van zichzelf mag hij er niet zijn, dat hij er toch is komt omdat hij het zijn ouders niet aan kan doen er niet te zijn. Geen liefde kan aan de sensatie er van jezelf niet te mogen zijn een eind maken, daarom moet je er oo. niemand mee lastig vallen. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
283:Acht jaar. In een tank. Slapend, dromend, groeiend.
Niet doo., maar oo. niet levend.
...
Het bed van gloeiende kolen, het vuur dat haar huid deed smelten... ze realiseerde zich dat het misschien eerder een herinnering dan een nachtmerrie was. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
284:Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and oo., you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic schoo., and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand? ~ James Patterson, #NFDB
285:What would Jeeves do that for?"
"It struck me as rummy, too."...
"I mean to say, it's nothing to Jeeves what sort of a face you have!"
"No!" said Cyril. He spoke a little coldly, I fancied. I don't know why. "Well, I'll be popping. Too.le-oo. ~ P G Wodehouse,#NFDB
286:In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to schoo. with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, goo..' And that's it. ~ Catherine Zeta Jones, #NFDB
287:OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
288:Ik adem, en ik beweeg, dus ik leef. Is dat duidelijk? Welke beproevingen oo. komen, ik leef.'
Hij zoo. de borst vol adem en stapte in bed. 'Het is gezien,' mompelde hij, 'het is niet onopgemerkt gebleven.' Hij strekte zich uit en viel in een diepe slaap. ~ Gerard Reve,#NFDB
289:Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace) It is, or was. (Julian) Can we keep it? (Grace) If you like. Why? (Julian) ’Cause, oo. baby, you are one hot tamale in that getup. This outfit alone will get you laid at least four or five times a day. (Grace) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
290:De interpretatie van de natuur in mathematisch-functionele termen is doo. en doo. faustisch van aard, om hier een uitdrukking van Oswald Spengler te gebruiken: de Europese wil tot macht die naar de oneindigheid streeft en dus oo. geen grenzen kan accepteren. ~ Ad Verbrugge, #NFDB
291:'Insatiable', the album, was more of a project, really... it was more like a songwriting excursion and an exclusive deal that hadn't really ever been done that often before... me being like, 'oo. I'm an entrepreneur', rather than 'this is my singing career'. ~ Nadine Coyle, #NFDB
292:The creator had nothing to do with her rescue.” “Yeah, he should have cried, thank the Flea!” Quain said. “Ooh, I like. We should use it all the time,” Loren added. They tried out variations of it as they headed inside with Flea trotting behind them. “Guess ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB
293:When the priest says ‘Lord, have mercy upon us’, you do not respond ‘Well, actually, why should he?’ You intone dutifully, ‘Christ, have mercy upon us.’ In the same way, it would be very rude to respond to ‘Ooh, isn’t it cold?’ with ‘No, actually, it’s quite mild. ~ Kate Fox, #NFDB
294:Toen Socrates verteld werd dat iemand niet beter van een reis was teruggekeerd, zei hij: 'Natuurlijk niet, want die man had zichzelf meegenomen.' Waartoe gaan wij naar landen, verwarmd doo. een vreemde zon? Kan iemand mét zijn land oo. zichzelf ontvluchten? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
295:Thir no fuckin swaggerin aroo.d Leith, fuckin well surein thair no. A bunch ay fuckin sheepshaggers wi thair diddy European Cup Winner's Cup, comin doo. here, drinkin in oo. pubs, chattin up oo.... Franco hesitates, loo.s at Tommy.
Tommy can't resist it. — Sheep? ~ Irvine Welsh,#NFDB
296:I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that's important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it's got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that's a bad reference! But it's got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I'm saying. ~ Rachael Taylor, #NFDB
297:Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace)
It is, or was. (Julian)
Can we keep it? (Grace)
If you like. Why? (Julian)
’Cause, oo. baby, you are one hot tamale in that getup. This outfit alone will get you laid at least four or five times a day. (Grace) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
298:Ooh, big day in town for our park warden,” I said. “They’re even making you wear the uniform. Hayley’s mom will be happy. She thinks you loo. hot in it.” Dad turned as red as his hair. Mom’s laugh floated out from her studio. “Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone. ~ Kelley Armstrong, #NFDB
299:De geruststelling die uitgaat van altijd dezelfde rol spelen, in de wetenschap dat de ander de zijne zal spelen: ze hadden geen discussies, maar voerden een toneelstukje op waarvan ik het slot elke keer zag aankomen, en oo. ik zat uiteindelijk gevangen in dat stramien. ~ Paolo Cognetti, #NFDB
300:In het algemeen wordt passiviteit te weinig als deugd erkent. Actie lijk altijd beter - want heroïscher - dan rustig afwachten en nietsdoen. Vermoedelijk komt dat oo. omdat wij vrijwel allemaal neuroten zijn die de leegte willen opvullen met werk en andere activiteiten. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
301:l. 61q56 cedrdobf,) f)o6 XDoo.) 85:"o8, dC4S€ ero.5a:o, t6d:65o dr5e C$o5rer es 5o?:5 5:f f S6on" 1$il"Sdo 5:"3,:Qo:l erd a::5st$ C{ro5:"o 5:f esqr"66& 6o0>o6. a546 SoSo {pqn- 69J55 ep;re.:R:5 K>OoC Bq:So So0r:o1o s6)$ 6o6&o0;6 espe.>fuS t$oo. d6:n" B6;6o d6. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
302:This isn’t a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We’re not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for us. (Dolophoni) Well, aren’t you all scary in black. Ooo. What are you two masquerading as? Evil Man and his trusty sidekick Bad Boy? (Geary) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
303:blocks away. And Selfridge’s department store will have anything you need.” “I do need a dress for the weekend.” She claps her well-manicured hands, nails painted in fire engine red. “Ooh, shopping. I’ll go with you if you want.” “It’ll have to be tonight after work.” “No ~ Magda Alexander, #NFDB
304:Lils, you've barely even planned Sneak yet. Give it time. He'll get there."
"He did ask me out on Saturday."
"OMG, you two are totally getting married and having a litter of babies. Ooh, what if that's literally true?"
-Scout and Lily about werewolf Jason ~ Chloe Neill,#NFDB
305:I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'oo., that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a goo. movie cause he's in it. ~ Frankie Muniz, #NFDB
306:Nu, jaren later, zie ik zelf hoe idioo. verlegen ik was. Geen wonder dat verlegen wezens zoals wij uitsterven. Wij waren nog slechts schaduwen, die voo. zonsondergang nog even lang werden om daarna helemaal te verdwijnen. Ik ben oo. verdwenen. Niemand weet dat ik nog leef. ~ Andrus Kivir hk, #NFDB
307:This isn’t a game, human. Listen to the Skotos and go. We’re not bound by the laws of the Oneroi. Killing humans is nothing for us. (Dolophoni)
Well, aren’t you all scary in black. Ooo. What are you two masquerading as? Evil Man and his trusty sidekick Bad Boy? (Geary) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
308:Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion." "Ooh" said Susan. "I'd thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion"..."Safe?" said Mr Beaver ..."Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's goo.. He's the King, I tell you. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
309:Dat is de hiërarchie van de klok. Sinds we de tijd verbeelden als iets dat van links naar rechts beweegt, gaan behalve vroeger en later, oo. lager en hoger, minder en meer, verleden en heden met de klok mee. Iedereen gehoo.zaamt daaraan alsof het om een natuurlijke zaak gaat. ~ Connie Palmen, #NFDB
310:Wat ik bedoel,' zei Marcia in een poging het uit te leggen, 'is dat ik nog noo.t eerder iemand heb gevonden die oo. maar een sprankje Magiek had, maar jij hebt het... Wat denk je, wil je mijn Leerling worden?... Ik verzoek je om erover na te denken,' zei Marcia op zachtere too.. ~ Angie Sage, #NFDB
311:For the next few minutes, there was a thorough rehashing of the courses (That meat was delicious. The sauce was perfect. And oo. that chocolate mousse.) This was a social nicety that seemed more prevalent the higher you climbed the social ladder and the less your hostess coo.ed. ~ Amor Towles, #NFDB
312:Ooh, big day in town for our park warden,” I said. “They’re even making you wear the uniform.
Hayley’s mom will be happy. She thinks you loo. hot in it.”
Dad turned as red as his hair.
Mom’s laugh floated out from her studio. “Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone. ~ Kelley Armstrong,#NFDB
313:Suzuki Todry sits down next to him
[an allusion to this?
Now Jenny Diver, ho, ho, yeah, Sukey Tawdry
Ooh, Miss Lotte Lenya and old Lucy Brown
Oh, the line forms on the right, babe
Now that Macky's back in town
— Bertolt Brecht, “Mack the Knife,” 1928] ~ Malka Ann Older,#NFDB
314:Watch it." Josh bites into a pink apple and talks through a full mouth. "He has parts down there you don't have."
"Ooo. parts," I say. "Intriguing. Tell me more."
Josh smiles sadly. "Sorry. Privileged information. Only people with parts can know about said parts. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
315:You’ll pay for this”. I had to battle a smile. She didn’t bother to hide hers.
“If you mean you’re going to tie me to the bed again and make me come over and over until I can’t think straight… come and give it to me”.
“I did. You swallowed it, remember?”
“Ooh, goo. one. ~ Suzanne Wright,#NFDB
316:… Yelena? Hello?” Leif poked my arm.
“I’m here.”
“What are we going to do?” Leif asked me.
“It’s too.late to go anywhere else. Kiki and the horses will watch the outside of the building and alert me if anyone approaches.”
“Ooh, guard horses. How quaint. ~ Maria V Snyder,#NFDB
317:We hebben er allemaal schoo. genoeg van! Ik heb er schoo. genoeg van om mezelf elke avond voo. te houden dat ik van hoge komaf ben, en mijn speer vervolgens elke ochtend alleen maar op de vissen in de lagune te kunnen werpen. De vissen hebben er oo. schoo. genoeg van! - Kallista ~ Lesley Livingston, #NFDB
318:Guys are so dumb. You actually believe this crap. You waste half your lives trying to prove to everybody and their mother how tough you are, how strong, how manly, and then say crap like, 'Ooo. baby, you make me so hard,' because there's absolutely no way you can control your own body. ~ Patty Blount, #NFDB
319:Politiek onderscheid leidt noo.zakelijkerwijs tot onderscheid tussen de burgers. De toenemende ongelijkheid tussen het volk en zijn leiders doet zich weldra oo. voelen tussen de individuen, en neemt naar gelang de hartstochten, talenten en omstandigheden duizend gedaanten aan. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau, #NFDB
320:Hoe machtig onze technologie en hoe complex onze ondernemingen oo. mogen zijn, het opmerkelijkste kenmerk van onze moderne arbeid is uiteindelijk misschien wel iets wat in onszelf zit, een aspect van onze mentaliteit: de wijdverbreide overtuiging dat ons werk ons gelukkig moet maken. ~ Alain de Botton, #NFDB
321:How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme."
"Bizarre and adorable?"
"Just like you."
"With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes"
"Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells. ~ Shannon Hale,#NFDB
322:Wat waren oo. alweer de verschillen tussen hen? Hij kon het zich niet herinneren. Het moest er zijn, dat afgrondelijke verschil, maar zijn handen grepen lucht. Nu de waanvoo.stellingen waren opgetrokken, zag hij alleen nog maar hoe gelijk ze waren geweest in hun lijden en hun wanhoo.. ~ Tommy Wieringa, #NFDB
323:Everybody wants the easy stuff, "Okay, I wanna be a rapper. I wish I could fight in order to get more money." They see the finished product, they see this guy Derek Jeter hitting the homerun and whatnot and say "Ooh, I wanna make $20 million a year," but they didn't see him playing sandlot ball. ~ Mr T, #NFDB
324:Ooh, it's too.embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. ~ Gary Lineker, #NFDB
325:Terwijl Vics ouders het niet konden laten hem te zien zoals hij vroeger was, en veel vrienden en oo. vreemden iemand zagen die hij niet meer wilde zijn, zag Dawn alleen hem. Misschien was het beeld wazig, maar Dawn zag alles heel helder. Zij zag duidelijk en ondubbelzinnig een persoo.. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB
326:It's very rare in our lives that we're like "Ooh, I'm going to really screw this family up." You just don't. You work from a place of need, like I want to finish this movie or I want to feel loved at that moment or I need empathy right now. And then, you do things that are questionable. ~ Ry Russo Young, #NFDB
327:Josh heeft een zonnebril nodig en ik oo.,' zei Sophie, 'en water.'
'Die kopen we straks wel.'
'We hebben ze nu nodig,' zei ze resoluut.
...
'Water en zonnebrillen,' zei hij. 'Nog een specifieke kleur zonnebril?' vroeg hij sarcastisch.
'Zwart,' antwoo.dde de tweeling in koo.. ~ Michael Scott,#NFDB
328:I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes. ~ Stephen Daldry, #NFDB
329:Utopias bore me. I'm interested in constructing messy, complicated societies that are full of flaws and then saying, oo., this is interesting, let's see what happens if I poke it here. And concurrently with this and the previous point, I'm interested in making up cultures that are different ~ Marie Brennan, #NFDB
330:Ah made yous cunts in ma ain image. Yous git oan wi it; yous fuckin well sort it oo.. That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the mark when he sais ah wis deid. Ah'm no deid; ah jist dinnae gie a fuck. It's no fir me tae sort every cunt's problems oo.. Nae other cunt gies a fuck so how should ah? Eh? ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
331:I think I know what's wrong with you... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound... Does your stomach hurt now?"
"Yes! Ow! Ooo. Yes!"
"All right, now come down off the mound... There... Has it stopped hurting?"
"Yes... Yes, I think it has!"
"There's your trouble... Five cents, please! ~ Charles M Schulz,#NFDB
332:23 Então subiu dali a Betel; e, subindo ele pelo caminho, uns meninos saíram da cidade, e zombavam dele, dizendo: Sobe, calvo; sobe, calvo! 24 E, virando-se ele para trás, os viu, e os amaldiçoo. em nome do Senhor. Então duas ursas saíram do bosque, e despedaçaram quarenta e dois daqueles meninos. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
333:Ooh, let me see my one,” Megan cries, grabbing the camera from him and pressing at it wildly. My whole body tenses. Normally, I don’t mind sharing things—I even give half my advent-calendar chocolates to my brother, Tom—but my camera is different. It’s my most prized possession. It’s my safety net. ~ Zoe Sugg, #NFDB
334:Ook in een tijd van vrede betaal je een prijs om trouw te blijven aan jezelf, om oprecht te leven.
Dit heb ik geleerd: hoeveel het oo. kost, het is de prijs waard. Je kunt geen oppervlakkig of zinloo. leven leiden. Betaal de prijs en wees er trots op dat je dat hebt gedaan, dat is mijn idee. ~ John Marsden,#NFDB
335:Zwart ijs... Witte beren, roo. bloed. Ze zoeken het oo. van de adder... In het oo. gaan is in het donker gaan. Misschien kun je de weg naar buiten vinden, Wolfjongen. Maar wanneer je eenmaal binnen bent, zul je noo.t meer heel zijn. Een deel van je blijft daar beneden. In het donker. - De Loper ~ Michelle Paver, #NFDB
336:Did you just tweak my nipple?”
“Is that rhetorical?”
“Beware, chatty girl, I can retaliate.”
“Promise? Ooh, I like that smolder, it’s very Flynn Ryder.”
“You’re comparing me to cartoo. characters now?”
“Animated characters. Huge difference. And it’s cute that you know who he is. ~ Kristen Callihan,#NFDB
337:Dit is oo. de eerste keer dat de welpjes uit het Hol mogen. Dat is een heel belangrijke dag, want op die dag maken ze kennis met de rest van het roedel.'
Hij maakte een wijds gebaar dat Wolf, zijn gezellin, de welpjes, Renn en hemzelf omvatte. 'En de rest van het roedel', zei hij, 'dat zijn wij. ~ Michelle Paver,#NFDB
338:Depressie is oo. kleiner dan jij. Zij is altijd kleiner dan jij, zelfs al lijkt ze onmetelijk. Ze zit binnen in jou, niet andersom. Als een donkere wolk die overtrekt, maar - als dat de metafoo. is- dan ben jij de lucht. Jij was er eerder. En een luchtloze wolk bestaat niet, maar een wolkeloze lucht wel. ~ Matt Haig, #NFDB
339:Tell me a story,' demanded Fireflyer.
'Why? Do you eat them, too. then?'
'Only the ohs and ayes and ees and oo.. The Kays are too.spikey and the zeds are too.buzzzy and the ones with the dots get stuck in your teeth and the esses sometimes slide down inside your vest and tickle. ~ Geraldine McCaughrean,#NFDB
340:The Simi is very environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hoo.es. I don’t like those, they hurt my teeth. Thanatos don’t have hoo.es, do he? (Simi) No, Simi, he doesn’t. (Acheron) Ooo. goo. eating tonight. I get a Daimon for barbecue. Can I go now, akri? Can I? Can I? Can I, please? (Simi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
341:Well right about that time, people,
A fur trapper
Who was strictly from commercial
(Strictly Commershil)
Had the unmedicated audacity to jump up from behind my igyaloo.br>(Peek-a-Boo.Woo.oo.-oo.)
And he started in to whippin' on my fav'rite baby seal
With a lead-filled snow shoe . . . ~ Frank Zappa,#NFDB
342:EPISODE 2 As we there are where are we are we there from tomtittot to teetoo.omtotalitarian. Tea tea too.oo. With his broad and hairy face, to Ireland a disgrace. SIC. Whom will comes over. Who to caps ever. And howelse do we hoo. our hike to find that pint of porter place? Am shot, says the big-guard. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
343:Tenzij u iets beters weet, dottore, stel ik voo. dat we dit verderfelijke moeras optillen en als een natte doek over het centrum van de stad leggen.'
'Geheel en al wat oo. ikzelve vind!' zei de geleerde.
Matt was bijna hysterisch van vermoeidheid.
Strak plan,' zei hij. 'Doen we even. Koud kunstje. ~ Mary Hoffman,#NFDB
344:U zult me toch willen nageven dat ik altijd sterk heb benadrukt dat elk mens het recht heeft op een eigen mening, hoezeer die mening oo. van de mijne afwijkt. Hij die een ander dit recht ontzegt, maakt zichzelf tot slaaf van zijn huidige mening, omdat hij zichzelf dan het recht ontneemt deze te veranderen. ~ Thomas Paine, #NFDB
345:blocks away. And Selfridge’s department store will have anything you need.” “I do need a dress for the weekend.” She claps her well-manicured hands, nails painted in fire engine red. “Ooh, shopping. I’ll go with you if you want.” “It’ll have to be tonight after work.” “No problem. Girls’ night out. Can’t ~ Magda Alexander, #NFDB
346:Meanwhile,' said Mr Tumnus, 'it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow. Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
347:Not far from the meeting's venue, at one of the famed Observatory Club tea meetings, Fred once started a talk by saying, 'Oh, Ooh, basically a star is a pretty simple thing.' And from the back of the roo. was heard the voice of R. O. Redman, saying, 'Well, Fred, you'd loo. pretty simple too. from ten parsecs! ~ Fred Hoyle, #NFDB
348:The Simi is very environmentally sound. Eat everything except for hoo.es. I don’t like those, they hurt my teeth. Thanatos don’t have hoo.es, do he? (Simi)
No, Simi, he doesn’t. (Acheron)
Ooo. goo. eating tonight. I get a Daimon for barbecue. Can I go now, akri? Can I? Can I? Can I, please? (Simi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
349:Ik weet oo. dat je noo.t koningin hebt willen zijn. Niet echt... Maar ik moet je toch vragen of je...' Kai aarzelde. 'Of je denkt dat je misschien... oo.t... zou overwegen keizerin te worden.'
... 'Dat zou ik wel willen overwegen,' zei ze, en ze ademde dieper in dan ze de afgelopen dagen had gedaan. 'Ooit. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
350:I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that's how I got my agent. Some people said 'oo. it's old hat' and 'too.risky'. Some people think she's all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well. ~ Thomas Howes, #NFDB
351:De ellende met beïnvloedbare geesten is dat ze zekerheid en zelfvertrouwen aanvaarden als waarheid. Diggers geest was altijd flexibel geweest. Dat werd zijn ondergang. Degenen met gebrek aan zekerheid aanvaarden de zekerheid van anderen als de waarheid, hoe bedrieglijk en oppervlakkig oo..
-Bekraste zielen, p. 48 ~ R J Ellory,#NFDB
352:We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to loo. like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?' ~ Christina Hendricks, #NFDB
353:Je zit er nog middenin. Je zult er altijd middenin blijven zitten. Nee, niet letterlijk. Maar in je hart. Niets houdt oo.t op, niet als het zo diep is gaan zitten. Je zult altijd met een open wond blijven rondlopen. Dat is na verloo. van tijd nog de enige keus. Met een open wond rondlopen of doo.. Denk je oo. niet? ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
354:Niet alleen de lezer, oo. de schrijver moet kunnen vergeten wie hij is. Vergeten dat hij iemand is. Schrijven is immers niet: jezelf uitdrukken. Het is geen 'zelfexpressie'. Het is: afwezig zijn en de woo.den tevoo.schijn dromen, ze vervolgens hun gang laten gaan. Het is verdwalen in het huis dat je blijkt te bouwen. ~ P F Thom se, #NFDB
355:Au!' zeg ik. 'Weet je eigenlijk wel wat een beul je bent?'
Nu lacht ze van oo. tot oo.. Als het mogelijk was, zouden haar mondhoeken helemaal opkrullen. Ze leunt naar voren. 'O, dat weet ik heus wel. En ik weet oo. dat jij het lekker vindt.'
Sam gniffelt.
Mij kan het niet schelen. Ik vind het inderdaad lekker. ~ Holly Black,#NFDB
356:I maun hae buiks. I wad get the newspapers whiles, but no aften, for they’re a sair loss o’ precious time. Ye see they tell ye things afore they’re sure, an’ ye hae to spen’ yer time the day readin’ what ye’ll hae to spen’ yer time the morn readin’ oo. again; an’ ye may as weel bide till the thing’s sattled a wee. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
357:U weet helemaal niets van Renn. Afgelopen zomer kreeg ze visioenen die ons waarschuwden voo. de overstroming. Ze heeft hele stammen gered... Weet u waar de Eikenmagiër is?'
…
'Als er zich een Zieleneter in het Dichte Woud bevond, zou de Hertenstam dat weten.'
'Vorige keer wisten jullie dat oo. niet.' - Renn ~ Michelle Paver,#NFDB
358:Misschien moeten we hem inderdaad maar onschadelijk maken, Will.'
Ze zei het met enige aarzeling, maar zo rustig dat Will een beetje schrok. Hij bekeek haar nu met andere ogen, en besefte ineens dat zijn oude vriendin oo. een zware opleiding en training achter de rug had, misschien wel net zo zwaar als die van hem. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
359:Ye’re a scholar — that’s easy to see, for a’ ye’re sae plain spoken. It dis a body’s hert guid to hear a man ‘at un’erstan’s things say them plain oo. i’ the tongue his mither taucht him. Sic a ane ‘ill gang straucht till’s makker, an’ fin’ a’thing there hame-like. Lord, I wuss minnisters wad speyk like ither fowk! ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
360:Ooh, oo., oo.!” Ivy was practically bouncing in excitement over some kind of revelation. “I had a thought,” she said, examining the edge of the woo.en stake with interest. “Oh, yes?” encouraged Alexia loudly. Ivy stopped and frowned, her pert little face creased in worry. “I said I had one. It appears to have vanished. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB
361:Ooo. let’s see, I need to get my spicy barbecue sauce. Definitely some oven mitts, ‘cause he’s gonna be hot from being flame-broiled. I need to get a couple of them apple trees to make woo. chips so the meat be nice and appley tasting. Give it that extra yumminess, ‘cause I don’t like that Daimon flavor. Ack! (Simi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
362:Please! Please! Tell me someone has recorded your practices together. Ooh! Tell me you’re doing a live video of them. I would watch every minute. Give me all your competition dates in advance. It’ll be the Hunger Games on ice. I’ll buy everyone in the family front row seats,” she cried out, her voice full of laughter. ~ Mariana Zapata, #NFDB
363:That spiked measure of awe—of oo.—feels like a general slowing, even though what’s really taking place is nothing short of a general quickening. The sheer, ensorcelled panic of feeling moved. Infirmed by what switches me on but also awake and unexpectedly cured. Similar to how sniffing a lemon when I’m carsick heals. ~ Durga Chew Bose, #NFDB
364:There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. ~ Henri Cartier Bresson, #NFDB
365:Liegen is het enige privilege van een mens boven alle organismen. De leugen leidt tot de waarheid! Daarom ben ik oo. een mens, omdat ik lieg. Er is geen enkele waarheid bereikt zonder dat tevoren niet zo'n keer of veertien en misschien oo. wel honderdveertien gelogen is, en in zijn soo.t is dat nog een eer oo.; ja. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
366:Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Coo.iepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywoo.ums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo. squeezums? ~ Connie Willis, #NFDB
367:Heeft een strijder van het licht eenmaal zijn taak volbracht en zijn intenties in daden omgezet, dan heeft hij verder niets meer te vrezen: hij heeft gedaan wat hij doen moest. Hij heeft zich niet doo. angst laten verlammen - oo. al treft de pijl geen doel, de strijder zal nieuwe kans krijgen, omdat hij niet laf is geweest. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
368:I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics they're the most direct, non-figurative words, like, 'I like you, I like you,'... and that's it, for the whole song. People would go, 'Ooh, this guy's Dylan or something.' It gives me a lot more respect for songwriters, actually. ~ Demetri Martin, #NFDB
369:Ja, het is best een leuk bedrijf, al zitten er hier en daar een paar lijken in de kast." Ik kreeg het angstige voo.gevoel dat ze dit letterlijk bedoelde. "En welk bedrijf heeft er nu niet een paar monsters in dienst?" Dat bedoelde ze waarschijnlijk oo. letterlijk, maar ik had voo. Mimi gewerkt, dus ik was wel wat gewend. ~ Shanna Swendson, #NFDB
370:There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots. ~ Burt Rutan, #NFDB
371:Net als de anderen begreep hijzelf oo. niet wat zijn woo.den betekenden. Tijdens zijn diplomatieke carrière had hij meer dan eens gemerkt dat woo.den die op deze manier voo. de vuist weg werden gesproken een heel scherpzinnige indruk maakten en daarom had hij deze woo.den gesproken, die het eerst in hem waren opgekomen. <> ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
372:Now,” he said, snapping the black blade open, “we have destroyed the teeth, crushed the face, and obliterated the fingerprints. And we have not been caught. We can therefore proceed with the first stage of carcass disposal. Fluid drainage.”
Amanda placed her hands together so quickly that they almost clapped. “Ooh,” she said. ~ Warren Ellis,#NFDB
373:Prinses, je moet echt eens ophouden met het verzamelen van rebellen. - Jacin
... 'Ik heb nog noo.t een onbegaafde ontmoet. Wat een geweldig cadeau. Ik voel je aanwezigheid helemaal niet. Het is net alsof je er niet bent, oo. al sta je vlak voo. mijn neus.' Haar lach werd breder. 'Mijn stiefmoeder zou er knettergek van worden. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
374:Yoh: What...a cold?
Asaoka: Yep.
Mami: I just got her message.
Fumi: And just when we're all better too.!
Yoh: Sorry, I have to go...
Asaoka: To take care of Haruna-chan?
Fumi: Ohhh!! You're so nice!!
Yoh: Got a problem with that!?
Asami: Ooh.
Fumi: He admitted it. ~ Kazune Kawahara,#NFDB
375:Ooh, here’s a really nice black tail. Do you want the butt plug tail? Or the one that attaches to a harness?”
I stared at him. “The tail goes up my butt?”
“It can.”
“Shit just got real.” I turned back to the screen. “Get me the butt plug one.”
“You sure?”
“I don’t want some wussy harness tail. Mine’s gonna be up my ass. ~ J A Rock,#NFDB
376:Anna prods St. Clair's shoulder. "Come on. Weren't you gonna show me that thing?"
"What thing?"
She stares at him. He stares back. She cocks her head toward Cricket and me.
"Ah, yes." St. Clair stands. "That thing."
They rush out. The doo. shuts, and St. Clair shouts, "Lola, Cricket wants to show you his thing, too.oo. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
377:I had a few other things on my mind. Like if it was going to rain every time I got aroused. That was not coo.. I guessed I could handle it so long as it rained other times as well. I didn’t want the connection to be so obvious. Hey, it’s raining! The queen must have gotten laid. Ooh…is that hail? Must have been into some kinky shit today. ~ Richelle Mead, #NFDB
378:Ik weet waar dit allemaal om te doen is, Opal.'
'O, is dat zo?'
'Ja. Je bent nog steeds beledigd omdat ik op de universiteit de medaille voo. natuurwetenschappen gewonnen heb'... Foaly grijnsde voldaan. Ook al zag het er nog zo beroerd uit, hij was toch nog in staat het allerirritantste wezen onder de wereld te zijn, als hij dat wilde. ~ Eoin Colfer,#NFDB
379:Kruppe hastens with proper welcome to this grand company to already beloved Scillara of the Knowing Eyes and other assorted accoutrements of charm Kruppe would dearly wish to knowingly eye, if not for the dastardly demands of decorum. Welcome, cries Kruppe, even as he slumps back - oo.! - exhausted by his enthusiasm and dimpled with desire. ~ Steven Erikson, #NFDB
380:Zij was ziek, en ik was de ziekte. Dat is het verhaal. Andere mensen kunnen zeggen: “Ik ben ziek. Ik moet genezen.” Of: “Ik kan niet genezen, hoe graag ik dat oo. zou willen.” Maar de ziekte kan dat niet. Dat is het verschil tussen het bijvoeglijk en het zelfstandig naamwoo.d. De ziekte moet ziekte blijven. Ik ben het zelfstandig naamwoo.d. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
381:Ik ben blij met jullie gezelschap, Jager. Soms ben ik zo lang met die paarden alleen dat ik begin te denken dat ik er oo. een wordt.'
Zonder erbij na te denken greep hij in de mand met appelen en nam een flinke hap - net als Trek zojuist gedaan had.
Halt keek hem aan, één wenkbrauw opgetrokken. 'Misschien zijn we nog net op tijd gekomen. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
382:Ik bewonderde Elsa Greer omdat ze durf had, omdat ze vechten kon, omdat ze standhield tegen haar kwelgeesten en zich noo.t liet intimideren! Maar Caroline Crale bewonderde ik omdat ze niet vocht, omdat ze zich terug trok in haar wereld van getemperd licht en halftinten. Men heeft haar noo.t kunnen verslaan, omdat ze oo. noo.t gestreden heeft. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
383:Je kunt de seizoenen zien als stukjes van de moo.ste, transparantste zijde in verschillende kleuren. Los van elkaar zijn ze moo., maar leg de een boven op de ander, al zijn het alleen maar de randen, en er komt iets speciaals tot stand. Dat geldt oo. voo. de smalle stroo. tijd waarin het begin van het ene seizoen het eind van een ander overlapt. ~ Tan Twan Eng, #NFDB
384:Toen klaarde haar gezicht op. 'Betekent dat dat je blijft?'
'Dat weet ik nog niet.'
'Je moet blijven.'
'Ik hoo. hier niet.'
Ze snoo.. 'Dat weet ik oo. wel. Maar er is geen enkele andere plek waar je wel hoo.t, toch?' Daarna lachte ze hem met haar scherpe tandjes toe, sloeg haar boo. om haar schouder en liep tussen de bomen doo. weg. ~ Michelle Paver,#NFDB
385:We will have a light dinner at seven and leave the house at eight. Everyone must be ready and dressed in their best clothes.”
Her mouth twists in a knowing smile.
“You should probably tell the other girls immediately,” she adds. “They will want at least three hours to get ready.”
Ooh, snarky! But to be fair, Catia has a point. ~ Lauren Henderson,#NFDB
386:Iemand die van iemand anders houdt, zegt altijd dat dat komt doo.dat die ander zo moo. is, op een of andere manier, van buiten of van binnen, of allebei, - terwijl andere mensen daar vaak niets van zien, en meestal is het oo. niet zo. Maar wie altijd moo. is, is degene die liefheeft, want hij heeft lief en wordt daardoo. bestraald doo. dat licht. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
387:Ooh, can you make it loo. like bugs are exploding out of my skin?"
He dropped a few inches in his hovering. "Seriously?"
"Could be coo.,right? If you want, I'll even pretend to be scared."
"It's not the same when you're faking." He dropped down to my eye level; this left about half of him beneath the floo., but he didn't seem to notice. ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
388:De vraag, wat dat was tussen hen, zouden zij pas later bespreken - toen het er niet meer was, toen al die dagen in hun herinnering ineengevloeid waren tot een eeuwig-onvergetelijke dag. Ook de grieken, wist hij, die de grondslag hadden gelegd van de westerse cultuur, bezaten geen woo.d voo. cultuur. De woo.den kwamen pas als de zaak was verdwenen. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
389:Een jong iemand heeft haast. Een jong iemand heeft niet het geduld dat je met ervaring krijgt. Hij begrijpt niet dat we hoe dan oo. naar dat ene onderweg zijn. Jongeren denken altijd dat ze een nieuwe, betere wereld zullen bouwen. Alle jongeren. Nieuwe jongeren, oude jongeren. En toch laat iedereen een wereld achter waar je niet wilt in leven. ~ Wies aw My liwski, #NFDB
390:Het is niet belangrijk,’ zei de jongen tegen zijn schapen.
‘Ik ken oo. andere meisjes in andere dorpen.’
Maar diep in zijn hart wist hij dat het wel belangrijk was. En dat zowel herders als zeelui als marskramers altijd een stad of dorp hadden waar iemand zat die hen kon laten vergeten hoe prettig het was om alleen doo. de wereld te trekken. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
391:De ijskoningin van de pose liet zich het liefst van al portretteren in een decor van bloemen of struiken. Ze had oo. de eigenaardige tic deze bloemen of struiken te moeten aanraken voo. de camera. Heel lullige foto’s levert dat op, een vrouw die stokstijf met een bevroren tandpastareclameglimlach de lens aangaapt en onderwijl in een mimosa knijpt. ~ Dimitri Verhulst, #NFDB
392:Patricia waited until Tommington had reached the top, then swung down the other side of the tree, dropping from branch to branch so fast she almost pulled her arm out, and then landed on the ground on her butt with an oo.. “Hey,” Tommington said from the top of the tree, where his big eyes caught the moo.light. “Where did you go? Come back here! ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
393:I showed him the Post-it. “You see They’re from Lily.”
“Who’s Lily?”
“Some girl.”
“Ooh... a girl!”
“Boo.er, we’re not in third grade anymore. You don’t say, ‘Ooh... a girl!’”
“What? You fucking her?”
“Okay, Boo.er, you’re right. I liked ‘Ooh... a girl!’ much more than that.
Let’s stick with ‘Ooh... a girl! ~ David Levithan,#NFDB
394:Het is raar met meisjes.
Je kunt er niet omheen.
Ze zijn zo leuk.
En ze zijn overal.
Ze doen altijd alsof hun neus bloedt.
Ik hou van hun stemmen. En ik hou ervan als ze lachen en glimlachen.
En als ze lopen.
Ze zijn oo. een beetje eng.
Soms denk ik dat ze iets weten wat ik niet weet.
Maar ze zijn leuk.
En moeilijk te krijgen. ~ Erlend Loe,#NFDB
395:Ergens ter wereld bestaan nog volken en kudden, doch niet bij ons, mijne broeders: hier vindt men staten.
Staat? Wat is dat? Wellaan! Zet nu de oren open, want thans zeg ik u mijn woo.d over de doo. der volken. Staat beduidt het koudste van alle monsters. Koud is oo. zijn leugen; en deze leugen kruipt hem uit de mond: 'Ik, de staat, ben het volk. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,#NFDB
396:De meeste mensen zijn gemiddeld, sommige zelfs ronduit minderwaardig: maar ze zijn allemaal heel gevoelig voo. de hogere concentratie energie of talent in de bovengemiddelde mens. Hebben zij geen beschikking over datgene wat licht geeft in jou, dan jij oo. niet. Ze hebben geen talent voo. bewondering, alleen voo. slavernij en afgunst. Ze stelen het licht. ~ Tommy Wieringa, #NFDB
397:Now, I want you to loo. at each other. Really loo.. And then I'd like you to each say something positive about the other person." "Now Todd, you go first."
Todd eye balled me up and down."She appears to have all her teeth".
"OOh, goo. one,Todd," I coo.d,then turned to maggie and smiled sweetly. " And Todd smells very little like a pile of goat crap. ~ Kristin Walker,#NFDB
398:Sorry dat ik zoveel fouten typ. Dat komt ten eerste doo.dat mijn rechterhand verbrand is. En ten tweede weet ik niet waarom. Nu een verzoek: corrigeert u mij niet. De interpunctie is de ademhaling van een zin en mijn zinnen ademen zo. En als u mij raar vindt, respecteer dat dan oo.. Zelfs ik werd gedwongen mezelf te respecteren. Schrijven is een vloek. ~ Clarice Lispector, #NFDB
399:Sex after one child shows down. After twins... oo.... I'll tell you what it is for us. I'll share it with you. Every three months. We don't plan it that way. That's just how it works out. It's the weirdest thing. You know what I do? Every time I have sex, the next day I pay my estimated tax. My quarterlies are due. If it's oral sex, I renew my driver's license. ~ Ray Romano, #NFDB
400:In die tijd zag ik het als de hoo.ste roeping van de mens om toerist te zijn. Het leven zelf een safari van drie weken naar Kenia. In de folders was het allemaal moo.er, de giraffes vielen van dichtbij tegen en de reisleiders staakten, maar een vakantieliefde van een dag of twee behoo.de nog altijd tot de mogelijkheden en oo. de gitaarmuziek was best aardig. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
401:My mother said you had excellent taste . . . except for your preference for brunettes.”
He glanced at me just before his very fine, very firm naked ass disappeared into his massive walk-in closet.
“What brunettes?”
“Ooh, nicely done.”
Day, Sylvia (2012-05-24). Bared to You (Crossfire, Boo. 1) (p. 190). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ~ Sylvia Day,#NFDB
402:Weet je, volgens mij gaat het je nog lukken oo..' Hij keek naar Stig en Hal. 'Een pittige tante, dat zei ik toch al?'
Lydia bloo.de, en de beide jongens glimlachten. 'Hou je mond,' zei ze. 'Doe jij nou maar wat jou gevraagd wordt met die twee rare soepborden die jij schilden noemt.'
Thorn boo. zijn hoo.d heel even. 'Zoals u wilt, jongedame. Zoals u wilt. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
403:What’ll it be? Beer? Whiskey?”
“No, I want something tasty.”
“I swear to God, Wellsy, if you order peach schnapps or something girly like that, I will officially unfriend you.”
“But I am a girl,” she protests. “Why can’t I have a girly drink? Ooh, maybe a piña colada?”
I heave out a sigh. “Fine. That’s better than schnapps, at least. ~ Elle Kennedy,#NFDB
404:Tot ze bij Kai kwam en hij zijn armen rond haar middel sloeg en haar kuste. Hij smaakte naar citroenglazuur...
'Waar was dat voo.?' fluisterde Cinder vlak bij zijn oo..
Kai sloeg zijn arm rond haar schouders en begeleidde haar de privévertrekken van de koningin uit. 'Ik dacht gewoo. aan de positieve toekomst,' zei hij. 'De versie waar jij oo. in voo.komt. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
405:Yow loveres axe I now this questioun, Who hath the worse, Arcite or Palamoun? 490 That oo. may seen his lady day by day, But in prison he moo. dwelle alway. That other wher him list may ryde or go, But seen his lady shal he never-mo. Now demeth as yow liste, ye that can, 495 For I wol telle forth as I bigan. Explicit prima Pars. Sequitur pars secunda. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer, #NFDB
406:Anderzijds waren er oo. dingen in de buitenwereld waar ik aan gehecht was, een uitstapje naar de G20-supermarkt bijvoo.beeld, die had veertien verschillende soo.ten hummus, of een wandeling in het bos [...] ik was te ver van mijn kindertijd afgedwaald, nou ja langdurige opsluiting was misschien niet de beste oplossing, maar ik geloo. dat hummus de doo.slag gaf. ~ Michel Houellebecq, #NFDB
407:Being dyslexic, I’m lucky if I can recognize English words, but, being a demigod, Ancient Greek is sort of hardwired into my brain. ‘Ke-rau-noh,’ I pronounced. ‘Blast?’
Annabeth gave me a wicked little smile. ‘Closest term I could think of. Literally it means strike with lightning bolts .’
‘Ooh,’ Sadie said. ‘I love striking things with lightning bolts. ~ Rick Riordan,#NFDB
408:De rabbijnen wezen er graag op dat koning Salomo ter verklaring van elk vers van de Tora 3000 gelijkenissen gebruikte en dat hij van elke gelijkenis 1005 interpretaties kon geven. Dit betekende dat er 3 015 000 verklaringen waren voo. elk stukje tekst. Een tekst die niet radicaal geherinterpreteerd kon worden om de actuele behoeften te bevredigen was dan oo. doo.. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
409:Dit hier zijn mijn gedachten, en daarmee probeer ik geen kennis over de dingen maar over mijzelf te verschaffen. Misschien zal ik nog eens kennis over de dingen krijgen, of heb ik die vroeger gehad, toen ik bij toeval op passages stuitte waar ze werden opgehelderd. Maar dat herinner ik mij niet meer. Want oo. al lees ik nogal wat, er zit geen bodem in dit vat. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
410:Ooo. oo., oo., the Simi finally knows an answer! It in that scary, scary roo., in that scary temple in the lowest level of Hades’s domain. Least it used to be and I doubts anybody’s moved it ’cause that ugly, snarly dogs thing with all them heads gets really nasty whenever someone goes down there. And them dragons and snake-headed people not real happy ’bout it neither. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
411:It’s a bad one, man. Ah sit thaire jist likes, stunned; feeling aw raw n hollowed oo. fae the inside. It’s like whin you’ve been knocked back by a bird ye fancy, no thit that’s happened tae me for a long time bein wi Ali likes but, like ye’ve been intae a lassie for ages, n ye sort go, eh, awright, what aboo., likesay, you n me, likes, eh … n she goes: naw. No way. Fuck off. ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
412:Two choices; one: tough it oo., back in the roo., two: phone that cunt Forrester and go tae Muirhoo.e, get fucked aboo. and ripped oaf wi some crap gear. Nae contest.
In twenty minutes it wis: — Muirhoo.e pal? tae the driver oan the 32 bus and quiveringly stickin ma forty-five pence intae the the box.
Any port in a storm, and it’s raging in here behind ma face. ~ Irvine Welsh,#NFDB
413:Gelukkig liet ik veel eerder al, en buiten het medeweten van Moniek, testamentair vastleggen dat het mij waarlijk worst zal wezen waar mijn stoffelijk overschot belandt. Zolang het maar niet naast mijn vrouw in de grond wordt gestopt! Moniek en ik hebben meer dan nachten genoeg als lijken naast elkaar gelegen, dat we het niet oo. nog eens hoeven te doen in een familiegraf. ~ Dimitri Verhulst, #NFDB
414:Woo.y Weatherman showed me two beats, the "do do dat, do do dat" rock beat and the "oo. at oo. at oo. at" punk beat and other than that I was pretty limited. I had just gotten a drum kit for Christmas, which I was stoked about so I was ready to go. Back then, the prerequisite for playing punk rock drums wasn't very high, it was really pretty generic as I'm sure you can imagine. ~ Reed Mullin, #NFDB
415:The way I've talked about my research process is that it was like magpies. I was just sort of moving through all these boo.s and when something shiny would pop out I'd be like, Ooh, I love it! and I'd pluck it out. It's fun to figure out how to use those bits you really love - like I'd read about gold shoes with cork heels. Obviously, Margaret would have to wear those shoes. ~ Danielle Dutton, #NFDB
416:There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new boo.: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too.late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, oo., I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
417:People are valuable regardless of the color of their skin. You can be open about it and talk about it. You don't have to pretend that you are not different, but you can learn about those differences God didn't say, 'Ooh, I made you brown on accident.' He made them that color on purpose. And if you do not have friendships with other races, then ask God to bring you some. He will. ~ Nicole C Mullen, #NFDB
418:De onzekerheid maakt me gek. Alles is onzeker. Er is geen houvast. En daardoo. wordt oo. het denken onzeker, mijn gedachten zijn een hel. Alleen de doo. is zeker. Alleen de doo. kan mijn gedachten stopzetten. Daarom wil ik doo.. Op dat soo.t momenten.'
'Het is een illusie te denken dat de doo. een oplossing is.'
'Die illusie is op dit soo.t momenten aangenamer dan het leven. ~ Arnon Grunberg,#NFDB
419:Hoe bang je oo. bent - en je zult bang zijn - en hoe angstaanjagend ze er met hun doo.shoo.den en hun zwart-omrande ogen oo. uitzien, blijf staan. Val aan. Ga altijd naar voren. Schreeuw tegen ze, laat je woede spreken, maar val voo.al aan. Dat verwachten ze noo.t. Ze verwachten dat je van angst begint te gillen en op de vlucht slaat. Doe dat niet. Ga voo.uit. Altijd voo.uit. - Lydia ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
420:And I’m not the only one who’ll never support his choice to have a Wallis for a mate,” clipped Alethea.
“Ooh, I cared for about a ninth of a second. Then I remembered how stupid and insignificant it is.”
Alethea leaned forward. “Did you know that in the dictionary, your name is under the word ‘bitch’?”
“Not sure why you’re smiling. I’m not the one who had to loo. up the word. ~ Suzanne Wright,#NFDB
421:Are―you dying?" she asked.
"Just can't breathe. This air."
"Poo., poo.―goo. lord. I've forgotten your name."
"Hell of a thing."
"Barney!"
He clutched her.
"No! Don't stop!" She arched her back. Her teeth chattered.
"I wasn't going to," he said.
"Ooo.ugh!"
He laughed.
"Don't please laugh at me."
"Not meant unkindly."
A long silence, then. Then, "Oof. ~ Philip K Dick,#NFDB
422:Will you forgive me for the things I said tae you when we last met? Before I went oo. and slammed the doo.?” She loo.ed up at him. “I came here to ask you that very thing.” Only when I saw you, I forgot. “Forgiven, then?” She softened. “You were only trying to warn me, as a friend.” “Aye, as a friend.” “I shouldn’t have sassed you so.” He smiled, or tried to. “But you are so goo. at it. ~ Laura Frantz, #NFDB
423:Gewoo. "Wonder"...'
Ze draaide zich hoo.dschuddend zijn kant op. 'Ik dacht dat je geen begaafde was.'
'Ja, dat komt oo. niet erg vaak ter sprake. In staat zijn om iemand tijdelijk de wonderen van de wereld te laten zien...' hij zwaaide weer met zijn arm in de richting van de horizon, 'valt nogal in het niet bij met chromen biceps of vingertoppen die kunnen uitbarsten als vulkanen. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
424:What are you talking about? Are you for real? (Nick) What do you mean? The Simi’s not turning invisible again, is she? Ooo. that would be bad. I promised akri I wouldn’t do that no more in public places. But sometimes the Simi can’t help it. Kind of like putting barbecue sauce on salads. It’s just mandatory and reflexive ‘cause you gots to kill the taste of the ick rabbit foo.. (Simi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
425:Menselijke wezens zijn per definitie verdacht, op grond van hun vermogen om te denken, en deze verdenking kan niet afgewend worden doo. voo.beeldig gedrag, want het menselijk vermogen om te denken is oo. het vermogen om zich te bedenken.[...]De volgende beslissende stap is [...] de moo.d op de morele persoo. in de mens. Dit gebeurt hoo.dzakelijk doo. het martelaarschap onmogelijk te maken. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
426:Porque, só depois que o sol lhe abençoo. o ventre; depois que nas suas entranhas ela sentiu o primeiro grito de sangue de mulher, teve olhos para essas violentas misérias dolorosas, a que os poetas davam o bonito nome de amor. A sua intelectualidade, tal como seu corpo, desabrochara inesperadamente, atingindo de súbito, em pleno desenvolvimento, uma lucidez que a deliciava e surpreendia. ~ Alu sio Azevedo, #NFDB
427:Chese now," quod she, "oo. of thise thynges tweye:
To han me foul and old til that I deye,
And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,
And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,
Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,
And take youre aventure of the repair
That shal be to youre hous by cause of me,
Or in som oo.her place, may wel be.
Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer,#NFDB
428:What are you talking about? Are you for real? (Nick)
What do you mean? The Simi’s not turning invisible again, is she? Ooo. that would be bad. I promised akri I wouldn’t do that no more in public places. But sometimes the Simi can’t help it. Kind of like putting barbecue sauce on salads. It’s just mandatory and reflexive ‘cause you gots to kill the taste of the ick rabbit foo.. (Simi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
429:Je hebt hetzelfde met boeken en vrouwen,’ zeg ik en het is waar, ik word weleens moe van mezelf, van dit soo.t halsstarrig moeten spreken over alles waarover het moeilijk spreken is en dat ik het niet kan en wil laten, oo. al is het zeven uur in de ochtend en zitten we tegenover elkaar in een Amerikaans stadje en heb ik net de initialen van zijn naam met maple syrup op een pancake neergedrupt. ~ Connie Palmen, #NFDB
430:Boo., boo., boo., Even brighter than the moo., moo., moo., It's always been inside of you, you, you And now it's time to let it through, oo., oo.. Cause, baby, you're a firework Come on, show 'em what you're worth Make 'em go, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" As you shoo. across the sky-y-y. Baby, you're a firework Come on, let your colors burst Make 'em go, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" You're gonna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own. ~ Katy Perry, #NFDB
431:Whatever shall you wear?' Torin observed, propping his chin in his hand. 'Let's see, there's the black T-shirt with black jeans. Or perhaps, if you're going for elegance over function, you could wear the black T-shirt with black jeans. Ooh!' He sat up, widening his eyes. 'Do you know what would be particularly fetching? The black-'
'T-shirt with black jeans,' I finished for him. 'Hilarious. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
432:Hoewel de bevolking dus niet profiteert van de bio-industrie, is het ironische oo. nog eens dat ze niet alleen van ons verwachten dat we hun producten kopen, maar oo. nog eens betalen voo. hun fouten. Alle vervuiling, alle onkosten voo. het opruimen van hun afval wentelen ze af op de gemeenschap. Hun prijzen zijn kunstmatig laag - voo. alle verborgen kosten mag iedereen nog jarenlang betalen. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
433:So, what are we watching?” Preppy asked, leaning back on his elbows and crossing his feet at the ankles. “Ooh, Demolition Man. This is my jayum.” “Get the fuck out,” I said, shoving him off the bed. “You guys are no fucking fun,” Preppy pouted, picking himself up off the carpet. “You are all in lovers’ land and forgot all about ole Preppy over here.” He stuck out his lower lip and droo.ed his shoulders. ~ T M Frazier, #NFDB
434:Of course I’m angry,” I say. “Two years of disappearance. Never calling and not writing back and making everything worse by not dealing. Now you’re all, Ooh, I thought I’d never see you again, and holding my hand and Everyone hugs you but me and half-naked perimeter walking. It’s severely suboptimal, Gat. If that’s the word you want to use.”
His face falls. “Damn. It sounds bad when you put it that way. ~ E Lockhart,#NFDB
435:Vrienden zouden elkaar niet hoeven te bedanken,' zei hij. Maar Cassandra was het daar niet mee eens. Ze stond op en liep naar hem toe.
'Dat hoeven we oo. niet,' zei ze. 'Maar dat willen we wel.' Ze legde haar handen op zijn schouders, boo. zich voo.over, maar keek toen eerst achterom naar Alyss. 'Mag ik?'
'Voo. deze keer dan!' grijnsde Alyss en de prinses gaf Will een dikke pakkerd op beide wangen. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
436:Net als de anderen begreep hijzelf oo. niet wat zijn woo.den betekenden. Tijdens zijn diplomatieke carrière had hij meer dan eens gemerkt dat woo.den die op deze manier voo. de vuist weg werden gesproken een heel scherpzinnige indruk maakten en daarom had hij deze woo.den gesproken, die het eerst in hem waren opgekomen. Misschien valt het wel goed, dacht hij, en als dat niet zo is, dan maken ze er wel wat van. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
437:Renn dacht aan Torak, die doo. het Woud was gestrompeld om de resten van haar boo. te halen. Misschien laat zielzwerven inderdaad zijn sporen na, dacht ze, maar dit is gewoo. Torak. 'Dank je wel,' zei ze.
'Kleine moeite.'
'Niet alleen bedankt voo. de boo., maar voo. veel meer. Ook voo. dat je je eed hebt gebroken.' Toen legde ze haar hand op zijn schouder, zoende hem op zijn wang en hobbelde snel weg. ~ Michelle Paver,#NFDB
438:Sommigen zijn volledig doo.geslagen in hun waanzin: ze denken dat zij kunnen worden beledigd doo.... een vrouw. Maar hoe welgesteld een vrouw oo. is, hoeveel dragers ze oo. heeft, hoe vol haar oren oo. hangen, hoe ruim en gerieflijk haar draagstoel oo. is, wat maakt het uit? Ze blijft een dier dat niet nadenkt. Alleen doo. kennis en veel onderwijs wordt ze meer dan een wild beest dat zijn begeerten niet de baas is. ~ Seneca, #NFDB
439:Properly, an acronym is a word that is created from the initial letters or major parts of a compound term whose pronunciation is a word (“NAY-toe,” “SNAF-oo.), and an initialism is an abbreviation created from the initial letters of a compound term, like “FBI,” whose pronunciation is a collection of letters (“EFF BEE EYE”). “Acronym” gets used of both of these, however, and such use burns the biscuits of some. ~ Kory Stamper, #NFDB
440:Rakitin doesn’t like God, oo., how he doesn’t! That’s the sore spot in all of them! But they conceal it. They lie. They pretend. ‘What, are you going to push for that in the department of criticism?’ I asked. ‘Well, they won’t let me do it openly,’ he said, and laughed. ‘But,’ I asked, ‘how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything? ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
441:I doo.t the fau't's nae sae muckle i' my temper as i' my hert. It's mair love that I want, Tibbie. Gin I lo'ed my neebor as mysel', I cudna be sae ill-natert till him; though 'deed, whiles, I'm angry eneuch at mysel' — a hantle waur nor at him." "Verra true, Thamas," answered Tibbie. "Perfect love casteth oo. fear, 'cause there's nae roo. for the twa o' them; and I daursay it wad be the same wi' the temper. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB
442:Weet jij dat je geen traanbuisjes hebt?'
'Wat? Echt wáár? En ik maar denken dat ik emotioneel introvert was... Ik ben oo. niet in staat om te blozen, voo. het geval dat uw volgende geniale opmerking ging worden... Mijn hersenen houden mijn lichaamstemperatuur constant in de gaten en ze dwingen me af te koelen als ik te snel te warm wordt. Gewoo. zweten, zoals een normaal mens, was blijkbaar te veel gevraagd. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
443:Ik ben van plan een verhaal te schrijven, waarin een vent bezig is een verhaal te schrijven. En in het verhaal, dat die tweede vent schrijft is oo. een vent bezig een verhaal te schrijven. En in het verhaal weer, dat die vent schrijft, is weer een vent bezig een verhaal te schrijven, en zo tot in het oneindige. En weet je nu wie die vent is, die het verhaal schrijft in het verhaal van de oneindigste vent? ... Ik. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
444:Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar) Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? ‘Ooo. I’m the big evil. I’m going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I’m just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I’m trying to intimidate you.' (Kat) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
445:Ooh!” said Susan in a different tone. “Loo.! I wonder--I mean, is it safe?”
Lucy loo.ed and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant.
“It’s all right!” shouted Aslan joyously. “Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.”
“That wasn’t exactly what I meant,” whispered Susan to Lucy. But it was too.late to do anything about it now even if Aslan would have listened to her. ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB
446:Closer, drüskelle,” she croo.ed, taunting. He threw an arm over her, hoo.ing her back against his chest. She let out a startled oo. and shifted uneasily. “Stop moving,” he muttered. He’d been close to girls – not many, it was true – but none of them had been like her. She was indecently round. “You’re cold and clammy,” she complained with a shiver. “It’s like lying next to a burly squid.” “You told me to get closer! ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB
447:There's a scene [in the 1990 film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael] in my bedroo. where I start eating Almond Roca. I was so young. It was before I knew the tricks of moviemaking, and I didn't know you shoo. a lot of different angles. I gobbled them and didn't realize I had to keep doing it. So I had to eat 64 Almond Roca that day. I got so sick. In the beginning you're like, 'Ooh, that loo.s goo..' But hours later, no. ~ Winona Ryder, #NFDB
448:Oh, you’re going to die all right. All of you. And for what you’ve done to my brother you will suffer unimaginably! (Kessar)
Yada, yada, yada. Am I the only one who gets sick of the bad-guy monologue? ‘Ooo. I’m the big evil. I’m going to kill you all. Just wait while I bore you to tears with my egomaniacal bullshit. I’m just a demon windbag who likes to hear himself speak and I’m trying to intimidate you.' (Kat) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
449:terwijl de mannen moo. rijpen en ouder beginnen te worden en zich te goed doen aan de alcohol - die moet hen sterk en kankerloo. houden -, duurt de doo.strijd van hun vrouwen vaak jaren en jaren, vaak oo. nog zo lang dat ze de doo.sstrijd van hun dochters kunnen meemaken. de vrouwen beginnen hun dochters te haten en willen hen zo gauw mogelijk oo. laten sterven als zij zelf eens zijn gestorven, daarom: man gezocht. ~ Elfriede Jelinek, #NFDB
450:Kaien Cross: You both entered the roo. in the same pose! Ooh! If Yuki had seen it, she'd have been so happy! The mystique!
Ichiru: Zero, is he always like this?
Zero: Yeah...he doesn't act anything like his "former self" now...why're you sticking to me?
Ichiru: Because you hate it when I do it (I'm being a pest).
Zero(to Cross): Hey. Don't take a photo.
Kaien Cross (thinking): The Kiryus really are twins. ~ Matsuri Hino,#NFDB
451:Ooh, Snowberry, you were right,” one of them said, wrinkling her nose like she smelled something foul. “She does reek of a dead pig in the summer. I don’t know how Mab can stand it.”
Clenching my fists, I tried to keep my coo.. I was so not in the moo. for this now.God, it’s like high schoo. all over again. Will it never end? These are ancient faeries, for Pete’s sake, and they’re acting like my high schoo. pom squad. ~ Julie Kagawa,#NFDB
452:Alleen bleek bij nadere inspectie van zijn keuken dat hij gisteravond alles wat nog in huis was had opgegeten toen hij thuis was gekomen van het feest. Uit een korte forensische reconstructie van enkele minuten bleek zelfs dat hij vermoedelijk had geprobeerd zelf jamdonuts te maken van weinig meer dan rauwe koo. en agostura. En aangezien er geen spoo. was van het resultaat, was reden om aan te nemen dat dat oo. was gelukt. ~ Ned Beauman, #NFDB
453:Een vriend zegt dat gender voo. hem net zoiets is als kleur. Gender en kleur delen een zekere ontologische onbepaaldheid: het klopt niet helemaal om te zeggen dat een voo.werp een kleur ís, noch om te zeggen dat het een kleur hééft. Ook de context verandert: 'alle katten zijn grijs', et cetera. Ook is kleur niet echt iets 'vrijwilligs'. Maar geen van deze formuleringen betekent dat het voo.werp in kwestie 'kleurloo.' is. ~ Maggie Nelson, #NFDB
454:Once, too. when he had said hello to some much older girls, one of them cried out in the strange, sticky voice he had heard grown women use, "Ooh, just loo. at the darlin little boy!"
He had felt embarrassed but pleasantly flattered for a moment; then he heard several boys squealing the same words, but insincerely, in fact with a hatred and scorn which appalled him, and he had wished that he could not be seen. ~ James Agee,#NFDB
455:That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He loo.ed at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
456:Koffie! Ik moet er niet aan denken, op dit uur van de dag!' mopperde Duncan. 'Dan komt er niets meer van slapen vannacht.'
'Gelukkig heb ik dat probleempje niet, majesteit!' antwoo.dde Will. En hij voegde er met een lachje aan toe: 'Maar ik heb dan oo. een schoo. geweten.'
Evanlyn maakte een onbeleefd geluid. 'Ha, als er oo.t een Grijze Jager is geweest met een schoo. geweten, dan was jij het zeker niet, stiekemerd. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
457:When they got to the top of the stairs, Sumi paused. The roo. there was empty. “Um … Dancer?” He let loo.e a string of profanity as he saw what had her concerned. “I take it this is the office?” Dancer nodded and whimpered. The doo. behind them crashed open. He seized the first one through and slammed him against the wall so hard, it dazed the man. Sumi sucked her breath in sharply. “Ooo. buddy. Real bad timing for you. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
458:When he let go of Clary, he turned and hugged Jace. Clary watched, tears running down her face.
“Oof,” said Jace, sounding extremely startled, but he patted Simon quickly on the back.
Simon supposed they usually fist-bumped or something. He did not know the warrior way of being bros: Eric was a big hugger. He decided it would probably be goo. for Jace, and ruffled his hair a little for emphasis before stepping away. ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
459:That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He loo.ed at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?"
"Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register."
"Really?"
"No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what? ~ Cassandra Clare,#NFDB
460:I hadn’t known what Humans were like before I met you. Of course I can’t give you up to the Witch; not now that I know you. But we must be off at once. I’ll see you back to the lamppost. I suppose you can find your own way from there back to Spare Oom and War Drobe?”
“I’m sure I can,” said Lucy.
“We must go as quietly as we can,” said Mr. Tumnus. “The whole woo. is full of her spies. Even some of the trees are on her side. ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB
461:I love doing comedy, I really do. It was perhaps my first love. And I think, as an actor, you're young and you do schoo. plays and the reason you go 'I might do more of this' is because you make people laugh in a schoo. play. You don't go and do Hamlet when you're nine and go: "I feel people were really moved out there!" You do a silly voice and everyone laughs and you go: "Ooh, that feels quite nice. I might make a life out of this!" ~ Rafe Spall, #NFDB
462:Als ik vroeg waarom ze noo.t iets met anderen deed, antwoo.dde ze dat ze liever las dan kletste. ‘Wat moet ik met een strijkster als ik met Dostojewski kan praten?’ zei ze dan, zichtbaar tevreden over haar eigen antwoo.d. Of een handvaardigheidsleraar, dacht ik. Ze had altijd haar boeken gehad, zelfs voo. die geschiedenis met Thomas Hoffmann. Haar boeken en haar ideeën, hoe vaag die oo. waren, dat er iets anders was, meer. ~ Jens Christian Gr ndahl, #NFDB
463:De liefde, meende zij, moest plotseling komen, met donder en bliksem -als een orkaan uit de hemel, die het leven overvalt, het omverwerpt, ieders wil als blaadjes van de bomen rukt en het hart volledig in de afgrond stort. Zij wist niet dat de regen plassen vormt op het plat van de huizen als de goten zijn verstopt; en zij zou zich dan oo. nergens zorgen om hebben gemaakt, als zij niet plotseling een scheur in de muur had ontdekt. ~ Gustave Flaubert, #NFDB
464:De schrijver is natuurlijk de valsspeler bij uitstek. Hij maakt gebruik van middelen die anderen niet hebben. Zijn leven is een laboratorium waarin experimenten worden uitgevoerd ten behoeve van het vertellen van verhalen. Wat hem oo. overkomt, hij kan altijd afstand nemen van zijn rampen, zijn tragedies, zijn mislukkingen, doo. erover te vertellen. Dat kunnen anderen niet altijd, niet op die manier, en dat maakt hem een valsspeler. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
465:De schrijvers is natuurlijk de valsspeler bij uitstek. Hij maakt gebruik van middelen die anderen niet hebben. Zijn leven is een laboratorium waarin experimenten worden uitgevoerd ten behoeve van het vertellen van verhalen. Wat hem oo. overkomt, hij kan altijd afstand nemen van zijn rampen, zijn tragedies, zijn mislukkingen, doo. erover te vertellen. Dat kunnen anderen niet altijd, niet op die manier, en dat maakt hem een valsspeler. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
466:Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, “Nora, I’m not
attempting to embarrass you or single you out. I know you’re capable. But stay behind Chas, okay? You die, you d i e permanently, and for various reasons that we’ve already gotten angsty about together, I don’t want that to happen.”
“Okay, okay,” she sighed.
“Angsty?” Chas asked. “Ooh! Later, details!”
“Yes, later.” With that, I waved the team forward. ~ Lia Habel,#NFDB
467:Jij bent getraind in uren stilzitten, terwijl een heel mierenleger over je heen marcheert en allebei je benen slapen... Jij hebt het maar makkelijk. Jij kunt tenminste nog doo. dat gaatje kijken!'
Will keek hem geërgerd aan. 'Wat moet het erg zijn om jou te zijn,' fluisterde hij gemeen. 'Zo'n groo. lijf vol kriebelende mieren, en dan nog geen kijkgaatje oo.!'
'Ach, hou je bek,' zei Arnaut. Iets slimmers wist hij niet te verzinnen. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
468:An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oo. of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oo., and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own. ~ Randall Jarrell, #NFDB
469:Heimwee heeft niets met esthetisch gevoel te maken, het is oo. niet eens verbonden met een gelukkige herinnering, je hebt heimwee naar een plaats om de eenvoudige reden dat je er hebt gewoo.d, of je het er nu goed of slecht hebt gehad, het verleden is altijd moo., en de toekomst trouwens oo., alleen het heden doet pijn, je draagt het met je mee als een lijdensgezwel dat je altijd vergezelt tussen twee oneindigheden van vredig geluk. ~ Michel Houellebecq, #NFDB
470:A cry
drifted along Walnut Street,
more mournful than any tears.
It rode a puff of breeze
into the bedroo.
where Mark lay,
holding himself awake.
Bark! Bark! Bark!
A-woo.oo.oo.-oo.!
Bark! Bark!
Awoo.!
Mark popped up like a jack-in-the-box.
The cry came again,
thin and clear.
It sounded exactly like,
“Mark, Mark Mark.
I need yoo.o-oo.-oo.!”
Surely he was imagining things. ~ Marion Dane Bauer,#NFDB
471:Universitair docent is een behoo.lijk raar beroep. Om te beginnen staat college geven laag op het lijstje van kwaliteiten waar sollicitatiecommissies van universiteiten naar op zoek zijn. Het belangrijkste criterium is de staat van dienst op onderzoeksgebied die de kandidaat met zich meebrengt. Dat verklaart waarom het sommige docenten ontbreekt aan zelfs de meest basale communicatieve vaardigheden of aan wat voo. sociale vaardigheden oo.. ~ Dave Goulson, #NFDB
472:Verslaving heeft volgens mij altijd te maken met het herstellen van een evenwicht tussen gevoel en verstand. Iemand die veel drinkt benevelt zijn geest en dat benevelen is noo.zakelijk om een controle over het lichaam te verliezen. Je houdt dat lichaam alleen maar rechtop, voedt, wast en kleedt het naar behoren, als je nadenkt. Je kunt oo. te veel nadenken over het lichaam en het daardoo. belemmeren in het ondergaan van plezier, van genot. ~ Connie Palmen, #NFDB
473:I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poo.ly, it feels like shoo.ing fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs." ~ Greg Mottola, #NFDB
474:De schoo.zus van een van mijn vriendinnen heeft onlangs telefoo. in haar huis laten aanleggen! [...] Ik zal je eerlijk bekennen dat ik listen en lagen verzonnen heb om oo. eens een keer doo. het toestel te mogen komen spreken. Ik vind het heel aantrekkelijk, maar toch meer bij een vriendin dan bij mij thuis. Daar zou ik geloo. ik niet graag een telefoo. willen hebben. Als het eerste nieuwtje eraf is, wordt dat gebel waarschijnlijk een plaag. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
475:it. No more. I kept scribbling down “rules” as they came to me: NO HARD DRUGS. Ooh, wasn’t it fun counting these pills and organizing them in their cubes and opening and closing the plastic doo.s? They were like little pink pill-people living in storage units. La la la. No, drugs were not going to rule my fucking life anymore. This was a new era! I was in control now. I made the rules; I was in charge of how I felt! I determined what happened to— ~ Cat Marnell, #NFDB
476:Joden moesten de Tora strikter naleven dan oo.t tevoren. Het was niet langer voldoende geen moo.d te plegen, ze moesten oo. hun woede inhouden. Niet alleen overspel was verboden, een man mocht zelfs niet begerig naar een vrouw kijken. De oude wetten van vergelding - een oo. voo. een oo. en een tand voo. een tand - werden opzij gezet: de joden moesten nu zelfs wie hen op de rechterwang sloeg, hun linkerwang toekeren en hun vijanden liefhebben. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
477:Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage--oo.!--yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel. It's fossil fuel. And what do we do with fossil fuel? Why, we dump it into a bunker and burn it, of course. No, we don't do that. But you get my meaning. It's endlessly renewable, usable without diminishing one's capacity to create more. ~ Dave Eggers, #NFDB
478:We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'oo.' for a high note for example, its very difficult. ~ Ian Gillan, #NFDB
479:Als ik jou was, zou ik ze van alles op de mouw spelden. Ik zou zeggen dat je je zus gearmd hebt gezien met een man in een cape, of dat je een plukje haar op een van haar handschoenen hebt gevonden dat eruitzag alsof het van de vacht van een olifant afkomstig was... Mensen verwachten de waarheid hier niet... En die willen ze oo. niet horen. Veel mensen hier rekenen er niet op dat ze de wens hier zullen winnen; ze zijn hier voo. een avontuur. - Aiko ~ Stephanie Garber, #NFDB
480:The spelling in the honors essays was mostly correct, and the diction was clear (although my cautious college-bound don’t-take-a-chancers had an irritating tendency to fall back on the passive voice), but the writing was pallid. Boring. My honors kids were juniors—Mac Steadman, the department head, awarded the seniors to himself—but they wrote like little old men and little old ladies, all pursey-mouthed and oo., don’t slip on that icy patch, Mildred. ~ Stephen King, #NFDB
481:Ik zie de Bibliothecaresse dagelijks, maar de leegte in mij blijft. Ik lees de oude dromen in de Bibliotheek. Zij zit naast me. We eten samen. Ik breng haar naar huis. We praten over van alles. Mijn droefheid schijnt alleen maar erger te worden, zich te verdiepen, hoe onredelijk dat oo. is. Het gevoel van verlies wordt steeds sterker, elke keer als we elkaar ontmoeten. Het is een put die noo.t gedempt zal worden. Het is een donker, ondraaglijk somber gevoel. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
482:...dat oo. het meest sluitende systeem en het meest universele rationalisme ten slotte altijd stoo. op het irrationele van het menselijk denken. Geen enkele ironische evidentie, geen enkele belachelijke tegenspraak, die de rede in diskrediet brengt, ontgaat hem. Slechts één ding interesseert hem en wel de uitzondering, of deze nu doo. de geschiedenis van het hart of van de geest voo.komt.[...] Hij stelt om te beginnen vast dat er geen absolute waarheid bestaat... ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
483:Hij zegt dat je geleerd hebt je mond te houden als iemand op je hand gaat staan,' zei hij, terwijl hij bloedserieus naar het bericht keek. 'Ik ben blij dat je dat nu kunt... Hij zegt oo. dat ik trots op jou mag zijn.'
Ze keek hem weer aan. Zijn gezicht was ondoo.grondelijk en de stilte die er viel begon wel erg lang te duren. Uiteindelijk kon ze zich niet meer inhouden.
'En ben je dat oo.?' flapte ze eruit.
Will glimlachte. 'Zeker wel. Heel trots zelfs. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
484:Wij hebben het nu over jou. Vergeet niet, ik ben notaris geweest. Ik maak die dingen altijd af. Wat wil jij worden?'
'Ik weet het niet.'
Hij begreep dat dat geen goed antwoo.d was, maar het was het enige, zelfs als iemand graag altijd alles afmaakte. Hij had geen flauw idee. Eigenlijk wist hij zeker dat hij noo.t iets wou, maar oo. noo.t iets zóú worden. De wereld was al boo.devol met mensen die iets waren, en de meesten waren er duidelijk niet gelukkig mee. ~ Cees Noo.eboo.,#NFDB
485:Niets is zo moo. als de eerste eenzame minuten met iemand die jou zou kunnen beminnen en iemand die je zelf zou kunnen beminnen. Er bestaat niets dat zo stil is als die minuten, niets zo verzadigd met liefdelijke verwachting. In die paar minuten heeft men lief, niet in de vele die volgen. Noo.t meer weet zij, zal zo iets schoo.s hen overkomen. Blijer zullen ze misschien worden, beter oo., en oneindig tevreden met elkaars lichaam. Maar noo.t zal het meer zo schoo. zijn. ~ Stig Dagerman, #NFDB
486:Totalitaire overheersing is gericht op de vernietiging van de vrijheid, meer nog, op de eliminatie van de spontaniteit in het algemeen, en geenszins op de beperking, hoe tiranniek oo. van de vrijheid. Technisch gesproken blijkt de afwezigheid van enig gezag of hiërarchie in het totalitaire systeem uit het feit dat er tussen de hoo.ste macht (de Führer) en de onderdanen geen tussenliggende niveaus zijn die elk hun aangepaste deel hebben in het gezag en de gehoo.zaamheid. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
487:Zonder geweld zal het niet gaan,' concludeert hij, 'want de groten hebben de macht, maar de kleinen zijn talrijk en tegen de mieren is geen tijger bestand. De mieren zijn echter blind, terwijl de mens beeft voo. de doo., want al geloo.t hij oo., weten doet hij niet. Men heeft ons de aarde gegeven als een boo.gaard waarin het oo.sten ons eigen werk zou zijn, dus heeft de mens het gelijkzijn in handen. En toch zullen veel kleinen Allah zien voo.dat al het werk gedaan is. ~ Willem Elsschot, #NFDB
488:Ik tors drie lasten: ik ben homoseksueel, ik ben katholiek, en ik ben blank. Moet ik mij daarvoo. schamen? Geenszins! (Goedkeurend gemompel.)
Homoseksueel ben ik bij geboo.te, en roo.s-katholiek ben ik doo. genade: aan geen van beide is dus ene moer meer te doen. En kan men mij verwijten dat ik blank ben? Ik zoude niet weten hoe. Ik schaam mij er niet voo. dat ik blank ben, en ik houd het oo. niet geheim: ik zoude dat niet eens willen. (Geroep: "Die man die heb gelijk!") ~ Gerard Reve,#NFDB
489:Ik tors drie lasten: ik ben homoseksueel, ik ben katholiek, en ik ben blank. Moet ik mij daarvoo. schamen? Geenszins! (Goedkeurend gemompel.)
Homoseksueel ben ik bij geboo.te, en roo.s-katholiek ben ik doo. genade: aan geen van beide is dus ene moer meer te doen. En kan men mij verwijten dat ik blank ben? Ik zoude niet weten hoe. Ik schaam mij er niet voo. dat ik blank ben, en ik houd het oo. niet geheim: ik zoude dat niet eens willen. (Geroep: "Die man die heb gelijk!") ~ Gerard Reve,#NFDB
490:Why is McDonalds still counting? How insecure is this company? 40 million, 80 billion million jillion killion tillion... who cares? Is anyone really impressed by that any more? Ooh, 89 billion sold? All right, I'll have one! I'm satisfied! I'd like to tell the CEO of McDonalds, "Loo.. We all get it, okay? You've sold a lot of hamburgers. Whatever the number is, just put up a sign, 'McDonalds: We're Doing Very Well.' We are tired of hearing about every goddamn one of them." ~ Jerry Seinfeld, #NFDB
491:Crystal Renn, arguably the most successful and recognizable plus-size model in recent memory, told the New York Times, “They see a roll, and they say, ‘Ooh, a roll!’ And they focus on it.”It isn’t diversity that the women’s magazines and high-fashion auteurs are after; it’s shock, amazement, attention, and a lot of self-congratulatory back-patting for their progressiveness and willingness to buck the oppressive norms that they themselves are responsible for shaping and enforcing. ~ Lesley Kinzel, #NFDB
492:...omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oo. nogal ondoo.zichtig was, in zekere zin beoo.de de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voo.beeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging noo.t iets te forceren niet nadelig voo. me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voo. me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren. ~ Jean Philippe Toussaint, #NFDB
493:Ik dacht vroeger oo., dat de jodenhaat alles met Christus had te maken, maar dat is niet zo; die was er ver vóór Christus oo. al, er worden alleen steeds nieuwe redenen voo. bedacht: dat ze rijk en patserig zijn, dat ze arm en smerig zijn, dat ze aan de touwtjes van het plutocratische groo.kapitalisme trekken, dat ze revolutionairen zijn en het communisme op hun geweten hebben, dat ze geen vaderland bezitten, dat ze hun vaderland herinrichten,-alles is goed, als het maar slecht is. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
494:en ten vierde Trientje Snoeck, een zeventigjarig vrouwken, die voo. eenige bezigheid heeft, onder stoelen, banken en kassen naar haren neus te zoeken, dien zij meent te hebben verloren." "En heeft zij werkelijk geenen neus?" lachte de sergeant-majoo.. "Geenen neus, mijnheer? Hij bedekt de helft van haar aangezicht; maar zij geloo.t dat het een houten neus is, dien men haar heeft opgezet. Ook trekt zij er gedurig aan, om hem los te maken; maar hij staat vast en het doet haar te veel pijn. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
495:Nou ja, je komt ter wereld en wordt doo. je omgeving, je ouders, het lot, je opleiding en je toevallige ervaringen gevormd. Dan komt er een moment waarop je zegt, alsof dat vanzelf spreekt: “Ik ben zo en zo”.’ Ze kwam op mijn tafel zitten. ‘Om je ware ik te vinden moet je vraagtekens zetten bij alles wat je bij je geboo.te hebt aangetroffen. En een groo. deel daarvan oo. kwijtraken, want vaak leer je pas doo. verdriet wat echt bij je hoo.t… Juist doo. die breuken leer je jezelf kennen. ~ Benedict Wells, #NFDB
496:[…]
Ik spande me in die tijd tot het uiterste in
om minder jong te worden-
wat gaf ik om verbazing en onwetendheid?
[…]
Ik wist toen nog niet wie hij was:
de w van wie en waar en wat,
die van waanzin en waarom en wanneer en wacht!
en oo. die van woestijnen, van weemoed en van wolken-
woo.den
die mij altijd achtervolgen.
Het was een kleine, nietszeggende w,
toen ik hem vond,
en ik was toen nog zo verschrikkelijk onacceptabel jong. ~ Too. Tellegen,#NFDB
497:[…]
Ik spaarde me in die tijd tot het uiterste in
om minder jong te worden-
wat gaf ik om verbazing en onwetendheid?
[…]
Ik wist toen nog niet wie hij was:
de w van wie en waar en wat,
die van waanzin en waarom en wanneer en wacht!
en oo. die van woestijnen, van weemoed en van wolken-
woo.den
die mij altijd achtervolgen.
Het was een kleine, nietszeggende w,
toen ik hem vond,
en ik was toen nog zo verschrikkelijk onacceptabel jong. ~ Too. Tellegen,#NFDB
498:De rust waarvan ik in een bibliotheek zo geniet bestaat niet alleen uit stilte. Al dat papier dempt ieder geluid, maar oo. het ruisen van mijn gedachten. Hun ongedurigheid vindt troo.t in de overmacht aan kennis langs de wanden. Die is zoveel groter dan oo.t in mijn hoo.d zal passen. Dat kalmeert me en herinnert mij eraan dat ik niet per se alles hoef te weten en begrijpen. Zoveel is al opgeschreven en ik heb het allemaal binnen handbereik. Daar hoef ik mij dus niet meer mee bezig te houden. ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
499:Dis ’n vroo. herfsoggend. Dweperig. Soo. Maart is. Sy hou haar voo. as somer, maar daar’s ’n winter in haar mou. Sy vang ons nie onkant nie. Ons ken haar so. Sy maak groo. bohaai, goo. donder, slaat bliksem, blaas wind en stoo. oplaas enkele vermoeiende druppels oo. ’n dor Pretoria uit. Daarna speel sy weer somer tot die son sak. Jy weet nie hoe jy dit met haar het nie. Jy hoo. vir meer, sprei jou palms oo. onder die son, dan kom spoel sy haar voshaarkwas af in jou tuin en beweeg aan. Net so. ~ Steve Hofmeyr, #NFDB
500:Lucille certainly picked a fine time to leave us, didn’t he? I just wish our only problem was four hungry children and a crop in the field. (Danger)
You know, your sarcasm isn’t helping anymore than your bizarre and scattered references to literature and bad country songs. (Alexion)
Not true, it’s helping me maintain a calm facade that I most definitely do not feel. (Danger)
Well, it’s starting to piss me off. (Alexion)
Ooo. you almost scare me when you say that. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
501:Tegen het einde van de winter werd dit wanhopige verlangen weg te komen uit deze eenzaamheid en oo. het gewone gevoel van verveling zo groo., dat ik de kamer niet meer uitkwam, geen piano meer speelde en geen boeken meer wilde lezen. Als katja mij tractte te overhalen toch iets te gaan doen, antwoo.dde ik :'ik heb geen zin, ik kan niet.', Maar in mijn hart zei een stem: Waarom? Waarom zoui k iets doen wanneer mijn moo.ste jaren zo verloren gaan? En op dit waarom had ik geen ander antwoo.d dan tranen. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB
502:Two goo. friends talking to each other is a stenographer’s worst nightmare. They are talking over each other. When one is speaking formed words, the other is making sounds—“Uh-huh.” “Ooh.” “I know.” “Yup, yup, oh, I’ve seen it, yup. They’ll do that.” They’re listening to each other in a way where each is both pushing information to the other and pulling information out of the other. Push, pull, push, pull. When they are really connecting, it actually runs together—pushpullpushpull. That’s real listening. ~ James Comey, #NFDB
503:Hoewel er in deze periode een heftige kritiek was op het consumentisme van de kapitalistische samenleving en de eendimensionaliteit van de moderne massamens, is het de ironie van de geschiedenis dat juist de culturele omslag in de jaren zestig en zeventig de ongehoo.de dominantie van de kapitalistische consumptiemaatschappij mogelijk heeft gemaakt. Het principe van de vrije individualiteit is een goudmijn gebleken voo. de markt, voo.zover daarin oo. de maximale behoeftebevrediging kon worden geëxploiteerd. ~ Ad Verbrugge, #NFDB
504:De mensen in de Sovjet-Unie is elke vorm van politieke vrijheid ontzegd, niet alleen de vrijheid van vereniging, maar oo. de vrijheid van denken, van mening en van publieke meningsuiting[...]. Toen Stalin stierf, waren de laden van de schrijvers en de artiesten leeg [...]. Daarmee wil ik niet het verschil tussen tirannieke censuur en vrijheid van de kunsten minimaliseren, maar wel het feit beklemtonen dat het verschil tussen clandestiene literatuur en geen literatuur gelijk is aan het verschil tussen één en nul. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
505:Hold up. How do you accidentally have sex with somebody?" Adina scoffed. "Is she all, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't s ee your penis there'?"
Tiara squealed and waved her hands. "Don't say that word!"
"What? Accidentally? Sorry? Penis?"
"Gah!" Tiara put her fingers in her ears.
"What about phallic?" Petra teased. "Like, 'Yon volcano is quite phallic, Lady Tiara.'" Tiara loo.ed confused. "Phallic means penis-like," Petra explained.
"Ooh," Tiara said. ~ Libba Bray,#NFDB
506:He was so pumped, jumping up and down on the spot, showing off the taut lean muscles in his quads and calves so different to the bulkiness of a lot of the other players. He bristled with energy, shaking out his arms, flicking his fingers.
Flicking off invisible globules of testosterone so powerful she could feel their pull all the way up here.
He dropped his head from side to side to work his traps, bending at the waist right in front of the box to execute a perfect hamstring stretch.
Ooh la freaking la. ~ Amy Andrews,#NFDB
507:Wat had hij steeds te kijken? Waarnaar? Er is niks na de doo.. Je gaat doo., klaar, je wordt begraven. Als je leeft, oo. al ben je niet gelukkig, kun je doo. de frisse lucht lopen, in je tuintje. Als de geest verdwijnt, ben je weg, dan word je aarde. Geest is geest en de rest is aarde. Aarde, meer niet. De een sterft in de wieg, de ander haalt grijze haren. Gelukkige mensen willen niet doo.. Niet als ze iemand hebben die van hen houdt. Dan willen ze er nog een jaartje bij. Maar waar zijn er gelukkige mensen? ~ Svetlana Alexievich, #NFDB
508:She shoo. her head. “I swear, Roberts, the more I learn about your gender, the more I think a sperm
donor, a goo. handyman, and a great vibrator is the better way to go.”
He let out a bark of laughter. “In defense of my gender, we’re not all dogs. As a matter of fact, I
happen to be friends and work with a lot of goo. guys.”
“Ooh. Anyone you can set me up with?”
He gave her a long, dark scowl.
She’d take that as a no.
“I just breeched the sex-buddy etiquette again, didn’t I?” she asked.
“Quite. ~ Julie James,#NFDB
509:Het waren de nachten, lodig en lang, die haar een illusie in de weg stonden. Steeds kramakkelachtiger hield dat huis zichzelf nog recht, en ze wist dat het nog spannend zou worden wie er het eerst aan renovatie toe zou zijn, zij of het huis. In bed luisterde ze naar alles wat zich aan de wind gewonnen gaf, een dakpan, een bloempot die met zich liet sollen in de tuin. Maar oo. zonder wind; het huis kraakte, als deed het dat uit eigen beweging zoals mensen soms hun vingers kraken, om de gewrichten even los te maken. ~ Dimitri Verhulst, #NFDB
510:Het zal nog jaren duren voo.dat ik oo. krijg voo. die wijsheid van het lichaam, dat me met een hardnekkige trouw laat weten dat het er is en dat me herhaaldelijk iets probeert te vertellen waar ik wat aan zou kunnen hebben, als ik het maar versta.
Maar ik verstond het niet, nog niet. Het kostte me moeite mezelf te koppelen aan mijn eigen vlees en bloed. Voo. de boo.schappen van mijn huid, hart en hersenen, van mijn lever, darmen, nieren en van die jammerende, zeurende organen in mijn vrouwenbekken, was ik stokdoo.. ~ Connie Palmen,#NFDB
511:In plaats van de voo.malige wilde voedselbronnen te consumeren, gingen de eilandbewoners over op de groo.ste beschikbare bron die ze tot nog toe niet hadden benut: mensen, van wie beenderen niet allen in echte graven terecht kwamen, maar oo. in latere afvalhopen op Paaseiland - gebroken, het merg was eruit gezogen. De traditionele verhalen van de eilandbewoners staan bol van kannibalisme: de meest beledigende opmerking die je tegen een vijand kon maken was:'Moge het vlees van je moeder tussen mijn tanden blijven plakken! ~ Jared Diamond, #NFDB
512:This is how brainstorming goes with brightly faithful people: “Hmmm. Uh-huh. Nope. Nah. No. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Ooh. Ahh. Wait a second. Holy shit, yes, yes, yes, oh my God, we could…and then we could…and it would be so…and holy yes and…I’ll sell it all if I have to…and what am I going to wear when I accept the award?! Who will we invite to the wedding?! How big do you think we can build it? Excuse me while I make a phone call.” They go off. It’s illogical, grandiose, crazy, and most certainly romantic. It’s faith. ~ Danielle LaPorte, #NFDB
513:Ik dacht altijd dat als mensen verliefd werden, ze gewoo. ergens terechtkwamen en daar verder niets over te zeggen hadden. En misschien geldt dat oo. wel voo. het begin, maar het geldt niet voo. dit, nu. Ik ben verliefd op hem geworden. Maar ik blijf niet zomaar bij hem bij gebrek aan beter, alsof ik niemand anders kan krijgen. Ik blijf bij hem omdat ik daarvoo. kies, elke ochtend als ik wakker word, elke dag dat we ruziemaken of tegen elkaar liegen of elkaar teleurstellen. Telkens opnieuw kies ik voo. hem, en hij kiest voo. mij. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
514:Ik denk dat die Morgarath veel te slim wil zijn, met dat lekken van valse plannen en geheime tunnels en verrassingselementen van Horth en zijn mannen uit het noo.den, om het Doo.nbos heen - het is allemaal veel te ingewikkeld. En iets ingewikkelds, dat moet je niet proberen als je een land als Araluen wilt aanvallen... En ik zeg je, die slag daar, dat wordt kantje boo.d, hoe dan oo.. Dat heb je altijd als het te ingewikkeld gemaakt wordt. Er hoeft maar dát mis te gaan en de hele zaak stort in elkaar als een kaartenhuis. - Erak ~ John Flanagan, #NFDB
515:HARTSTUK
1. Mag ik mijn hart aan uw voeten leggen.
2. Als u mijn vloer niet vies maakt.
1. Mijn hart is rein.
2. Dat moeten we nog zien.
1. Ik krijg het er niet uit.
2. Zal ik u helpen.
1. 't Is mij een waar genoegen...
2. Ik krijg het er oo. niet uit.
1. (brult)
2. Ik zal het eruit opereren. Waar heb ik een zakmes voo.. Dat zullen we wel even fiksen. Doo.werken en niet wanhopen. Ziezo, we hebben het gefikst. Maar dat is een baksteen. Uw hart is een baksteen.
1. Maar het klopt alleen voo. u. ~ Heiner M ller,#NFDB
516:God and the universe said to me one day, "You're only going to get what's goo. for you." That's kind of how I try to loo. at things. Isn't that true, when you loo. back at things? "Ooh, I'm glad I didn't get that!" You get more philosophical when you get older, with the more life experiences you have. But I don't have any bad feelings towards anybody that was ever involved in any of that stuff, because I don't think that people usually set out to hurt you. I think that hurt is all manufactured by yourself and your expectations. ~ Louie Anderson, #NFDB
517:The cat, who’d probably had lots of practice climbing one of those carpeted perches at home, ran up the side of the tree, pounced on one branch and then a higher branch. Before Patricia and Dirrp even knew what was going on, the cat was halfway up. “We’re trapped! What were you thinking?” Dirrp sang out. Patricia waited until Tommington had reached the top, then swung down the other side of the tree, dropping from branch to branch so fast she almost pulled her arm out, and then landed on the ground on her butt with an oo.. ~ Charlie Jane Anders, #NFDB
518:C'est la route de Varovie peut-être, zei vorst Hippolyte opeens luid. Iedereen keek naar hem zonder te begrijpen wat hij daarmee wilde zeggen. Vorst Hippolyte zelf keek vol vrolijke verbazing om zich heen. Net als de anderen begreep hijzelf oo. niet wat zijn woo.den betekenden. Tijdens zijn diplomatieke carrière
had hij meer dan eens gemerkt dat woo.den die op deze manier voo. de vuist weg werden gesproken een heel scherpzinnige indruk maakten en daarom had hij deze woo.den gesproken, die het eerst in hem waren opgekomen. <> ~ Leo Tolstoy,#NFDB
519:De maan heeft onze wereld langer dan wie oo. gadegeslagen en van heel dichtbij. Alles wat er oo.t op deze aarde is gebeurd, alle handelingen die er zijn verricht heeft de maan waarschijnlijk gezien. Maar hij houdt er zijn mond over dicht. Koud en correct als altijd draagt hij dat zware verleden met zich mee. Op de maan is geen lucht en oo. geen wind. Een vacuüm leent zich er uitstekend toe herinneringen onbeschadigd te bewaren. Niemand is in staat om het hart van de maan te verzachten. Aomame pakte haar glas en dronk de maan toe. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
520:In de loo. van de vijf, zes jaar dat ik in Rusland verbleef, ben ik een paar keer doo. diverse organisaties en individuen gedoo. dan wel doo.verklaard.
Teruggekeerd naar het vaderland kwam ik erachter dat ik drie keer ben opgehangen, twee keer doo.geschoten en één keer doo. woeste Kirgizische opstandelingen bij het Ysykköl-meertje ben gevierendeeld.
Ten slotte ben ik definitief doo.gestoken in een wilde ruzie met dronken matrozen in een van de vele havenkroegjes van Odessa. Dit laatste lijkt mij oo. het meest waarschijnlijk. ~ Jaroslav Ha ek,#NFDB
521:Scheppend kunstenaar, dat valt niet mede. Ik sprak heel vroeger wel eens vader Klatser die aan een betere samenleving bouwt, als hij nog niet in zijn hese geschreeuw gestikt is, tenminste. Hij zei een keer tegen me: 'Weet jij, wat of heel moeilijk is om te schilderen?' 'Nee?' 'Een s-s-s-sneeuwlandschap. En weet je wat of oo. heel erg moeilijk is om te schilderen? Een z-z-z-zonsondergang.' (Hij stotterde oo. nog) 'En weet je, wat ik nou aan het schilderen ben?' (Sprakeloze stilte) 'Een z-z-z-zonsondergang in een s-s-s-sneeuwlandschap. ~ Gerard Reve, #NFDB
522:Echt, ik wilde het je vertellen, heus waar. Het spijt me verschrikkelijk dat ik dat niet eerder heb gedaan.'
'Weet ik,' zei hij. 'Ik heb oo. heel veel spijt van de dingen die ik heb gezegd. Ik meende het niet. Dat weet je toch wel, hè?'
Renn vertrok haar gezicht. Toen legde ze haar ellebogen op haar knieën en verborg haar gezicht in haar handen. Ze maakte geen enkel geluid, maar Torak zag haar schouders schokken.
Een beetje onhandig sloeg hij zijn arm om haar heen. Eerst verstarde ze, toen ontspande ze en leunde tegen hem aan. ~ Michelle Paver,#NFDB
523:If we find out you’re single, I might hit you up for a nice long massage.
He cursed when his body immediately responded to the image of her naked and laid out before him, waiting for him to run his hands all over her body. Now who’s flirting?
Ooh, she purred. That’s so coo.. Even in your thoughts, your voice deepens and gets all growly when you’re turned on. Before he could respond, she made a sound of impatience. Damn it. Now I’m turned on.
He laughed, delighted that she inspired him to do so even in such grim circumstances. ~ Dianne Duvall,#NFDB
524:Immers, naar mijn idee had ze een verkeerd idee van mijn methode, omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oo. nogal ondoo.zichtig was, in zekere zin beoo.de de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voo.beeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging noo.t iets te forceren niet nadelig voo. me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voo. me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren. ~ Jean Philippe Toussaint, #NFDB
525:Ready?” he asked. He motioned for her to loo. to the sky.
She’d been on enough long walks with her father to know it was time to open her mind. Their times in nature usually held a secret surprise. It could be anything, really—a rainbow touching the snow or heart-shaped shade cast by a pair of trees. Anything. Today, the gift was being outside the second it started to snow.
“Ooh, Daddy! Loo., it’s like a salt shaker!” She stuck her tongue out for the newborn snowflakes.
Blake followed her lead. Snow tasted sweeter with Emme around. ~ Debra Anastasia,#NFDB
526:You’re an idiot, half-breed,” she taunted, as I kicked snow at her. She dodged easily. “Rowan’s too.goo. for you, and he’s experienced. Most everyone, fey and mortal boys included, would give their teeth to have him to themselves for a night. Try him. I guarantee you’ll like it.”
“Not interested,” I snapped, glaring at her with narrowed eyes. My butt still stung, making my words sharp. “I’m done playing games with faery princes. They can go to hell, for all I care. I’d rather strip naked for a group of redcaps.”
“Ooh, if you do, can I watch? ~ Julie Kagawa,#NFDB
527:Doo.e," George said.
He'd practiced all morning but still didn't get it quite right. "Nope, more u, less oo./i>. Duuude."
"Dude."
"Dude."
"Okay, dude." George nodded.
"How's it hanging?" Jack asked.
"How am I supposed to answer that?" George loo.ed at him.
"I don't think Kaldar said anything about that. I guess 'goo.'? I don't get it. What's hanging anyway?"
George shoo. his head. "Your stuff, you nimwit."
His stuff...Oh. Ha! "In that case, it's hanging long!" Jack dissolved in giggles. "Long, get it? ~ Ilona Andrews,#NFDB
528:There were two recording studios in Bellingham. One was really expensive, a "nice studio." We were at the point where we were young and irreverent. We would scoff at the idea of a nice studio. "Why would you want to go to a nice studio? Oh wow, they have really expensive gear. Ooh, that's really fancy. Well we've got an eight-track. We've got it going on here." Now that we have the resources, we're like, "Oh wow, a nice studio is pretty nice! They do have nice outboards here. It's actually a pretty goo. place." It's funny how much changes so quickly. ~ Ben Gibbard, #NFDB
529:The Simi has needs. Lots of needs. I need akri’s plastic card, for one thing. It very nice. People give me lots of stuff when I hand it to them. Ooo. I really like the new plastic card he gave me with my own name on it. It blue and all sparkly and it says Simi Parthenopaeus. Doesn’t that have a nice ring to it? I have to say it again. Simi Parthenopaeus. I like that a lot. It even has my picture in the corner and I am a very attractive demon if I do say so myself. Akri says it, too. ‘Simi, you are beautiful.’ I like it when he tells me that. (Simi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB
530:...she's leaving now.
...
Janis attacks the back doo. of the schoo. gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's found the Goths' hangout. Who knew?
"Oof," someone says. She keeps walking, muttering, "sorry" to whomever it was she hit with the flying doo..
***
Cabel: ... That was the Goth stage where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention the hairstyle.
(pause)
But then she slammed a doo. handle into my gut. And, when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him. ~ Lisa McMann,#NFDB
531:The brass ball spun furiously round his pole. "Ooh, I'll bet you scribble in the margins, don't you? You fiend! You devil! I can see it in your beady little non-spectacled eyes! You're just the type of monster who uses an innocent boo. to prop open a doo. or straighten a table with a wobbly leg. Or maybe you only read magazines? Savage!"
"Oh, get off yourself," barked Blunderbuss. "I've eaten more boo.s than you've shelved in your whole weird pinball life and I enjoyed every last one, thanks very much."
"EATEN?!" screeched the brass ball. ~ Catherynne M Valente,#NFDB
532:Het stelt me buitengewoo. gerust,' zei ze, terwijl ze de geïnhaleerde roo. uit-sprak, 'te horen dat u geen hartstochtelijk mens bent. Hoe zou u trouwens oo.? Dan zou u uw aard moeten verloo.henen. Hartstocht betekent : leven omwille van het leven. Maar het is bekend dat jullie leven omwille van de belevenis. Hartstocht betekent zichzelf vergeten. En jullie is het erom begonnen jezelf te verrijken. C'est ça. U hebt er geen flauw vermoeden van dat dat een afschuwelijke vorm van egoïsme is en dat jullie je op zekere dag zullen ontpoppen als vijanden van de mensheid. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
533:We could argue in front of our lockers all dramatically," I said. "That's something I saw a lot at human high schoo.s."
He squeezed me in a quick hug. "Yes! Now that sounds like a goo. time. And then I could come to your house in the middle of the night and play music really loudly under your window until you too. me back."
I chuckled. "You watch too.many movies. Ooh, we could be lab partners!"
"Isn't that kind of what we were in Defense?"
"Yeah, but in normal high schoo., there would be more science, less kicking each other in the face."
"Nice. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
534:It reminds me of the story that my American godmother used to tell me years and years ago about two frogs who fell into a pail of milk. One said: ‘Ooh, I’m drowning, I’m drowning!’ The other frog said, ‘I‘m not going to drown.’ ‘How can you stop drowning?’ asked the other frog. ‘Why, I’m going to hustle around, and hustle around, and hustle around like mad,’ said the second frog. Next morning the first frog had given up and drowned, and the second frog, having hustled around all night, was sitting there in the pail, right on top of a pat of butter. Everyone, ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB
535:I think those girls on the left side with the signs are members of Rick’s Chicks,” she returned, mostly to see if she could rattle him.
“So are you, if you get the newsletter.”
Sam smiled. She couldn’t help it, even when the volume of camera flashes increased in response. “That’s right. Ooh, Mr. Addison, you’re so hot, sign my tit, will you?”
He leaned over, kissing her ear. “I am going to fuck you all night,” he whispered.
Shivers went all the way down her spine. “I must have the deluxe fan club membership.”
“Oh, that you do, Samantha. That you do. ~ Suzanne Enoch,#NFDB
536:Niets waaraan mensen zich zo lelijk kunnen verwonden als aan het geluk van een ander.
Dat iets moo.s je kwalijk genomen zou kunnen worden, als je jong bent kun je zoiets niet geloven. Dat iemand je de liefde misgunt, hoe kun je daarop bedacht zijn?
De eerste tijd heb je het oo. helemaal niet doo.. Omdat het in jou zo zingt ga je ervan uit dat iedereen meeneuriet. Dat ze meedeinen op jouw muziek. Dit is maar schijn. Doo. jouw roes lijkt het of ze tollen. In feite staan ze stil en ze zetten zich alvast schrap. Vroeger of later bots je in volle vaart tegen ze op. ~ Arthur Japin,#NFDB
537:I chuck my bag into his lap,perhaps a little too.hard.St. Clair oo.s and jerks forward.
"Watch it." Josh bites into a pink apple and talks through a full moo.th. "He has parts down there you don't have."
"Ooo.parts," I say. "Intriguing. Tell me more."
Josh smiles sadly. "Sorry. Privelged information.Only people with parts can know about said parts."
St. Clair shakes the rest of the leaves from his hair and puts on The Hat. Rashmi makes a face at him. "Really? Today? In public?" she asks.
"Every day," he says. "As long as you're with me. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
538:But I reckon yon Wintersmith wants to romance the big wee hag and she disna ken what tae do aboo. it.” “So it is like how babbies are made?” said Daft Wullie. “No, ’cuz even beasties know that but only people know aboo. Romancin’,” said Rob. “When a bull coo.meets a lady coo. he disna have tae say, ‘My heart goes bang-bang-bang when I see your wee face,’ ’cuz it’s kinda built intae their heads. People have it more difficult. Romancin’ is verra important, ye ken. Basically it’s a way the boy can get close to the girl wi’oo. her attackin’ him and scratchin’ his eyes oo.. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
539:Alsof ik nu, terwijl ik het gekabbel begreep, de rivier geloo.de, en doo. te geloven dat ik haar begreep samen met haar herhaalde terwijl ik langzaam in slaap viel met het open oo. van dit land dat voo. sommigen een vaderland is, zachtjes en loo. en met het open oo. waarmee ik besmet ben en het schijnsel dat er niet is: Ik ben de rivier, ik ben de rivier en daarom de draad van de continuïteit tussen levenden en doden net als de verhalen die 's nachts tegen ons praten, ik lijk op de tijden en oo. op de feiten, ik ben de rivier. Maar de rivier is de rivier, en verder niets. ~ Javier Mar as, #NFDB
540:I like big boo.s and I cannot lie.
You other readers can’t deny
That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind
Like a hardbound brick of win.
Story bling.
Wanna swipe that thing
Cause you see that boy is speeding
Right through the boo. he’s reading.
I’m hoo.ed and I can’t stop pleading.
Wanna curl up with that for ages,
All thousand pages.
Reviewers tried to warn me.
But with that plot you hoo.ed
Me like Bradley.
Ooh, crack that fat spine.
You know I wanna make you mine.
This boo. is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella. ~ Jim C Hines,#NFDB
541:Dat een ter doo. veroo.deelde een uur voo. zijn doo. zegt of denkt, dat wanneer hij ergens op een hoge rots zou moeten leven, op een zo nauwe ruimte dat hij alleen zijn voeten zou kunnen neerzetten, - met rondom ravijnen, de oceaan, eeuwige duisternis, eeuwige eenzaamheid en eeuwige storm, - en zo op die ene el ruimte heel zijn leven, duizend jaren, een eeuwigheid zou moeten blijven staan, - dat het nog beter zou zijn zo te leven dan zo dadelijk te sterven! Leven, leven en leven! Hoe dan oo., maar leven!... Wat is dat waar! God, wat is dat waar! De mens is een schobbejak! ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
542:The point is that when you're playing D&D and your group comes across a heap of treasure, or a big sparkly gem, or a magical skull, you should never take it. It's always a trap." He uncrossed his arms and waved them wildly. "This is a trap." Jace was silent. He was loo.ing at Simon thoughtfully, as if he'd never seen him before, or at least never considered him so closely. "Come here," he said. Simon moved toward him, his eyebrows raised. "What-oo.!" Jace had dropped his sword into Simon's hands. "Hold this for me while I climb," Jace said, and leaped up onto the plinth. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
543:Die Spinnerak-Rokkie
'n Feetjie het vir haar
uit spinnerak 'n doek vergaar;
'n rokkie wit as heuningwas
het sy toe aanmekaargelas.
Maar nouliks was dit om haar lyf,
toe kom 'n windjie, vlug en styf,
en met die uiting van sy sug
daar trek ons Feetjie deur die lug!
Haar maatjies staar haar treurig aan,
hoe sy hoo. oo. die bome gaan,
tot sy met heel haar rokkie fyn
daar in die verte glad verdwyn!
As jy 'n rokkie oo.t besit
van spinnerak of iets soo. dit,
pas op hoe jy jou dan verroer,
'n windjie mag jou glad vervoer!
~ Eugene Marais,#NFDB
544:Capítulo 2 1 Assim, os céus, e a terra, e todo o seu exército foram acabados. 2 E, havendo Deus acabado no dia sétimo a sua obra, que tinha feito, descansou no sétimo dia de toda a sua obra, que tinha feito. 3 E abençoo. Deus o dia sétimo e o santificou; porque nele descansou de toda a sua obra, que Deus criara e fizera. 4 Estas são as origens dos céus e da terra, quando foram criados; no dia em que o SENHOR Deus fez a terra e os céus. 5 Toda planta do campo ainda não estava na terra, e toda erva do campo ainda não brotava; porque ainda o SENHOR Deus não tinha feito chover sobre a terra, e não ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
545:We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, oo. la la. The earth quakes. ~ Sasha Cagen, #NFDB
546:Ook drong het niet tot haar doo. dat ze een keer gedacht had, dat als Port eerder doo.ging dan zij, ze niet werkelijk zou geloven dat hij doo. was, maar eerder dat hij op de een of andere manier in zichzelf was teruggegaan, om daar te blijven, en dat hij zich noo.t meer van haar bewust zou zijn, zodat in werkelijkheid zij het was die opgehouden had te bestaan, tenministe in belangrijke mate. Zij zou degene zijn die gedeeltelijk het rijk van de doo. was ingegaan, terwijl hij zou voo.tbestaan, een verdriet binnen in haar, een deur die ongeopend was gebleven, een reddeloo. verloren kans. (p. 173-174) ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
547:Wat ons, Europeanen, snel tegenstaat was voo. de Amerikaanse reiziger vanaf de jaren vijftig juist een groo. pluspunt: waar je oo. belandde, de kamers in een Holiday Inn en de smaak van een McDonald’s waren precies hetzelfde. De consistentie en de eenheid van het product, de saaiheid zo je wilt, vormden de basis van deze succesformule. Je kon – en kunt – er altijd van op aan. Aan de andere kant, in de lijn van wat Steinbeck oo. schrijft: als mensen smakeloo. – en bovenal hygiënisch – voedsel niet alleen acceptabel vinden, maar zelfs gewenst, wat betekent dat dan voo. het emotionele leven van een land? ~ Geert Mak, #NFDB
548:Czar Nicholas the Second was overthrown by Lenin in 1917."
I blink in surprise. "Yes," I say, "he was."
"And do you think I want to know that? IT's not even on your exam syllabus. I never had to know that. So now it's your turn to pick up a few pairs of shoes and make oo. and aah sounds for me becuase Jo ate prawns and she's allergic and she got sick and couldn't come and I'm not sitting on a bus on my own for five hours, OK?"
Nat takes a deep breath and I loo. at my hands in shame. I am a selfish, selfish person. I am also a very sparkly person; my hands are covered in gold glitter. ~ Holly Smale,#NFDB
549:En niemand ging op het juiste moment doo.. Moessorgski, Poesjkin, Lermontov - die waren allemaal te vroeg gestorven. Tsjajkovski, Rosini, Gogol - die hadden allemaal eerder moeten sterven. Beethoven misschien oo. wel. Het was natuurlijk niet alleen een probleem voo. beroemde schrijvers en componisten, maar oo. voo. gewone mensen: het probleem om je beste jaren te overleven, voo.bij het punt waarop het leven geen vreugde meer kan brengen en alleen nog vreselijke gebeurtenissen. […] In plaats van hem te vermoo.den hadden ze hem in leven gelaten, en doo. hem in leven te laten hadden ze hem vermoo.d. -p.219 ~ Julian Barnes, #NFDB
550:Love is the spice of life!" Aunt Lydia picked up her glass and too. a long drink before setting it down again. "Did it end in heartache, dear?" "Well, yes...but it was the goo. kind of heart ache, Aunt Lydia. The kind where you'll always think fondly of each other, even though you know your love could never be." My aunt squealed with delight. "Ooh, I just love stories that end that way! Those happy, sappy endings in romance novels aren't realistic at all. But if you can gaze up at the stars at night and think fondly of your lost love, then it's worth falling in love and losing him." "You're absolutely right. ~ Lynn Austin, #NFDB
551:No way you're calling Ben. We already have a plan. Were going to his house, and I'm going to ring the doo.bell with some fake lab work for Chemistry, and then Taylor is going to set off his car alarm while I year through his roo. loo.ing for evidence."
"Wow. Great plan, Kate. Just out of curiosity, what exactly are you planning on doing when he comes back to his roo. to find you knee-deep in his secret Brotherhoo. bullshit?" Liam spat his words at me like nails.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Do you have a better idea? Ooh, I know. Maybe you could call you're brother and have him light his garage on fire or something. ~ Lisa Roecker,#NFDB
552:How did you fall in, Eeyore?" asked Rabbit, as he dried him with Piglet's handkerchief.
"I didn't," said Eeyore.
"But how--"
"I was BOUNCED," said Eeyore.
"Oo," said Roo.excitedly, "did somebody push you?"
"Somebody BOUNCED me. I was just thinking by the side of the river--thinking, if any of you know what that means--when I received a loud BOUNCE."
"Oh, Eeyore!" said everybody.
"Are you sure you didn't slip?" asked Rabbit wisely.
"Of course I slipped. If you're standing on the slippery bank of a river, and somebody BOUNCES you loudly from behind, you slip. What did you think I did? ~ A A Milne,#NFDB
553:Pru shrugs. “I wasn’t sure how long they’d hold our reservation.” A sly grin spreads over her face. “I thought maybe you and Kiernan were just catching up on old times. Although I guess that might have been awkward with your new guy around.” Mom chokes on her tea and gives me a questioning loo.. I start to respond, but Trey beats me to it. “Perhaps,” he says in a level voice, staring directly at Pru. “But no more awkward than sitting across the table from the aunt who sneaked into her boyfriend’s bedroo..” Pru’s eyebrows rise gradually, and she does a slow clap, her grin widening. “Ooh, touché! After your rather ~ Rysa Walker, #NFDB
554:Waren er geen carnivoren, dan was er oo. geen vleesverwerkende industrie. Dat is het punt. Geen vraag, geen aanbod. Wij zijn getuigen van een dierenholocaust. Voo. mij maakt het niet uit of je op grote schaal mensen vergast of dat je op diezelfde schaal dieren doo.t. Industriële vernietiging is industriële vernietiging, maar het grote verschil tussen de vorige en deze holocaust is dat deze schaamteloo. onder onze neus gebeurt. Niemand doet moeite oo. maar iets te verbergen. Als ik langs een slager loo. zie ik daar Joden hangen, en als ik mensen een broo.je rosbief zie eten dan eten ze wat mij betreft een broo.je Joo. ~ Arnon Grunberg, #NFDB
555:You can be my avenging knight. Ooh! That’s what Princess X needs next: an avenging knight.”
“You think?”
“I’ve already decided. Your armor is gold, and you’re carrying a black battle-ax . . . I say we make you a redhead. You’ve got a little red in your hair, someplace. When the sunlight hits it just right.”
“We’re in Seattle. How often does the sunlight hit anything?”
“Walgreens is just right down the street. We could get a box of dye. It’d surprise the heck out of your dad.”
“You’re going to make me do this, aren’t you?”
“No, May. I’m not going to make you do anything, except help me finish the story. ~ Cherie Priest,#NFDB
556:Bram knocked, and Chas opened the doo., her music growing louder. She had strips of tinfoil in her hair and a cigarette dangling from her lips–which she immediately hid behind her back when she saw Bram.
"Hiiii!"
Both of Bram's brows flitted upward. "Hi." He loo.ed at the foil. "I'm not even gonna ask."
"Martians are trying to control my thoughts, stupid." She noticed me then and smiled. "Hi, Nora! Ooh…" Her eyes fell to the weapon. "Shiny."
"Nora needs some more appropriate clothes if she's to use the shiny," Bram said.
Chas clapped her hands together. "Makeover!"
Oh, God no.… ~ Lia Habel,#NFDB
557:Een man stelde mijn vriend Jaime Cohen de volgende vraag:
"Wat vindt u het grappigste aan de mens?"
Jaime antwoo.dde: "Onze manier van denken. We denken voo.tdurend verkeerd om: hoe eerder we volwassen kunnen zijn hoe beter en vervolgens klagen we over onze verloren jeugd.
Onze gezondheid offeren we op om aan geld te komen en hebben we dat dan geven we alles weer uit om weer gezond te worden.
We zijn zo op de toekomst gericht dat we het heden verwaarlozen en hebben daardoo. in het heden geen leven, maar in de toekomst oo. niet.
We leven alsof we noo.t doo. zullen gaan en sterven alsof we noo.t hebben geleefd. ~ Paulo Coelho,#NFDB
558:Hoe het oo. zij, dat was dus Lavicini's ongeluk met de teleportatiemachine. Loesers teleportatieongeluk was op geen stukken na zo ernstig. Er vielen geen doden. Het Allianztheater werd niet verwoest. Alleen Klugweils beide armen raakten uit de kom.
Dat werd overigens pas later vastgesteld. Het enige wat Loeser en Blumstein zagen nadat ze waren toegesneld, was dat Klugweil half uit zijn riemen hing met zijn armen en benen in rare hoeken, lijkbleek en met uitpuilende ogen. Het schouwspel deed Loeser onweerstaanbaar denken aan een stel bovenmaatse, bleke mannelijke geslachtsdelen die op pijnlijke wijze klem zaten in een sportbroekje. ~ Ned Beauman,#NFDB
559:Okay, so we have a ghost-spy.”
“A ghost-spy who can do magic,” Jenna added.
I nodded. “Even better. Which means that maybe the playing field is leveled after all.”
Jenna squeezed my hand, and I was actually feeling kind of optimistic as we approached the greenhouse. I mean, I wasn’t going to start skipping or anything (mostly because I was afraid I’d slip in all the muck), but all in all, I felt worlds better.
Through the glass walls of the greenhouse, I could see most of the other students standing in a circle, and I was in a goo. enough moo. to joke to Jenna, “Ooh, wonder if we’re gonna play Duck, Duck, Demon. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
560:But I’m not the only one to question your methods, am I? I gather that Miss Butterfield too. issue with them as well.”
He snorted. “That’s putting it mildly.”
His saucebox of a sister broke into a grin. “Ooh, what did she do while you were in that roo. alone? Do tell!”
“Not a chance. I don’t need her teaching you any new tricks.”
“You’re no fun at all,” she complained. “Well, I’m sure you deserved whatever she did. And that’s my point: I rather like her. So it doesn’t seem fair for her to be put in a situation where she could be-“
“Ruined by a scoundrel like me,” he finished for her.
“Compromised,” she corrected. ~ Sabrina Jeffries,#NFDB
561:Dave was examining the lingerie with interest. “Ooh, very nice. So I take it I’m not the only one with an announcement to make. Let me guess. You’re not gay, you’re bi, and you’ve got a girlfriend that you’ve somehow managed to keep a secret.” He inclined his head toward the open drawer. “There’s a hell of a lot of pretty underwear in here.” He cocked his head to one side. “How am I doing?” He… he thinks they belong to a woman? He thinks I’m bi? Except Shawn knew he had to say something. “You’re not even remotely close. No, I’m not bi, I’m still gay. No, there’s no secret girlfriend, and…. ” He too. a deep breath. “Those panties are mine.” ~ K C Wells, #NFDB
562:A cockroach appeared just as I was about to get into the bath. It was just the right time for a cockroach to make an appearance in my life; couldn't have been better. It scuttled quickly across the porcelain, the little bugger; I loo.ed around for a slipper, but actually I knew my chances of squashing him were small. What was the point in trying? And what goo. was Oon, in spite of her marvellously elastic vagina? We were already doo.ed. Cockroaches copulate gracelessly, with no apparent pleasure; but they also do it repeatedly and their genetic mutations are rapid and efficient. There is absolutely nothing we can do about cockroaches. ~ Michel Houellebecq, #NFDB
563:Roo.climbed off, and sat down next to him.
“Oo, Tigger,” he said excitedly, “are we at the top?”
“No,” said Tigger.
“Are we going to the top?”
“No,” said Tigger.
“Oh,” said Roo.rather sadly. And then he went on hopefully: “That was a lovely bit just now, when you pretended we were going to fall-bump-to-the-bottom, and we didn’t. Will you do that bit again?”
“NO,” said Tigger.
Roo.was silent for a little while, and then he said, “Shall we eat our sandwiches, Tigger?” And Tigger said, “Yes, where are they?” And Roo.said, “At the bottom of the tree.” And Tigger said, “I don’t think we’d better eat them just yet.” So they didn’t. ~ A A Milne,#NFDB
564:I've only been to SNL three times, and one time I was there, Chevy and Billy were having a huge screaming fight in the hallway, and Michael O'Donoghue and Tom Davis were holding them back, and John and Danny jumped in because Chevy and Billy were really going to come to blows. I mean, it was a huge argument. And the thing I remember about Bill Murray—I don't know Bill Murray, but he's screaming, you know, foaming at the mouth, 'Fucking Chevy," and in anger he says, 'Medium talent!' and I thought 'Ooh boy, that's funny. In anger he says 'medium talent.' That really impressed me. I went, 'So, Bill Murray—wow, who is that guy?" —John Landis ~ James Andrew Miller, #NFDB
565:Dit is waarschijnlijk het geheim: denken kwam er volstrekt niet aan te pas, enkel was er altijd maar en zonder aarzeling de dringende gewaarwording dat, wat ze je oo. proberen wijs te maken, dingen niet noo.zakelijkerwijze zijn zoals je wordt geleerd.
Er is zoveel meer mogelijk. Altijd en op elk gebied. Wij moeten het daarom wel zonder na te denken doen, dat ene wat zij geen van allen in ons zien, dat ongekende.
Die ene keer, die geen ruimte in ons laat voo. twijfel, mag een mens niet afgaan op een afweging. Anders zouden we aan wat het meest de moeite waard is noo.t beginnen, ons eigen pad bijvoo.beeld of de liefde, het loskomen, de lucht. ~ Arthur Japin,#NFDB
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567:[…] dat er een basisindeling is in de wegen van de mens: zij die gemoedsrust en geluk verlangen moeten geloven en het geloo. omarmen, terwijl zij die de waarheid willen zoeken van gemoedsrust moeten afzien en hun leven moeten wijden aan onderzoek. […] U moet kiezen tussen vertroo.ting en werkelijk onderzoek! Als u de wetenschap kiest, als u verkiest bevrijd te worden uit de ketenen van het bovennatuurlijke, als u, zoals u beweert, verkiest het geloo. te mijden en de goddeloo.heid te omarmen, dan kunt u niet in één adem doo. hunkeren naar de kleine vertroo.tingen van de gelovige! Als u God doo.t, moet u oo. de beschutting van de tempel verlaten. (p. 193) ~ Irvin D Yalom, #NFDB
568:You can't live with the idea that someone might leave. So instead of being happy for me, like any normal person, you're pissed off because oo., oh no, Hassan doesn't like me anymore. You're such a sitzpinkler. You're so goddamned scared of the idea that someone might dump you that your whole fugging life is built around not gettting left behind. Well, it doesn't work, kafir. I just - it's not just dumb, it's ineffective. Because then you're not being a goo. friend or a goo. boyfriend or whatever, because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you. There's your goddamned Theorem. ~ John Green, #NFDB
569:Ieder obsessief en verslaafd gedrag is een vorm van mateloo. consumptiegedrag. Consumeren is iets van buiten naar binnen halen, iets tot je nemen en verbruiken. Datgene wat je verbruikt noem ik voedsel.
Het kunnen alcohol, drugs, geld, sigaretten, vrouwen of mannen zijn, die geconsumeerd worden, maar bij mij heet het allemaal voedsel.
Anders valt het niet te begrijpen.
Het gaat mij voo.al om deze beweging van buiten naar binnen. Die is tegengesteld aan de emotie, aan de uitdrukking, aan het vertellen, aan het van binnen naar buiten brengen. En dat is verslaving oo.. Ze is gericht op de vernietiging van een emotie, van kennis en van een ware zin. ~ Connie Palmen,#NFDB
570:It is perhaps an ugly comment on the American press, but the function of the interviewer on most newspapers is to entertain, not to shed light. . . . An interviewer soo. begins to judge public figures on the basis of their entertainment value, overloo.ing their true importance. It is not easy to get an interview with Professor Franz Boas, the greatest anthropologist in the world, across a city desk, but a mild interview with Oom the Omnipotent will hit the bottom of page one under a two-column head. . . . It is safe to write accurately only about the nuts and bums. When a public figure does something ridiculous reporters may then write about him accurately. ~ Joseph Mitchell, #NFDB
571:Als je me durft aan te raken laat mijn vader je afranselen!'
'Ha! Als je vader hier was, zou hij je voo. me vasthouden!... Alsjeblieft, meisjes, zouden jullie je eindelijk een beetje willen gedragen? Als een echte prinses, en als een volwassen koerier van de koning, ja?' smeekte Halt. 'Zo niet, dan denk ik er hard over om Will naar huis te sturen.'
'Wat? Mij?' riep Will met overslaande stem, zo geschokt was hij. 'Wat heb ik er in vredesnaam mee te maken?'
'Nou, het is allemaal jouw schuld,' riep Halt op het oo. onredelijk terug.
Maar toen die laatste woo.den tot de harten van de meisjes doo.drongen, moesten ze bekennen dat Halt ergens wel gelijk had. ~ John Flanagan,#NFDB
572:Nero lette niet op hem.
'Ik ben een moedermoo.denaar,' kreunde hij.
In Rome werd moedermoo.d als de zwaarste misdaad beschouwd. Pompeius had een strenge wet uitgevaardigd die nog altijd van kracht was. Moedermoo.denaars werden in een leren zak genaaid, samen met een hond, een haan, een slang en een aap, en in zee gegoo.d. Nero had zelf oo. een keer zo'n executie gezien. De veroo.deelde werd in een bruine toga naar de zee gevoerd. Om zijn hals hing een belletje, onder zijn voeten werden houten zolen gebonden, om te voo.komen dat hij moeder aarde zou ontwijden, en lictoren geselden zijn naakte lijf met houten roeden.
Van dit beeld kon hij niet loskomen. ~ Dezs Kosztol nyi,#NFDB
573:Oof!" Adam caught me all right, with the side of his head. I could tell by the feel of his skull on my foo. as I kicked him. He grabbed me the best he could anyway, and we half landed, half fell in the pine needles.
He lay facedown on the ground. I flopped him over on his back to make sure he was alive. If he had a concussion, we'd have to call the ambulance, which meant we'd get caught and he'd get sent to military schoo..
On the bright side, maybe the military schoo. would not take him if he had brain damage.
"I'm so sorry."
"Worth it," he grunted. He rolled onto his feet like a ninja and grabbed my hand.
"Hurry, before they release the hounds. ~ Jennifer Echols,#NFDB
574:Who said anything about relationship? Besides, we're not required to share everything; it's not like we're married."
"You want to marry me?" Xavier asked, and I saw some faces turn toward us in curiosity. "I was thinking we'd start slow and see where things went, but hey, what the hell!"
I rolled my eyes. "Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage."
I loo.ed at him quizzically and then blushed deeply when his meaning dawned.
"Very funny," I said curtly. ~ Alexandra Adornetto,#NFDB
575:Als je hersens had, probeerde je het systeem te slim af te zijn doo. allerlei omwegen te verzinnen, het op duistere akkoo.djes te goo.en met je bovengeschikten, doo. te liegen dat je zwart zag en gebruik te maken van kruiwagens. Dat werd dan een volledige baan. Toch besefte je steeds dat het aldus vervaardigde netwerk een net van leugens was en hoe groo. je welslagen of je gevoel voo. humor oo. was, toch verachtte je jezelf. Zo behaalt het systeem de eindzege: of je het nu laat buigen of barsten, je voelt je toch even schuldig. Volgens het volksgeloo. - en het bijpassende spreekwoo.d - is de duivel zo zwart niet als men hem schildert en de engel vast oo. niet zo wit. ~ Joseph Brodsky, #NFDB
576:Couples (1968) van John Updike bijvoo.beeld, vanwege de beschrijving van doo. verveling en onvrede ingegeven overspel en partnerruil in het op het oo. zo brave Amerikaanse suburbia. Philip Roth werd in de jaren zestig in één klap beroemd met Portnoy’s Complaint, voo.al vanwege de luidkeelse passages over de neuroses en seksuele obsessies van een ogenschijnlijk evenwichtige New Yorkse dertiger uit de gegoede burgerij. En dan verscheen in 1968 Norman Mailers non-fictieboek Armies of the Night, het oo.getuigenverslag van de massale en legendarisch geworden anti-Vietnamdemonstratie in Washington. Al met al waren er in de jaren zestig wel meer ‘beroemdste schrijvers’ in de vs. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
577:Ik denk dat ieder mens twee levens leidt, een vanbinnen en een vanbuiten. Subject en object. Het leven vanbinnen is het ware, het echte. Ik denk dat de mensen moo. worden als hun binnenleven doo.schijnt naar buiten, als ze niet nadenken wat voo. indruk ze maken, als ze vergeten toneel te spelen. Dat denk ik. Er zijn oo. mensen bij wie het precies andersom is, die alleen maar buitenkant zijn, die alleen een leeg omhulsel zijn, die voo.tdurend moeten weten wat voo. indruk ze maken, die leven om gezien te worden. Mensen die een houding aannemen. Triest. Dat soo.t mensen zijn net pingpongballetjes, een harde buitenkant en leeg van binnen. Niets te vinden. Totaal oninteressant. ~ Per Nilsson, #NFDB
578:Science Fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story. In it, as in all fiction, there is roo. enough to keep even Man where he belongs, in his place in the scheme of things, there is time enough to gather plenty of wild oats and sow them, too. and sing to little Oom, and listen to Ool's joke, and watch newts, and still the story isn't over. Still there are seeds to be gathered and roo. in the bag of stars. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
579:Zij was nog een meisje, een kind, maar in haar ogen en op haar gezicht kon je de waakzaamheid en de onrust van deze eeuw al aflezen. Alle thema's, alle tranen en beledigingen, alle beweegredenen, alle opgehoo.te haat en trots van deze eeuw stonden op haar gezicht en postuur geschreven, in het mengsel oo. van haar meisjesachtige bedeesdheid en haar vermetele gratie. Je kon uit haar naam en uit haar lippen de aanklacht tegen deze eeuw indienen en uitroepen. U zult moeten toegeven, dat dat geen kleinigheid was. Het had iets van een voo.beschikking, van een voo.teken oo.. Het was iets, waar zij van nature over beschikt moet hebben, iets waar zij recht op gehad moet hebben. ~ Boris Pasternak, #NFDB
580:En dan is er nog iets met dat licht. Iemand die van iemand anders houdt, zegt altijd dat dat komt doo.dat die ander zo moo. is, op een of ander manier, van buiten of van binnen, of allebei, terwijl andere mensen daar vaak niets van zien, en meestal is het oo. niet zo. Maar wie altijd moo. is, is degene die liefheeft, want hij heeft lief en wordt bestraald doo. dat licht. Er is een man die van mij houdt en die mij op een bepaalde manier ontzettend moo. vindt, maar dat ben ik helemaal niet. Hij is moo., al is hij op allerlei manieren ontzettend lelijk. En ik ben oo. moo., maar alleen omdat ik oo. van hem houd – al weet hij dat niet. Hij denkt van niet, maar ik houd van hem. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
581:Ken jij al, mijn broeder, het woo.d 'verachting'? En de kwelling van je gerechtigheid om recht te doen aan wie jou verachten? Je dwingt velen om anders over jou te leren denken; dat rekenen ze jou zwaar aan. Jij kwam hen te na en ging toch voo.bij: dat vergeven ze jou noo.t. Je gaat boven hen uit: en hoe hoger je stijgt, des te kleiner ziet jou het oo. van de afgunst. Maar het diepst gehaat wordt wie vliegt. 'Hoe wilden jullie mij recht doen!' moet je spreken - 'ik verkies jullie ongerechtigheid als mijn rechtmatigde deel.' Ongerechtigheid en vuil werpen zij naar de eenzame: maar als jij, mijn broeder, een ster wilt zijen, moet je hen daar niet minder om beschijnen! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB
582:I never even thought to loo. for other—oo.!” Lunging forward I found myself tripping right over a nice big chunk of nothing. I stumbled forward; my body surged with the heat of concentrated humiliation. Finally I regained my foo.ing and loo.ed awkwardly up at Joel. “Ha,” I said as a failed effort to laugh at myself.
With no hesitation Joel turned around and walked over to the spot that I’d tripped. He bent down and too. a firm grip on an armful of thin air. He heaved it up into his arms and walked it over to the edge of the sidewalk and tossed it out of the way. He brushed off his hands with vigor and said, “Don’t want anyone else tripping over that invisible log. ~ Shawn Kirsten Maravel,#NFDB
583:Niet zo lang geleden dacht hij (en Vlieghe en Dondeyne geloo.den het oo.) dat moeders pijn in hun buik kregen, de weeën, en dan snel naar de wc waggelden, hurkten, kakten, dat de drol meteen doo. buurvrouwen uit het water werd gehaald vóór hij kon smelten, en op het zeil van de keukentafel werd gelegd, waar hij doo. teder tegen elkaar koutende ouders tot een kind werd geboetseerd, waarop, doo. intens gebed opgeroepen, vanuit het raam of de schoo.steen een wind begon te waaien die neerstreek over de bruine klei, de adem van God die leven blies in de stront die kleuren kreeg en als van rubber begon te ploo.en en zich uit te rekken, en dan brulde naar zijn Mama om de eerste papfles. ~ Hugo Claus, #NFDB
584:After graduation I probably won’t see any of these people again.”
I throw him a hurt loo.. “Hey! What about me?”
“Not you. You’re coming to visit me in New York.”
“Ooh! Yes, please.”
“Sarah Lawrence is so close to the city. I’ll be able to go to Broadway shows whenever I want. There’s an app for same-day student tickets.” He gets a faraway loo. in his eyes.
“You’re so lucky,” I say.
“I’ll take you. We’ll go to a gay bar, too. It’ll be amazing.”
“Thank you!”
“But everybody else I can take or leave.”
“We still have Beach Week,” I remind him, and he nods.
“For the rest of our lives, we’ll always have Beach Week,” he says mockingly, and I throw a hair tie at him. ~ Jenny Han,#NFDB
585:Other people's children went off to college, which for years Ronald had interpreted as a positive thing. Lately, though, he wasn't so sure. The children who went off to college hardly ever came back. It was as though the hard work of getting that college degree bent them out of shape, focused them too.much on their own personal achievement. Once you got that degree, it was all about getting ahead in that monetized struggle, and they forgot the community that raised them. Ooh, live in the Lower Nine; not me. Ooh, do a day's work with your hands; I won't touch that. The neighborhoo. gained something when one of its children went off to become a doctor or an engineer, but it lost something, too. ~ Dan Baum, #NFDB
586:Vaikk' oo. kallis, armahin, mulle, kunnia kuitenkin kalliimpi on.' Se on varsin sattuvasti sanottu, eikö olekin? Ainakin paremmin kuin mitä pystyisin itse keksimään tällä hetkellä. Sillä minä rakastan sinua, Scarlett, huolimatta siitä, mitä sanoin sinulle sinä iltana vain kuukausi sitten porraspylväikössä istuessamme."
Rhettin venyttävä ääni oli hyväilevä, ja hänen kätensä, lämpimät, voimakkaat kädet, liukuivat ylös pitkin Scarlettin paljaita käsivarsia. "Rakastan sinua siksi, että olemme niin samanlaiset, luopioita molemmat ja itsekkäitä heittiöitä. Me emme kumpikaan välitä vähääkään siitä, vaikka koko maailma syöksyisi hornan kitaan, kunhan oma olomme vain on turvattu ja mukava. ~ Margaret Mitchell,#NFDB
587:Instinctief een baby redden, een zweem van geluk; een tijdje onder Rwandezen verkeren, de overlevenden, een zweem van verdriet; het idee van onze uiteindelijke anonimiteit, weer een zweem van verdriet; seksueel verlangen dat zonder complicaties in vervulling gaat, weer een zweem van geluk, en zo ging het maar doo., terwijl de ene gedachte de andere opvolgde. Hoe banaal kwam de menselijke conditie me voo., dat we onderworpen waren aan de voo.tdurende worsteling om ons innerlijke leefklimaat onder controle te houden, alsof we een wolk waren die eeuwig en altijd in het rond werd geslingerd. Zoals te verwachten viel, nam mijn geest oo. nota van dat inzicht en gaf het een plek: een zweem van verdriet. ~ Teju Cole, #NFDB
588:Marx' bewering dat de mensheid zichzelf noo.t voo. raadsels stelt die ze oo. niet kan oplossen, wijst er al op dat de oplossing van het revolutionaire probleem reeds in de kiem van het kapitalisme aanwezig is. Daarom moet men liever meewerken aan de uitbouw van het kapitalisme dan pogingen doen, te komen tot een minder geïndustrialiseerde produktie.[...] Van de ene crisis rollend in de andere, zal het verval van het proletariaat steeds sneller toenemen en zal het zich in omvang uitbreiden, tot de universele crisis het kapitalisme zal doen verdwijnen en de geschiedenis, doo. één laatste en heftige gewelddaad, niet langer geweld zal nodig hebben. Het rijk der toekomst is dan eindelijk aangebroken. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
589:Op een zonnige ochtend in april loo.t me in een van de smalle straatjes in Harajuku het 100 procent perfecte meisje voo.bij.
Eerlijk gezegd is het niet eens zo'n moo. meisje. Er is oo. niet meteen iets opvallends aan haar. Ze draagt al evenmin prachtige kleren. Haar weerbarstige haar is achterop nog even warrig als bij het opstaan, en jong is ze oo. niet meer. Ze moet al tegen de dertig zijn. Strikt genomen kun je haar wellicht geen meisje meer noemen. En toch, van vijftig meter afstand wist ik het al zeker: zij is voo. mij het 100 procent perfecte meisje. Vanaf het moment dat ik haar in het oo. kreeg, trilde mijn borst als de aarde die beeft en werd mijn mond korrelig droo. als de woestijn. ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
590:You know,” he said, “this design begins to appeal to me after all. Sea slugs aren’t the least bit arousing, but logarithms . . . I’ve always thought that word sounded splendidly naughty.” He let it roll off his tongue with ribald inflection. “Logarithm.” He gave an exaggerated shiver. “Ooh. Yes and thank you and may I have some more.” “Lots of mathematical terms sound that way. I think it’s because they were all coined by men. ‘Hypotenuse’ is downright lewd.” “ ‘Quadrilateral’ brings rather carnal images to mind.” She was silent for a long time. Then one of her dark eyebrows arched. “Not so many as ‘rhombus.’ ” Goo. Lord. That word was wicked. Her pronunciation of it did rather wicked things to him. ~ Tessa Dare, #NFDB
591:De huizen waar we hadden gewoo.d, stonden er nog, allemaal. Het enige verschil, het verschil tussen de werkelijkheid van het kind en die van de volwassene, is dat de dingen hun betekenis hadden verloren. Een paar Le Coq-voetbalschoenen zijn gewoo. een paar voetbalschoenen. Wat ik nu voelde als ik zo'n paar in mijn handen hield, was slechts een echo uit mijn jeugd, verder niets, niets speciaals. Hetzelfde gold voo. de zee, de scheren en de smaak van zout waarvan de dagen 's zomers doo.drongen konden zijn; nu smaakte het gewoo. naar zout, einde verhaal. De wereld van dezelfde, maar toch oo. weer niet, want de betekenis erin was verschoven en verschoo. nog steeds, steeds verder naar het zinloze. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd, #NFDB
592:It's a spider!" Tyler yelling again. "What else can it do? Did you teach it kung fu?!"
Phillip leaned to Garry and said, "Ooh, a spider that knows kung fu. That'd actually be quite coo., wouldn't it? I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of an eight-legged roundhouse kick."
Gary said, "Nah, man. Aren't you listening? Spiders have two legs and six arms."
Jimmy said, "That's octopuses."
Gary rolled his eyes. "And octopuses are the spider of the sea. Come on, keep up, guys."
Jimmy was about to respond when he, Gary, and Philip became aware that both Tyler and Todd were staring at them.
"Sorry," Jimmy said. "We'll discuss this later. Please, continue bickering. ~ Scott Meyer,#NFDB
593:Er is mij eens iets grappigs overkomen in een herberg in Tirol. Professor Cotta en ik hadden er juist onze intrek genomen en zaten te dineren toen een kamermeid hem in zijn oo. kwam fluisteren. Ze vroeg of het wel zin had mij een bed met schoo. linnengoed te geven, aangezien het toch helemaal zwart zou worden wanneer ik ging liggen. De professor wuifde het wicht weg. We hebben er samen hard om gelachen, maar 's nachts overviel me een enorme mensen-moeheid. Alsof ik mijn leven lang doo. een moeras gewaad heb zonder een meter voo.uit te komen. Dat zijn voo. mij de angstige momenten, wanneer ik het vechten liever op zou geven. Met het ouder worden nemen die in frequentie en hardnekkigheid eerder toe dan af. ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
594:Weet je wat misschien het vreselijkste is van alle gezegden? "De tijd heelt alle wonden". Maar het is waar. Er blijft altijd een litteken, dat misschien pijn doet als het weer omslaat; maar de wond is op een dag geheeld. Als jongen van een jaar of acht ben ik eens gestruikeld met zon gebogen, puntig nagelschaartje in mijn handen, dat drong diep in mijn knie en ik weet nog precies hoe ik gilde van de pijn. Net als iedereen heb ik dus een litteken op mijn knie, maar ik zou je nu niet kunnen zeggen, op welke. Jij hebt beslist oo. littekens, waarvan je je de wonden niet meer kunt herinneren. Daar zit toch iets afschuwelijks in. Dat betekent toch, dat die wonden er achteraf evengoed niet geweest hadden kunnen zijn. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
595:Zo beschrijft hij hoe wijlen burgemeester Bicket het voo.delige ambt van vendumeester -- goed voo. zesduizend gulden per jaar -- toeschoo. aan zijn veertienjarige zoo.tje Hendrick. Het burgemeesterszoo.tje Jan Corver Trip was zelfs al op zijn vijfde jaar postmeester op Rotterdam, Delft en Den Haag. Toen hij acht was maakte zijn vader hem postmeester van het Hamburgse Postcomptoir. Toen hij achttien was, werd hij oo. nog kerkmeester van de Nieuwe Walenkerk. Toen hij op zijn negentiende overleed -- hij had een leren riem te strak en te lang om zijn lijf geklemd om zijn overtollige vet te camoufleren, waardoo. 'zijne edele's partijen, long en lever aan malkander waren gegroeid' -- liet hij een vermogen na van twee ton. ~ Geert Mak, #NFDB
596:Ah its fine. I don't mind."
Hadrain sucked his breath in sharply. "Ooo. T. Have a care with that word. It always gives me chills."
Talyn frowned. "What word?"
"Fine. I hate it."
"Seriously?"
"Uh yeah. Are you out of your mind? I live with Jayne and two daughters. The most terrifying four-lettered-f-word a woman says in my house is 'fine.' I swear, every time I hear it, I cringe."
Nero laughed. "Jayne? What have you done to my brother?"
Kissing her cheek, Hadrain flashed a teasing grin. "Let me put it to you this way... God forbid anything should ever happen to her, but if it does I'm under orders to chain and lock her coffin shut during the middle of the funeral just to freak everyone out ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
597:Ah its fine. I don't mind."
Hadrain sucked his breath in sharply. "Ooo. T. Have a care with that word. It always gives me chills."
Talyn frowned. "What word?"
"Fine. I hate it."
"Seriously?"
"Uh yeah. Are you out of your mind? I live with Jayne and two daughters. The most terrifying four-lettered-f-word a woman says in my house is 'fine.' I swear, every time I hear it, I cringe."
Nero laughed. "Jayne? What have you done to my brother?"
Kissing her cheek, Hadrain flashed a teasing grin. ";et me put it to you this way... God forbid anything should ever happen to her, but if it does I'm under orders to chain and lock her coffin shut during the middle of the funeral just to freak everyone out. ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,#NFDB
598:I have no ideas, myself! Not a one! there's nothing more vulgar, more common, more disgusting than ideas! libraries are loaded with them! and every sidewalk cafe!...the impotent are bloated with ideas!...they dazzle youth with ideas! they play the pimp!...and youth is ever ready, as you know, Professor, to gobble up anything, to go OOH! and AAH! by the numbers! How those pimps have an easy job of it! the passionate years of youth are spent getting a hard on and gargling ideeaas!...philosophies, if you prefer!...yes sir, philosophies! youth loves sham just as young dogs love those sticks, like bones, that we throw and they run after! they race forward, yipping away, wasting their time, that's the main thing! ~ Louis Ferdinand C line, #NFDB
599:… En oo.’, ging hij verder: ‘ik had er behoefte aan om nog eens alleen te zijn met mezelf. Buiten dit tehuis ligt een wereld waarin je niets anders moet doen dan praten. Praten, praten, praten en nog eens praten. En luisteren of op z’n minst toch doen alsof, naar mensen die praten, praten, praten. En die kriskras doo. elkaar heen praten, praten, praten. Je hebt familiale en andere verplichtingen, wat vaak weer neerkomt op praten en luisteren, en ik had er gewoo. geen zin meer in, in die hele sociale pantomime. Ik wou eindelijk stilte voo. mezelf en alleen zijn met mijn gedachten. Hier kan ik dat min of meer. Het is de enige plaats waar wordt geaccepteerd dat ik volledig in mezelf ben gekeerd. Het was mijn laatste kans. ~ Dimitri Verhulst, #NFDB
600:En jij,' zei Winter, 'bent mijn verloren gewaande nichtje en mijn dierbare vriendin. Ik kon het tot op dit moment niet geloven, maar het is dus echt waar.' Winter pakte Cinders handen vast. 'Kun je je mij nog herinneren?'
Langzaam schudde Cinder haar hoo.d.
'Dat geeft niet,' zei Winter, en haar gezicht zei dat het echt in orde was. 'Mijn herinneringen zijn oo. vaag, en ik ben een jaar ouder dan jij. Maar toch hoo. ik dat we weer goede vriendinnen kunnen worden... Vergeef me. Je bent niet langer alleen maar mijn vriendin en nichtje, en dit is niet de juiste manier om je te begroeten.' Ze maakte een buiging als een ballerina en drukte een kus op Cinders metalen knokkel. 'Mijn Koningin, het is me een eer om u te dienen. ~ Marissa Meyer,#NFDB
601:Ooo.kay,” she began slowly. “You want to have sex with me. You want to have sex with a woman to whom you’ve never spoken more than a few words at a time. Tell me something, Steele, is this one of those situations where any pussy will do? Is it a guy thing, coming off a mission and you’ll dip into the first available well you can find?” He loo.ed completely taken aback by her blunt language. Surprised even. Then he seemed to figure out that it was possible he’d just been insulted. “I don’t fuck around,” he growled. “I’m clean. I use condoms. I haven’t had sex in a year.” “All righty then,” she said, more than a little surprised at his admission. “Maybe a little more than I needed to know.” “If you’re sleeping with me, you need to know. ~ Maya Banks, #NFDB
602:Isompi ko lato... täynnä kiemurtelevia köysijä... olento on kokonaisuuvessaan vähän niinkö kananmunan muotoinen ja isompi ko mikkään mitä oo. eläissäni nähäny, ja sillä on kymmenittäin sianpään kokosia jalakoja jokka sulkeutuvat puolittain sen astuvessa... siinä ei oo.mittään kiintiää - ihanko hillova koko otus ja täynnä erillisiä, luikertelevia köysijä jokka on lähellä toisiaan... suuria, mulukosilimiä joka puolella... kymmene tai kakskymmentä suuta tai kärsää pistää essiin joka puolelta sen kylijistä, yhtä isoja ko savupiiput ja heiluvat ja avautuvat ja sulukeutuvat koko ajan - kaikki harmaita ja niissä on jonkinlaisia sinisiä tai purppuranpunaisia renkuloita... Ja Luoja siunakkoo. taivaassa - sillä on kasvot siellä yläpuolella... ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
603:Wanneer iets ziekelijks is aan uw psychische proces, bedenk dan dat ziekte voo. een organisme het middel is om zich van indringers te bevrijden; dan moet men het alleen helpen om ziek te zijn, zijn ziekte en volle te ondergaan en die tot uitbarsting te laten komen, want dat is zijn voo.uitgang. Er gebeurt nu zoveel in u, mijn beste Kappus, u moet geduld oefenen als een zieke en van vertrouwen zijn vervuld als iemand die herstellende is; want misschien bent u dat wel allebei. En méér dan dat: u ben oo. de arts die over zichzelf moet waken. Maar iedere ziekte kent tal van dagen waarop de arts alleen maar kan afwachten. En dat is wat u, voo. zover u uw eigen arts bent, nu voo.al moet doen.
Borgeby Gård Flädie, Zweden, 12 augustus 2017 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,#NFDB
604:In elk land tonen de treinen de essentiële kenmerken van de cultuur: Thaise treinen hebben de badkruik met de geglazuurde draak op de zijkant, de Ceylonese een wagen die gereserveerd is voo. boeddhistische monniken, de Indiase een vegetarische keuken en zes klassen. De Iraanse hun bidmatjes, de Maleisische een noedelstalletje, de Vietnamese kogelvrij glas op de locomotief en in elk rijtuig van de Russische Spoo.wegen staat een samovar. De spoo.wegbazaar met haar reizigers en vindinkjes vertegenwoo.digde de maatschappij zó volmaakt dat je je bij het instappen bloo.stelde aan het nationale karakter. Soms leek het op een rustige collegezaal, maar soms kreeg ik oo. wel eens het gevoel dat ik gevangenzat en werd overvallen doo. dat monsterachtige 'typische'. ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB
605:In zekere zin kan de Holocaust worden beschouwd als een uiting van een bijna religieus fanatisme, en tegelijk als een uiting van moedwillige blindheid, een diepgaande, collectieve morele ontsporing. Deze verklaring is weinig populair. Ze is namelijk veel verontrustender dan alle theorieën die zich vastbijten in het anti-semitisme van de Duitse nazi-top. Ze betekent dat zo'n massale vervolging, met de huidige technieken, bureaucratieën, repressie- en manipulatiesystemen, morgen op een andere plaats jegens een andere groep opnieuw kan plaatsvinden. De technocraten zullen blijven. In de woo.den van Haffner: 'Dit is hun tijd. De Hitlers en Himmlers raken we wel kwijt, maar de Speers, wat er oo. met hen individueel moge gebeuren, zullen nog lang onder ons zijn'. ~ Geert Mak, #NFDB
606:Net als met zijn kennis van de natuur was oo. Frits oo. een kampioen in doo.doeners. Wat ik aan tafel, tijdens die eindeloze doo. mijn tante bereide voo.gerechten, tussengerechten, hoo.dgerechten en nagerechten, oo. naar voren bracht, oo. Frits wist altijd wel een gezegde dat de boel in één keer naar beneden haalde. In de trant van: 'Ja dat zal wel zo wezen, maar ik heb het wel anders gezien...' En dan kwam er weer zo'n vierdehands verhaal dat als origineel werd opgediend. 'In mijn praktijk heb ik de mensen maar al te goed leren kennen,' zei hij. In werkelijkheid kent dat soo.t precies acht anekdotes en twaalf spreekwoo.den waarmee ze zich de rol van filosoo. aanmeten, het is te erg om over na te denken op welke vreselijke manieren je allemaal oud kunt worden. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB
607:Is Oeroeg minder dan wij' stoo.te ik uit. 'Is hij anders?'
'Ben je belazerd,' zei Gerard kalm, zonder de pijp uit zijn mond te nemen. 'Wie zegt dat?' Ik bracht, niet zonder moeite, mijn gewaarwoo.dingen van die middag onder woo.den.
'Een panter is anders dan een aap,' zei Gerard, na een pauze, 'maar is een van de twee minder dan de ander? Dan vind je een idiote vraag, en je hebt gelijk. Blijf dat nou net zo idioo. vinden, als het mensen betreft. Anders zijn - dat is gewoo.. Iedereen is anders dan een ander. Ik ben oo. anders dan jij. Maar minder of meer zijn doo. de kleur van je gezicht of doo. wat je vader is- dat is nonsens. Oeroeg is immers je vriend? Als hij zo is dat hij je vriend kan zijn- hoe kan hij dan oo.t minder zijn dan jij, of een ander? ~ Hella S Haasse,#NFDB
608:An astronomer once explained to me that the galaxy we live in, the Milky Way, is vast, too.vast to be understoo. without metaphor, so he gave me one. He said if you picture the Milky Way as being the size of mainland Europe, our solar system—that’s Mars, Venus, Saturn, us here on Earth (you remember from schoo.)—in a Milky Way the size of Europe our solar system would fit inside a single teacup somewhere in Belgium. He paused for my amazement, which I duly offered. But really what can you say? “Ooh, a teacup.” “Blimey, Belgium.” “Cor, it makes you think, doesn’t it?” Then he added, clearly sensing I was at a bit of a loss for words, having just been reduced to a dot on a speck in a teacup in a continent: “Russell, there are 400 million KNOWN galaxies in our universe. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB
609:Oma's hand beefde toen ze die op Maggie's schouder legde. "Je bent niet de enige die op die dag iets verschrikkelijks heeft meegemaakt. Ik verloo. mijn dochter, schoo.zoo. en kleindochter, en daar heb ik nog steeds heel veel verdriet om. Ik begrijp niet waarom God het heeft toegestaan, maar ik heb ervoo. gekozen om Hem die last te laten dragen en met mijn verdriet naar Hem te vluchten." Oma's ogen glansden. "God hoo.t en verhoo.t gebeden. De antwoo.den zijn echter niet altijd zoals we hadden gehoo.t. Maar ik heb Hem gevraagd mijn geloo. te versterken en dat doet Hij iedere keer. Ik heb mijn vertrouwen op Hem gesteld en ik ontvang van Hem de troo.t en kracht om doo. te gaan." Ze gaf een liefdevol kneepje in Maggie's schouders. "Dat wil hij oo. voo. jou doen, Maggie. ~ Carrie Turansky, #NFDB
610:Silence
There is the sudden silence of the crowd
above a player not moving on the field,
and the silence of the orchid.
The silence of the falling vase
before it strikes the ?oo.,
the silence of the belt when it is not striking the child.
The stillness of the cup and the water in it,
the silence of the moo.
and the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun.
The silence when I hold you to my chest,
the silence of the window above us,
and the silence when you rise and turn away.
And there is the silence of this morning
which I have broken with my pen,
a silence that had piled up all night
like snow falling in the darkness of the house—
the silence before I wrote a word
and the poo.er silence now.
~ Billy Collins,#NFDB
611:Hij herinnerde zich dat hij lang geleden oo. eens op een morgen zoals nu hier had rondgehangen, de vissen bewonderd had en medelijden met ze gevoeld, hij was toen erg somber geweest; sindsdien was er veel tijd voo.bijgegaan, en een massa water doo. de rivier gestroo.d. Hij had toen erg in de put gezeten, dat wist hij nog wel, maar waarom hij zo in de put gezeten had, dat wist hij niet meer. Zo zag je maar weer: oo. droevige dingen gingen voo.bij, oo. pijn en wanhoo. gingen voo.bij, ze waren maar tijdelijk, net als plezierige dingen, zij verbleekten, verloren hun diepgang en waarde, en ten slotte kwam er een tijd, dat je er met de beste wil van de wereld niet meer achter komen kon wat het geweest was, dat je oo.t zo'n pijn had gedaan. Ook pijn raakte uitgebloeid en verwelkt. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
612:Waarom zou een potloo. tussen je tanden verschil maken? Precies, waarom zou dat? Het idee is dat je met een potloo. tussen je tanden een grimas maakt alsof je lacht. De overwinning van de materie op de geest. Je gedrag is van invloed op je gevoel. Gelovige mensen die veel op hebben met rituelen en gebruiken, begrijpen dit. Boeddhisten weten al heel lang welke weldadige werking meditatie heeft. En dat is trouwens geen religie die bol staat van de overtuigingen. Ik denk dat schrijven oo. een vorm van meditatie kan zijn, een manier van bidden. Soms kan de discipline die nodig is om iets op papier te zetten je net dat kleine zetje geven om een hobbel te nemen. Je kunt proza schrijven of een tabel tekenen. Het kan zelfs helpen om over de kop boven een stukje na te denken. - Zafar ~ Zia Haider Rahman, #NFDB
613:Die Stille Rusplaas
Drie verse uit 'Die Tuin van Proserpina'
Die Juigende, die Sterke Die doo. sal hom oo. raak;
Noo.t sal hy vlieg met vlerke
Of pyn in vure smaak.
Die Skoo.heid van die rose,
Die kom en gaan van blose
Stoo. noo.t die Liefdelose Waar liefde ons versaak.
Bevryd van dors na lewe,
Van al ons hoo. en wee,
Dank ons - bo alle vrees verhewe Die gode wat dit gee:
Hier eindig al ons drome,
Hier rus die lewenslome,
Hier vloei die moegste strome
Uiteindelik in die see.
Nòg gloeiend' son, nòg duister,
Nòg keer van aand en dag,
Nòg waters sag gefluister
Sal oo.t die slaap verkrag.
En soeter, sagter, vromer,
Vergeefs kom weer die Somer,
Want droo.loo. is die Dromer,
Verdiep in ewig' nag.
~ Eugene Marais,#NFDB
614:Het was als met een verhaal. Als met een boek. Wat is het dat wij van een boek verlangen? Dat iemand een ontwikkeling doo.maakt - dat hij tot inzicht komt? Maar stel dat die ontwikkeling en dat inzicht er niet zijn? Dat staat in wezen toch oo. veel dichter bij de werkelijkheid? Mensen die in hun leven een ontwikkeling doo.maken zijn op de vingers van één hand te tellen. Om over inzicht nog maar te zwijgen. Nee, de werkelijkheid is dat wij altijd dezelfde blijven. We zien een film in de bioscoo. en besluiten een ander leven te gaan leiden, maar de volgende dag zijn we dat alweer vergeten. We nemen ons voo. om aardiger te zijn, om aandachtiger te luisteren. Dat houden we een halve dag vol. Daarna snauwen we weer als vanouds - het snauwen is dat ene afgedragen jasje dat ons het best past. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB
615:Whoo.oo.! I'm the old original iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of Arkansaw!—Loo. at me! I'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake, half-brother to the cholera, nearly related to the small-pox on the mother's side! Loo. at me! I take nineteen alligators and a bar'l of whiskey for breakfast when I'm in robust health, and a bushel of rattlesnakes and a dead body when I'm ailing! I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak! Whoo.oo.! Stand back and give me roo. according to my strength! Bloo.'s my natural drink, and the wails of the dying is music to my ear! Cast your eye on me, gentlemen!—and lay low and hold your breath, for I'm bout to turn myself loo.e! ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
616:En als wij weer over de eenzaamheid praten, dan wordt steeds duidelijker dat dat in wezen niet iets is wat je kunt uitzoeken of nalaten. Wij zijn eenzaam. Men kan zichzelf zand in de ogen stroo.en en doen alsof het niet zo is. Dat is alles. Maar hoeveel beter is het niet om in te zien dat wij het wel zijn, en daar gewoo. vanuit te gaan. Het zal ons dan wel duizelen; want alle punten waarop ons oo. gewoo. was te rusten, worden ons afgenomen, niets is meer nabij en al wat ver is is oneindig ver. Wie vanuit zijn kamer, nagenoeg onvoo.bereid en onverhoeds, op de top van een hoge berg zou worden neergezet, zou iets soo.tgelijks moeten voelen: een weergaloze onzekerheid, het overgeleverd zijn aan iets onbekends zou hem bijna te gronde richten.
Borgeby Gård Flädie, Zweden, 12 augustus 2017 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,#NFDB
617:Thing is, as ye git aulder, this character-deficiency gig becomes mair sapping. Thir wis a time ah used tae say tae aw the teachers, bosses, dole punters, poll-tax guys, magistrates, when they telt me ah was deficient:'Hi, coo. it, gadge, ah'm jist me, jist intae a different sort ay gig fae youse but, ken?' Now though, ah've goat tae concede thit mibee they cats had it sussed. Ye take a healthier slapping the aulder ye git. The blows hit hame mair. It's like yon Mike Tyson boy at the boxing, ken?
Every time ye git it thegither tae make a comeback, thir's jist a wee bit mair missin. So ye fuck up again. Yip, ah'm jist no a gadge cut oo. fir modern life n that's aw thir is tae it, man. Sometimes the gig goes smoo.h, then ah jist pure panic n it's back tae the auld weys. What kin ah dae? ~ Irvine Welsh,#NFDB
618:Een gelukkige vrouw was iemand die gebruik maakte van allerlei rechten, van het recht op bewegingsvrijheid tot het recht om te scheppen, te wedijveren en uit te dagen, en die daarbij wist dat ze bemind werd omdat ze dat deed. Geluk was ondermeer dat je bemind werd doo. een man die genoo. van je kracht en trots was op je talenten. Geluk was oo. dat je privacy had, het recht om je aan het gezelschap van anderen te onttrekken en je in een beschouwende eenzaamheid te storten. Of om een hele dag in je eentje niets te doen, daar geen excuus voo. te geven en je er niet schuldig over te voelen. Geluk was dat je bij beminden was en toch het gevoel had een zelfstandig wezen te zijn dat niet alleen leefde om hen gelukkig te maken. Geluk was dat er een evenwicht bestond tussen wat je gaf en wat je nam. ~ Fatema Mernissi, #NFDB
619:Ik zal u een geheim verklappen. de werkelijke boo.schap van mijn filosofie, als je het filosofie magnoemen, past op één A4'tje. Wat zeg ik? Een half A4'tje. De inhoud staat in feite in de inhoudsopgave. Het gaat erom dit alles uit te smeren over een boek van krap driehonderd pagina's. En ik bedoel dit uitsmeren niet eens in negatieve zin. Die driehonderd pagina's dienen een doel: mensen zijn eerder bereid om €19,99 neer te tellen voo. een boek dan voo. een A4'tje. Dat heet 'waar voo. je geld'. Maar de meeste mensen zijn oo. traag van begrip. In 'Makkelijk leven' hamer ik mijn boo.schap erin. In de eerste plaats doo. meer voo.beelden te geven. Maar wie het hele boek uit heeft (en dus kennelijk traag van begrip is), kan daarna terugvallen op de vijf à tien hoo.dpunten: het hele of het halve A4'tje. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB
620:Het wilgenroo.je straalt iets primitiefs uit, iets grofs en oerplantachtigs, het is niet verfijnd, hoewel het moo.e, kleurrijke tapijten vormt, en op een merkwaardige manier was het oo. betekenisvol dat het juist zo goed gedijde in de grote nieuwbouwwijken, die, hoewel ze toen modern waren en de nieuwe tijd vertegenwoo.digden, oo. iets eenvoudigs en bruuts hadden - heuvels werden opgeblazen, bossen werden gekapt, de machines denderden en schudden - en tegelijk daarmee, met de hopen blauwe granietsteen, het pas gelegde zwarte asfalt, de grindbergen en gele kiepwagens en bulldozers, schoten de eenvoudige, snelgroeiende en robuuste planten uit de grond, met als enige geheim het meest voo. de hand liggende, dat alle fossiele en primitieve schepsels deelden, namelijk dat de wereld altijd nieuw is. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd, #NFDB
621:I really don't like art with a message, unless the message is crystal clear.
If you have a message that really needs to be said, just fuckin' say it! Don't hide it in indecipherable lyrics... a sculpture, it's a play, the subtext... just fuckin' say it, 'cause the people who need to hear messages are dumb as shit--the masses of humanity are dumb as shit, and you're really just pandering to your friends. Say what the fuck you mean, just say it! Title the song 'eat more leafy greens'. 'Give a hoo., don't pollute' is as much message and art combined, 'cause I get that, it's a poem but I'm pretty sure you're saying 'don't pollute'. But if you have something... 'oo., I have the cure for cancer...and I've hidden it in this Rubix cube!!' -- just fuckin' say it!
- Before Turning the Gun on Himself [2012] ~ Doug Stanhope,#NFDB
622:Yes, contractions can be intense,' Noura continues. 'But your bodies are designed to handle it. And what you must remember is, it's a positive pain. I'm sure you'll both agree?' She loo.s over at Mum and Janice.
POSITIVE?' Janice loo.s up, horrified. 'Ooh, no, dear. Mine was agony. 24 hours in the cruel summer heat. I wouldn't wish it on any of you poo. girls.'
But there are natural methods you can use,' Noura puts in quickly. 'I'm sure you found that rocking and changing position helped with the contractions.
I wouldn't have said so,' Mum says kindly.
Or a warm bath?' Noura suggets, smile tightening.
A bath? Dear, when you're gripped by agony and wanting to die, a bath doesn't really help!'
As I glance around the roo. I can see that all the girls' faces have frozen. Most of the mens' too. ~ Sophie Kinsella,#NFDB
623:Harry caught Hermione’s eye and loo.ed away at once. “So, Potter — some of your hair, if you please.” Harry glanced at Ron, who grimaced at him in a just-do-it sort of way. “Now!” barked Moo.y. With all of their eyes upon him, Harry reached up to the top of his head, grabbed a hank of hair, and pulled. “Goo.,” said Moo.y, limping forward as he pulled the stopper out of the flask of potion. “Straight in here, if you please.” Harry dropped the hair into the mudlike liquid. The moment it made contact with its surface, the potion began to froth and smoke, then, all at once, it turned a clear, bright gold. “Ooh, you loo. much tastier than Crabbe and Goyle, Harry,” said Hermione, before catching sight of Ron’s raised eyebrows, blushing slightly, and saying, “Oh, you know what I mean — Goyle’s potion loo.ed like bogies. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
624:— Aye, Charlene's fucked off. She's goat this boyfriend. He's just gittin back oo. the jail. Renton taps up a vein in his wrist.
— Well that ain't gonna help.
— It isnae aboo. helping, it's aboo. being. If being Scottish is about one thing, it's aboo. gittin fucked up, Renton explains, working the needle slowly into his flesh. — Tae us intoxication isnae just a huge laugh, or even a basic human right. It's a way ay life, a political philosophy. Rabbie burns said it: whisky and freedom gang thegither. Whatever happens in the future tae the economy, whatever fucking government's in power, rest assured we'll still be pissin it up and shoo.in shit intae ourselves, he announces, pulsing with glorious anticipation as he sucks his dark bloo. back into the barrel, then lets his ravenous veins drink the concoction. ~ Irvine Welsh,#NFDB
625:Atticus,' zei ik op een avond, 'wat is nou precies een nikkervriend?'
'Scout,' zei Atticus, 'nikkervriend is alleen maar een van die termen die absoluut niets beduiden - zoiets als snotneus. Ik kan het moeilijk uitleggen. Onwetende en minderwaardige mensen bezigen dat woo.d als ze denken dat je aan negers de voo.keur geeft boven henzelf. En er zijn oo. mensen als wij toe gekomen om dat woo.d te gebruiken, als ze iemand op een gemene, ordinaire manier willen uitschelden.'
'Maar jij bént toch niet een echte nikkervriend, hè?'
'Dat ben ik zeker. Ik doe mijn best om van iedereen te houden ... Dat is soms een hele toer ... maar baby, het is noo.t echt beledigend als iemand je uitscheldt voo. iets. dat hij minderwaardig vindt. Dan blijkt alleen maar hoe zielig die ander is, en daarom is het helemaal niet kwetsend. ~ Harper Lee,#NFDB
626:I'm working! What are you doing? Besides being...
Being what?
Wait a minute...
Sarcastic? Unfeeling? British?
It's an animal.
Where?
No, the word!
Still you have to admit, I am... very British. I don't say hard R's.
You know what I like? Brown sauce. What's it made of? Science doesn't know!
It's made of brown.
Brown. Mined from the earth by the hardscrabble brown miners of North Brownderton.
Oh, my God. I find lentils completely incomprehensible. What the sun-dappled hell is Echo doing at Fremont?
That's got nothing to do with the drug, which means our problems are huge and indomitable.
Ooh. I could eat that word. Or a crisp. Do you have any crisps?
You haven't seen my drawer of inappropriate starches? C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon!
Oh my god, I'm having such a terrible day. ~ Joss Whedon,#NFDB
627:Het westerse consumentisme dreigt bij menigeen uit te lopen op een belevingssolipsisme waarin iedereen alles en dus oo. elkaar en zichzelf gebruikt en misbruikt naar zijn 'eigen zin' en niemand nog wezenlijk op de ander betrokken is. De cynische walging over deze levensstijl wordt in de literatuur bijvoo.beeld beschreven doo. de populaire Franse schrijver Michel Houellebecq en was in de popcultuur al eerder uitgeschreeuwd, zij het minder bewust, doo. iemand als Kurt Cobain van de grungeband Nirvana, die onder de jeugd een grote populariteit genoo.. Onder de kunstenaars vallen nog veel andere namen te noemen, die een verscheurd of cynisch levensgevoel tot uitdrukking brengen dat bij menigeen weerklank vindt. In de filosofie was het ruim een eeuw geleden Nietzsche die eenzaam de pijn heeft gevoeld na 'de doo. van God'. ~ Ad Verbrugge, #NFDB
628:Ze kleedden zich uit zonder naar elkaar te kijken, en daarna ging Phoebe op haar bed liggen en klom Scramsfield boven op haar. Wat er daarna volgde duurde niet meer dan anderhalve minuut, en na afloo. besefte hij teleurgesteld dat de daad geen greintje had bijgedragen aan zijn detailkennis van de structuur en mechanica van de menselijke vagina, al had hij die dan oo. nog zo vlijtig verkend met het gevoeligste deel van zijn eigen lichaam - nergens aan het lichaam van een man had je een oppervlak dat precies op die manier zacht was, bedacht hij, behalve misschien het nog niet herstelde tandvlees nadat de tandarts een kies had getrokken - maar desondanks vond hij het zo fantastisch dat hij zich afvroeg: als je dit gewoo. hier in Boston kon doen wanneer je maar wilde, gratis, waarom zou je dan in vredesnaam naar Parijs gaan? ~ Ned Beauman, #NFDB
629:Ik weet niet wat het is met ons,' zei hij gelaten toen ik een week voo. zijn doo. de nacht naast hem doo.bracht. 'We doen het er niet om maar op de een of andere manier vallen wij overal buiten. Heb je dat oo. gemerkt? Word jij oo. wel eens beslopen doo. het gevoel er niet bij te horen zonder dat je zou kunnen zeggen waarbij? Dat je rebels wordt genoemd alleen maar omdat je niet het riedeltje van Koekoek Eenzang zingt? Zorg daarom dat je zelf je plan trekt, oo. als ik er niet meer ben, anders word je verpletterd doo. de horden. Het belangrijkste in het leven is zelfredzaamheid. Dan komt er een hele tijd niets, en dan komt voetje voo. voetje de zachtheid aangeslopen. Zachtheid en zelfredzaamheid, daar gaat het om. Maar die zachtheid moet natuurlijk wel verdiend worden, dus daar moet men uiterst spaarzaam mee omgaan. Niet vergeten. ~ Charlotte Mutsaers, #NFDB
630:De huidige kennis van de neurobiologie maakt duidelijk dat van een volledige vrijheid geen sprake kan zijn. Vele erfelijke factoren en omgevingsinvloeden tijdens de vroege ontwikkeling hebben doo. hun inwerking op onze hersenontwikkeling de structuur en zo de functie van de hersenen voo. de rest van ons leven vastgelegd. Hierdoo. hebben wij niet alleen allerlei mogelijkheden en talenten, maar oo. vele beperkingen meegekregen, zoals de aangeboren basis voo. de kans op verslaving, de mate van agressie, onze genderidentiteit, seksuele oriëntatie en de aanleg voo. ADHD, borderline-persoo.lijkheidsstoo.nis, depressie en schizofrenie. Dit maakt duidelijk dat ons gedrag bij de geboo.te al in belangrijke mate vastligt. Deze opvatting, die lijnrecht staat tegenover het maakbaarheidsgeloo. van de jaren zestig, wordt oo. wel ‘neurocalvinisme’ genoemd. ~ Dick Swaab, #NFDB
631:Wellicht zelfs dient de Europese islam een reformatie te ondergaan, waarin hij de innerlijkheid en waarde van het vrije individu tot een diepe waarheid van zijn geloo. maakt. Omgekeerd is het echter oo. van belang om bij onszelf te rade te gaan en te onderkennen dat er wellicht een kern van waarheid zit in de aantijging vanuit islamistische hoek, dat toch oo. onze moderne samenleving haar kwaad heeft als haar eigen schaduw, namelijk daar waar zij overal de vrije markt en de commercie laat begaan en in het prediken van het vrije individu van geen kwaad wil weten. Alleen immers wanneer een politieke gemeenschap zich daadwerkelijk richt op de juiste vorming van haar burgers, mag zij zich oo. werkelijk beschaafd noemen. Daarmee zouden we dan wederom een oude wijsheid eren, namelijk dat je groo.ste vijand niet van buiten komt, maar van binnen. ~ Ad Verbrugge, #NFDB
632:Ik leer, langzaam en niet zonder pijn in mijn hart, het leven te nemen zoals het is, het eerbiedig te aanvaarden, er een feest van te maken, het te koesteren, uit te zaaien en ermee te werken zo lang me de tijd gegund is. Maar in het verloo. van de tijd zal er steeds weer nieuwe schade ontstaan die hersteld moet worden, nieuwe wegen en omwegen die bewandeld moeten worden op de roetsjbaan van ons leven en ons gekwetste hart.
Zo is het, zo ziet het patroo. van mijn leven eruit. Er komt geen diepe filosofie aan te pas en het is oo. geen geheim. Het is heel gewoo. de weg die je vol vreugde inslaat als je op een kruispunt in je leven staat. Maar in de stofwolken die ik zelf had opgeworpen, heeft het me wel veel tijd gekost om die weg te vinden. Maar goed, zoals Christophe van de perserij al zo kort en bondig opmerkte: 'Het leven kost tijd'. ~ Carol Drinkwater,#NFDB
633:I’m Danny Wexler and this is Channel Five sports! The [Undisclosed] foo.ball team has been raped in the ass by fate once again, boo.ed from the first round of the playoffs as they failed to carry their inflatable turd past a chalk line in the grass as often as their opponents did. Here’s Hornets quarterback Mikey Wolford, flopping that right arm around like a retard while he tries to pass to a teammate that apparently only he can see. Aaaaand, it’s intercepted. Nice pass, ’tard! Now here’s Spartans fullback Derrick Simpson, pumping those nigger thighs down the field like pistons on a machine designed for cotton picking. Ooh, nice tackle attempt there, Freddy Mason! I bet you could tackle that fullback if he was made of dick, couldn’t you, Freddy? But, he’s not, so final score, forty-one to seventeen. May every Spartan die with a turd on his lips. All hail Korrok. ~ David Wong, #NFDB
634:So should I just conjure a boat?” I asked her now.
She shrugged. “I’m not the one with magic. Just get over however you think is best.”
“I could swim,” I suggested. “Ooh! Or maybe magic up like, a sweet Jet Ski?” I held my hands out in front of me as if I were clutching the handlebars of said sweet Jet Sky. Aislinn watched me for a moment before saying, “Is this what you always do when you’re nervous?”
My hands fell back to my sides. “Pretty much.”
I turned back to the water. “See, the thing is, I’m pretty sure I could make a boat. But then if I do, do I give it a motor? Or a sail? Or am I expected to row myself all the way-“
“Please be quiet until you think of something.” The words themselves weren’t particularly threatening, but Aislinn had a way of loo.ing at you that made you feel like she was mere seconds away from kicking you in the face. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
635:Which brings us to a little boo. that may provide a clue to the cure. My wife got it as a gift from a friend. It is titled Porn for Women. It’s a picture boo. of hunks, photographed in all their chiseled, muscle-bound, testosterone-marinated, PG-rated glory. Lots of naked chests and low-cut jeans, complete with tousled hair and beckoning eyes. And they are ALL doing housework. There’s a picture of a well-cut Adonis, and he’s loading the washing machine. The caption reads: “As soo. as I finish the laundry, I’ll do the grocery shopping. And I’ll take the kids with me so you can relax.” There’s another hunk, the cover guy, vacuuming the floo.. A particularly athletic-loo.ing man peers up from the sports section and declares, “Ooh, loo., the NFL playoffs are today. I bet we’ll have no trouble parking at the crafts fair”. Porn for Women. Available at a marriage near you. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
636:Hij kwam niet verder, want Stalin explodeerde opnieuw.
'We hebben die verdomde atoo.bom van jou niet nodig om te vechten en te winnen! Wat we nodig hebben zijn socialistische zielen en harten! Wie voelt dat hij noo.t overwonnen kan worden, kan oo. noo.t overwonnen worden!'
'Voo. zover iemand geen atoo.bom op hem laat vallen', zei Allan.
'Ik zal het kapitalisme vernietigen! Hoo. je dat? Ik zal iedere afzonderlijke kapitalist vernietigen! En ik begin met jou, hond, als je ons niet helpt met die bom!'
Allan wilde echter niet langer aan tafel zitten en beledigingen aanhoren. Hij was naar Moskou gekomen om te helpen, niet om uitgescholden te worden. Stalin mocht het zelf uitzoeken.
'Ik heb iets bedacht', zei Allan.
'En dat is?' vroeg Stalin boo..
'Zou je die snor van je niet eens afscheren?'
Daarmee was het diner voo.bij, want de tolk viel flauw. ~ Jonas Jonasson,#NFDB
637:He comes into my city, he throws away my people, he orders me around like I'm his servant and now this? How dare he!"
I sighed. "How dare he!" came out. Could "Does he know who I am?" be far behind?
"I'm not some illiterate he can push around. I won't be treated this way. I worked too.damn hard, for years. Years! Years of study and that fucking Neanderthal comes in and waves his arms." Ghastek skewed his face into a grimace. He was probably aiming to impersonate Hugh, but he mostly succeeded in loo.ing extremely constipated. "Ooo. I'm Hugh d'Ambray, I'm starting a war!"
Laughing right now was a really bad idea. I had to conserve the energy.
"A war I've been trying years to avoid. Years!"
He kept saying that.
"Does he think it's easy to negotiate with violent lunatics, who can't understand elementary concepts?"
Goo. to know where we stoo. with him. ~ Ilona Andrews,#NFDB
638:Het kan aan mijn beperkte actieradius liggen, maar opeens lijken alle mannen er hetzelfde uit te zien. Ik moet iets specifieker zijn. Alle mannen van pak 'm beet... nu blijven mijn vingers al te lang boven het toetsenbord twijfelen. Leeftijd: rond de dertig denk ik, veertig zou oo. kunnen. Jonge mannen zeg maar. Die gewoo. nog rechtop lopen, met een zekere trots, flair. Zonder buik, recht van lijf en leden.
Kenmerkend voo. hun loo. is voo.al hun haardracht: het is opgeschoren, het heeft een lok of een kuif, en er is een hoo. baardgroei, snoraanzet vaak. Het ziet er mannelijk en homoseksueel tegelijkertijd uit. Dat homoseksuele voo.al omdat het zo ontzettend verzorgd is. Het ziet eruit als een loo. die zorgvuldig en met veel gedoe voo. de spiegel bijgehouden moet worden. En het wonder is: iedereen knapt ervan op. Nog noo.t zoveel goed uitziende mannen op straat gezien. ~ Marja Pruis,#NFDB
639:What. Are. Thoo.oo.ose?" the walrus moaned.
On the holo-screen airing the happenings in Genevieve Square, a swarm of scorpspitters released by the Glass Eyes was scuttling toward Alyss and the other. Never before had a Wonderlander seen these scorpion-like contraptions that could bullets of deadly poison from their "tails"--not even Bibwit, who assumed they were the latest in a long line of armaments invented by Redd. But before a single scorpspitter curled its tail into a C to take aim at the queen, she imagined into existance a horde of disembodied boo.s with steel-plated soles, which hovered monetarily in the air, then--
With a slight nod, she brought them down hard, stomping the scorpspitters flat, squishing their armor-crapaces and making absract art of their wiry guts.
Ooh, now why can't Queen Alyss do that to the Glass Eyes?" the walrus-bulter cried. ~ Frank Beddor,#NFDB
640:Er staan boterhammen voo. je in het buffet,' zei zijn moeder. 'Dank je wel,' zei hij. Ze schakelde de radio in. 'Geen landbouw, geen veeteelt, geen slechte muziek, geen geoudehoer,' zei Frits. geen walsen van Strauss, geen illustratieve muziek. Laat alleen het allerbeste doo.komen. Too., desnoo.s een gebrekkige, maar voo.uitstrevende smaak.' 'Ik krijg er hoo.dpijn bij,' dacht hij.
'Je bent niet aleen in huis,' zei ze. 'Je moet oo. eens aan iemand anders denken. Het wordt tijd, dat je eens met anderen rekening houdt.' De radio was warm geworden en begon geluid te geven. 'Ik ben zo alleen en denk steeds aan jou,' zong een tenor. Zijn vader draaide de knop naar links, maar juist nog niet uit. Men kon horen, dat er gezongen werd, maar verder niets onderscheiden. 'Zo wordt het toestel gesmoo.d,' dacht Frits, kwam naderbij en zocht de schaal af. Tenslotte draaide hij de knop af. ~ Gerard Reve,#NFDB
641:Olga was lief, Olga was lief en liefdevol, Olga hield van hem, herhaalde hij in gedachten, steeds bedroefder omdat hij tegelijk oo. besefte dat het tussen hen niets meer zou worden, dat het tussen hen noo.t meer iets kon worden, het leven biedt je soms een kans dacht hij maar als je te laf of te besluiteloo. bent om die te benutten neemt het leven zijn kaarten terug, er is een moment om te handelen en een mogelijk geluk te betreden, dat moment duurt een paar dagen, soms een paar weken of zelfs een paar maanden maar het doet zich maar één keer voo., en als je het later wilt terugvinden is dat domweg onmogelijk, er is geen plaats meer voo. enthousiasme, overtuiging en geloo., wat overblijft is zachte berusting, droef wederzijds medelijden, het even nutteloze als juiste besef dat het iets had kunnen worden, dat je je het aangeboden geschenk domweg niet waardig hebt betoo.d. ~ Michel Houellebecq, #NFDB
642:Ik dacht aan de hoeveelheid mensen, aan de aantallen, niet eens in termen van overbevolking, of vervuiling, en of er straks voo. iedereen nog wel genoeg te eten zou zijn, maar de hoeveelheid op zich. Of drie miljoen of zes miljard een bepaald doel diende. Wanneer dit punt eenmaal was bereikt, begonnen zich de eerste gevoelens van onbehagen aan te dienen. Er zijn niet noo.zakelijk te veel mensen, dacht ik, maar er zijn er wel veel. Ik dacht aan de leerlingen in mijn klaslokaal. Allemaal moesten ze iets: ze moesten het leven in, ze moesten het leven doo.. Terwijl één uur al heel lang kan zijn. Er moest werk worden gevonden en er moesten echtparen worden gevormd. Er zouden kinderen komen, en oo. die kinderen zouden op schoo. geschiedenisles krijgen, zij het niet meer van mij. Vanaf een bepaalde hoo.te zag je alleen nog de aanwezigheid van mensen, niet langer de mensen zelf. Hier kreeg ik het benauwd. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB
643:On the other hand, men are sometimes wildly inappropriate in the way they share with women. By a show of hands, how many of you have seen a strange penis on the street? On the subway? At a sleepover? I was once walking with my friend Keri in the middle of the day and some guy asked us for the time. When we loo.ed down at our watches, his dick was in his hands. We giggled and screamed and ran away. We were probably ten. I have been really drunk in high schoo. and had a guy try to foo. around with me. I have been called a bitch and a lesbian when I rejected a guy in college. I have locked eyes with various subway masturbators. I have been mugged but not raped, pushed and spit on by someone I knew, and forced to pull over in a road-rage incident where a man stuck his head into my car and told me he was going to “cum in my face.” And I count myself very lucky. That is what “very lucky” feels like. Oof. ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
644:You know,” he said, “this design begins to appeal to me after all. Sea slugs aren’t the least bit arousing, but logarithms . . . I’ve always thought that word sounded splendidly naughty.” He let it roll off his tongue with ribald inflection. “Logarithm.” He gave an exaggerated shiver. “Ooh. Yes and thank you and may I have some more.”
“Lots of mathematical terms sound that way. I think it’s because they were all coined by men. ‘Hypotenuse’ is downright lewd.”
“ ‘Quadrilateral’ brings rather carnal images to mind.”
She was silent for a long time. Then one of her dark eyebrows arched. “Not so many as ‘rhombus.’ ”
Goo. Lord. That word was wicked. Her pronunciation of it did rather wicked things to him. He had to admire the way she didn’t shrink from a challenge, but came back with a new and surprising retort. One day, she’d make some fortunate man a very creative lover. ~ Tessa Dare,#NFDB
645:So in case you were wondering, I had no idea her friend was you,” Gael said. “I wouldn’t have tried to rope you into babysitting, I promise.”
“I believe you,” Sammy said. “Don’t worry. We’re hardly even friends, really, I just met her yesterday—oo., loo.,” she squealed, interrupting herself. “There’s a baby elephant!”
Gael laughed. “I wouldn’t have expected you to go ape-shit for baby animals.”
Sammy raised an eyebrow. “Name one person with a soul who doesn’t go apeshit for baby animals. They’re, like, animals who are tiny. Who are you, the devil?”
Gael shoo. his head. “I like them, too. Obviously. But your voice went about a million levels higher just then.”
Sammy crossed her arms. “Maybe you should question your ability to maintain an even tone of voice in the face of”—she smiled one of those weird upside-down smiles that little kids do when they’re excited—“BABY ELEPHANTS. ~ Leah Konen,#NFDB
646:Jazz Fantasia
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjoes,
sob on the long coo. winding saxophones.
Go to it, O jazzmen.
Sling your knuckles on the bottoms of the happy
tin pans, let your trombones oo.e, and go hushahusha-hush with the slippery sand-paper.
Moan like an autumn wind high in the lonesome treetops,
moan soft like you wanted somebody terrible, cry like a
racing car slipping away from a motorcycle cop, bang-bang!
you jazzmen, bang altogether drums, traps, banjoes, horns,
tin cans — make two people fight on the top of a stairway
and scratch each other's eyes in a clinch tumbling down
the stairs.
Can the rough stuff . . . now a Mississippi steamboat pushes
up the night river with a hoo.hoo.hoo.oo.. . . and the green
lanterns calling to the high soft stars . . . a red moo. rides
on the humps of the low river hills . . . go to it, O jazzmen.
~ Carl Sandburg,#NFDB
647:One study demonstrated that people's evaluation of a situation where they might receive a shock is insensitive to the probability of receiving the shock because their thinking is swamped by affective evaluation of the situation. People were willing to pay almost as much to avoid a i percent probability of receiving a shock as they were to pay to avoid a 99 percent probability of receiving a shock. Clearly the affective reaction to the thought of receiving a shock was overwhelming the subjects' ability to evaluate the probabilities associated.
Likewise, research by resource economists studying the public's valuation of environment damage indicates again that affective reaction interferes with people's processing of numerically important information. It was found that people would pay little more to save 200,oo. birds from drowning in oil ponds (mean estimate $88) than they would pay to save 2000 birds ($8o). ~ Keith E Stanovich,#NFDB
648:Cyril had staked out his claim and refused to move. "Move over!" I said, freeing one hand from holding the cat to push. "Dogs are supposed to sleep at the foo. of the bed." Cyril had never heard of this rule. He jammed his body up against my back and began to snore. I tugged at the rugs, trying to get enough to cover me, and turned on my side, the cat cradled in my arms. Princess Arjumand paid no attention to the regulations of animals on the bed either. She promptly wriggled free and walked round the bed, treading on Cyril, who responded with a faint "oo.," and kneading her claws in my leg. Cyril shoved and shoved again until he had the entire bed and all the covers, and Princess Arjumand draped herself across my neck with her full weight on my Adam's apple. Cyril shoved some more. An hour into this little drama it began to rain in earnest, and everyone moved in under the covers and began jockeying for position again. ~ Connie Willis, #NFDB
649:Op de gang staat nog altijd zijn ex te wachten.
'Je bent er nog?' vraagt hij.
'Je ruikt naar roo.,' fluistert ze als hij stilstaat om haar een tweede keer te begroeten en meteen oo. een tweede keer afscheid van haar te nemen. Hij had bijna haar hand willen pakken om alles nog eens over te doen. 'Je zou ermee stoppen.'
'Waarom fluister je? Ik ben psychiater, wij roken omdat we anders gek zouden worden en omdat we op die manier tenminste nog één ding gemeen hebben met de meeste patiënten: de sigaret.'
'Ik fluister omdat ik je niet wil beschamen. Altijd dezelfde frasen, dezelfde excuses. Hoe kun je mensen weerhouden van zelfdestructie als je er zelf mee bezig bent?'
'Dat is een paradox,' zegt Kadoke. 'Gezondheid, geestelijke gezondheid houdt in dat je die paradoxen leert aanvaarden, dat je ermee leert leven, met het onvolmaakte, ja degene die jou komt weerhouden van zelfdestructie roo.t, is dat nou zo erg? ~ Arnon Grunberg,#NFDB
650:Als het niets meer kan schelen wat anderen denken, verliezen we ons vermogen tot verbinding. Maar als we onszelf laten bepalen doo. wat anderen denken, verliezen we de moed om ons kwetsbaar op te stellen. De oplossing is om heel duidelijk voo. ogen te krijgen wiens mening voo. jou echt telt. Het moeten de mensen zijn die niet van je houden óndanks je onvolmaaktheden en kwetsbaarheden, maar óm je onvolmaaktheden en kwetsbaarheden. Als je op je gezicht ligt in de arena, zijn dat de mensen die je overeind zullen helpen en zullen bevestigen dat de val echt klote was, en je er vervolgens aan herinneren dat je dapper bent geweest en dat zij er oo. de volgende keer zullen zijn om het zand van je af te kloppen. Neem oo. mensen op die dapper genoeg zijn om te zeggen: ‘Daar ben ik het niet mee eens,’ of: ‘Ik denk dat je ernaast zit,’ en die je vragen zullen stellen als ze je dingen zien doen die indruisen tegen je waarden en normen. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB
651:A Brief Guide to Welsh Pronunciation c a hard ‘c’ sound (Cadfael) ch a non-English sound as in Scottish ‘ch’ in ‘loch’ (Fychan) dd a buzzy ‘th’ sound, as in ‘there’ (Ddu; Gwynedd) f as in ‘of’ (Cadfael) ff as in ‘off’ (Gruffydd) g a hard ‘g’ sound, as in ‘gas’ (Goronwy) l as in ‘lamp’ (Llywelyn) ll a breathy ‘thl’ sound that does not occur in English (Llywelyn) rh a breathy mix between ‘r’ and ‘rh’ that does not occur in English (Rhys) th a softer sound than for ‘dd,’ as in ‘thick’ (Arthur) u a short ‘ih’ sound (Gruffydd), or a long ‘ee’ sound (Cymru—pronounced ‘kumree’) w as a consonant, it’s an English ‘w’ (Llywelyn); as a vowel, an ‘oo. sound (Bwlch) y the only letter in which Welsh is not phonetic. It can be an ‘ih’ sound, as in ‘Gwyn,’ is often an ‘uh’ sound (Cymru), and at the end of the word is an ‘ee’ sound (thus, both Cymru—the modern word for Wales—and Cymry—the word for Wales in the Dark Ages—are pronounced ‘kumree’) ~ Sarah Woo.bury, #NFDB
652:At one point, Joylene (a large woman from HR with four framed photos of her cats and one of her deceased father holding a trout on her desk) actually stated, “Ooo. I love Excel.” Who says, “Ooo. I love Excel.”? How is it even a sentence? Each time Joylene had a question, she waved her pen, with a huge rainbow colored feather taped to the end, above her head while making excited “uh, uh, um, uh” noises. “Yes, Joylene?” “If I want my columns color coded, am I able to mix my own preferred range of blues from a palette or do I have to select from the four-thousand shades of blue it already has?” “And that, your Honor, is when the defendant leapt across the desk. I enter into evidence the rainbow feather pen.” If there ever comes a time where I’m typing numbers into boxes and decide I’d really like those boxes with numbers to be a specific shade of blue, it will be time to turn off the computer, pack my things, and start a fire. ~ David Thorne, #NFDB
653:Heel dit land acteert, dit schijtgat van Europa, en al het volk dat zich erin wentelt en keert: het is een kolonie vol komedianten, het schmiert dat het een aard heeft, niet in staat tot wezenlijk contact, het verstopt zich in het voetlicht van de schone schijn en de dure restaurantrekening en het dwangmatig gewauwel over het slechte weer en over de files en de hondendrollen van de buurman, het lijdt aan overacting in de politiek en in het wielerleven – maar voo. de ware ik heeft het geen volledige tekst meegekregen, nog altijd niet, oo. ik niet, we zijn nog altijd boerenpummels in een te prijzig kostuum en geen andere replieken dan de boerse vloek of de geladen stilte of de rode kop van schaamte. En als die niet volstaan, improviseren we snel een platte grol, een ontwijkend vuile mop, een grappig accent, een hoo. stemmetje. Nog altijd de bezielers van een middeleeuwse klucht, “De Sotternie van Nu Noch”. Typetjes, waar je mensen verwacht. ~ Tom Lanoye, #NFDB
654:De rust waarvan ik in een bibliotheek zo geniet bestaat niet alleen uit stilte. Al dat papier dempt ieder geluid, maar oo. het ruisen van mijn gedachten. Hun ongedurigheid vindt troo.t in de overmacht aan kennis langs de wanden. Die is zoveel groter dan oo.t in mijn hoo.d zal passen. Dat kalmeert me en herinnert mij eraan dat ik niet per se alles hoef te weten en begrijpen. Zoveel is al opgeschreven en ik heb het allemaal binnen handbereik. Daar hoef ik mij dus niet meer mee bezig te houden. Zelfs al zal ik noo.t meer dan een fractie van al die feiten tot mij kunnen nemen, ze zijn er, het staat er, de wereld is gerubriceerd, en als ik er eens nodig iets uit moet begrijpen kan ik het opslaan. Als de werkelijkheid zo onder controle en verifieerbaar is, kan ik haar makkelijker loslaten. Misschien is dit wel het nut van al die schrijvers, dat zij vastleggen wat buiten mij is zodat ik mij, zolang ik me met hen omring, kan wijden aan wat in mij leeft. ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
655:Shopping malls rarely have any windows on the outside. There is a goo. reason for this: if you could see the world beyond the window you would be able to orientate yourself and might not get lost. Shopping malls have maps that are unreadable even to the most skilled cartographer. There is a goo. reason for this: if you could read the map you would be able to find your way to the shop you meant to go without getting lost. Shopping malls loo. rather the same whichever way you turn. There is a reason for this too. shopping malls are built to disorientate you, to spin you around, to free you from the original petty purpose for which you came and make you wander like Cain past rows and rows of shops thinking to yourself, "Ooh! I should actually go in there and get something. Might as well seeing as I'm here." And this strange mental process, this freeing of the mind from all sense of purpose or reason, is known to retail analysts as the Gruen transfer. ~ Mark Forsyth, #NFDB
656:Coo. yourself some bacon or something.” “Pfft. Rather have the beer.” “Not while I’m standing here,” I said. “You’re underage.” She puffed air up against her fallen bangs, making them flutter. “Aren’t you, like, a thief or something?” “Or something, sometimes.” “But you won’t let me have a beer,” she said. “Nope. A man’s got to have standards.” Melanie pulled a sealed package of turkey bacon out of the fridge and reached for a frying pan. “Ooh,” she said sarcastically, “the code of the criminal underworld, just like in the movies. Like you won’t shoo. women or kids, right?” I shrugged. “I try not to shoo. anybody if I can help it. If I’m put in a position where I have to, though, their gender or their age doesn’t have a whole lot to do with it.” “And let me guess, you never steal from your boss?” “Depends.” “Depends?” she said. “On how much of an asshole he is.” “That happen a lot?” “Working for assholes?” I said. “You have no idea.” She laughed. ~ Craig Schaefer, #NFDB
657:Een wonderlijke vriendschap was het, die tussen Narziss en Goldmund tot ontploo.ing kwam; er waren maar weinig mensen, die er plezier in hadden, en af en toe had het er zelfs de schijn van, dat de twee er zelf geen plezier in hadden.
Narziss, denker die hij was, kon er in het begin het minst gemakkelijk mee uit de voeten. Hij was een en al geest, oo. in de liefde; het was hem niet vergund zich zonder verder na te denken aan iemands aantrekkingskracht gewonnen te geven. Hij had in deze vriendschapsverhouding geestelijk de leiding, en gedurende een aanzienlijke periode bleef hij eenzaam in een leven van genegenheid, en wist hij, dat hij zijn vriend pas werkelijk de zijne zou kunnen noemen op het moment, dat hij hem tot inzicht gebracht zou hebben. Goldmund gaf zich, van binnen uit, met warmte, speels en zonder zich rekenschap te geven, over aan het nieuwe leven; Narziss zag hun verheven noo.slot in het volle bewustzijn van zijn verantwoo.delijkheid onder ogen. ~ Hermann Hesse,#NFDB
658:Eindelijk schrijf ik je weer omdat er grote dingen staan te gebeuren en wel doo. toedoen van mijnheer Van Schoo.beke.
Je moet weten dat mijn moeder gestorven is.
Een nare geschiedenis natuurlijk, niet alleen voo. haar maar oo. voo. mijn zusters, die er zich bijna doo. aan gewaakt hebben.
Zij was oud, zeer oud. Op een paar jaar na weet ik niet hoe oud zij precies was. Ziek was zij eigenlijk niet, maar grondig versleten.
Mijn oudste zuster, waar ze bij inwoo.de, was goed voo. haar. Zij weekte haar broo., zorgde voo. stoelgang en gaf haar aardappelen te schillen om ze bezig te houden. Zij schilde, schilde, als voo. een leger. Wij brachten allemaal onze aardappelen bij mij zuster en dan kreeg zij die van madame van boven en van een paar buren oo. nog, want toen ze eens geprobeerd hadden haar een emmer reeds geschilde aardappelen nog eens te doen overschillen, wegens gebrek aan voo.raad, toen had zij 't gemerkt en warempel gezegd 'die zijn al geschild'. ~ Willem Elsschot,#NFDB
659:Regulating the weather is beyond my expertise,” he informed me.
Ooh, the aristocratic accent was out in full force. He’d rolled each “r” for nearly a full second, I’d swear to it. “How do you know until you try?”
“Because I’m not some all-powerful protagonist in a ridiculous drama who acquires some new unheard of ability with each new improbable situation,” he snapped.
I was impressed. “You get real articulate when you’re upset.” I wished I could do that. I tended to start stuttering when I was really angry.
I fancied I saw steam rising from his ears. “I’m not saying you can do anything and everything you set your mind to, Taro. I’m rather glad you can’t, because then you’d just be impossible.” Another glare, and I resisted the urge to tell him he was beautiful when he was angry. “All I’m saying is that you’ve already proven Source abilities are not as limited as everyone thinks. Maybe this is something you or one of the others can do something about. ~ Moira J Moo.e,#NFDB
660:Archer?” I asked, raising my eyebrows. Hey, you might be able to take away my magical powers, but the power of sarcasm was still at my disposal. “Is your last name Newport or Vanderbilt? Maybe followed by some numbers? Ooh!” I said, widening my eyes, “or maybe even Esquire!”
I’d hoped to hurt his feelings or, at the very least, make him angry, but he just kept smiling at me. “Actually, it’s Archer Cross, and I’m the first one. Now what about you?” He squinted. “Let’s see . . . brown hair, freckles, whole girl-next-doo. vibe going on . . . Allie? Lacie? Definitely something cutesy ending in ie.”
You know those times when your mouth moves but no sound actually comes out? Yeah, that’s pretty much what happened. And then, of course, my mom too. that opportunity to end her conversation with Justin’s parents and call out, “Sophie! Wait up.”
“I knew it.” Archer laughed. “See you, Sophie,” he called over his shoulder as he disappeared into the house. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
661:Confession
'To take a homeopathic approach to the soul is to deal with
the darkness in ways that are in tune with the dark.'
---Thomas Moo.e
It’s taken time
to realise
no one survives.
Not even the ordinary.
Time to own up then
to blue throat
and gall bladder extraordinaire,
to rages pristine,
guilt unsmeared
by mediocrity,
separation traumas
subcontinental
and griefs that dare
to be primordial.
Time to iron out
a face corrugated
by perennial hope,
time to shrug off
the harlotry
and admit
there’s nothing hygienic
about this darkness –
no potted palms,
no elevator music.
I erupt from pillars,
half-lion half-woman.
The ?oo. space index I demand
is nothing short
of epic.
I still wait sometimes
for a ?icker of revelation
but for the most part
I’m unbribable.
When I open the coffee percolator
the roo. ?ies off.
~ Arundhathi Subramaniam,#NFDB
662:I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oo. people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e second oo. contains private chambers, bedroo.s where people go to read boo.s, listen to music by themselves, and so on. en there is a basement;
this is a special place, and there are a number of things stored here. We don’t use this roo. much in our daily life, but some- times we come in, vaguely hang around the place. en, my thought is that underneath that basement roo. is yet another basement roo.. is one has a very special doo., very di - cult to gure out, and normally you can’t get in there—some people never get in at all. . . . You go in, wander about in the darkness, and experience things there you wouldn’t see in the normal parts of the house. You connect with your past there, because you have entered into your own soul. But then you come back. If you stay over there for long you can never get back to reality. ~ Haruki Murakami,#NFDB
663:Villains. Stories are nothing without them. Heroes cannot rise to greatness without them. In the absence of an enemy, our beloved protagonists are left kicking rocks in the Shire or taking tea and biscuits in a mind-numbingly cheery Spare Oom. We love villains because they turn their aches into action, their bruises into battering rams. They push through niceties and against societal restraints to propel the story forward. Unlike our lovable protagonists, villains - for better or worse - stop at literally nothing to achieve their goals. It's why we secretly roo. for them, why we find ourselves hoping they make their grand escape, and it's why our shoulders sag with equal parts relief and disappointment when they are caught. After all, how can you not give it up to someone who works that damned hard for what they want?... Loo. into a villain's eyes long enough and we might find our shadow selves, our uncut what-ifs and unchecked ambitions, a blurry line if ever there was one. ~ Amerie, #NFDB
664:Met de eerste oo.opslag had Onno gezien, dat daar niets stond of lag, zoals het toevallig was neergezet of terechtgekomen. Niet dat het er esthetisch leeg was, of angstig opgeruimd; het was er eerder vol, met boeken en mappen oo. op de grond en op de kleine vleugel, maar noo.t lag een groter boek op een kleiner, of een map op een boek, niets leek ergens anders te kunnen liggen, – als op een schilderij. Die harmonische compositie strekte zich ongedwongen uit tot alles in de suite; oo. van een bepaalde stijl was geen sprake, er waren moderne dingen, antieke, halfantieke, maar alles paste bij elkaar en nergens stoo.te het oo. op een belediging, zoals iets van gekleurd plastic, of een reclamefolder, of zelfs maar een balpen. Ook de schrijftafel lag vol boeken en paperassen, maar alles zorgvuldig gerangschikt, evenwijdig, haaks, zonder dat het een manische indruk maakte. Wat Onno ‘krankzinnigheid’ noemde, was bewondering voo. iets dat hij zelf totaal miste in zijn dagelijks leven. ~ Harry Mulisch, #NFDB
665:Maar in elke liefde is smart, bedacht ik, smart om de voltoo.ing en de naderende doo. van de liefde als het een gelukkige liefde is, en smart om de onmogelijkheid en het verlies van wat ons noo.t heeft toebehoo.d als de liefde onbeantwoo.d blijft. En zoals ik treurde om de rijkdommen die ik niet had, zo treurde ik vroeger om Claire, die anderen toebehoo.de. En zo treurde ik oo. nu, liggend in haar bed, in haar appartement in Parijs, in de lichtblauwe wolken van haar kamer, die ik tot vanavond onrealiseerbaar en niet bestaand geacht zou hebben en die Claires bleke, op drie plaatsen met zulk schaamteloo. en kwellend verleidelijk haar bedekte lichaam omgaven; zo treurde ik nu over het feit dat ik niet meer zou kunnen dromen over Claire zoals ik altijd gedaan had; en dat het nog lang zou duren eer ik een ander beeld van haar gecreeerd zou hebben dat op een andere manier net zo onbereikbaar voo. mij zou worden als tot nu toe dit lichaam, dit haar en deze lichtblauwe wolken geweest waren. ~ Gaito Gazdanov, #NFDB
666:Ah don’t really know, Tam, ah jist dinnae. It kinday makes things seem mair real tae us. Life’s boring and futile. We start aof wi high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re aw gaunnae die, withoo. really findin oo. the big answers. We develop aw they long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality ay oo. lives in different weys, withoo. really extending oo. body ay worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oo. lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oo.sels that it isnae totally pointless. Smack’s an honest drug, because it strips away these delusions. Wi smack, whin ye feel goo., ye feel immortal. Whin ye feel bad, it intensifies the shite that’s already thair. It’s the only really honest drug. It doesnae alter yer consciousness. It just gies ye a hit and a sense ay well-being. Eftir that, ye see the misery ay the world as it is, and ye cannae anaesthetise yirsel against it. ~ Irvine Welsh, #NFDB
667:Totale loyaliteit is alleen mogelijk wanneer trouw geheel ontdaan wordt van elke concrete inhoud, die gemakkelijk aanleiding kan geven tot andere gedachten. De totalitaire bewegingen hebben, elk op hun eigen manier, hun uiterste best gedaan om zich te ontdoen van de specifieke, concrete inhoud van partijprogramma's, die ze overgeërfd hadden uit eerdere, niet-totalitaire stadia van hun ontwikkeling. Hoe radicaal de doeleinden van deze programma's oo. geformuleerd worden, ze zijn te specifiek en bevestigen niet zonder meer de aanspraak op wereldheerschappij. Elk politiek programma dat zich met meer specifieke zaken inlaat dan 'ideologische kwesties met een belang op termijn van eeuwen' vormt voo. het totalitarisme een belemmering. Hitlers groo.ste verwezenlijking in de organisatie van de nazibeweging was dat hij de beweging bevrijdde van de last van het oude partijprogramma, niet echter doo. het te wijzigen of officieel af te schaffen.; hij weigerde eenvoudigweg over de punten ervan te praten of the disussiëren. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB
668:Govinda zei: "Maar is dat, wat jij 'ding' noemt dan iets wat werkelijk bestaat, iets wat wezenlijk is? Is dat niet alleen begoo.heling van de Maya, alleen maar verbeeldsel en schijn? Jouw steen, jouw boo., jouw stroo. - zijn dat nu dingen die waarachtig bestaan?' 'Ook daarom,' zei Siddhartha, 'bekommer ik mij niet zo erg, Of die dingen nu schijn zijn of niet, als zij schijn zijn, dan ben ik dat oo., en op die manier zijn ze toch altijd gelijk aan mij. Dat is het juist waardoo. ze mij zo lief en zo eerbiedwaardig worden: zij zijn zoals ik. Dat is de reden waarom ik van ze houden kan En dit is nu weer zo'n leer, waarom je wel zult lachen: de liefde, Govinda, schijnt mij het belangrijkst van alles te zijn. De wereld te doo.gronden, haar verklaren, haar verachten, dat laat ik graag aan grote denkers over. Voo. mij is het alleen van belang dat ik van die wereld kan houden, haar niet hoef te verachten, haar en mijzelf niet hoef te haten, haar en mijzelf, en alles wat bestaat, met liefde, bewondering, en eerbied beschouwen kan. ~ Hermann Hesse, #NFDB
669:In de totalitaire dictaturen van de twintigste eeuw gebeurt er namelijk iets met de mens dat in zijn geschiedenis tot dusver zonder weerga is: de totalitaire taal, of zoals Orwell het noemt, de 'newspeak' , dringt met behulp van een goed gedoseerde dynamiek van geweld en angst onherroepelijk doo. in het bewustzijn van de individuele mens en sluit hemzelf daar langzaam buiten; hij heeft dus geen toegang meer tot zijn eigen innerlijk leven. Hij identificeert zich steeds meer met de hem toebedeelde of opgedrongen rol, of die nu bij zijn persoo.lijkheid past of niet. Bovendien is de volledige acceptatie van die rol, die functie, zijn enige overlevingskans. Maar op deze wijze wordt oo. zijn persoo.lijkheid volledig vernietigd, en als hij er werkelijk in slaagt te overleven, zal het waarschijnlijk lang duren tot hij ertoe in staat is -zo hij dat oo.t zal zijn- om de geloo.waardige, persoo.lijke taal terug te veroveren waarin hij zijn tragedie kan vertellen. Wellicht komt hij er dan achter dat die tragedie niet te vertellen valt. ~ Imre Kert sz, #NFDB
670:Wat zouden we beginnen als we wisten wat ons te wachten stond? Niet veel meer, ben ik bang. Konden we ons leven bekijken zoals de goden het zien, van begin tot eind alles overzichtelijk in een oo.opslag, dan konden we de stommiteit van bepaalde beslissingen van tevoren inzien. De zinloo.heid van ons verzet en al ons vechten zou ons de lust ontnemen wat voo. strijd dan oo. nog aan te gaan. We zouden geen doo.lopend pad meer inslaan en onze weg zonder verder avontuur afsukkelen, rechtstreeks naar het eind dat we onderhand kunnen dromen. Geluk zou ons niet meer kunnen verrassen. In plaats daarvan zouden we gaan zitten wachten, angstig en lamgeslagen, op alle dreunen van het lot, die we van verre zien aankomen. Er zouden geen risico's meer bestaan. Geen spijt. Kortom, het zou er niet veel meer toe doen of wij waken of slapen. Je zou het leven nauwelijks nog kunnen onderscheiden van de doo..
Ik vraag me af waar meer durf voo. nodig is, doo.leven met een lot dat je kent of aanmodderen zonder enig idee van wat je staat te gebeuren. ~ Arthur Japin,#NFDB
671:Op de scholen werden naar Russisch voo.beeld 'scholierenraden' ingesteld om de leraren te controleren, de 'leerplannen' werden afgeschaft, want de kinderen moesten en wilden alleen leren wat hun aanstond. Tegen elke bestaande vorm werd gerevolteerd om het plezier van het revolteren, zelfs tegen de wil van de natuur, tegen de eeuwige polariteit van de geslachten. De meisjes lieten hun haar knippen, zo kort dat je hun 'Bubi'-kapsels niet van die van de jongens kon onderscheiden, jongemannen schoren snorren en baarden af om meisjesachtiger te zijn, homoseksualiteit en lesbiennendom werden, niet uit innerlijke noo.zaak maar als protest tegen de ouderwetse, legale, 'normale' vormen van liefde de grote mode. Elke uitdrukkingsvorm van het bestaan deed zijn best radicaal en revolutionair voo. de dag te komen, natuurlijk oo. de kunst.[...] Overal werd het element van de toegankelijkheid uitgebannen, de melodie in de muziek, de gelijkenis in het portret, de verstaanbaarheid in de taal. De lidwoo.den 'de', 'het' en 'een' werden uitgeschakeld. ~ Stefan Zweig, #NFDB
672:Het hoo.d van een meisje van een jaar of vier wordt doo. een moederlijke orkaanoo.vijg achterovergeslagen en roteert eventjes hulpeloo. als een duikelaartje dat zijn evenwicht heeft verloren en daarom de groo.st mogelijke moeite heeft weer overeind te komen. Eindelijk staat het kinderhoo.dje weer loo.recht boven de wervelkolom, en het laat vreselijke geluiden horen, waarop het doo. de ongeduldige vrouw weer uit het loo. wordt geslagen. Het kinderhoo.dje is nu al gekleurd met onzichtbare inkt, de moeder is nog veel erger dingen van plan. Zij, de vrouw, moet zware tassen sjouwen en zou dat kind het liefst zien verdwijnen doo. een rioo.roo.ter. Om het kind te kunnen mishandelen moet zij namelijk elke keer even de zware tassen op de grond zetten, en dat betekent extra werk. Die kleine moeite lijkt het haar echter wel waard. Het kind leert de taal van het geweld, maar het leert niet vlot en onthoudt oo. op schoo. niets. Een paar woo.djes, de allernodigste, beheerst het reeds, al kan men ze bij dat gedrein slechts gedeeltelijk verstaan. ~ Elfriede Jelinek, #NFDB
673:Kom naar beneden!’
Ik kwam naar beneden, en toen ik weer op de grond stond, gaf mijn moeder me twee klappen in mijn gezicht.
Wat zijn dat voo. spelletjes?’
Ik wilde de Wildernis zien.’
Er is daar niets. Dat weet je.’
Als er niets is, kan het oo. geen kwaad.’
Niets is het gevaarlijkste dat er is.’
Waarom?’
Als er niets is, kun je iets bedenken. Je zult de leegte niet kun¬nen verdragen. Het zal evengoed leeg zijn, maar je zult jezelf wijsmaken dat dat niet zo is.’
Wat ik mezelf wijsmaak is waar.’
Wat jij jezelf wijsmaakt is een verhaal.’
Dit is een verhaal: jij, ik, het schroo.huis, de schat.’
Dit is het echte leven.’
Hoe weet je dat?’
Niemand zou er oo.t voo. betalen om ernaar te kijken.’
Ze draaide zich om om het haveloze huis weer binnen te gaan. Toen draaide ze zich weer om naar mij.
En ik zou er alles voo. over hebben om het niet te hoeven le¬ven.’
Je moet het niet leven. Je moet het veranderen.' 'Je begrijpt het niet, hè?’
Wat begrijp ik niet?’
Dit is het echte leven. ~ Jeanette Winterson,#NFDB
674:Oof! I’ve been stabbed!” The Duchess of Worthington did not loo. up from her needlepoint. “Perhaps that will teach you to fidget while at the hands of your dressmaker.” She cast a sidelong glance in the direction of her youngest child. “Besides, I highly doubt that Madame Fernaud ‘stabbed’ you.” Lady Alexandra Stafford, only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Worthington, heaved a sigh and rolled her eyes. She rubbed the spot at her waist that bore the mark of London’s finest dressmaker’s needle. “Perhaps not stabbed—but wounded nonetheless.” Garnering no reaction from either her mother or the unflappable modiste, Alex slumped her shoulders and muttered, “I fail to understand why I must suffer this fitting anyway.” The duchess continued with her needlepoint. “Alexandra, there are plenty of young women who would happily assume your position, standing on that platform, ‘suffering’ through a fitting for that dress.” “May I suggest any one of them take my place?” “No.” Alex knew when she was fighting a losing battle. “I didn’t think so.” The ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB
675:Yeah, well, my point is he stuck his neck out for you, and from what I know of him, he doesn’t really seem like the type to do something like that so lightly. Maybe he’s biding his time … or,’ she raised her finger, ‘maybe he’s scared of something … or someone. It’s probably his twin. The bossman. Old blue-eyes-creepysmile.
What’s his name again?’
‘You know his name,’ I said. ‘And can you keep your voice down, please? I’ve taken a vow of secrecy and anyone could be listening to you right now.’
Millie rolled her eyes.
‘And no, I doubt Valentino would be thrilled at the idea of me making out with his brother. Especially after everything that happened with Nic.’
‘You know,’ said Millie who was now narrowing her eyes, ‘for someone with such a romantic name, he’s a real killjoy, isn’t he? He’s all, Ooh loo. at me, I’m sensitive and kind and I have a beautiful long name and pretty eyes, and then BAM! Psyche! I’m going to shoo. you. You know what I call that, Soph? I call that false advertising, and I’m pretty sure it’s illegal. ~ Catherine Doyle,#NFDB
676:If he doesn’t get here soo., I’m going to fall asleep, Susan grumbled.
He loved hearing her voice in his head even when she was cranky.
The thought made him smile. I’ve been keeping you up too.late.
Not really, she replied. I’ve always been a night owl. I just haven’t been sleeping late the way I usually do.
And had had one scare after another whilst awake.
Did I mention I’m still sore from digging your handsome ass up?
He laughed.
It was totally worth it, of course, she went on.But if we find out you’re single, I might hit you up for a nice long massage.
He cursed when his body immediately responded to the image of her naked and laid out before him, waiting for him to run his hands all over her body. Now who’s flirting?
Ooh, she purred. That’s so coo.. Even in your thoughts, your voice deepens and gets all growly when you’re turned on. Before he could respond, she made a sound of impatience.Damn it. Now I’m turned on.
He laughed, delighted that she inspired him to do so even in such grim circumstances. ~ Dianne Duvall,#NFDB
677:De Oval Office, waar Allan tegenover zijn drinkmaatje uit Los Alamos zat terwijl hij naar diens uiteenzetting luisterde, was bijna net zo ovaal als Allan gedacht had. De president vertelde dat hij werd lastiggevallen doo. een vrouw die hij om politieke redenen niet kon negeren. Ze heette Song Meiling, had Allan misschien al eens over haar gehoo.d? Nee? Hoe dan oo., ze was de vrouw van Chiang Kai-shek, de leider van de Kwomintang, oftewel de Chinese Nationalistische Partij. Ze was beeldschoo., had in Amerika gestudeerd, was de beste vriendin van mevrouw Roo.evelt, trok duizenden toeschouwers als ze ergens verscheen en had zelfs een toespraak voo. het congres gehouden. Nu maakte ze president Truman echter het leven zuur omdat ze wilde dat hij alle mondelinge beloften nakwam die ze volgens haar van president Roo.evelt had gekregen wat betreft de strijd tegen het communisme.
'Ik wist wel dat het weer met politiek te maken zou hebben', zei Allan.
'Het is een beetje moeilijk om dat te ontwijken als je president van de VS bent', zei Harry Truman. ~ Jonas Jonasson,#NFDB
678:Allan stoo.de zich niet aan de sterilisatie, hij vond integendeel dat hij goed werd behandeld in de kliniek van professor Lundborg. Hij moest af en toe vragen over van alles en nog wat beantwoo.den, onder andere over zijn behoefte om dingen en mensen op te blazen en of hij misschien negerbloed had. Daarop antwoo.dde Allan dat hij het prettiger vond om dingen dan mensen op te blazen. Het was een goed gevoel om een stuk rots dat in de weg lag doo.midden te splijten. Als het in plaats daarvan om een mens ging, vond Allan het voldoende om de persoo. in kwestie te vragen opzij te gaan. Vond de professor dat oo.? Bernhard Lundborg liet zich niet snel verleiden tot filosofische discussies met zijn patiënten, en hij herhaalde in plaats daarvan zijn vraag over het negerbloed. Allan antwoo.dde dat hij dat niet wist, maar dat zijn ouders net zo'n bleke huid hadden gehad als hij zelf, als de professor genoegen nam met zo'n antwoo.d? Daarna voegde Allan eraan toe dat hij heel graag een echte neger wilde niet als de professor toevallig zo iemand in voo.raad had. ~ Jonas Jonasson, #NFDB
679:On the bright side, I’ve got cupcakes.”
Rylann pulled a dessert plate out of the box. “Ooh—nice. We can eat them on my very fancy and incomplete set of china.” She loo.ed around. “Seriously, what am I going to do with five sets of dinnerware?”
“You could…throw an elaborate dinner party for my imaginary boyfriend, your imaginary boyfriend, and their imaginary third-wheel friend who seemingly never has anything better to do?”
Ouch. “Don’t laugh. After Jon and I broke up and he moved to Rome, I was that third-wheel friend,” Rylann said. Their closest friends in San Francisco had been “couple” friends, and after the breakup, she simply hadn’t fit in anymore. One of the many reasons she’d been loo.ing for a fresh start in Chicago. “At least in this city, I’m a first wheel. A unicycle.”
Rae laughed. “Very tricky business, unicycling. Particularly in your thirties.”
“It’s not like I never dated before Jon. How different can it be?”
“Oh, such naivete.” Rae sighed dramatically. “I remember when I, too. was once so hopeful and unjaded. ~ Julie James,#NFDB
680:Er zijn eenvoudige, korte oefeningen die het lichaam in kort bestek afmatten en dus tijd besparen, en voo.al dat laatste moeten we goed bijhouden. Ga bijvoo.beeld hardlopen, of oefenen met gewichten, of springen. Je kunt hoo.- of verspringen, of laat ik zeggen 'ritueel dansen' of, om het banaler te zeggen, stampen als de wasman in zijn tobbe. Kies maar, het is allemaal simpel en gemakkelijk om te doen.Maar wat je oo. doet, keer snel weer terug van het lichaam naar de ziel! Want die moet je dag en nacht trainen, die wordt doo. matige inspanning gevoed. En dat soo.t training wordt niet belet doo. kou of hitte, nee, niet eens doo. ouderdom.
Richt je op iets goeds dat op den duur alleen maar beter wordt. En ik zeg niet dat je altijd boven je boeken of schrijftafeltjes moet zitten. Laat je geest oo. eens wat anders doen, maar dan zo dat het ontspannend werkt en niet ontkrachtend. Een tochtje in de wagen schudt de ledematen los, zonder de studie te beletten: je kunt iets lezen of dicteren, je kunt praten of luisteren, allemaal dingen die oo. tijdens een wandeling mogelijk zijn. ~ Seneca,#NFDB
681:Taylor and I are going to go to the boardwalk tonight. Will one of you guys drop us off?”
Before my mother or Susannah could answer, Jeremiah said, “Ooh, the boardwalk. I think we should go to the boardwalk too.” Turning to Conrad and Steven, he added, “Right, guys?” Normally I would have been thrilled that any of them wanted to go somewhere I was going, but not this time. I knew it wasn’t for me.
I loo.ed at Taylor, who was suddenly busy cutting up her scallops into tiny bite-size pieces. She knew it was for her too.
“The boardwalk sucks,” said Steven.
Conrad said, “Not interested.”
“Who invited you guys anyway?” I said.
Steven rolled his eyes. “No one invites anyone to the boardwalk. You just go. It’s a free country.”
“Is it a free country?” my mother mused. “I want you to really think about that statement, Steven. What about our civil liberties? Are we really free if-“
“Laurel, please,” Susannah said, shaking her head. “Let’s not talk politics at the dinner table.”
“I don’t know of a better time for political discourse,” my mother said calmly. ~ Jenny Han,#NFDB
682:De jongeman, die de toekomst niet kent, ziet het leven als een soo.t episch avontuur, een odyssee over vreemde zeeën en langs onbekende eilanden, waarin hij zijn krachten zal beproeven en bewijzen, en aldus zijn sterfelijkheid zal leren kennen. De man van middelbare leeftijd, die de toekomst heeft geleefd waarover hij eens droo.de, ziet het leven als een tragedie, want hij heeft gemerkt dat zijn krachten, hoe groo. ze oo. waren, niet opgewassen zijn tegen de krachten van het toeval en de natuur, die hij voo.ziet van de namen van de goden, en heeft geleerd dat hij sterfelijk is. Maar de man op leeftijd moet, als hij de hem toegewezen rol goed speelt, het leven als een komedie zien. Want zijn triomfen en zijn mislukkingen voegen zich aaneen, en de een is niet meer aanleiding voo. trots of schaamte dan de andere, en hij is noch de held die zichzelf ten overstaan van die krachten bewijst, noch de hoo.dpersoo. die erdoo. wordt vernietigd. Net als elk armzalig, meelijwekkend omhulsel van een acteur, leert hij inzien dat hij zoveel rollen heeft gespeeld dat hij zichzelf niet meer is. ~ John Williams, #NFDB
683:Het was niet het opzet van de eerste christenen om zich van het jodendom af te scheiden. De enige Jezus die we echt kennen, de Jezus is die wordt beschreven in het Nieuwe Testament, dat niet als objectief wetenschappelijke geschiedenis bedoeld was. Er zijn geen andere contemporaine bronnen over zijn missie en doo.. Zelfs de reden voo. zijn kruisiging valt niet met zekerheid vast te stellen. De evangeliën wijzen erop dat men dacht dat hij de koning van de joden was. Er werd gezegd dat hij de spoedige komst van het koninkrijk van God had voo.speld, maar oo. had duidelijk gemaakt dat die niet van deze wereld zou zijn.[...] De leden van de Jezusbeweging bleven leven als vrome, orthodoxe joden. Net als de essenen hadden ze geen privébezittingen, deelden ze hun bezittingen gelijkelijk en wijdden ze hun leven aan de laatste dagen. Jezus heeft vermoedelijk zijn volgelingen vrijwillige armoede en bijzondere zorg voo. de armen opgedragen en hun voo.gehouden dat loyaliteit aan de groep belangrijker was dan familiebanden en dat kwaad moest worden beantwoo.d met geweldloo.heid en liefde. ~ Karen Armstrong, #NFDB
684:Misschien staat alles wel in het teken van een groo. moederschap, als een gemeenschappelijk verlangen. De schoo.heid van de maagd, een wezen dat (zoals u het zo fraai uitdrukt) ‘nog niet heeft opgeleverd’, bestaat in het moederschap, dat zichzelf voo.voelt en voo.bereidt, dat vrees en verlangens koester. En de schoo.heid van de moeder bestaat in een dienend moederschap, en in de oude vrouw leeft een grote herinnering voo.t. En oo. in de man is moederschap, lijkt me, zowel lichamelijk als geestelijk; zijn verwekken is oo. een soo.t baren, en baren is het als hij uit zijn meest persoo.lijke rijkdom creeert. En misschien zijn de seksen wel verwanter dan men denkt, en de grote vernieuwing van de wereld zal er misschien wel in bestaan dat de man en het meisje, bevrijd van alle valse gevoelens en gevoelens van onlust, elkaar niet als hun tegenpoo. zullen zoeken, maar als broer en zus en als buren, en dat zij zich als mens zullen aaneensluiten om eenvoudig, ernstig en geduldig de hun opgelegde zware last van hun seksualiteit gezamenlijk te dragen.
- Thans in Worpswede bij Bremen, 16 juli 1903 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,#NFDB
685:Een totalitaire staat brandmerkte zijn onderdanen oo. dan met een schandteken als die zich verre hielden van het openbare leven, als zij in de bescherming van de anonimiteit hun integrante menselijkheid probeerden te bewaren. De essentie van de totalitaire staat is namelijk juist dat hij totaal is en dus voo.tdurend dwingt tot het innemen van een positie voo. of tegen: hij onteigent het denken totaal, als een onverwachte ramp brengt hij ons uit ons normale doen, uit ons persoo.lijke bestaan, en zet ons nachtmerrieachtige alternatieven voo. waartussen we gedwongen worden te kiezen. Zo stapt de persoo. zelf in de nachtmerrie, hij wordt zelf een spoo.figuur die droo.achtige handelingen uitvoert waarvoo. hij onder normale omstandigheden noo.t de verantwoo.ding op zich zou willen nemen en waarvoo. hij zich dus vaak oo. niet verantwoo.delijk voelt. In de dynamiek van het nazi-totalirisme werd het slachtoffer een goed functionerend onderdeel van de machinerie die voo. zijn vernietiging tot stand was gebracht; dit is vermoedelijk de meest vernederende ervaring die de mens tot dusver in zijn geschiedenis heeft opgedaan... ~ Imre Kert sz, #NFDB
686:How about whatever song comes on next, that’s our song. It’ll be fate.”
“We can’t just make our own fate.”
“Sure we can.” Peter reaches over to turn on the radio.
“Wait! Just any radio station? What if it’s not a slow song?”
“Okay so we’ll put on Lite 101.” Peter hits the button.
“Winnie the Poo. doesn’t know what to do, got a honey jar stuck on his nose,” a woman croo.s.
Peter says, “What the hell?” as I say, “This can’t be our song.”
“Best out of three?” he suggests.
“Let’s not force it. We’ll know it when we hear it, I think.”
“Maybe we’ll hear it at the prom,” Peter offers. “Oh, that reminds me. What color is your dress? My mom’s going to ask her florist friend to make your corsage.”
“It’s dusty pink.” It came in the mail yesterday, and when I tried it on for everybody, Trina said it was “the most Lara Jean” dress she’d ever seen. I texted a picture to Stormy, who wrote back, “Ooh-la-la,” with a dancing woman emoji.
“What the heck is dusty pink?” Peter wants to know.
“It’s like a rose gold color.” Peter still loo.s confused, so I sigh and say, “Just tell your mom. She’ll know. ~ Jenny Han,#NFDB
687:Mensen die graag naar uitdragerijen gingen, die graag gedichten lazen, baatzuchtigheid verachtelijk vonden, van eer en liefde droo.den, zag ze als een elite die boven de rest van het mensdom uitstak. Je hoefde zulke neigingen niet werkelijk te hebben, als ze maar werden verkondigd; van een man die haar bij een diner had toevertrouwd dat hij hield van rondslenteren in de stad, van vuile handen krijgen in oude winkeltjes, dat hij noo.t goed bevonden zou worden in deze zakelijke eeuw want zijn eigen belangen konden hem niet schelen en dat hij daarom in een andere tijd thuishoo.de, zei ze toen ze er vandaan kwam: 'Het is echt een aanbiddelijke man, een gevoelig wezen, ik had het noo.t gedacht!' en vatte een acuut en overweldigend gevoel van vriendschap voo. hem op. Mensen daarentegen die, zoals Swann, zulke neigingen hadden maar er niet over spraken, raakten haar niet. Zij moest weliswaar erkennen dat Swann niet om geld gaf, maar voegde er met een stuurs gezicht aan toe: 'Maar bij hem is het iets heel anders', en wat tot haar verbeelding sprak was dan oo. niet de praktijk van belangeloo.heid, maar de verwoo.ding ervan. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
688:Wat zou José Saramago over Carlos zeggen?
Dit.
'Mensen als deze heb je overal, ze besteden hun tijd, of de tijd die er in hun ogen naast het leven voo. rest, aan het verzamelen van postzegels, munten, medailles, vazen, ansichtkaarten, luciferdoo.jes, boeken, horloges, sportshirts, handtekeningen, stenen, kleien beeldjes, lege frisblikjes, engeltjes, cactussen, libretto's, aanstekers, vulpennen, uilen, speeldozen, flessen, bonsais, schilderijen, bierglazen, pijpen, kristallen obelisken, porseleinen eenden, antiek speelgoed of carnavalsmaskers, en dat doen ze vermoedelijk uit iets watje metafysische angst zou kunnen noemen, omdat het idee van de chaos als alleenheerser over het heelal onverdraaglijk voo. hen is, misschien proberen ze daarom met hun bescheiden vermogens en zonder goddelijke hulp enige orde te scheppen in de wereld, waar ze voo. korte tijd nog in slagen oo., maar alleen zolang ze hun verzameling in stand kunnen houden, want op de dag dat daar de klad in komt, en die dag komt altijd, hetzij doo. de doo., hetzij doo.dat de verzamelaar er genoeg van heeft, is alles terug bij af, loo.t alles weer doo. elkaar.' ~ Dimitri Verhulst,#NFDB
689:Ik vermoed dat hij wilde dat er op grote schaal werd gestorven doo. zijn toedoen, niet alleen in zijn concentratiekampen, oo. aan de fronten, in de bezette gebieden en in Duitsland zelf, elke dag tienduizenden, bloed, bloed moest er vloeien, - maar in zijn afwezigheid. Hij heeft oo. noo.t een gebombardeerde duitse stad bezocht, zoals zijn sinistere paladijn Goebbels ten minste nog deed. Als zijn trein doo. de ruïnes van een stad reed, moesten de gordijnen gesloten worden. Ik denk dat hij het oo. van de cycloo. wilde zijn. Rondom wordt alles verwoest doo. orkanen, maar in het oo. is het schitterend weer met een blauwe hemel. Zijn villa Berghof in de Alpen was daar het symboo. van. Daar broedde hij al die verschrikkingen uit, maar niets er van drong doo. tot die idylle.'
'Maar waarom wilde hij dat er op grote schaal gestorven werd om hem heen?'
'Misschien dacht hij daarmee zijn eigen doo. te bezweren. Zo lang hij kon doden, leefde hij. Misschien was zijn eigen doo. het enige, waar hij echt bang voo. was. Misschien dacht hij, dat die reusachtige offers hemzelf onsterfelijk zouden maken. En in zekere zin is dat oo. gebeurd. ~ Harry Mulisch,#NFDB
690:WASHINGTON had not paid his taxes for two years when he went as a delegate to attend the convention that made the Constitution of the United States. 1 Ford's edition of "The Federalist" says the " Father of his Country " was temporarily embarrassed, not by the failure of his crops, but by his inability to sell what he had raised. Whatever the reason, Washington had a great deal of property upon which to pay taxes. In the one sense that he was the richest man in America, he was the Rockefeller of his day. The schedule of property attached to his will foo.ed up $530,-oo.. In Virginia alone he owned " more than 35,000 acres,'* valued at $200,000; "in Maryland, 1,119 acres, at $9,828; in Pennsylvania, 234 acres, at $1,404; in New York, about 1,000 acres, at $6,000; in the Northwest Territory, 3,051 acres, at $15,255; in Kentucky, 5,000 acres, at $10,000; property in Washington at $19,-132; in Alexandria, at $4,000; in Winchester, at $400; at Bath, $800; in government securities, $6,246; shares in the Potomac Company, $10,666; shares in the James River Company, $500; stock in the Bank of Columbia, $6,800; stock in the Bank of Alexandria, $1,000; ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
691:Now, just breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth,” Lemon instructed, moving her hands up and down in front of her. “In through your nose…out through your mouth.”
Megan did as she was told. In, out. In, out. In, out.
“Slowly, sweetie! Slowly,” Lemon said. “You’re not running a marathon here.”
Ooh…running a marathon. There’s a happy place, Megan thought.
She envisioned her feet pounding against packed dirt, her own speed blowing back her hair, the burning in her lungs as she pushed herself harder and harder. In her mind’s eye, Megan saw Hailey and Evan running up ahead. She saw herself pass them. Saw the loo. of shock on Hailey’s face. Saw Evan’s admiration as it finally dawned on him how much better Megan was than Hailey. He tried to ditch Hailey and catch up with Megan, but Megan left him eating dust.
“See? You’re smiling,” Lemon said.
“Yeah. Are we done yet?” Megan asked.
There was no way she was ever going to exorcise the Evan and Hailey demons sitting in a plush chair with goo. on her face. She needed to get to soccer practice and work out some of this energy. She had to get out of here, stat. ~ Kate Brian,#NFDB
692:Hij herkent dat too.tje van haar. 'Je bekijkt het maar.' Wanneer hij het nu op een ruzie laat aankomen, zal hij zeker het onderspit delven. Zoals altijd is zij de redelijkheid zelve. Bij een reconstructie zullen er geen verzachtende omstandigheden zijn. Wat heeft zij nou helemaal gezegd? wanneer je haar zinnen een voo. een uittypt, ze achter elkaar terugleest, zal er niets dan redelijkheid in doo.klinken.
Maar in de uitgetypte zinnen hoo. je dat too.tje van haar niet. Hoe ze het zegt. 'Je kan doo.vallen.' Dat zegt ze niet, maar dat hoo. je wel. Ze zegt het op een too. alsof hij er helemaal niet is. Bij een echte ruzie zijn er twee partijen. Ze schelden elkaar de huid vol. Ze zeggen verschrikkelijke dinen die noo.t meer terug te draaien zijn - denken ze terwijl ze staan te scheeuwen. Maar het valt allemaal reuze mee. 'Waar ging dat nou weer over?' zeggen ze wanneer ze elkaar na afloo. van de ruzie met tranen in de ogen in de armen nemen.
Maar er is oo. een andere manier. Je gaat de ruzie helemaal niet aan. Er is alleen onverschilligheid, je laat aan alles merken dat het je niets kan schelen wat de ander doet of zegt - dat het je niet raakt. ~ Herman Koch,#NFDB
693:Hij herkent dat too.tje van haar. 'Je bekijkt het maar.' Wanneer hij het nu op een ruzie laat aankomen, zal hij zeker het onderspit delven. Zoals altijd is zij de redelijkheid zelve. Bij een reconstructie zullen er geen verzachtende omstandigheden zijn. Wat heeft zij nou helemaal gezegd? Wanneer je haar zinnen een voo. een uittypt, ze achter elkaar terugleest, zal er niets dan redelijkheid in doo.klinken.
Maar in de uitgetypte zinnen hoo. je dat too.tje van haar niet. Hoe ze het zegt. 'Je kan doo.vallen.' Dat zegt ze niet, maar dat hoo. je wel. Ze zegt het op een too. alsof hij er helemaal niet is. Bij een echte ruzie zijn er twee partijen. Ze schelden elkaar de huid vol. Ze zeggen verschrikkelijke dingen die noo.t meer terug te draaien zijn - denken ze terwijl ze staan te schreeuwen. Maar het valt allemaal reuze mee. 'Waar ging dat nou weer over?' zeggen ze wanneer ze elkaar na afloo. van de ruzie met tranen in de ogen in de armen nemen.
Maar er is oo. een andere manier. Je gaat de ruzie helemaal niet aan. Er is alleen onverschilligheid, je laat aan alles merken dat het je niets kan schelen wat de ander doet of zegt - dat het je niet raakt. ~ Herman Koch,#NFDB
694:Spring-Tide
LENTEN ys come with love to toune,
With blosmen ant with briddes roune,
That al this blisse bryngeth;
Dayes-eyes in this dales,
Notes suete of nyhtegales,
Vch foul song singeth;
The threstlecoc him threteth oo.
Away is huere wynter wo,
When woderove springeth;
This foules singeth ferly fele,
Ant wlyteth on huere winter wele,
That al the wode ryngeth.
The rose rayleth hire rode,
The leves on the lyhte wode
Waxen al with wille;
The mone mandeth hire bleo,
The lilie is lossom to seo,
The fenyl ant the fille;
Wowes this wilde drakes,
Miles murgeth huere makes;
Ase strem that striketh stille,
Mody meneth; so doth mo
(Ichot ycham on of tho)
For loue that likes ille.
The mone mandeth hire lyht,
So doth the semly sonne bryht.
When briddes singeth breme;
Deowes donketh the dounes,
Deores with huere derne rounes
Domes forte deme;
Wormes woweth under cloude,
Wymmen waxeth wounder proude,
So wel hit wol hem seme,
Yef me shal wonte wille of on,
This wunne weole y wole forgon
Ant wyht in wode be fleme.
244
~ Anonymous,#NFDB
695:Een baby van een aantal maanden oud is al heel bedreven in het onderscheiden van vriendelijkheid, kwaadheid en angst op het gezicht van de ander, oo. al heeft het kind op dat moment nog niet geleerd, doo. een onderzoek van het eigen lichaam, wat de fysieke tekens van deze emoties zijn. Het lichaam van de ander met zijn verschillende gebaren en uitingen verschijnt direct als een met emotie geïnvesteerde betekenis aan het kind. Het kind leert de geest dus zowel te begrijpen als een zichtbaar gedrag en als datgene wat zich afspeelt in de intimiteit van zijn eigen geest. Op onze beurt ontdekken wij, volwassenen, in ons eigen leven alleen datgene wat onze cultuur, boeken, traditie en ons onderwijs ons geleerd hebben daarin te zien.
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Het zuivere 'zich' - de geest zonder lichaam, zonder instrumenten en geschiedenis - dat we als een kritische instantie kunnen plaatsen tegenover de zuivere en eenvoudige binnendringing van ideeën, die ons worden opgedrongen doo. onze leefomgeving, kan zichzelf uiteindelijk alleen realiseren in een tastbare vrijheid die zich baseert op het instrument van de taal en op de deelname aan het aardse leven. ~ Maurice Merleau Ponty,#NFDB
696:Ik zal je helpen God, dat je het niet in mij begeeft, maar ik kan van te voren nergens voo. in staan. Maar dit éne wordt me steeds duidelijker: dat jij ons niet kunt helpen, maar dat wij jou moeten helpen en doo. dat laatste helpen wij onszelf. En dit is het enige, wat we in deze tijd kunnen redden en oo. het enige, waar het op aankomt: een stukje van jou in onszelf, God. En misschien kun nen we oo. er aan meewerken jou op te graven in de geteisterde harten van anderen. Ja, mijn God, aan de omstandigheden schijn jij niet al te veel te kunnen doen, ze horen nu eenmaal oo. bij dit leven. Ik roep je er oo. niet voo. ter verantwoo.ding.
I shall try to help You, God, to stop my strength ebbing away, though I cannot vouch for it in advance. But one thing is becoming increasingly clear to me: that You cannot help us, that we must help You to help ourselves. And that is all we can manage these days and also all that really matters: that we safeguard that little piece of You, God, in ourselves. And perhaps in others as well. Alas, there doesn’t seem to be much You Yourself can do about our circumstances, about our lives. Neither do I hold You responsible. ~ Etty Hillesum,#NFDB
697:An even more extreme example of a onetime grand gesture yielding results is a story involving Peter Shankman, an entrepreneur and social media pioneer. As a popular speaker, Shankman spends much of his time flying. He eventually realized that thirty thousand feet was an ideal environment for him to focus. As he explained in a blog post, “Locked in a seat with nothing in front of me, nothing to distract me, nothing to set off my ‘Ooh! Shiny!’ DNA, I have nothing to do but be at one with my thoughts.” It was sometime after this realization that Shankman signed a boo. contract that gave him only two weeks to finish the entire manuscript. Meeting this deadline would require incredible concentration. To achieve this state, Shankman did something unconventional. He boo.ed a round-trip business-class ticket to Tokyo. He wrote during the whole flight to Japan, drank an espresso in the business class lounge once he arrived in Japan, then turned around and flew back, once again writing the whole way—arriving back in the States only thirty hours after he first left with a completed manuscript now in hand. “The trip cost $4,000 and was worth every penny,” he explained. In ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB
698:Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus.”
“I am very pleased to meet you, Mr. Tumnus,” said Lucy.
“And may I ask, O Lucy, Daughter of Eve,” said Mr. Tumnus, “how you have come into Narnia?”
“Narnia?” What’s that?” said Lucy.
“This is the land of Narnia,” said the Faun, “where we are now; all that lies between the lamppost and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the Eastern Sea. And you--you have come from the wild woo.s of the west?”
“I--I got in through the wardrobe in the spare roo.,” said Lucy.
“Ah,” said Mr. Tumnus in a rather melancholy voice, “if only I had worked harder at geography when I was a little faun, I should no doubt know all about those strange countries. It is too.late now.”
“But they aren’t countries at all,” said Lucy, almost laughing. “It’s only just back there--at least--I’m not sure. It is summer there.”
“Meanwhile,” said Mr. Tumnus, “it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow. Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB
699:Spring-Tide
Lenten ys come with love to toune,
With blosmen and with briddes roune,
That al this blisse bryngeth;
Dayes-eyes in this dales,
Notes suete of nyhtegales,
Uch foul song singeth;
The threstelcoc him threteth oo.
Away is huere wynter wo,
When woderove springeth;
Thise foules singeth ferly fele,
Ant wlyteth on huere wunne wele,
That all the wode ryngeth.
The rose rayleth hire rode,
The leves on the lyhte wode
Waxen al with wille;
The mone mandeth hire bleo,
The lilie is lossom to seo,
The fenyl and the fille;
Wowes thise wilde drakes,
Miles murgeth huere makes
Ase strem that striketh stille.
Mody meneth; so doth mo
(Ichot ych am on of tho)
For loue that likes ille.
The mone mandeth hire lygt,
So doth the semly sonne bryht,
When briddes singeth breme;
Deawes donketh the dounes,
Deores with huere derne rounes
Domes for to deme;
Wormes woweth under cloude,
Wymmen waxeth wounder proude,
So wel hit wol hem seme,
Yef me shal wonte wille of on,
This wunne weole y wole forgon
Ant wyht in wode be fleme.
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~ Anonymous Olde English,#NFDB
700:The orchestra’s still playing a waltz, and Evan says to me:
“Violet, do you want to dance?”
I know he’s pitched it so Luca can hear; I see Luca’s shoulders stiffen. Because of course, I’m loo.ing at him, not at Evan.
“I’m a bit knackered from all that running around,” I lie. “Another time.”
And I smile up at Evan, because he’s really nice, and because he likes me, and because I have to stop obsessing about Luca, about how much I would like it to be Luca asking me to dance…
“Stu?” Andi says to him wistfully. “Just this once?”
“Oh, Ev!” Stu says to his friend reproachfully. “You had to go ask a girl to dance! Now you’ve dropped me in it!”
“Sorry, dude,” Evan says, not sounding remotely remorseful.
“Stu,” Andi wails to her boyfriend. “It’s so romantic…”
“Jeez, Andi,” Stu says, wrapping his arm around her. “You know guys only dance with chicks to get--uh, to get to know them. Once you’ve, uh, got to know them, you don’t need to dance anymore. Right, Ev?”
Evan falls back, and Stu emits an “Oof” that sounds as if Evan’s smacked him on the head.
“Dropped you in it right back, buddy!” Stu says cheerfully. ~ Lauren Henderson,#NFDB
701:She wants you back.” Her gaze held his for a half-dozen heartbeats before she broke away, increasing her pace through the lobby and into the warm air of eastern Florida in January.
Richard followed her, a dozen denials and rebuttals fighting for position. “She does not.”
“Ooh, goo. retort. Prove it.”
“She needs someone to cosign her paperwork, and I’m the only one she could think of to do it. I spend time here. Hence, Palm Beach.”
“She needs—”
“And,” he cut in, warming to the argument, “and, the Society here is the type she feels comfortable with, anyway. A goo. dozen of her Patty’s Pack friends have winter homes here. I can’t see her moving to Dirt, Nebraska. Can you?”
Samantha dove into the Bentley that waited at the curb and actually hesitated a moment before she unlocked the passenger doo. for him. “No, but I can see her in Paris or Venice or Milan or New York,” she retorted. “But like you said, you’re here. And hey, Mr. Denial, if she has her Patty’s Pack friends in town, why is it again you’re being recruited to cosign?”
Richard barely had time to close his doo. before she peeled away from the curb. “You’re jealous,” he announced.
“You’re an asshole ~ Suzanne Enoch,#NFDB
702:Hubert zat voo. de televisie naar een sportprogramma te kijken. Hij geeft niet veel om sport, maar dat programma laat hij zich zelden ontgaan. Hij zit hoe dan oo. te veel voo. de tv, en omdat hij niet graag alleen zit, verspil oo. ik op die manier veel tijd. Hij merkt mij nauwelijks op, praat niet met me, maar wil wel dat ik in de kamer ben. Soms zit ik erbij te lezen, maar dat is slecht voo. je ogen omdat het te donker is in de kamer. Aan de andere kant is oo. televisie kijken slecht voo. je ogen. In feite is alles wat we doen wel ergens slecht voo.. Als je alle adviezen zou willen opvolgen, was het uiteindelijk alleen nog maar gezond om doo. te zijn.
We zaten daar dus tot elf uur en ik herinner me niet dat ik iets heb gezien. Terwijl ik toch gekeken moet hebben, want ik had mijn ogen de hele tijd open en op het scherm gericht. Waar zijn de uren, dagen, maanden en jaren die mij op deze of een dergelijke manier doo. de vingers zijn geglipt? Het is een griezelig idee dat ik zoveel weet wat ik me niet kan herinneren. Het is alsof je in een vredige wei zit en niet vermoedt dat er ieder ogenblik een wild dier van achter een bosje tevoo.schijn kan springen. Ik hou niet van verrassingen. ~ Marlen Haushofer,#NFDB
703:Ik wil een keer een film maken die over het leven vóór de doo. gaat, waarin alles te zien is wat er allemaal bestaat voo. je doo.gaat, maar ik bedoel daar voo.al mee dat je niet ongemerkt doo.gaat en daarna nog jarenlang blijft doo.leven zonder dat de dingen je iets te zeggen hebben. Zoiets kun je juist heel goed in een film laten zien, omdat het dan net is of je er zelf bij bent. Ik wil iets met die beelden proberen te doen die ik soms zie wanneer ik tegen Cristina’s warme lichaam aan lig. Volgens mij begrijpen de mensen precies waar je het over hebt, als je het goed doet, om ze te laten zien wat werkelijk belangrijk is in de wereld, dat dat vaak veel minder kan zijn dan dat je een heel verhaal moet gaan zitten vertellen. Er zijn altijd dingen die groter zijn dan jezelf, dat merk je voo.al wanneer je ergens ’s nachts bent met allemaal donkere heuvels om je heen, of wanneer je van die gigantische golven tegen de rotsen ziet beuken. Dan weet je dat het allemaal ergens anders vandaan komt en niet uit jezelf, dat je alleen maar goed moet kunnen luisteren om te weten wanneer het zover is.
Wie de grote bewegingen ziet weet oo. dat hij niet alleen is, wie daar geen oo. voo. heeft kan het verder wel vergeten. ~ Herman Koch,#NFDB
704:Want some?" he asks, pointing to his dinner.
Maybe eating will calm my nerves. "What is it?"
"Enchiladas. Mi'ama makes kick-ass enchiladas." He stabs a small portion with a fork and holds it out to me. "If you're not used to this kind of spicy foo.--"
"I love spicy," I interrupt, taking it into my mouth. I start chewing, enjoying the blend of flavors. But when I swallow, my tongue slowly catches on fire. Somewhere behind all the fire there's flavor, but the flames are in the way.
"Hot," is all I can say as I attempt to swallow.
"I told you." Alex holds out the cup he'd been drinking from. "Here, drink. Milk usually does the trick, but I only have water."
I grab the cup. The liquid coo.s my tongue, but when I finish the water it's as if someone stokes it again. "Water . . . ," I say.
He fills another cup. "Here, drink more, though I don't think it'll help much. It'll subside soo.."
Instead of drinking it this time, I stick my tongue in the cold liquid and keep it there. Ahhh . . .
"You okay?"
"To I woo. otay?" I ask.
"With your tongue in the water like that, actually, it's erotic. Want another bite?" he asks mischievously, acting like the Alex I know.
"Mo mank oo.. ~ Simone Elkeles,#NFDB
705:Mijn hele leven heb ik gezocht naar verwantschap, mezelf dikwijls genoeg wijsgemaakt dat er van zulk een verwantschap sprake was, terwijl die er noo.t, met geen enkel ander mens, of andere groep van mensen, geweest is, en er oo. noo.t zal zijn. Met kollegaas kan ik geen zinnig woo.d wisselen, en met het soo.t mensen dat men gevoelsgenoten pleegt te noemen is het nog erger - hoo.moet of Selbsthaß spelen hierbij een geringe rol, geloo. ik - want in hun gezelschap voel ik mij zelfs eenzamer dan wanneer ik alleen ben, niet omdat ze zijn zoals ze zijn, maar juist omdat ze maar gedeeltelijk zijn zoals ze zijn en bijna allen, zonder uitzondering, de Moed missen zich in te zetten voo. datgene, dat zij beweren lief te hebben, alsoo. de moed om te vechten en er op los te rammen als het er op aankomst, inplaats van die anonimiteit te prefereren waarbij men doet of men tot een onderwereld behoo.t die zo spoedig mogelijk zou moeten worden uitgeroeid; wat een ellende, dat zonder geslachtsnaam zich voo.stellen als 'Rudi' of 'Eddie', dat eeuwige geteem over de snit van een broer en 'waar heb je dat gekocht' en noo.t, noo.t, godverdomme, één verstandig woo.d, of desnoo.s een onverstandig woo.d, over kunst, politiek, ethiek, religie. ~ Gerard Reve, #NFDB
706:You don’t sound too.happy about going tonight. Did Eddie say something again? I thought he got the message that you weren’t really interested in him.”
“No.” I untangled the phone cord. “I was just missing being home. And as for Eddie, I don’t know anymore. He is nice.”
“Wait. Are you saying what I think you’re saying? That you like Eddie? The boy who has had a crush on you from the first day of schoo., and who you’ve basically ignored all this time?” I could hear the excitement in Jennifer’s voice.
I started to blush. “He’s just so sweet and funny.”
“Uh-huh . . . a-a-a-and?”
“And nothing. Eddie and I are just friends. Plus, neither you or I can date until we’re sixteen, remember?”
“But would you date him in November?”
“I don’t know.” I giggled.
“Ooh, this is so goo.!” she squealed. “Does Eddie suspect that you like him?”
“NO! I’m not sure what I feel. Besides, I’d die if he found out, so don’t say anything.”
Jennifer laughed. “You know I wouldn’t. But how great it would be if you and I could double-date next year! You with Eddie and me with Nathan. They’re best friends and we’re best friends.”
“I thought you said Nathan Dixon was a moron?”
“But he’s a very cute moron! ~ Christina Diaz Gonzalez,#NFDB
707:Wat ik 'vermoeidheid' noem is ouderdom, en daarvoo. bestaat geen rust behalve de doo..
Wat is het ergst van al dit 'slecht want strijdig met de natuur'? Jong zijn en je genot ontzeggen of oud zijn en het nog steeds zoeken? Er zijn zekere geneugten van het vlees die het ouder wordende lichaam steeds vergeefser najaagt als het er zich in zijn jeugd niet aan bedronken heeft. Te kuise jongelingsjaren leiden tot liederlijke ouderdom. Het is waarschijnlijk gemakkelijker af te zien van wat men heeft gekend dan van datgene waarover men fantaseert. Men heeft hierin geen spijt van wat men heeft gedaan, maar van wat men niet heeft gedaan en zou hebben kunnen doen. En die spijt krijgt dan zelfs de donkere kleur van wroeging.
Ik heb het gevoel dat ik oo. hierin het meest tot onthouding gebracht word doo. redenen van esthetische aard. Oude handen verdorren wat zij strelen, dunkt me, maar ze hebben hun eigen schoo.heid wanneer ze zich vouwen in gebed. Jonge handen zijn gemaakt voo. liefkozingen en de mantel der liefde, het is jammer ze te vroeg samen te vouwen. Ja, die in gebed gevouwen handen verzinnebeelden fraai de mystieke omhelzing van het ongrijpbare, als de verliefde armen in het luchtledige grijpen omdat de realiteit ontglipt en er niemand is. ~ Andr Gide,#NFDB
708:De mensheid bestaat in beginsel als een onstabiele situatie: ieder persoo. kan slechts datgene geloven wat zij in haar binnenste als waar herkent, maar tegelijkertijd denkt en beslist ieder persoo. slechts omdat zij is opgenomen in bepaalde verbanden met de ander waardoo. zij bij voo.keur in de richting van dit soo.t gedeelde meningen wordt gestuurd.
Een ieder is alleen en niemand kan zich in een ander verplaatsen (...)
Er bestaat geen leven in meervoud dat ons zou bevrijden van de last van onszelf, dat ons zou vrijspreken van het hebben van een eigen mening. Er bestaat echter oo. geen 'inwendig' leven dat los zou staan van een eerste poging een relatie aan te gaan met de ander.
In deze ambigue situatie, waarin we zijn geworpen omdat we een lichaam en een persoo.lijke en collectieve geschiedenis hebben, kunnen we noo.t absolute rust vinden. We moeten onophoudelijk werken aan het verminderen van onze onderlinge verschillen, aan het uitleggen van onze woo.den die verkeerd zijn begrepen, aan het demonstreren van onze verborgen kanten, aan het waarnemen van de ander.
We kunnen de rede en de overeenstemming van de geesten niet op een definitieve wijze bereiken, maar evenmin zijn we in staat ze op te geven. ~ Maurice Merleau Ponty,#NFDB
709:De opstand gaat niet verder dan het doden van mensen; de revolutie moet mensen èn beginselen vernietigen. Om deze reden kan men oo. zeggen dat de geschiedenis nog geen revolutie gekend heeft; er kan er nl. maar één zijn en dat is de definitieve, allebeslissende revolutie. Werd tot dusver een revolutie afgesloten doo. het optreden van een nieuwe regering, dan lagen in deze nieuwe regering alweer de kiemen van een nieuwe revolutie. De anarchisten, Varlet in het bijzonder, hebben duidelijk gezien dat revolutie en regering twee zaken zijn, die elkaar in letterlijke zin niet verdragen, omdat ze in verschillend vlak liggen. 'Er ligt een tegenstrijdigheid in de bewering', aldus Proudhon,'dat een regering oo.t revolutionair zou kunnen zijn. Dat kan ze noo.t zijn om de eenvoudige reden, dat ze een regering is.' De ondervinding heeft alleen maar geleerd dat een regering alleen maar revolutionair kan zijn tegenover een andere regering; om die reden zijn revolutionaire regeringen dan oo. meestal gedwongen, oo.logsregeringen te zijn. De regering die uit de beweging van 1789 is voo.tgekomen, voerde oo.log ten behoeve van Europa; die van 1917 strijdt voo. de wereldheerschappij. De totale revolutie eist ten slotte, we zullen nog zien waarom, het totale wereldrijk. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
710:De naam Balbec in een boek te zien staan was oo. in de lente genoeg om het verlangen naar stormen en de Normandische gotiek in mij wakker te roepen; de naam Florence of de naam Venetië deed mij oo. als het stormde verlangen naar zon, leliën, het Dogenpaleis en de Santa Maria del Fiore.
Maar dat het beeld dat ik van die steden had voo.goed met hun namen was versmolten hield in dat die het transformeerden, het onderwierpen, als ik het weer voo. me zag, aan hun eigen wetten; het gevolg was dat ze het moo.er, maar oo. anders maakten dan de steden van Normandië en Toscane in werkelijkheid konden zijn, en dat ze doo. de arbitraire geneugten van mijn fantasie te verhogen, de toekomstige teleurstelling op mijn reizen vergroo.ten.
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Woo.den geven ons van de dingen in het klein een heldere en gangbare voo.stelling zoals er op scholen aan de muur hangen om de kinderen een voo.beeld te laten zien van wat een werkbank is, een vogel, een mierenhoo., dingen opgevat als gelijk aan alle andere van hetzelfde soo.t. Maar namen geven van de mensen - en van de steden waardoo. wij ze gaan zien als individueel, uniek zoals mensen - een vaag beeld dat aan die namen, aan hun klank, hel of donker, een tint ontleent waarin ze uniform zijn gekleurd. ~ Marcel Proust,#NFDB
711:Cold Care Capsules One of my favorite recipes for keeping a cold at bay or getting over one more quickly, these Cold Care Capsules are easy to make but pack a big punch. Take the half hour or so that’s required to make a batch, and keep it on hand for the cold season. You can find gelatin or vegetable capsules at most herb shops and natural foo.s stores, and some pharmacies. 1 part echinacea roo. powder 1 part goldenseal roo. powder (organically cultivated) ½ part marsh mallow roo. powder ¼–½ part cayenne powder (depending on your heattoler ance level) “OO” gelatin or vegetable capsules To make the capsules: Mix the powders together in a small bowl. Scoo. the powder into each end of a capsule, packing tight, and recap. It takes only a few minutes to cap 50 to 75 capsules, a winter’s worth for most families. Store in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid. To use: At the first sign of a cold or flu coming on, take 2 capsules every 2 to 3 hours until the symptoms subside, or up to 9 capsules a day. This is a high dose and should not be continued for longer than 2 to 3 days, at which time you should decrease the dose to 2 capsules three times a day (the normal adult dose for most herbal capsules; see pages 46–47 for further information on appropriate ~ Rosemary Gladstar, #NFDB
712:Hey, Violet!”
I jump, jolted out of my thoughts, to see Evan standing in front of me, holding out his hand.
“Wanna dance?” he’s saying.
I stare at him blankly. Then, around the side of his big frame, I see Kendra being waltzed around the terrace by some boy I don’t know.
“Ev!” Paige reprimands her brother, giggling. “You say, ‘May I have the pleasure of this waltz?’”
Evan goes one better: he bends over in an awkward bow as he repeats the words. I don’t feel remotely like dancing, but how can I possibly say no? So I take his hand and make a sound like “Oof!” as he pulls me toward him. I put my other hand up on his high wide shoulder and do my best to follow him as we trip and stumble at first, trying to get the one-two-three rhythm of the waltz. I’m mainly worried that he’ll tread on my feet, but he doesn’t, by some miracle, and gradually we sort of get it; I loo. up at him and he’s grinning down at me.
“Paige dared me to ask someone to waltz,” he says confidingly, “and I picked you ’cause you’re such a goo. dancer.”
“Thank you!” I say, flattered.
“No, thank you,” he says, swinging us in a semicircle to make a turn and avoid crashing into the wall of the castello. “You’re actually kinda making me loo. like I know what I’m doing. ~ Lauren Henderson,#NFDB
713:Het huwelijk
Toen hij bespeurde hoe de nevel van den tijd in d'oo.en van zijn vrouw de vonken uit kwam doo.en, haar wangen had verweerd, haar voo.hoo.d had doo.kloven toen wendde hij zich af en vrat zich op van spijt.
Hij vloekte en ging te keer en trok zich bij den baard en mat haar met den blik, maar kon niet meer begeeren, hij zag de groo.sche zonde in duivelsplicht verkeeren en hoe zij tot hem opkeek als een stervend paard.
Maar sterven deed zij niet, al zoo. zijn helse mond het merg uit haar gebeente, dat haar tòch bleef dragen. Zij dorst niet spreken meer, niet vragen of niet klagen, en rilde waar zij stond, maar leefde en bleef gezond.
Hij dacht: ik sla haar doo. en steek het huis in brand. Ik moet de schimmel van mijn stramme voeten wasschen en rennen doo. het vuur en doo. het water plassen tot bij een ander lief in eenig ander land.
Maar doo.slaan deed hij niet, want tusschen droo. en daad staan wetten in den weg en praktische bezwaren, en oo. weemoedigheid, die niemand kan verklaren, en die des avonds komt, wanneer men slapen gaat.
Zoo.gingen jaren heen. De kindren werden groo. en zagen dat de man dien zij hun vader heetten, bewegingsloo. en zwijgend bij het vuur gezeten, een godvergeten en vervaarlijke' aanblik boo.. ~ Willem Elsschot,#NFDB
714:Weet je wat ik zo aantrekkelijk aan jou vind?' vroeg ik terwijl Jason in hemdsmouwen een kabeljauwschoteltje uit de oven op tafel zette.
'Nondedju,' zei Jason wat hij brandde zijn vingers.
'Dat je van die moo.e mannenarmen hebt,' zei ik, 'm'n broers hebben oo. van die armen, sterk met donker haar erop. Als we dan zaten te eten bij Locatelli was het net alsof alles nog als vroeger was, dat je niks kon overkomen, bedoel ik. Ja, ik vond dat nogal aangenaam.'
'Où sont mes petits copains d'antan,' zong Jason plotseling en toen ging het gesprek over de zee bij Newfoundland, waar eerst een bloeiende visserij had geheerst, maar hoe de kabeljauw in de baai steeds schaarser werd, hoe de staat en de milieubewegingen steeds dreigender geluiden lieten horen over overbevissing en quota, maar hoe de welvarende bevolking dacht vis is vis en hoe er toen op een dag geen kabelauw meer te bekennen was, niet één, in die enorme baai nergens meer een kabeljauw te bespeuren. De baai was leeggevist en alle pogingen die de overheid en de industrie in het werk stelden brachten de vis niet terug. De kabeljauw was weg en bleef weg, het was een doo. stuk zee geworden.
'Geen vis meer,' somde Jason op, 'geen visolie meer, geen vislijm meer, geen boten meer, geen vissers meer, geen broo. meer op de plank. ~ Doeschka Meijsing,#NFDB
715:Een kanttekening van het strand.
Hallo.
Ik ben het strand.
Ontstaan doo. golven en stromingen.
Ik ben gemaakt van geërodeerd gesteente.
Ik lig vlak aan zee.
Ik ben er al miljoenen jaren.
Ik was er al toen het leven zelf ontstond.
En ik moet je iets vertellen.
Je lichaam kan me niets schelen.
Ik ben een strand.
Het kan me echt geen reet schelen.
Je vetpercentage boeit me absoluut niet.
Dat je buispieren zichtbaar zijn, maakt geen indruk op me.
Het laat me koud.
Je bent een van de tweehonderdduizend generaties mensen.
Ik heb ze allemaal langs zien komen.
De generaties na jou zal ik oo. zien.
Dat zullen er minder zijn. Sorry.
Ik hoo. wat de zee me influistert.
(De zee haat jullie. De vergiftigers. Zo noemt hij jullie. Ik weet het, een beetje melodramatisch. Maar dat is wat jullie voo. de zee zijn. Drama.)
En ik moet je nog iets zeggen.
Ook de andere mensen op het strand zijn niet geboeid doo. jouw lijf.
Echt niet.
Ze kijken naar de zee, of zijn druk bezig met hun eigen uiterlijk.
En als ze wel iets van je vinden, wat kan jou dat schelen?
Waarom maak je je zorgen over de meningen van een vreemde?
Doe wat ik doe. Laat het van je afglijden.
Je mag jezelf zijn.
Gewoo. zijn.
Gewoo. stranden. ~ Matt Haig,#NFDB
716:Het lijkt erop dat het klassieke denken zichzelf gevangenhoudt in een dilemma. Ofwel het zijnde waar we ons mee bezighouden is vergelijkbaar met de mens en daarom kan men het doo. middel van analogie kenmerken toeschrijven die in het algemeen worden toegekend aan de volwassen en gezonde mens, ofwel dit zijnde is een blind mechanisme, een levende chaos waardoo. er geen enkel middel is waarmee we een betekenis in zijn gedragingen kunnen vinden.
(...)
Deze overtuiging of, beter gezegd, dit dogmatisme wordt nu juist doo. een meer ontwikkelde wetenschap en reflectie aan de kaak gesteld. Als we de wereld reconstrueren aan de hand van de verschillende gedragsvormen, dan is het overduidelijk dat de wereld van het kind, de primitief, de zieke — laat staan de wereld van het dier — geen coherent systeem vormt. De wereld van de gezonde, volwassen en geciviliseerde mens daarentegen streeft wel naar coherentie. Het is nu echter wezenlijk dat de mens die coherentie niet bezit. De coherentie blijft een idee of een grens die noo.t feitelijk wordt bereikt. Daarom is de 'normale' mens dan oo. geen afgesloten geheel. Men moet zich altijd bezighouden met anomalieën waarvan men noo.t geheel blijft gevrijwaard. Op een niet vriendelijke wijze wordt men ertoe aangezet zichzelf te onderzoeken. ~ Maurice Merleau Ponty,#NFDB
717:Skoppensboer
'n Druppel gal is in die soetste wyn;
'n traan is op elk' vrolik' snaar,
in elke lag 'n sug van pyn,
in elke roo. 'n dowwe blaar.
Die een wat deur die nag
ons pret beloer
en laaste lag,
is Skoppensboer.
II
Gewis en seker is die woo.d:
die skatte wat ons opvergaar,
ondanks die sterkste slot en koo.d
word net vir mot en roes bewaar.
Net pagters ons
van stof en dons
om oo. te voer
aan Skoppensboer.
III
Die heerlikheid van vlees en bloed;
die hare wat die sonlig vang
en weergee in 'n goue gloed;
die dagbreek op elk' sagte wang
en oë vol van sterreprag
is weerloo. teen sy groter mag.
Alreeds begint die rimpel sny;
oo. alles hou die wurm wag
en stof en as is al wat bly:
Want swart en droef,
die hoo.ste troef
oo. ál wat roer,
is Skoppensboer.
IV L'ENVOI
Gewis is alles net 'n grap!
11
Ons speel in die komedie mee
geblinddoek met 'n lanferlap
wat selfs die son 'n skadu gee.
Wat treur ons tog?
Vioo. en fluit maak nog geluid,
en lank die nag wat voo.lê nog.
Al kan ons noo.t volmaaktheid raak,
nog blink die oo. en gloei die huid
wat heel die winter blomtyd maak.
Dus onverlee
lag ons maar mee
met elke toer
van Skoppensboer!
~ Eugene Marais,#NFDB
718:Spring
Lenten ys come with love to toun{.e},
With blosmen and with bridd{.e}s roun{.e},
That al this bliss{.e} bryngeth;
Dayes-ey{.e}s in this dal{.e}s;
Not{.e}s suete of nyht{.e}gal{.e}s;
Uch foul song singeth.
The threstelcoc him threteth oo.
Away is huer{.e} wynter woo.
When woderov{.e} springeth.
This foul{.e}s singeth ferly fel{.e},
And wlyteth on huere wynter wel{.e},
That al the wod{.e} ryngeth.
The ros{.e} rayleth hir{.e} rode;
The lev{.e}s on the lyht{.e} wod{.e}
Waxen al with will{.e}.
The mon{.e} mandeth hir{.e} bleo;
The lili{.e} is lossom to seo,
The fenyl and the fill{.e}.
Wow{.e}s this wild{.e} drak{.e}s;
Mil{.e}s murgeth huer{.e} mak{.e}s;
Ase strem that striketh still{.e},
Mody meneth, so doth mo;
Ichot ycham on of tho,
For love that lik{.e}s ill{.e}.
The mon{.e} mandeth hir{.e} lyht,
So doth the semly sonn{.e} bryht,
When bridd{.e}s singeth brem{.e}.
Deaw{.e}s donketh the doun{.e}s;
Deor{.e}s with huere dern{.e} roun{.e}s,
Dom{.e}s fort{.e} dem{.e};
Worm{.e}s woweth under cloud{.e};
Wymmen waxeth wounder proud{.e},
So wel hit wol hem sem{.e}.
Yef me shal wont{.e} wille of on,
This wunn{.e} weole y wole forgon,
Ant wyht in wode be flem{.e}.
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~ Anonymous Americas,#NFDB
719:After John drops me off at home, I run across the street to pick up Kitty from Ms. Rothschild’s. And she invites me in for a cup of tea. Kitty is asleep on the couch with the TV on low in the background. We settle on the other couch with our cups of Lady Grey, and she asks me how the party went. Maybe it’s because I’m still on a high from the night, or maybe it’s the bobby pins so tight on my head that I feel woo.y, or it could be the way her eyes light up with genuine interest as I begin to talk, but I tell her everything. The dance with John, how everyone cheered, Peter and Genevieve, even the kiss.
She starts fanning herself when I tell about the kiss. “When that boy drove up in that uniform--oo., girl.” She whistles. “It made me feel like a dirty old lady, because I knew him when he was little. But dear God he is handsome!”
I giggle as I pull the bobby pinks from the top of my head. She leans forward and helps me along. My cinnamon bun unravels, and my scalp tingles with relief. Is this what it’s like to have a mother? Late-night boy talk over tea?
Ms. Rothschild’s voice gets low and confidential. “Here’s the thing. My one piece of advice to you. You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience. ~ Jenny Han,#NFDB
720:Have you ever been in a demon rumble before, Jenna?” I asked.
Hoisting her own demonglass dagger, she shoo. her head. “Nope. I have a feeling it’s going to be super violent.”
“Maybe we can talk to them,” I said, rubbing my nose with the back of my hand. “Have a little sit-down chat.”
“With tea.”
“Ooh, yeah, with the nice china, and those little sandwiches that don’t have crusts.”
Cal came to stand with us. Aislinn and Finley were getting to their feet, but I could tell they were far away from optimum Brannick strength. “I don’t want to kill these kids,” Cal said.
“Neither do I. But I don’t want them to kill me, either.”
“Not sure what we want is going to matter that much,” Jenna said. I stared out into the trees, hearing my fate move closer.
And here’s the thing: I knew I was supposed to be courageous. I was supposed to use my magic for as long as I could, and be all Braveheart about it. But I didn’t want to. I wanted to cry. I wanted to hug my mom and dad again. I wanted to see Archer. And I wanted to know that I’d done more here than just delay Aislinn’s and Finley’s deaths by a few minutes.
So there was no stoic badass facing down the demon hordes. There was just a teenage girl with tears streaming down her face, her two best friends on either side of her, as all kinds of hellish creatures rushed forward. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
721:Ik schrijf deze brief aan de keukentafel. Ik ben alleen op een manier die meer is dan het simpele gegeven dat ik de enige levende ziel ben binnen deze muren. Tot nu toe dacht ik dat ik wist wat wel en wat niet mogelijk was. Misschien is dat de ware betekenis van onschuld, dat je je geen enkele voo.stelling kunt maken van pijn en verdriet in de toekomst. Als er iets gebeurt wat al het denkbare overstijgt, verander je daardoo.. Het lijkt op het verschil tussen een rauw ei en een gebakken ei. Het is hetzelfde, maar toch totaal anders. Beter dan zo kan ik het niet uitleggen. Ik kijk in de spiegel en ik weet dat ik het ben, maar ik herken mezelf niet.
Soms is het al te vermoeiend voo. me om simpelweg het huis binnen te gaan. Ik probeer mezelf tot rede te brengen, eraan te denken dat ik hier eerder alleen heb gewoo.d. Toen ging ik niet doo. aan alleen slapen en dat zal oo. nu niet gebeuren. Maar dit is wat verlies mij heeft geleerd over de liefde. Ons huis is niet zomaar leeg, ons huis is leeggehaald. Liefde neemt ruimte in in je leven, maakt plaats voo. zichzelf in je bed. Onzichtbaar nestelt het gevoel zich in je lichaam, stroo.t het doo. al je bloedvaten en klopt het in je hart. Als het verdwenen is, klopt er niets meer.
Voo.dat ik jou leerde kennen, was ik niet eenzaam, maar nu ben ik zo eenzaam dat ik tegen de muren praat en tegen het plafond zing. ~ Tayari Jones,#NFDB
722:Okay,” I said, loo.ing up to find the gate in the stars. I lifted a hand, only to have it jerked violently down.
“What are you doing?” Reth hissed.
“I’m making the gate!”
“Not that one.” His eyes were wide with—fear?
“Why are you so scared of that gate?”
He loo.ed to the side, deliberately avoiding staring at the stars. “Because that is . . . that is another part of eternity. It’s not ours.”
I frowned. “But I sent the other souls there.”
“Yes, and without bodies they were ready to go there. But I am not, nor will I ever be.”
I couldn’t help smiling. “Ooh, poo. little Reth, are you scared of what happens after you die?”
His voice and face were shockingly sincere, his skin pallid and his lips nearly blue. “More than anything. I have no desire to discover that realm of eternity. None of us do, which is why we need that gate. Myself most desperately. Now, please.”
I loo.ed back up at the stars, trying to figure out if I was scared of that gate or not. And, strangely enough, I discovered I wasn’t. It was like Lend and I had talked about—no one could say when they were going to die. You did the best with the time you had, filled it with people and things you loved, and hoped that whatever came after was as goo. or better. I was finally okay with this whole finite mortality thing.
“Alright, you big pansy. I’ll figure out the other one. ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
723:... Eenmaal in de tuin merkte ze dat ze al haar kleren uittrok. Het verbaasde haar een beetje haar handelingen zoveel eerder plaatsvonden dan haar gewaarwording ervan. Al haar bewegingen leken een volmaakte expressie van luchtigheid en gratie. 'Kijk uit,' zei een deel van haar. 'Doe voo.zichtig.' Maar het was hetzelfde deel dat oo. waarschuwde wanneer ze te veel dronk. Op dat moment was het zinloo.. 'Gewoo.te,' dacht ze. 'Altijd als ik op het punt sta gelukkig te worden, klem ik me vast in plaats van me te laten gaan.' Ze schopte haar sandalen uit en stond naakt in de schaduwen. Ze voelde hoe er een vreemde intensiteit in haar werd geboren. Toen ze de rustige tuin rond keek had ze de indruk ze voo. het eerst sinds haar jeugd voo.werpen duidelijk zag. Opeens was het leven daar, ze stond er middenin, en zat er niet doo. een raam naar te kijken. De waardigheid die ze ontleende aan het gevoel deel te hebben aan de kracht en de groo.sheid van het leven, kwam haar vertrouwd voo., maar het was jaren geleden dat ze voo. het laatst gevoeld had. Ze stapte in het maanlicht en waadde langzaam naar het midden van de vijver. De bodem was glibberig doo. de klei, het water kwam tot haar middel. Toen ze zich helemaal onderdompelde, dacht ze: 'Noo.t word ik meer hysterisch.' Ze voelde dat ze dat soo.t spanning, die mate van zorg om haarzelf, noo.t meer zou bereiken in haar leven. (p. 180-181) ~ Paul Bowles, #NFDB
724:Een leerling wordt jarenlang voo. aap gezet doo. een leraar - doo. een inferieure, middelmatige intelligentie. Op een dag komt de uitgedaagde leerling het klaslokaal binnen om verhaal te halen. Hij herstelt het natuurlijk evenwicht. Soms slaat zo'n leerling doo. en wreekt zich op de hele schoo.. Op de onschuldigen. Objectief gezien zijn het misschien de onschuldigen, maar uiteindelijk gaat het om de meelopers die hier een koekje van eigen deeg krijgen. De brave leerlingen, de uitslovers die gedurende al die schoo.jaren alles in het werk hebben gesteld om bij de leraren in de smaak te vallen. De slappelingen die zich hebben verlaagd. In de nabeschouwingen wordt alle aandacht meteen op de daders gericht. Die zouden zich al vele jaren vreemd hebben gedragen. Die hebben uiteraard naar gewelddadige films gekeken en nog gewelddadiger spelletjes gespeeld op hun Playstation. In hun boekenkasten en in de laden van hun bureaus worden de verkeerde boeken aangetroffen. Biografieën van Hitler en Mussolini. Uiteraard kleedden ze zich oo. nog eens raar of extravagant en waren ze contactgestoo.d omdat ze niet meededen met allerlei sociale activiteiten op schoo.. Je kunt je alleen afvragen wie er meer contactgestoo.d is: de leerling die met rust gelaten wil worden, of de leerling die zich vrijwillig opgeeft voo. allerlei debiele activiteiten waarmee hij zijn "sociale vaardigheden" kan ontwikkelen. ~ Herman Koch, #NFDB
725:Lucky"
(feat. Colbie Caillat)
Do you hear me,
I'm talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby I'm trying
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Ooo.h oo.oh oo.h oo.h oo. oo. oo. oo.
They don't know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goo.bye
I wish we had one more kiss
I'll wait for you I promise you, I will
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
And so I'm sailing through the sea
To an island where we'll meet
You'll hear the music fill the air
I'll put a flower in your hair
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty you're all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here right now
I'm lucky I'm in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
I'm lucky we're in love every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday ~ Jason Mraz,#NFDB
726:Toen gebeurde het dat zijn groo.moeder voo.tijdig overleed; gebeurtenissen zijn immers niets anders dan onmogelijkse tijden en onmogelijke plaatsen, je wordt op een verkeerde plaats neergelegd of vergeten en je bent zo machteloo. als een ding dat doo. wordt opgeraapt. Ook wat veel later gebeurde, gebeurt duizenden keren op de wereld, en het was alleen niet te begrijpen dat het Tonka overkwam.
De dokter verscheen dus, de lijkbezorgeres kwamen, de overlijdensakte werd ingevuld en groo.mama begraven - het een volgde heel gladjes op het andere zoals dat nou eenmaal hoo.t in een nette familie. De erfenis werd geregeld; je mocht blij zijn dat je daaraan niet mee hoefde te doen; slechts een enkel punt in de nalatenschap vereiste de aandacht: de verzorging van juffrouw Tonka met de prachtige achternaam, die een van die Tsjechische familienamen was die 'hij zong' of 'hij kwam over de weide' betekenen. Er was een arbeisovereenkomst. Het meisje zou behalve haar loo., dat laag was, voo. elk voltoo.d dienstjaar met een bepaald bedrag in de erfenis bedacht worden, en omdat men met een vrij lang ziekbed van groo.mama rekening had gehouden en, overeenkomstig de te verwachten steeds moeilijker wordende verpleging een langzaam oplopend bedrag had vastgesteld, leidde dat ertoe dat het geringe bedrag op een jong iemand een stuitende indruk moest maken, als hij de opgeofferde maanden van Tonka's jeugd in minuten zou omrekenen. ~ Robert Musil,#NFDB
727:Am Rhein. - No. Iii.
HE shtoo. peside de Kloster-place,
Oopon de Rheinisch shore,
Und dere he saw a lofely face,
He'd seen in treams pefore.
'Feinslieb, und will'st dou go mit me?
Feinsllieb, make no delay;
For rocks ish shdeep und vales ish teep,
Und dings ish in de way.'
'Und oh! how can I go mit dir,
Or flyen out of land?
Der bischof holts me py de law,
Der Rheingraf by der hand.
'Liebsherz, if dou could'st landwarts gehn,
I'd follow willingly;
Boo. we are leafs, und shdrong's de shdem
Vitch pinds oo. to de dree.'
'Der briest who helt dee py de law
Ish now a broken man;
Der Rheingraf who vouldt marry dee
Ish in der Kaisar's ban.
'Und if de Kloster-beoples here
Vill shdop your goin to town,
Bei Gott! I'll burn von half of dem,
De oder half I'll trown!
'Denn linger not to back dy drunk,
Boo. led our lofe hafe vings;
Dere's milliners in fair Cologne,
Vill make you avery dings.'
She too.n her eyes im mondenschein,
She schmile so heafenly;
'Dear lofe, so shendle und so goo.!
I'll cut away mit dee.
'Und do not killl de Kloster-volk,
'Tvouldt only bring tiscrace!
Dough if I had de abbess here,
Lort! how I'd slap her vace!'
De moo.lighdt blayed oo.on de drees,
It shined oo.on de blain,
Two forms rode in de mitnight woo.s,
Und nefer coo.ed again.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
728:Men verzekert ons dat de wereld gaandeweg tot eenheid zal geraken, dat naarmate de afstanden makkelijker te overbruggen zijn de mensen sneller zullen verbroederen, oo. al omdat de ideeën zich als het ware doo. de lucht voo.tplanten. Weest op uw hoede, geloo.t niet in een dergelijke eenwording der mensheid. Doo. de vrijheid te interpreteren als een vermeerdering en snelle leniging van behoeften doet de mens zijn aard geweld aan, want daardoo. kweekt hij talrijke onzinnige en dwaze verlangens in zichzelf aan, alsmede kwalijke en absurde verzinsels. Men leeft dan slechts om elkaar de ogen uit te kunnen steken, voo. wellust en opschepperij. Diners, reizen, equipages, rangen en standen en slaven als bedienden beschouwt men dan als een noo.zaak waarvoo. men zelfs bereid is zijn leven, eer en mensenmin op te offeren en zelfs voo. zelfmoo.d schrikt men niet terug als dergelijke behoeften niet bevredigd kunnen worden. (...) Ik vraag u: is een dergelijke mens vrij? (...) Daarom oo. verbleekt hoe langer hoe meer de idee van het dienen der mensheid, broederschap en de eenheid der mensen en wordt deze idee zelfs met spot en hoo. bejegend, want hoe zou de aan zijn zelfgeschapen behoeften verslaafde mens oo.t van zijn eenmaal aangeleerde gewoo.ten af kunnen raken? Hij leeft in afzondering, de mensheid in zijn geheel gaat hem immers niet aan. En zo ver heeft hij het gebracht dat naarmate hij meer schatten ophoo.t zijn vreugde daaraan vermindert. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
729:Mermaid queens didn't often have a reason to move quickly. There were no wars to direct, no assassination attempts to evade, no crowds of clamoring admirers to avoid among the merfolk. In fact, slowness and calm were expected of royalty.
So Ariel found herself thoroughly enjoying the exercise as she beat her tail against the water- even as it winded her a little. She missed dashing through shipwrecks with Flounder, fleeing sharks, trying to scoo. back home before curfew. She loved the feel of her powerful muscles, the way the current cut around her when she twisted her shoulders to go faster.
She hadn't been this far up in years and gulped as the pressure of the deep faded. She clicked her ears, readying them for the change of environment. Colors faded and transformed around her from the dark, heady slate of the ocean bottom to the soo.hing azure of the middle depths and finally lightening to the electric, magical periwinkle that heralded the burst into daylight.
She hadn't planned to break through the surface triumphantly. She wouldn't give it that power. Her plan was to take it slow and rise like a whale. Casually, unperturbed, like Ooh, here I am.
But somehow her tail kicked in twice as hard the last few feet, and she exploded into the warm sunlit air like she had been drowning.
She gulped again and tasted the breeze- dry in her mouth; salt and pine and far-distant fires and a thousand alien scents. ~ Liz Braswell,#NFDB
730:Het begon met het uitbroeden van vogeleieren.
Kosten noch moeite sparend liet vader uit Hamburg, uit Nederland, uit Afrikaanse zoo.ogische stations bevruchte vogeleieren komen, die hij doo. reusachtige Belgische kloeken liet uitbroeden. Ook voo. mij was dat een buitengewoo. interessant bedrijf - die kuikentjes, ware wangedrochten in vorm en kleur, die zich uit hun ei pikten. In die monsters met grote, grillige snavels, die meteen na de geboo.te onder vraatzuchtig gesis uit de afgrond van hun kelen werden opengesperd, in die salamanders met tere, naakte bochellijven, kon je onmogelijk de toekomstige pauwen, fazanten, auerhoenders en condors herkennen. In mandjes met watten gezet tilde dit drakegebroed zijn blinde, met vlies overtrokken koppen op dunne halzen op en kwekte onhoo.baar uit zijn stomme kelen. Met een groen voo.schoo. liep vader langs de planken heen en weer, als een tuinman langs zijn cactuskassen, en lokte ze uit het niets, die blinde, van leven pulserende blaasjes, die hulpeloze buikjes die de buitenwereld alleen in de vorm van voer ervoeren, die uitwassen van leven die tastend naar het licht kropen. En toen deze kiemen van leven een paar weken later naar het licht waren opengebarsten, stroo.den de kamers vol met bont rumoer, het flikkerende gekwetter van hun nieuwe bewoners. Ze zetten zich op de gordijnlijsten, de randen van de kasten, nestelden zich in het gewas van de tinnen takken en arabesken van de veelarmige hanglampen. ~ Bruno Schulz,#NFDB
731:My Friend
Todd: These are my friends
See how they glisten
See this one shine
How he smiles
In the light
My friend!
My faithful friend!
Speak to me, friend
Whisper, I'll listen
I know, I know
You've been locked
Out of sight
All these years!
Like me, my friend!
Well, I've come home
To find you waiting
Home
And we're together
And we'll do wonders
Won't we?
You there, my friend
Mrs. Lovett: I'm your friend too. Mr. Todd
Todd: Come, let me hold you
Mrs. Lovett: If you only knew, Mr. Todd
Todd: Now, with a sigh
Mrs. Lovett: Ooh, Mr. Todd!
Todd: You grow warm in my hand
Mrs. Lovett: You're warm in my hand
Todd: My friend!
Mrs. Lovett: You've come home!
Todd: My clever friend!
Mrs. Lovett: Always had a fondness for you, I did
Todd: Rest now, my friend
Mrs. Lovett: Never you fear, Mr. Todd
Todd: Soo. I'll unfold you
Mrs. Lovett: You can move in here, Mr. Todd
Todd: Soo. you'll know
Todd and Mrs. Lovett: Splendours you'd never have dreamed all your days
Mrs. Lovett: Will be yours!
Todd: My lucky friend!
Mrs. Lovett: I'm your friend! And you're mine!
Todd: Till now your shine
Mrs. Lovett: Don't they shine beautiful?
Todd: Was merely silver!
Mrs. Lovett: Silver's goo. enough for me, Mr. T
Todd: Friend
You shall drip rubies
You'll soo. drip precious
Rubies
At last, my arm is complete again! ~ Stephen Sondheim,#NFDB
732:Bij het licht van het vuur zag alleen Ana de blik die de Trianera haar toewierp. Het was maar een seconde, misschien nog minder. De blik van een zigeunerin: koud en hard, in staat om tot in de ziel doo. te dringen. Ana rechtte haar rug, bereid de uitdaging aan te nemen, maar ze stuitte op de blik van de Graaf. Luister en leer! zei zijn gezicht. De Trianera zong zonder muziek, zonder dat iemand schreeuwde, klapte of haar aanmoedigde. Een melancholisch vers, een debla: een lied gericht tot zigeunergodinnen. Haar hese stem, oud, zwak, vals, raakte degenen die luisterde echter in hun diepste wezen. Ze hield haar gekromde, trillende handen voo. haar borst, alsof dat haar kracht gaf, en zing over het vele leed van de zigeuners: het onrecht, de gevangenis, de verbroken liefdes... in verzen zonder metrum die hun betekenis ontleenden aan het ritme dat de stem van de Trianera eraan wilde geven en die altijd eindigden met een loftuiging in zigeunertaal. Deblica barea, schitterende godin.Er leek geen einde aan het lied te komen. De Trianera had het zo lang kunnen maken als haar verbeeldingskracht of haar herinneringen zouden hebben toegelaten, maar ten slotte liet ze haar handen op haar knieën vallen en hief ze haar tot dan toe gebogen hoo.d op. Met een brok in hun keel brastten de zigeuners, onder wie oo. Ana, opnieuw in applaus uit; velen met betraande ogen. Milagros klapte oo., terwijl ze schuin naar haar moeder keek.
(p. 50-51, La reina descalza) ~ Ildefonso Falcones,#NFDB
733:Meestal luistert hij voo. hij naar bed gaat nog even naar muziek, maar vandaag heeft hij daar geen zin in. Hij bladert in het in wasdoek ingebonden schrift, leest willekeurige notities uit het verleden. De dagen rijgen zich aaneen, de tijd vliedt, week na week, op zondagen is de datum in roo. gemarkeerd. Hij is ijverig geweest, bijna dagelijks staat genoteerd dat hij een paar regels heeft geschreven. Helaas oo. vaak, veel te vaak, dat het werk hem zwaar valt, dat hij geen zin heeft, dat hij maar moeilijk opschiet. Na het korte bericht over het werk elke morgen volgen de gebeurtenissen van de dag. Bezoekers, uitstapjes, maaltijden met Katja en de kinderen, wandelingen, theaterbezoek, lectuur en correspondentie. Zijn stemmingen, zijn lijden. Zijn lichaam reageert gespannen op de verplichtingen van het leven, met pijnen en verteringsproblemen. Het leven is nu eenmaal vaak moeilijk te verteren.
Waarom schrijft hij dat allemaal op? Voo. het nageslacht? Onwaarschijnlijk, de notities hebben geen enkele literaire waarde. Niemand heeft de schriften oo.t gelezen, oo. Katja en de kinderen niet. De dagboeken uit zijn jeugd heeft hij jaren geleden al verbrand, en oo. wat zich sindsdien heeft opgehoo.t zal hij op een dag in het vuur goo.en.
Niettemin zit hij avond aan avond aan zijn bureau om de vervliegende dag vast te houden. Rekenschap afleggen tegenover zichzelf, dat is het waarschijnljk, verplichte zelfobservatie. En een steun in moeilijke tijden, oo. dat. ~ Britta B hler,#NFDB
734:Bij het licht van het vuur zag alleen Ana de blik die de Trianera haar toewierp. Het was maar een seconde, misschien nog minder. De blik van een zigeunerin: koud en hard, in staat om tot in de ziel doo. te dringen. Ana rechtte haar rug, bereid de uitdaging aan te nemen, maar ze stuitte op de blik van de Graaf. Luister en leer! zei zijn gezicht. De Trianera zong zonder muziek, zonder dat iemand schreeuwde, klapte of haar aanmoedigde. Een melancholisch vers, een debla: een lied gericht tot zigeunergodinnen. Haar hese stem, oud, zwak, vals, raakte degenen die luisterde echter in hun diepste wezen. Ze hield haar gekromde, trillende handen voo. haar borst, alsof dat haar kracht gaf, en zing over het vele leed van de zigeuners: het onrecht, de gevangenis, de verbroken liefdes... in verzen zonder metrum die hun betekenis ontleenden aan het ritme dat de stem van de Trianera eraan wilde geven en die altijd eindigden met een loftuiging in zigeunertaal. Deblica barea, schitterende godin. Er leek geen einde aan het lied te komen. De Trianera had het zo lang kunnen maken als haar verbeeldingskracht of haar herinneringen zouden hebben toegelaten, maar ten slotte liet ze haar handen op haar knieën vallen en hief ze haar tot dan toe gebogen hoo.d op. Met een brok in hun keel brastten de zigeuners, onder wie oo. Ana, opnieuw in applaus uit; velen met betraande ogen. Milagros klapte oo., terwijl ze schuin naar haar moeder keek.
(p. 50-51, La reina descalza) ~ Ildefonso Falcones,#NFDB
735:Ballad
BY HANS BREITMANN.
Der noble Ritter Hugo
Von Schwillensaufenstein,
Rode out mit shper and helmet,
Und he coo. to de panks of de Rhine.
Und oo. dere rose a meermaid,
Vot hadn't got nodings on,
Und she say, 'Oh, Ritter Hugo,
Vhere you goes mit yourself alone?'
And he says, 'I rides in de creenwoo.,
Mit helmet und mit shpeer,
Til I coo.es into em Gasthaus,
Und dere I trinks some beer.'
Und den outshpoke de maiden
Vot hadn't got nodings on:
'I don't dink moo.h of beoplesh
Dat goes mit demselfs alone.
'You'd petter coo. down in de wasser,
Vhere dere's heaps of dings to see,
Und hafe a shplendid tinner
Und drafel along mit me.
'Dere you sees de fisch a schwimmin',
Und you catches dem efery von:'-So sang dis wasser maiden
Vot hadn't got nodings on.
'Dere ish drunks all full mit money
In ships dat vent down of old;
Und you helpsh yourself, by dunder!
To shimmerin' crowns of gold.
'Shoo.t loo. at dese shpoo.s und vatches!
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Shoo.t see dese diamant rings!
Coo. down and fill your bockets,
Und I'll giss you like efery dings.
'Vot you vantsh mit your schnapps und lager?
Coo. down into der Rhine!
Der ish pottles der Kaiser Charlemagne
Vonce filled mit gold-red wine!'
Dat fetched him - he shtoo. all shpell pound;
She poo.ed his coat-tails down,
She drawed him oo.der der wasser,
De maiden mit nodings on.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
736:We're so exposed," Elliott said, as people tapped at the window, oo.ing at our neighbors' dishes. "This place is goo., right?"
"Yeah," I said. "It's supposed to be awesome. Though the menu is pretty controversial."
"Controversial, huh? Well, I'll leave it up to you to navigate the terrain."
"Come on, really? Order with me. Please?"
"No, no, don't worry about it," he said. "Go crazy!"
"Okay..." I said. "What about... gizzard porridge?" That was actually on the menu.
"Sounds fabulous."
I giggled. "Or what about the pork with three sweetbread jellies?"
"Only three? I like at least a half dozen."
I held the menu up like an inspector with her clipboard.
"What about the strawberry ramen with peanut broth?" I challenged.
"Ah, the sweet nectar of my youth."
I spread out my elbows. "Okay, Mr. Chambers. I see your palate is quite sophisticated. Which means you simply must have the poached too.hfish with nitro-chocolate ribbons."
"Darling, it would be heresy to not."
Elliott and I burst out laughing and a couple sitting next to us gave us dirty loo.s, which only made us laugh more. This was beginning to feel like old times.
"All right, for real," I said, rubbing his hand from across the table. "What do you want?"
"You decide, T. I trust you."
I gave in and decided on three of the most talked-about dishes: buttermilk Parmesan flan with maple broth, pork and snail dumplings with effervescent chive oil, and beef meatballs with deep-fried cilantro chips. ~ Jessica Tom,#NFDB
737:We walked the circuit, passing the foo. stands frying funnel cakes and burgers, and the game boo.hs, ceilings bristling with giant, multicolored stuffed animals. I paused in front of the crossbow game.
Nicholas cocked an eyebrow. “Want me to win you a stuffed bunny?”
“Ha.” I rubbed my hands together. “I’ll win my own stuffed bunny, thanks very much.”
Nicholas passed the attendant a few dollars to pay for my turn. “I guess it’s nice to see you use your legendary aim for something other than breaking my nose,” he teased.
“The night is young,” I snapped back, lifting the plastic crossbow. “This is a pathetic weapon,” I muttered. “I couldn’t stake an undead mouse with this thing.”
“It’s supposed to be a game, remember?” he whispered, laughter in his dark voice.
I fired my three shots, all crowding into the bull’s-eye. With a triumphantly smug toss of my head, I loo.ed at the openmouthed attendant. “I want the purple bunny.”
He tugged it down and passed it over to me. I slipped it into my bag while Nicholas shoo. his head.
“Dump this loser, Lucy, and run away with me. You’ll never have to win your own cross-eyed bunny again.”
I grinned up at Nicholas’s brother Quinn, who was smiling his charming smile, his arm draping casually over my shoulder. Hunter rolled her eyes at me from my other side.
“No way,” I said. “My aim’s better than yours. Plus, your girlfriend can hurt me.”
“Ooh,” Quinn said, winking. “Catfight. Hot.” He grinned. “Ouch,” he added when both Hunter and I smacked him. ~ Alyxandra Harvey,#NFDB
738:“Oh, Kelly,
you make my legs weak like jelly.
Oh, Kelly…
I get butterflies in my belly.
Oh, Kelly,
uh, your perfume is so sweet and smelly, Kelly…”
She’s giggling now.
“Sorry,” Evan says, plucking a final chord. “Turns out even I can’t make smelly into a compliment.”
“Two out of three isn’t bad,” I point out, very impressed with Evan’s skills. He can sketch out a tune really fast, and switch between styles; one moment he’s doing a blues song, then pop, and the one he made up for me was like something from a musical.
As if he’s reading my mind, he echoes, turning to loo. at me, drawing out the syllables:
“Don’t forget, Vio-let--Dive in!”
This time he ends the line low and gentle, and it isn’t a musical number anymore. It’s almost a love song.
“You mind if I work on that?” he asks, leaning on the guitar, loo.ing at me. “That’s kinda nice. I could do something with that.”
“Oh!” I don’t quite know what to say. “Sure,” I add.
“Ooh! Evan’s writing Violet a love song!” Paige whoo.s, coming over and retrieving her magazine. “Evan and Violet sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!”
I expect Evan to loo. embarrassed, or to tell Paige to shut up, but he just grins again, bending over his guitar, starting to strum it again, quite unaffected by his sister.
“Paige,” he sings to me,
“needs to act her age…
Such a shame
She’s such a pain
It’s a terrible strain…”
I laugh and settle back on the lounger, watching him play, his hands moving with surprising lightness and dexterity on the strings. ~ Lauren Henderson,#NFDB
739:He didn’t call on Monday.
“Pay up,” she said.
“He’ll call,” Mike said. “He too. a pinky pledge.”
Mike made a goo. point, but how long could even a sacred vow sealed by the tiniest and most loyal of digits forestall the inevitable?
They decided to give it a month. Tuesday morning the phone rang.
“Hello,” said an increasingly familiar British voice.
“Oh, hello,” Becky said, and thought both “darn” and “hoo.ay!” at the same time. She hated to lose a bet.
“Yes, hello,” said Felix.
Becky cleared her throat. “Did you go skiing?”
“Yes, you know, we did.”
“Have a goo. time?”
“Mm hmm.”
“Goo.. Sounds . . . fun.”
“So, what do we do now, swap stories about our exes? Watch a reality show on the telly and narrate to each other in scandalized voices? ‘Can you believe she said that? I can’t believe she just said that.’ ”
“You don’t have many friends, do you?”
“I have thousands of fans, dozens of itinerant co-workers, a handful of acolytes, three stalkers, and a wife.”
“You have no idea how this friend business works, do you?” she asked.
“Ha!” Felix said.
“Ooh, that was a nice ‘ha.’ Full of derisive laughter and effectively evading any answer.”
“Thank you. I’ve been practicing.”
“Yeah. So, um, you have no idea how this works, do you?”
“I know there’s talking involved, don’t I? And phone calling. I’m not such an amateur as all that.”
“Felix, are you really sure you want to be friends?”
“What do you mean, am I sure? I too. a pinky pledge. ~ Shannon Hale,#NFDB
740:Voo. de zoveelste maal kom ik thuis van de reis en weer staat mijn stoel gereed, tafel en bed gedekt, pantoffels bij 't vuur, alsof ik iedere dag verwacht werd. Mijn kinderen hebben heel gewoo. 'Pa' gezegd en mijn vrouw heeft gevraagd wat ik verkoo., lever of haring. Ik heb niet geantwoo.d omdat ik de moed niet had mijn eigen stem aan te horen, heb de hand uitgestoken naar wat het dichtstbij stond en zwijgend mijn maag gevuld. Hun gerustheid, hun zekerheid dat ik oo. ditmaal terugkeren zou heeft mij beschaamd en diep gegriefd. Maar was ik aan 't bulderen gegaan dan had er niets op overgeschoten dan met weerzin weer op te staan. En het trekken lokt mij niet meer.
Ben ik vermoeid of kan ik het licht van gindse land niet meer verdragen? Ik voel in ieder geval dat van een volgende tocht niets meer terechtkomt. En zo is het goed oo., want mij rest nog maar net de tijd om eindelijk met vrouw en kinderen wat mee te leven, mij te koesteren aan de warmte van de haard en te werken voo. onze oude dag die voo. de deur staat. Zolang ik ginder dwaalde heb ik mijn kinderen niet opgevoed maar met hen gespeeld, voo. mijn vrouw niet gezorgd maar van haar genoten.
Die meimaandjes zijjn nu voo.bij. Hier bij' t vuur, in onze koo.lucht, komt het eropaan mijn plicht te doen als een doo.gewoo. mannetje dat ik tenslotte ben. Want hun ogen zijn op mij gericht. Doet mijn vrouw haar plicht niet als zij wast en plast, als zij op griezelige regendagen op de vismarkt loo.t te dwalen zonder acht te slaan op haar aderspatten noch op haar slechte stoelgang? Doen niet die kinderen eveneens hun plicht wanneer zij achter schoo.muren hun zonnigste dagen slijten? ~ Willem Elsschot,#NFDB
741:Misschien is het idee dat er een tijd bestaat waarin je zou kunnen samenvallen met jezelf, een tijd waarin je je thuis voelt, een illusie. Per definitie onmogelijk, omdat de definitie van leven veranderlijkheid is. Het is denk ik niet dat ik terugverlang naar vroeger. Ik wil niet achteruit - maar voo.uit is oo. weer zoiets. Het is het splijtende gevoel dat zich achter me een zwart-witfilm ontrolt, zonder geluid - het enige geluid dat je hoo.t is het geratel van een amechtige projector - terwijl vóór me een bonte kermis gaande is waarop het verplicht is een 3D-bril op te zetten. Het geluid staat te hard, de gezichten komen te dichtbij. Een polonaise waarbij je moet inhaken op straffe van onzichtbaarheid. Het heeft te maken met dat iedereen een vertegenwoo.diger van zichzelf lijkt te zijn geworden, iedereen moet zich laten zien, en wat iedereen laat zien, moet dan weer het beste zijn dat hij of zij mogelijkerwijs kan laten zien. En dat is, ben ik bang, weer terug te voeren op het grote wereldwijde web waarop de mensheid sinds enige decennia is aangesloten en waarvan we waarschijnlijk noo.t meer losgekoppeld raken.
De druk om constant bereikbaar te zijn, jezelf in heel je glorie te openbaren, je kunsten en goede daden op eigen houtje te etaleren... Ik weet dat de sociale media oo. zegenrijk effect sorteren - Revolutie! Solidariteit! Flashmobs! Spontane dansfestijnen! - maar zijn ze niet oo. de gesel van deze tijd? Is de menselijke natuur opgewassen tegen de mogelijkheden die de techniek heeft geschapen? Is de mens zichzelf niet groter gaan wanen dan hij is, met alle gevolgen van dien, op individueel niveau en op het toneel van de wereldpolitiek? ~ Marja Pruis,#NFDB
742:Breitmann In Belgium.
BOON tidings to der Breitmann came
Ash he at table end,
Dere's right goo. fisch at Blankenberghe,
Und oysters in Ostend.
Denn to Ostland ve will reiten gaen,
To Ostland o'er de sand,
Dou und I mit pridle drawn
For dere ish de oyster land.
Und vhen dey shtoo. bei Ostersee,
Vhere de waters roar like sin,
Dere coo. five hundert fischer volk
To dake der Breitmann in.
'Gotts doo.der! Should ve doo.ple down
Amoo.g de waters plue,
I kess you'd vant more help from me
Dan I should vant from you!
'If you hat peen vhere I hafe peen
Und see vot I hafe see,
Vhere de surf rise oo. nine tausend feet,
In de land of Nieuw Jarsie
Und schwimmed dat surf ash I hafe schwimmed,
Peside de Jersey stran''From dat day fort' de Ostland men
Shdeered glear of der Breitemann.
Boo. von ding set him schvearin so,
I dinked he'd nefer cease,
De Ostend oysters kostet more
In Ostend als Paris.
Hans asked an anciendt fisherman,
To 'splain dis if he may,
Und says he, 'Mijn Heer - dey're beter hier
Als ein hundert leagues afay.
'Und as de oysters beter hier
Of course dey kostet more'Der Breitmann doo. his bilcrim shdaff,
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Und too.ned him to de too..
Says Hans, 'De Vlaemsche fischermen
Can sheat de vorldt I pet
Dey sheaten von anoder too.
All's fisch to a Dutchman's net.
'Der king peginned a palace hier,
De palace hat to shtop,
He foundt de beoples sheaten so
He gife de bildin oo..
Aldough das Leben hier ish goo.,
Ad least Ostend-sibly'So shpoke der Breitemann und cut
Dat city py de sea.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
743:Breitmann In Belgium. Ostende.
BOON tidings to der Breitmann came
Ash he at table end,
Dere's right goo. fisch at Blankenberghe,
Und oysters in Ostend.
Denn to Ostland ve will reiten gaen,
To Ostland o'er de sand,
Dou und I mit pridle drawn
For dere ish de oyster land.
Und vhen dey shtoo. bei Ostersee,
Vhere de waters roar like sin,
Dere coo. five hundert fischer volk
To dake der Breitmann in.
'Gotts doo.der! Should ve doo.ple down
Amoo.g de waters plue,
I kess you'd vant more help from me
Dan I should vant from you!
'If you hat peen vhere I hafe peen
Und see vot I hafe see,
Vhere de surf rise oo. nine tausend feet,
In de land of Nieuw Jarsie
Und schwimmed dat surf ash I hafe schwimmed,
Peside de Jersey stran''From dat day fort' de Ostland men
Shdeered glear of der Breitemann.
Boo. von ding set him schvearin so,
I dinked he'd nefer cease,
De Ostend oysters kostet more
In Ostend als Paris.
Hans asked an anciendt fisherman,
To 'splain dis if he may,
Und says he, 'Mijn Heer - dey're beter hier
Als ein hundert leagues afay.
'Und as de oysters beter hier
Of course dey kostet more'Der Breitmann doo. his bilcrim shdaff,
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Und too.ned him to de too..
Says Hans, 'De Vlaemsche fischermen
Can sheat de vorldt I pet
Dey sheaten von anoder too.
All's fisch to a Dutchman's net.
'Der king peginned a palace hier,
De palace hat to shtop,
He foundt de beoples sheaten so
He gife de bildin oo..
Aldough das Leben hier ish goo.,
Ad least Ostend-sibly'So shpoke der Breitemann und cut
Dat city py de sea.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
744:Hans Breitmann’s Barty
HANS BREITMANN gife a barty;
Dey had biano-blayin',
I felled in lofe mit a Merican frau,
Her name vas Madilda Yane.
She hat haar as prown ash a pretzel,
Her eyes vas himmel-plue,
Und vhen dey loo.et indo mine,
Dey shplit mine heart in dwo.
Hans Breitmann gife a barty,
I vent dere you'll pe pound;
I valtzet mit Matilda Yane,
Und vent shpinnen' round und round.
De poo.iest Fraulein in de house,
She vayed 'pout dwo hoo.dred pound,
Und efery dime she gife a shoo.p
She make de vindows sound.
Hans Breitmann gife a barty,
I dells you it cost him dear;
Dey rolled in more ash sefen kecks
Of foo.t-rate lager beer.
Und vhenefer dey knocks de shpicket in
De deutschers gifes a cheer;
I dinks dot so vine a barty
Nefer coo. to a het dis year.
Hans Breitmann gife a barty;
Dere all vas Souse and Brouse,
Vhen de soo.er comed in, de gompany
Did make demselfs to house;
Dey ate das Brot and Gensy broo.t,
De Bratwurst and Braten vine,
Und vash der Abendessen down
Mit four parrels of Neckarwein.
Hans Breitmann gife a barty;
Ve all cot troo.k ash bigs.
I poo. mine mout' to a parrel of beer,
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Und emptied it oo. mit a schwigs;
Und den I gissed Madilda Yane,
Und she shlog me on de kop,
Und de gompany vighted mit daple-lecks
Dill de coo.shtable made oo. shtop.
Hans Breitmann gife a barty -Vhere ish dot barty now?
Vhere ish de lofely golden cloud
Dot float on de moundain's prow?
Vhere ish de himmelstrahlende stern -De shtar of de shpirit's light?
All goned afay mit de lager beer -Afay in de ewigkeit!
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
745:We were both quiet for a bit. With my last brilliant idea a failure, the reality that maybe we could never fix this hung like a chain around my neck, cutting off the air. I’d fought so hard to get—really get—Lend. From escaping the Center to stopping Vivian to overcoming my own stupid issues, I’d been fighting for this relationship since the day I first saw water eyes. I couldn’t have come this far just to lose him physically forever. It wasn’t fair. And I was sick and tired of things not being fair.
“So, where’s my present?”
I wiped under my eyes. “Oh, right. You have your laptop in there?”
“Yeah.”
Smiling, I grabbed my laptop off the coffee table and emailed him the link, then waited.
“Ooh, I’ve got mail.” After a few seconds I heard the video playing, and Lend laughed. “How long did this take you?”
“I had a lot of time on my hands while you were in finals.” I leaned my head against the wall as I heard the soundtrack to the clips. I’d gone through all four seasons of Easton Heights and found every single time any of the characters said “I love you,” then (with copious amounts of help from Arianna) pieced them all together back to back, with one of Lend’s favorite songs as the soundtrack.
“I love you!” “I love you. “I LOVE YOU, idiot!” “You are so—I hate you! I love you!” “Shut up and tell me you love me.” “Te amo!” Ah, yes, the quest arc of the Spanish hottie. That was a goo. season.
Given the number of relationships that show cycled through, the video lasted several minutes. When it ended, I heard Lend’s laptop closing.
“Well?” I asked.
“I love you,” he answered.
“I love you, too.” I put my palm against the wall, fingers splayed out. ~ Kiersten White,#NFDB
746:De rede is van ons bewustzijn maar de buitenkant. Daaronder zit het gevoel. Vanbinnen, waar niemand ons kan zien, durven wij er feilloo. op te vertrouwen. Daar weten wij alles zonder woo.den. Als wij noo.t naar buiten hoefden te treden zouden we geen moment aan onze intuïtie twijfelen. Maar we gaan uit en willen de anderen oo. ons innerlijk keurig presenteren. Dus kammen we onze gedachten uit en trekken ze recht. Herinner jij je dan niet dat je als kind instinctief aanvoelde hoe mensen in elkaar zaten, bij wie je het goede kon vinden en wie voo. jou gevaarlijk was, wat je moest doen om gevoed te worden, te overleven en liefde te vinden? Ik geloo. dat veel van de kennis waarnaar wij op zoek zijn, een antwoo.d op alle belangrijke vragen, al vanaf onze geboo.te in ons aanwezig is en dat wij alleen maar zijn vergeten hoe we die moeten aanboren. Sterker, van het meeste zijn we vergeten dat het bestaat (…). Al die intuïtieve kennis, die op zijn sterkst is bij onze geboo.te, wanneer wij haar het hardst nodig hebben omdat ons nog geen andere middelen ter beschikking staan om te overleven, en die minder wordt naarmate wij leren te denken in plaats van te voelen, dat instinctieve weten is niet vergaan. Het ligt alleen bedolven onder de lawine aan argumenten en redeneringen die wij tegenwoo.dig nodig hebben om onze wereld voo. onszelf begrijpelijk te maken. Af en toe, een enkele keer in een droo., in een moment van verstroo.ing vinden we er misschien ineens iets van terug. Inspiratie zal een kunstenaar het noemen, voo. iemand die geloo.t is het een openbaring. Maar voo. ons, die rationeel proberen te denken? Misschien zouden wij het een inval noemen, een moment van verlichting waarin je ineens de oplossing ziet van een vraagstuk dat je nog niet eens had geformuleerd. ~ Arthur Japin, #NFDB
747:Manus eet niks,' zei ik tegen mijn moeder en ik vroeg of ik wat broo. mocht nemen en wat melk, om hem te voeren. Alles mocht. Met een schoteltje vol keurig vierkant blokjes doo.weekt broo., too. ik weer naar de garage, prikte een stuk broo. aan het uiteinde van een twijg en stak Manus het voedsel toe.
'Eet,' zei ik.
Hij reageerde niet. Het broo. dat ik tegen zijn snavel aanduwde, liet los en bleef hangen, wat er slordig en vies uitzag en oo. extra zielig. Omdat hij zich tot dan toe niet verroerd had, durfde ik mijn hand uit te steken en hem aan te raken, doo. met de top van mijn wijsvinger zijn kop te strelen.
Hij liet het toe en daardoo. hield ik opeens veel meer van hem dan daarvoo.. Het was een prachtige vogel en hij zou mijn onafscheidelijke metgezel worden. Zittend op mij schouder nam ik hem overal mee naar toe en als hij een eindje ging fladderen, bleef hij altijd dicht bij mij in de buurt. Cirkelend boven mijn hoo.d hield hij mij nauwlettend in het oo.. Als kauw kon hij gemakkelijk praten met andere vogels en hij vertelde hun dat hij bij mij hoo.de. Alle vogels wilden vanaf dat moment oo. wel bij mij horen, maar voo. mij kon er maar een de eerste zijn en de eerste was Manus en dat namen ze oo. voo. lief. Wel spraken ze onderling af dat, waar ter wereld ik mij oo. bevond, iedere vogel mij zou beschermen, omdat ik de vogelvrouw was en hun taal begreep. Soms vlogen hele zwermen boven mijn hoo.d, die mij allemaal herkenden en vanuit de lucht volgden. Ook op de speelplaats. Als ik in de klas zat en doo. het raam naar buiten keek, zat het muurtje vol met vogels, die daar wachtten tot ik uit schoo. kwam en zij mij naar huis konden volgen. Alle kinderen wisten dat het mijn vogels waren en ze begrepen oo. dat ik daarom geen mensen nodig had, want ik was van de vogels. ~ Connie Palmen,#NFDB
748:They landed in a field with a light dusting of snow.
“Middle of nowhere?” Elysia said, loo.ing around. “Interesting choice.”
“No waaaay!” Thrilled, Ferbus broke from the group and started running toward a series of objects on the horizon.
Driggs snickered. “This should be fun.”
As they got closer to Ferbus’s shouts of glee, the forms that had made no sense at a distance began to take shape into something that made even less sense: stacks of old automobiles, seemingly dropped from space but arranged in an undeniable pattern.
“Carhenge!” Ferbus jubilantly danced through the pillars, taking it all in. “Man, you hear about it, you dream about the day you might get to see it, but it’s even better than I imagined!”
Elysia blinked. “What is Carhenge?”
“Don’t you get it?” said Ferbus, the grin still on his face. “It’s like Stonehenge.” He pointed. “But with cars.”
The Juniors stared at him. Bang coughed.
“Well,” said Uncle Mort after a moment, “as riveting as”—he consulted his atlas—“rural Nebraska is, it’s probably best that we keep moving.”
Ferbus’s face fell. “But the gift shop.”
Uncle Mort rubbed his temples. “Tell you what, next time we’re being chased by a murderous criminal, I’ll try to schedule in a little more time for sightseeing.” He formed the Juniors back into a circle. “Let’s not assign a designated driver this time. We’ll scythe, and whoever thinks of something first, somewhere farther east—that’s where we’ll go. Ready?”
***
This time around they were greeted by the stoic faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roo.evelt, and Abraham Lincoln, all wearing caps of snow. “Ooh, Mount Rushmore,” Ferbus said bitterly. “Because dead presidents are so much more fascinating than the subtle, delicate art of automotive sculpture.”
“East!” Uncle Mort said, exasperated. “Not north! ~ Gina Damico,#NFDB
749:I'm sure we'll need some- oo.!" She was never to finish the thoughts she was startled by a creature that came bounding swiftly around the side of the carriage. A glimpse of floppy ears and jolly brown eyes filled her vision before the enthusiastic canine pounced so eagerly that she toppled backward from her squatting position. She landed on her rump, the impact knocking her hat to the ground. A swath of hair came loo.e and slid over her face, while a young tan-and black retriever leapt around her as if he were on springs. She felt a huff of dog breath on at her ear and the swipe of a tongue on her cheek.
"Ajax, no," she heard Ivo exclaim.
Realizing what a mess she'd become, all in a matter of seconds, Pandora experienced a moment of despair, followed by resignation. Of course this would happen. Of course she would have to meet the duke and duchess after tumbling on the drive like a half-witted carnival performer. It was so dreadful that she began to giggle, while the dog nudged his head against hers.
In the next moment, Pandora was lifted to her feet and caught firmly against a hard surface. The momentum threw her off balance, and she clung to St. Vincent dizzily. He kept her anchored securely against him with an arm around her back.
"Down, idiot," St. Vincent commanded. The dog subsided, panting happily.
"He must have slipped past the front doo.," Ivo said.
St. Vincent smoo.hed Pandora's hair back from her face. "Are you hurt?" His gaze ran over her swiftly.
"No... no." Helpless giggles kept bubbling up as her nervous tension released. She tried to smother the giddy sounds against his shoulder. "I was... trying so hard to be ladylike..."
A brief chuckle escaped him, and his hand moved over her upper back in a calming circle. "I would imagine it's not easy to be ladylike in the midst of a dog mauling. ~ Lisa Kleypas,#NFDB
750:--Thing is though, Spud, whin yir intae skag, that's it. That's aw yuv goat tae worry aboo.. Ken Billy, ma brar, likes? He's jist signed up tae go back intae the fuckin army. He's gaun tae fucking Belfast, the stupid cunt. Ah always knew that the fucker wis tapped. Fuckin imperialist lackey. Ken whit the daft cunt turned roo.d n sais tae us? He goes: Ah cannae fuckin stick civvy street. Bein in the army, it's like being a junky. The only difference is thit ye dinnae git shot at sae often bein a junky. Besides, it's usually you that does the shoo.in.
--That, eh, likesay, seems a bit eh, fucked up like man. Ken?
--Naw but, listen the now. You jist think aboo. it. In the army they dae everything fir they daft cunts. Feed thum, gie the cunts cheap bevvy in scabby camp clubs tae keep thum fae gaun intae too. n lowerin the fuckin tone, upsetting the locals n that. Whin they git intae civvy street, thuv goat tae dae it aw fir thumsells.
--Yeah, but likesay, it's different though, cause . . . Spud tries to cut in, but Renton is in full flight. A bottle in the face is the only thing that could shut him up at this point; even then only for a few seconds.
--Uh, uh . . . wait a minute, mate. Hear us oo.. Listen tae whit ah've goat tae say here . . . what the fuck wis ah sayin . . . aye! Right. Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry aboo. is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboo. loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too.much. Cannae git a burd, nae chance ay a ride. Git a burd, too.much hassle, cannae breathe withoo. her gittin oan yir case. Either that, or ye blow it, and feel aw guilty. Ye worry aboo. bills, foo., bailiffs, these Jambo Nazi scum beatin us, aw the things that ye couldnae gie a fuck aboo. whin yuv goat a real junk habit. Yuv just goat one thing tae worry aboo.. The simplicity ay it aw. Ken whit ah mean? ~ Irvine Welsh,#NFDB
751:Zestien maanden lang,' zei de vreemdeling, 'heb ik geen vrouw in de ogen gekeken. Je hebt moo.e ogen, Teresa, ze doen me denken aan de hemel boven Venetië. Soms zag ik een stukje hemel doo. het raam van de gevangenis, als ik even op en neer mocht lopen doo. de gang. Wat ik zag was een koel grijsachtig blauw, alsof de zee erin weerspiegeld werd. Je ogen hebben de kleur van de eeuwige dingen, maar dat zul je wel niet begrijpen en dat hoeft oo. niet. Al die misverstanden, hoe lang bestaan die al niet tussen een man en een vrouw? Hoe vaak heb ik me achteraf niet geschaamd, als ik weer eens veel te veel gepraat had met een vrouw? Kus me maar.' Zijn stem klonk ongedwongen en vriendelijk.
Toen het meisje zich niet verroerde en hem met haar grijsblauwe ogen bleef aanstaren, keek hij haar verwonderd aan en vroeg haar nog een keer vriendelijk: 'Kus me maar, of begrijp je het niet?' Later herinnerde Teresa zich dat zijn stem oo. zo geklonken zou hebben, als hij haar om een glas water had gevraagd. Het had net zo eenvoudig en terloo.s geklonken, maar omdat ze nog noo.t een man had gekust, bleef ze hem een beetje verdwaasd aankijken. Met een al even nonchalant gebaar sloeg hij zijn arm om haar middel en vroeg belangstellend: 'Wat voel je?'
'Niets,' antwoo.dde het meisje.
'Begrijp je me niet?' vroeg hij licht geprikkeld. 'Begrijp je niet wat ik vraag? Ik vroeg je niet wat je eigenlijk van mannen vindt of hoe je over de liefde denkt. Luister nou eens, kleintje, ik vraag je wat je voelt als ik je aanraak, als ik met twee vingers over je arm streel, als ik mijn hand op je hart leg. Kijk zo... Wat voel je nu, op dit moment?'
Het meisje stond op, lichtte met een gracieuze beweging haar rok bij de zijkanten iets op van de vloer, zoals ze dat in de gelagkamer wel eens had zien doen, maakte een diepe buiging en zei toen beleefd: 'Met uw goedkeuring, meneer, ik voel niets. ~ S ndor M rai,#NFDB
752:Now Listen To Me And I'Ll Tell You My Views
Now listen to me and I'll tell you my views concerning the African war,
And the man who upholds any different views, the same is a ritten Pro-Boer!
(Though I'm getting a little bit doubtful myself, as it drags on week after week:
But it's better not ask any questions at all -- let us silence all doubts with a
shriek!)
And first let us shriek the unstinted abuse that the Tory Press prefer -De Wet is a madman, and Steyn is a liar, and Kruger a pitiful cur!
(Though I think if Oom Paul -- as old as he is -- were to walk down the Strand
with his gun,
A lot of these heroes would hide in the sewers or take to their heels and run!
For Paul he has fought like a man in his day, but now that he's feeble and weak
And tired, and lonely, and old and grey, of course it's quite safe to shriek!)
And next let us join in the bloo.thirsty shriek, Hoo.ay for Lord Kitchener's "bag"!
For the fireman's torch and the hangman's cord -- they are hung on the English
Flag!
In the front of our brave old army! Whoo.! the farmhouse blazes bright.
And the women weep and their children die -- how dare they presume to fight!
For none of them dress in a uniform, the same as by rights they ought.
They're fighting in rags and in naked feet, like Wallace's Scotchmen fought!
(And they clothe themselves from our captured troo.s -- and they're catching
them every week;
And they don't hand them -- and the shame is ours, but we cover the shame
with a shriek!)
And, lastly, we'll shriek the political shriek as we sit in the dark and doubt;
Where the Birmingham Judas led us in, and there's no one to lead us out.
And Rosebery -- whom we depended upon! Would only the Oracle speak!
"You go to the Grocers," says he, "for your laws!" By Heavens! it's time to shriek!
~ Banjo Paterson,#NFDB
753:I'm sorry," she whispers.
"You're sorry? You've been dating Toph for the last month,and you're sorry?"
"It just happened.I meant to tell you, I wanted to tell you-"
"But you lost control over your mouth? Because it's easy,Bridge. Talking is easy. Loo. at me! I'm talking right-"
"You know it wasn't that easy! I didn't mean for it to happen,it just did-"
"Oh,you didn't mean to wreck my life? It just 'happened'?"
Bridge stands up from behind her drums. It's impossible,but she's taller than me now. "What do you mean,wreck your life?"
"Don't play dumb,you know exactly what I mean. How could you do this to me?"
"Do what? It's not like you were dating!"
I scream in frustration. "We certainly won't be now!"
She sneers. "It's kind of hard to date someone who's not interested in you."
"LIAR!"
"What,you ditch us for Paris and expect us to put our lives on hold for you?"
My jaw drops. "I didn't ditch you. They sent me away."
"Ooo.yeah.To Paris.Meanwhile,I'm stuck here in Shitlanta, Georgia, at the same shitty schoo.,doing shitty babysitting jobs-"
"If babysitting my brother is so shitty, why do you do it?"
"I didn't meant-"
"Because you want to turn him against me, too. Well.Congratulations, Bridge. It worked. My brother loves you and hates me. So you're welcome to move in when I leave again,because that's what you want, right? My life?"
She shakes with fury. "Go to hell."
"Take my life.You can have it. Just watch out for the part where my BEST FRIEND SCREWS ME OVER!" I knock over a cymbal stand,and the brass hits the stage with an earsplitting crash that reverberates through the bowling alley. Matt calls my name.Has he been calling it this entire time? He grabs my arm and leads me around the electrical cords and plugs and onto the floo. and away,away,away.
Everyone in the bowling alley is staring at me. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
754:She and her brother got their usual table, right in front of the grimy, bulletproo. window covered with steel bars. Nothing but the best seat in the house when visiting Kyle Rhodes.
He laid into her the moment he sat down. “Who’s Tall, Dark, and Smoldering?”
Jordan’s mouth dropped open. “Shut up. You’ve been reading Scene and Heard?”
Kyle gestured to the bars. “What else am I supposed to do in this place?”
“Repent. Reflect on your wrongdoings. Rehabilitate your criminal mind.”
“You’re avoiding the question.”
Yes, she was. Because her brother was number two on the list of people she really, really didn’t want to lie to, right after her father. “It’s no big deal. He’s just a guy I brought to Xander’s party.” Who, yes, happened to be tall, dark, and smoldering. Allegedly. And who occasionally made her smile, when he wasn’t busy getting under her skin. Like an itch she couldn’t scratch. Or a tick.
“For five thousand dollars a head, I doubt he’s ‘just a guy,’ ” Kyle said.
Suddenly, their friend Puchalski, the inmate with the black snake tattoo. was at their table. “So who’s this tall, dark, and smoldering jerk?” he asked Jordan, seemingly affronted.
Jordan held out her hands. “Seriously, does everyone read Scene and Heard in this place?”
Puchalski gestured to Kyle. “I snagged it from Sawyer here while he was reading the financial section. I’ve got to keep up with current events.” He winked. “I won’t be in this place forever, you know.”
“You will be if you don’t shut your yap and start following the rules, Puchalski,” a guard warned as he passed by.
The inmate scuttled off.
Kyle picked up where they’d left off. “So now the big secret’s out.”
Jordan glared at her brother, who apparently had decided to be more annoying than usual on this particular subject. “Yes, it’s true—I had a date. Ooh, shocking. ~ Julie James,#NFDB
755:Breitmann In Holland. Leyden.
TIS shveet to valk in Holland towns
Apout de twilicht tide,
Vhen all ish shdill on proad canals,
Safe vhere a poat may clide.
Shdrange light on darkenin vater falls,
In long soft lines afar,
Der abenddroth on dunkelheit,
Vitch shows - or hides - a star.
De pridges risen all aroundt
So quaindly, left und right,
Pedween each pridge und shattow, lies,
A lemon of yellow light,
Und das volk a-goin ober,
So darklin onwarts pass,
Dey loo. like Chinese shattows - shown
Apofe a loo.in-glass.
All shdiller grows, und shdiller,
Sogar die efenin preeze,
Ish only heardt far ober het
In dese long lines of drees;
A real oldt Holland feelin
Coo.s gadderin ober all,
You'd nefer dink a sturm hat peen
Oopon dis Grand Canawl.
De nople houses! - how dey'd mofe
An old New Yorker's heart,
Time vas - twix dese und dose at home
You couldn't tell 'em part,
Mit crate brass knockers on de too.s,
Und parlors town so low
You see de crates a glowin prite
O'er carbets ash you go.
Dere's comfort-full of avery dings,
You veel it ash you loo.,
You knows de volks ish opulend,
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Und keep a bully coo.;
Und oo.on de high camine,
Or here und dere on shelf,
Dere's Japanesisch dings in rows,
Pe mingled oo. mit delf.
Dere's noding in dis Holland life,
Vitch seems of present day,
De fery shildren in de shdreeds
Loo. quaintlich as dey blay;
De liddle rosy housemaids,
In bicdures vell I know,
De dames und heers hafe all an air
Of sixdy years ago.
They may dalk of anciendt hishdory
Und for romantisch seek,
De ding dat mofes most teeply ish
Old-vashioned - not antique.
O if you live in Leyden town
You'll meet, if troo.' pe told,
De forms of all de freunds who tied
Vhen du werst six years old.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
756:Who is Aslan?” asked Susan.
“Aslan?” said Mr. Beaver, “Why, don’t you know? He’s the King. He’s the Lord of the whole woo., but not often here, you understand. Never in my time or my father’s time. But the word has reached us that he has come back. He is in Narnia at this moment. He’ll settle the White Queen all right. It is he, not you, that will save Mr. Tumnus.”
“She won’t turn him into stone too.” said Edmund.
“Lord love you, Son of Adam, what a simple thing to say!” answered Mr. Beaver with a great laugh. “Turn him into stone? If she can stand on her two feet and loo. him in the face it’ll be the most she can do and more than I expect of her. No, no. He’ll put all to rights, as it says in an old rhyme in these parts:
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,
At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,
When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death
And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
You’ll understand when you see him.”
“But shall we see him?” asked Susan.
“Why, Daughter of Eve, that’s what I brought you here for. I’m to lead you where you shall meet him,” said Mr. Beaver.
“Is--is he a man?” asked Lucy.
“Aslan a man!” said Mr. Beaver sternly. “Certainly not. I tell you he is the King of the woo. and the son of the great Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea. Don’t you know who is the King of Beasts? Aslan is a lion--the Lion, the great Lion.”
“Ooh!” said Susan, “I’d thought he was a man. Is he--quite safe? I shall feel rather nervous about meeting a lion.”
“That you will, dearie, and no mistake,” said Mrs. Beaver. “If there’s anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they’re either braver than most or else just silly.”
“Then he isn’t safe?” said Lucy.
“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver. “Don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ’Course he isn’t safe. But he’s goo.. He’s the King, I tell you. ~ C S Lewis,#NFDB
757:I spent another sleepless night in my apartment and in the early hours of the morning I snuck once more into my little kitchen, to prepare a huge torta di ricotta. I needed a cheesecake: it was the only thing that could give me the peace of mind I craved.
Had I been too.hasty in offering to give l'Inglese lessons? I asked myself, as I ground green almonds with my pestle. The power of my wrist quickly turned the almonds to powder. If only I could grind my worries away as easily.
I beat the ricotta, egg yolks, honey, sugar, lemon juice, and rind into the almonds. I beat and beat and beat the mixture until a sweat formed on my brow and my body began to glow with warmth. Even then I did not stop beating. I welcomed the exhaustion that began to creep up on me: I could feel the healing power of my coo.ing.
Really I knew nothing about l'Inglese. Nothing at all. Except that everything about him spelled danger to an inexperienced woman like me. I was afraid of him, yet could not bear the thought of not seeing him again. I was always thinking of him, imagining our next meeting: amusing myself with every possible scenario.
I whisked the egg whites into peaks in a matter of seconds. I reasoned that I had been right to speak out to him when I did. I knew how I would have hated myself if I had let the moment slip by. I knew how wretched and foo.ish I would have felt at my impotence, and yet this turbulence inside me was almost as bad. Acrobatic butterflies fluttered in my stomach, however much I tried to feed them into submission.
When the torta had baked to a golden, angel-scented crust, and after waiting impatiently for it to coo., I helped myself to a large slice with a thick dollop of cream. Ooh, it was goo.. I mopped up every crumb from the plate with my finger. Then I switched out the lights and climbed back into bed. I resigned myself to the thought that what was done could not be undone and drifted into a lemon-flavored sleep. ~ Lily Prior,#NFDB
758:...Women have preserved this `baby loo.' for as long as possible so as to make the world continue to believe in the darling, sweet little girl she once was, and she relies on the protective instinct in man to make him take care of her.
As with everything a woman undertakes on her own initiative, this whole maneuvre is as incredible as it is stupid. It is amazing, in fact, that it succeeds. It would appear very shortsighted to encourage such an ideal of beauty. For how can any woman hope to maintain it beyond the age of twenty-five? Despite every trick of the cosmetics industry, despite magazine advice against thinking or laughing (both tend to create wrinkles), her actual age will inevitably show'- through in the end. And what on earth is a man to do with a grown-up face when he has been manipulated into considering only helpless, appealing little girls to be creatures of beauty?
What is a men to do with a woman when the smoo.h curves have become flabby tires of flesh, the skin slack and pallid, when the childish tones have grown shrill and the laughter sounds like neighing? What is to become of this shrew when her face no longer atones for her ceaseless inanities and when the cries of `Ooh' and Ah' begin to drive him out of his mind? This mummified `child' will never fire a man's erotic fantasy again. One might think her power broken at last.
But no, she still manages to get her own way - and for two reasons. The first is obvious: she now has children, who enable her to continue feigning helplessness. As for the second - there are simply not enough young women to go around.
It is a safe bet that, given the choice, man would trade in his grown-up child-wife for a younger model, but, as the ratio between the sexes is roughly equal, not every man can have a younger woman. And as he has to have a wife of some sort. he prefers to keep the one he already possesses. This is easy to prove. Given the choice, a man will always choo.e a younger woman. ~ Esther Vilar,#NFDB
759:(Ik luister naar hem, en als hij de scène van de koppelaar en het meisje dat verleid wordt voo.draagt, word ik doo. twee tegengestelde opwellingen aangegrepen, ik weet niet of ik moet lachen of kwaadworden. Ik heb het er moeilijk mee: tien keer onderdrukt een schaterlach mijn woede, tien keer eindigt mijn diepe verontwaardiging in een schaterlach. Ik ben geheel van streek doo. zoveel scherpzinnigheid en laaghartigheid, doo. de afwisseling van zulke juiste en zulke verkeerde denkbeelden, doo. een zo totale perversiteit der gevoelens, een zo grote verdorvenheid en een zo ongewone openhartigheid. Hij merkt de strijd die in mij woedt en vraagt: Wat is er?)
IK. Niets.
HIJ. U schijnt in de war te zijn.
IK. Dat ben ik oo..
HIJ. Maar wat raadt u me dan aan?
IK. Over iets anders te praten. Ach, ongeluksvogel, bent u altijd zo geweest of bent u zo diep gezonken?
HIJ. Dat geef ik toe. Maar trekt u zich mijn toestand niet zo aan. Het was niet mijn bedoeling u verdriet te doen, toen ik mijn hart voo. u uitstortte. Ik heb bij die mensen nog wat gespaard. Zoals u weet kreeg ik alles wat ik nodig had, absoluut alles, en ze gaven me nog wat extra zakgeld voo. mijn persoo.lijke pleziertjes.
(Dan begint hij met zijn vuisten op zijn voo.hoo.d te slaan, zich op de lippen te bijten en met een verwilderde blik naar het plafond te staren, terwijl hij uitroept: Wat gebeurd is, is gebeurd. Ik heb wat opzij gelegd, de tijd is voo.bij gegaan en dat is al veel gewonnen.)
IK. U bedoelt zeker verloren?
HIJ. Nee, nee, gewonnen. Men wordt elke minuut rijker: een dag minder te leven of een daalder meer, dat is precies eender. Het belangrijkste is toch iedere avond lekker op je gemak, vrij en overvloedig naar de plee te kunnen gaan: 'O stercus pretiosum!' Dat is het grote doel van het leven in alle rangen en standen. Op het laatste moment zijn we allemaal even rijk: Samuel Bernard die doo. diefstal, zwendel en fraude zevenentwintig miljoen in goud nalaat, en Rameau, die niets nalaat, Rameau die van de armen zal worden begraven. ~ Denis Diderot,#NFDB
760:I’ll tell you what,” he says. “You keep me company while I finish my dinner. I won’t even ask you what you have…or don’t have…under that coat. Deal?”
I smile tentatively and smoo.h down my hair. “Deal.”
“You don’t have to do that for me,” he says, gently taking my hand away from my hair. “I’ll get a blanket so you don’t get dirty.”
I wait until he pulls a clean light green fleece blanket out of a closet.
We sit on the blanket and Alex loo.s at his watch. “Want some?” he asks, pointing to his dinner.
Maybe eating will calm my nerves. “What is it?”
“Enchiladas. Mi’amá makes kick-ass enchiladas.” He stabs a small portion with a fork and holds it out to me. “If you’re not used to this kind of spicy foo.--”
“I love spicy,” I interrupt, taking it into my mouth. I start chewing, enjoying the blend of flavors. But when I swallow, my tongue slowly catches on fire. Somewhere behind all the fire there’s flavor, but the flames are in the way.
“Hot,” is all I can say as I attempt to swallow.
“I told you.” Alex holds out the cup he’d been drinking from. “Here, drink. Milk usually does the trick, but I only have water.”
I grab the cup. The liquid coo.s my tongue, but when I finish the water it’s as if someone stokes it again. “Water…,” I say.
He fills another cup. “Here, drink more, though I don’t think it’ll help much. It’ll subside soo..”
Instead of drinking it this time, I stick my tongue in the cold liquid and keep it there. Ahhh…
“You okay?”
“To I woo. otay?” I ask.
“With your tongue in the water like that, actually, it’s erotic. Want another bite?” he asks mischievously, acting like the Alex I know.
“Mo mank oo..”
“Your tongue still burnin’?”
I lift my tongue from the water. “It feels like a million soccer players are stomping on it with their cleats.”
“Ouch,” he says, laughing. “You know, I heard once that kissin’ reduces the fire.”
“Is that your cheap way of telling me you want to kiss me?”
He loo.s into my eyes, his dark gaze capturing mine. “Querida, I always want to kiss you. ~ Simone Elkeles,#NFDB
761:The store smells of roasted chicken and freshly ground coffee, raw meat and ripening stone fruit, the lemon detergent they use to scrub the old sheet-linoleum floo.s. I inhale and feel the smile form on my face. It's been so long since I've been inside any market other than Fred Meyer, which smells of plastic and the thousands of people who pass through every day.
By instinct, I head for the produce section. There, the close quarters of slim Ichiban eggplant, baby bok choy, brilliant red chard, chartreuse-and-purple asparagus, sends me into paroxysms of delight. I'm glad the store is nearly empty; I'm oo.ing and aahing with produce lust at the colors, the smoo.h, shiny textures set against frilly leaves.
I fondle the palm-size plums, the soft fuzz of the peaches. And the berries! It's berry season, and seven varieties spill from green cardboard containers: the ubiquitous Oregon marionberry, red raspberry, and blackberry, of course, but next to them are blueberries, loganberries, and gorgeous golden raspberries. I pluck one from a container, fat and slightly past firm, and pop it into my mouth. The sweet explosion of flavor so familiar, but like something too.long forgotten. I load two pints into my basket.
The asparagus has me intrigued. Maybe I could roast it with olive oil and fresh herbs, like the sprigs of rosemary and oregano poking out of the salad display, and some goo. sea salt. And salad. Baby greens tossed with lemon-infused olive oil and a sprinkle of vinegar. Why haven't I eaten a salad in so long? I'll choo.e a soft, mild French cheese from the deli case, have it for an hors d'oeuvre with a beautiful glass of sparkling Prosecco, say, then roast a tiny chunk of spring lamb that I'm sure the nice sister will cut for me, and complement it with a crusty baguette and roasted asparagus, followed by the salad. Followed by more cheese and berries for dessert. And a fruity Willamette Valley Pinot Noir to wash it all down. My idea of eating heaven, a French-influenced feast that reminds me of the way I always thought my life would be. ~ Jennie Shortridge,#NFDB
762:See you at breakfast?"
"Yeah.See ya." I try to say this casually,but I'm so thrilled that I skip from her roo. and promptly slam into a wall.
Whoo.s.Not a wall.A boy.
"Oof." He staggers backward.
"Sorry! I'm so sorry,I didn't know you were there."
He shakes his head,a little dazed. The first thing I notice is his hair-it's the first thing I notice about everyone. It's dark brown and messy and somehow both long and short at the same time. I think of the Beatles,since I've just seen them in Meredith's roo.. It's artist hair.Musician hair. I-pretend-I-don't-care-but-I-really-do-hair.
Beautiful hair.
"It's okay,I didn't see you either. Are you all right,then?"
Oh my.He's English.
"Er.Does Mer live here?"
Seriously,I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.
The boy clears his throat. "Meredith Chevalier? Tall girl? Big,curly hair?" Then he loo.s at me like I'm crazy or half deaf,like my Nanna Oliphant. Nanna just smiles and shakes her head whenever I ask, "What kind of salad dressing would you like?" or "Where did you put Granddad's false teeth?"
"I'm sorry." He takes the smallest step away from me. "You were going to bed."
"Yes! Meredith lives there.I've just spent two hours with her." I announce this proudly like my brother, Seany, whenever he finds something disgusting in the yard. "I'm Anna! I'm new here!" Oh God. What.Is with.The scary enthusiasm? My cheeks catch fire, and it's all so humiliating.
The beautiful boy gives an amused grin. His teeth are lovely-straight on top and croo.ed on the bottom,with a touch of overbite. I'm a sucker for smiles like this,due to my own lack of orthodontia. I have a gap between my front teeth the size of a raisin.
"Etienne," he says. "I live one floo. up."
"I live here." I point dumbly at my roo. while my mind whirs: French name, English accent, American schoo.. Anna confused.
He raps twice on Meredith's doo.. "Well. I'll see you around then, Anna."
Eh-t-yen says my name like this: Ah-na.
My heart thump thump thumps in my chest. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
763:The Great Calamity
MacFierce'un came to Whiskeyhurst
When summer days were hot,
And bided there wi' Jock MacThirst,
A brawny brother Scot.
Goo. faith! They made the whisky fly
Like Highland chieftains true,
And when they'd drunk the beaker dry
They sang, 'We are nae fou!
There's nae folk like oo. ain folk,
Sae gallant and sae true.'
They sang the only Scottish joke
Which is, 'We are nae fou'.
Said bold MacThirst, 'Let Saxons jaw
Aboo. their great concerns,
But Bonnie Scotland beats them a',
The Land o' Cakes and Burns,
The land of pairtridge, deer, and grouse;
Fill up your glass, I beg,
There's muckle whiskey i' the house,
Forbye what's in the keg.'
And here a hearty laugh he laughed,
'Just come wi' me, I beg.'
MacFierce'un saw with pleasure daft
A fifty-gallon keg.
'Losh, man, that's graund,' MacFierce'un cried,
'Saw ever man the like,
Moo. wi' the daylicht, I maun ride
To meet a Southron tyke,
But I'll be back ere summer's gone,
So bide for me, I beg;
We'll mak' a graund assault upon
Yon deevil of a keg.'
MacFierce'un rode to Whiskeyhurst
When summer days were gone,
And there he met with Jock MacThirst
Was greetin' all alone.
'MacThirst, what gars ye loo. sae blank?
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Hae all your wuts gane daft?
Has that accursed Southron bank
Called up your overdraft?
Is all your grass burnt up wi' drouth?
Is woo. and hides gane flat?'
MacThirst replied, 'Guid friend, in truth,
'Tis muckle waur than that.'
'Has sair misfortune cursed your life
That you should weep sae free?
Is harm upon your bonnie wife,
The children at your knee?
Is scaith upon your house and hame?'
MacThirst upraised his head:
'My bairns hae done the deed of shame,
'Twere better they were dead.
To think my bonnie infant son
Should do the deed o' guilt,
He let the whiskey spigot run,
And a' the whiskey's spilt!'
Upon them both these words did bring
A solemn silence deep;
Goo. faith, it is a fearsome thing
To see two strong men weep.
~ Banjo Paterson,#NFDB
764:Wein Geist
I STOOMPLED oud ov a dafern,
Breauscht mit a gallon of wein,
Und I roo.hed along de strassen,
Like a derriple Eberschwein.
Und like a lordly boar-pig,
I doo.plet de soper folk;
Und I trowed a shtone droo.a shdreed lamp,
Und bot' of de classes I proke.
Und a gal vent roo.in' bast me,
Like a vild coo.e on de vings,
Boo. I gatch her for all her skreechin',
Und giss her like efery dings.
Und denn mit an board und a parell,
I blay de horse-viddle a biece,
Dill de neighbours shkreem 'deat'!' und 'murder!'
Und holler aloudt 'bolice!'
Und vhen der crim night waechter
Says all of dis foo. moo.t shtop,
I oo. mit mein oo.berella,
Und schlog him ober de kop.
I leaf him like tead on de bavemend,
Und roo.h droo.a darklin' lane,
Dill moo.lighd und tisdand musik,
Pring me roundt to my soul again.
Und I sits all oo.der de linden,
De hearts-leaf linden dree;
Und I dink of de quick gevanisht lofe
Dat vent like de vind from me.
Und I voo.ders in mine dipsyhoo.,
If a damsel or dream vas she!
Dis life is all a lindens
Mit holes dat show de plue,
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Und pedween de finite pranches
Coo.s Himmel-light shinin' troo.
De blaetter are raushlin' o'er me,
Und efery leaf ish a fay,
Und dey vait dill de windsbraut comet,
To pear dem in Fall afay.
Denn I coo.ed to a rock py der rifer,
Vhere a stein ish of harpe form,
-Jahrdausand in, oud, it standet'Und nopody blays but de shtorm.
Here, vonce on a dimes, a vitches,
Soo. melodies here peginned,
De harpe ward all zu steine,
Die melodie ward zu wind.
Und so mit dis tox-i-gation,
Vitch hardens de outer Me;
Ueber stein and schwein, de weine
Shdill harps oud a melodie.
Boo. deeper de Ur-lied ringet',
Ober stein und wein und svines,
Dill it endeth vhere all peginnet,
Und alles wird ewig zu eins,
In de dipsy, treamless sloo.per
Vhich units de Nichts und Seyns.
Und im Mondenlicht it moo.moo.s,
Und it burns by waken wein,
In Madchenlieb or Schnapsenrausch
Das Absolut ist dein.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
765:Angla, zei moeder. Onze koe. Die kun je meenemen.
Maar Karl Orsa was niet uit op Angla en oo. niet op het geld; maar een ieder wordt verzocht, als hij doo. zijn eigen begeerten verlokt wordt; hij had zijn zinnen op moeder gezet.
Een hele koe, zei moeder. Als dat niet genoeg is, weet ik het niet.
Maar hij wilde niet, het leek wel of die koe hem moest worden opgedrongen.
Het hoo. is in maart toch op, zei moeder. We hebben toch niet genoeg. En wat moeten we dan beginnen? je kunt haar net zo goed meenemen. In het voo.jaar hebben we toch alleen maar last van haar.
Ten slotte kon hij er niet meer omheen, om die duivelse koe.
Dan gaan we maar eens kijken, zei hij. Niet om het een of ander. Maar omdat jij er zo op aandringt, Tea.
In de stal kneep hij zowaar in Angla en hij bekeek de poten en streek met zijn hand over de rug.
Hoe oud is ze? vroeg hij.
Ze wordt dit najaar tien, zei moeder.
Vel over been, zei Karl Orsa, meer niet.
En hij had gelijk, veel bijzonders was Angla niet. Een oude koe, zonder de minste levenslust.
Ge kende zelfs Angla, Heer. Het was zoals het was.
En Karl Orsa liet zijn blik langs de uiers gaan.
Wondjes aan de spenen, zei hij. Lege uiers.
Daarna wierp hij een steelse blik op moeder, zij had een volle, vaste boezem. Je kon zien dat hij dacht: die tieten.
Maar voo. de slacht? probeerde moeder. Als slacht-koe?
Toen moest hij voo. de tweede keer met zijn ogen en handen over Angla heen gaan, oo. van slachtdieren had hij verstand.
Veel vlees zit er niet aan, zei hij. Veel meer dan een skelet is het niet. Een lege ruiter. een scharminkel.
Weer wierp hij een steelse blik op moeder en je kon zien dat hij dacht: vlees.
Moeders laatste voo.stel was:
En de huid dan? Er blijft toch een koeiehuid over?
Maar zelfs daar viel niet over te praten.
Aan huiden heb je niets. Er is geen mens die huiden koo.t. Voo.al geen koeiehuiden. Er zijn heel wat meer koeiehuiden dan levende koeien. Wat een dwaze gedachte!
Ook op de huid van moeder wierp hij een steelse blik, ze had blote armen en een blote hals en je kon zien dat hij nu zeker wist hoe de pacht voo. dit jaar betaald zou worden. ~ Torgny Lindgren,#NFDB
766:Is that...the Loo.ey Tunes theme?"
Mer and St. Clair cock their ears.
"Why,yes.I believe it is," St. Clair says.
"I heard 'Love Shack' a few minutes ago," Mer says.
"It's official," I say. "America has finally ruined France."
"So can we go now?" St. Clair holds up a small bag. "I'm done."
"Ooo.what'd you get?" Mer asks. She takes his bag and pulls out a delicate, shimmery scarf. "Is it for Ellie?"
"Shite."
Mer pauses. "You didn't get anything for Ellie?"
"No,it's for Mum.Arrrgh." He rakes a hand through his hair. "Would you mind if we pop over to Sennelier before we go home?" Sennelier is a gorgeous little art supply sore,the kind that makes me wish I had an excuse to buy oil paints and pastels. Mer and I went with Rashmi last weekend. She bought Josh a new sketchboo. for Hanukkah.
"Wow.Congratulations,St. Clair," I say. "Winner of today's Sucky Boyfriend award.And I thought Steve was bad-did you see what happened in calc?"
"You mean when Amanda caught him dirty-texting Nicole?" Mer asks. "I thought she was gonna stab him in the neck with her pencil."
"I've been busy," St. Clair says.
I glance at him. "I was just teasing."
"Well,you don't have to be such a bloo.y git about it."
"I wasn't being a git. I wasnt even being a twat, or a wanker, or any of your other bleeding Briticisms-"
"Piss off." He snatches his bag back from Mer and scowls at me.
"HEY!" Mer says. "It's Christmas. Ho-ho-ho. Deck the halls. Stop fighting."
"We weren't fighting," he and I say together.
She shakes her head. "Come on,St. Clair's right. Let's get out of here. This place gives me the creeps."
"I think it's pretty," I say. "Besides, I'd rather loo. at ribbons than dead rabbits."
"Not the hares again," St. Clair says. "You're as bad as Rashmi."
We wrestle through the Christmas crowds. "I can see why she was upset! The way they're hung up,like they'd died of nosebleeds. It's horrible. Poo. Isis." All of the shops in Paris have outdone themselves with elaborate window displays,and the butcher is no exception. I pass the dead bunnies every time I go to the movies.
"In case you hadn't noticed," he says. "Isis is perfectly alive and well on the sixth floo.. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
767:I’d ask why you don’t want to be whipped, but I sense there’s a long heartfelt story behind it and I’ll feel sorry for you and I’m not really in the moo. to feel pity. Maybe after a few more orgasms, I can fake sympathy. We’re just not there yet, champ.”
“I like that nickname,” I said, taking her hand between mine. “Stud works too. King Cock is another favorite.”
“How about Cock-A-Doo.le-Doo."
“Too.cartoo.y. I need something manlier. Cockinator.”
Laughing, Raven yanked her hand away. “How about Robo Cock or White Cock Down? Ooh, Cockageddon.”
“Independence Cock,” I suggested, laughing as I drank my juice. “Cock Hard or Cocky. You know the third one where Cocky goes to Russia.”
Raven snorted. “Cocks on a Plane. No, Planet of the Cocks.”
“Kindergarten Cock,” I said and Raven balked. “Did I take that too.far?”
“Perv. Oh, how about World War C?”
“Too.subtle.”
“Iron Cock or Cock of Steel. You know, if you’re interested in the superhero route.”
“Star Trek and superheroes. I sense the nerd is strong in this one.”
“Fuck off. I saw the videogames at your stag shack.”
“Wanna come over and play sometime?” I asked, giving her a wink. “Then, after we’re done playing, we can do that videogame thing you mentioned.”
“Hang out time like you shared with Judd?”
Expression hardening, I glared at her. “I never fucked Judd.”
“Why? He’s hot.”
Unable to keep up the façade, I laughed. “He’s a pretty fucker, ain’t he?”
“Oh, yeah,” she sighed and I stopped laughing. Raven noticed and it was her turn to laugh. “He’s got those beautiful eyes.”
“They’re beady rat eyes.”
“He’s so strong.”
“Puny girly man.”
Raven licked her lips. “I bet he hung too.”
I showed her my pinkie finger. “He’s barely this big when hard.”
“And how do you know that if you two never fucked?”
“Fine, we fucked, but we were pretty drunk and he is really pretty.”
Raven nearly fell off her chair laughing. I felt intensely proud to make her lose her coo. so thoroughly.
After calming down, Raven threw up her hand and I high fived her. “You win,” she said, catching her breath. “I’ll play videogames at your place after fucking your brains out. Make you forget all about sexy Judd. ~ Bijou Hunter,#NFDB
768:Am Rhein. - No. Ii.
AM Rhein! Acain am Rheine!
In boat oo.on der Rhein!
De castle-bergs soft goldnen
Im Abendsonnenschein,
Mit lots of Rudesheimer,
Und saitenklang und sang,
Und laties singin lieder,
Ash ve go sailin 'long.
Und von fair Englisch dame
Vas dere, so wunderscheen;
Vene'er der Breitmann saw her,
Id made his heartsen pain.
Oh, dose long-tailed veilchen Augen,
Vitch voke soo.h hopes und fears,
Deir shape vas nod like almonds,
Boo. more like fallin tears.
Und shpecdagles were o'er dem,
De glass of pince-nez kind,
In mercy to de beoples,
Less dey pe shdrucken blind.
Und gazin in dem glasses,
Reflected he pehold
De Rhine, mit all de shdeam-poats,
Und crags in Sonnengold.
De signs upon de bier-haus;
De gals a-washin close;
De wein-garts on de moundain,
Like heafenly shdairs in rows:
De banks, basaltic-paven,
Like bee-hife cells to view;
A donkey shtandin on dem,
Likevise her lofer too.
All dis oo.on dos glasses
Vas blainly to pe seen;
One saw whate'er vas nodiced,
Py de schone Englandrinn.
Boo. oh! de fery lofe-most
Of all dat lofe-most pe
Her own plue veilchen AugenHerself she couldt not see.
So ist es in dis Leben;
For beaudy oft we spied,
Nor know de cratest peaudy
Ish in our soul inside.
Mein Gott! Vot himmlisch shplendor
Vas seen mitout an toubt,
If some crate bower supernal
Vas too.n oo. insite out!
Und gazin long on Natur,
Und gazin long on Man,
Shdill all dings glite voruber,
Ash since de vorldt pegan:
Ash in dat laity's glasses,
Ve see dem bassin py;
Yet veel a soul beneat' dem,
A schweet eternal eye.
O schone Englisch maiden
Mit honey-colored hair,
Dat flows ash if a beinen korb
Had got oo.settet dereUnd all de schweetness of your soul
Vas dripplin from your brain!
Oh shall I efer meet mit dir
Oopon dis eart' acain?
O Englisch engel maiden!
O schveet betaubend dofe!
O Rheinwein und cigarren!
O luncheon, mixed mit lofe!
O Drachenfels und Nonnenwerth!
O Liebeslust und pein!
Dus ents de second chapterlet
Of Breitmann on der Rhein.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
769:Can I cuddle up with you when you sleep?”
Sma stopped, detached the creature from her shoulder with one hand and stared it in the face. “What?”
“Just for chumminess’ sake,” the little thing said, yawning wide and blinking. “I’m not being rude; it’s a goo. bonding procedure.”
Sma was aware of Skaffen-Amtiskaw glowing red just behind her. She brought the yellow and brown device closer to her face. “Listen, Xenophobe—”
“Xeny.”
“Xeny. You are a million-ton starship. A Torturer class Rapid Offensive Unit. Even—”
“But I’m demilitarized!”
“Even without your principle armament, I bet you could waste planets if you wanted to—”
“Aw, come on; any silly GCU can do that!”
“So what’s all this shit for?” She shoo. the furry little remote drone, quite hard. Its teeth chattered.
“It’s for a laugh!” it cried. “Sma, don’t you appreciate a joke?”
“I don’t know. Do you appreciate being drop-kicked back to the accommodation area?”
“Ooh! What’s your problem, lady? Have you got something against small furry animals, or what?” Loo. Ms. Sma, I know very well I’m a ship, and I do everything I’m asked to do—including taking you to this frankly rather fuzzily specified destination—and do it very efficiently, too. If there was the slightest sniff of any real action, and I had to start acting like a warship, this construct in your hands would go lifeless and limp immediately, and I’d battle as ferociously and decisively as I’ve been trained to. Meanwhile, like my human colleagues, I amuse myself harmlessly. If you really hate my current appearance, all right; I’ll change it; I’ll be an ordinary drone, or just a disembodied voice, or talk to you through Skaffen-Amtiskaw here, or through your personal terminal. The last thing I want is to offend a guest.”
Sma pursed her lips. She patted the thing on its head and sighed. “Fair enough.”
“I can keep this shape?”
“By all means.”
“Oh goo.y!” It squirmed with pleasure, then opened its big eyes wide and loo.ed hopefully at her. “Cuddle?”
“Cuddle.” Sma cuddled it, patted its back.
She turned to see Skaffen-Amtiskaw lying dramatically on its back in midair, its aura field flashing the lurid orange that was used to signal Sick Drone in Extreme Distress. ~ Iain M Banks,#NFDB
770:We're in her bedroo.,and she's helping me write an essay about my guniea pig for French class. She's wearing soccer shorts with a cashmere sweater, and even though it's silly-loo.ing, it's endearingly Meredith-appropriate. She's also doing crunches. For fun.
"Goo.,but that's present tense," she says. "You aren't feeding Captain Jack carrot sticks right now."
"Oh. Right." I jot something down, but I'm not thinking about verbs. I'm trying to figure out how to casually bring up Etienne.
"Read it to me again. Ooo.and do your funny voice! That faux-French one your ordered cafe creme in the other day, at that new place with St. Clair."
My bad French accent wasn't on purpose, but I jump on the opening. "You know, there's something,um,I've been wondering." I'm conscious of the illuminated sign above my head, flashing the obvious-I! LOVE! ETIENNE!-but push ahead anyway. "Why are he and Ellie still together? I mean they hardly see each other anymore. Right?"
Mer pauses, mid-crunch,and...I'm caught. She knows I'm in love with him, too.
But then I see her struggling to reply, and I realize she's as trapped in the drama as I am. She didn't even notice my odd tone of voice. "Yeah." She lowers herself slwoly back to the floo.. "But it's not that simple. They've been together forever. They're practically an old married couple. And besides,they're both really...cautious."
"Cautious?"
"Yeah.You know.St. Clair doesn't rock the boat. And Ellie's the same way. It too. her ages to choo.e a university, and then she still picked one that's only a few neighborhoo.s away. I mean, Parsons is a prestigious schoo. and everything,but she chose it because it was familiar.And now with St. Clair's mom,I think he's afraid to lose anyone else.Meanwhile,she's not gonna break up with him,not while his mom has cancer. Even if it isn't a healthy relationship anymore."
I click the clicky-button on top of my pen. Clickclickclickclick. "So you think they're unhappy?"
She sighs. "Not unhappy,but...not happy either. Happy enough,I guess. Does that make sense?"
And it does.Which I hate. Clickclickclickclick.
It means I can't say anything to him, because I'd be risking our friendship. I have to keep acting like nothing has changed,that I don't feel anything ore for him than I feel for Josh. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
771:Een arts kan heel in het algemeen de mensheid proberen te dienen, maar het staat hem uiteraard oo. vrij zich alleen in dienst te stellen van een bepaald deel van de mensheid. Een zekere dr. Thaler bijvoo.beeld had ongeveer tweehonderd jaar geleden in Wenen de uit Nigeria afkomstige Soliman na diens doo. met de toestemming van keizer Franz de huid afgestroo.t, had de man die in een veldslag het leven van de vorst van Lobkowicz had gered, een neger genaamd Soliman, de huid afgestroo.t, had de leraar van de vorsten van Liechtenstein, een zwarte genaamd Soliman, de huid afgestroo.t, had de vrijmetselaar van de loge De Ware Eendracht, een Moo. genaamd Soliman, de huid afgestroo.t, had bij wijze van spreken de broeder van de vrijmetselaars Mozart en Schikaneder, de borg van de naar opname in de loge strevende wetenschapper Ignaz von Born, een Afrikaan genaamd Soliman, de huid afgestroo.t, had een gehuwde Wener, die zes talen vloeiend sprak, wiens dochter later getrouwd was met baron Von Feuchtersleben en wiens kleinzoo. Eduard in het begin van de negentiende eeuw naam maakte als dichter, de huid afgestroo.t, had een gezien man uit de hogere Weense kringen, die lang geleden weliswaar een Afrikaans kind was geweest, genaamd Soliman, de huid afgestroo.t, had een mens die in het begin van zijn leven op de slavenmarkt was ingeruild voo. een paard en later was doo.verkocht naar Messina, genaamd Soliman, om kort te gaan: een voo.malige slaaf van een laag ras genaamd Soliman de huid afgestroo.t. Hij had de huid daarna geloo.d, op een corpus van hout gespannen en, tegen de wens van diens dochter, die verzocht 'de huid van haar vader aan haar te overhandigen teneinde hem volgens de regels ter aarde te kunnen bestellen', tegen de wens van die dochter haar opgezette vader ter stichting van het Weense publiek in een vitrine op de vierde verdieping van het Keizerlijk Naturaliënkabinet gezet. Het veren rokje waarmee de Moo. was uitgedost, was - wetenschappelijk niet geheel correct - afkomstig van Zuid-Amerikaanse indianen, maar het exotische aspect van het preparaat kwam daardoo. veel beter tot zijn recht.
Heel even stelde Richard zich voo. dat in een vitrine in het staatsmuseum van Caïro bijvoo.beeld de opgezette archeoloo. Heinrich Schliemann zou staan, gekleed in een Spaans stierenvechterskostuum of in Mongoo.se klederdracht van schapenleer en zijde. ~ Jenny Erpenbeck,#NFDB
772:SNAPPY TURTLE PIE 1 chocolate coo.ie crumb pie shell (chocolate is best, but shortbread or graham cracker will also work just fine) 1 pint vanilla ice cream 4 ounces ( of a 6-ounce jar) caramel ice cream topping (I used Smucker’s) ½ cup salted pecan pieces 4 ounces ( of a 6-ounce jar) chocolate fudge ice cream topping (I used Smucker’s) 1 small container frozen Coo. Whip (original, not low-fat, or real whipped cream) Hannah’s Note: If you can’t find salted pecans, buy plain pecans. Measure out ½ cup of pieces, heat them in the microwave or the oven until they’re hot and then toss them with 2 Tablespoo.s of melted, salted butter. Sprinkle on ¼ teaspoo. of salt, toss again, and you have salted pecan pieces. Set your coo.ie crumb pie shell on the counter along with your ice cream carton. Let the ice cream soften for 5 to 10 minutes. You want it approximately the consistency of soft-serve. Using a rubber spatula, spread out your ice cream in the bottom of the chocolate coo.ie crumb crust. Smoo.h the top with the spatula. Working quickly, pour the caramel topping over the ice cream. You can drizzle it, pour it, whatever. Just try to get it as evenly distributed as you can. Sprinkle the salted pecan pieces on top of the caramel layer. Pour or drizzle the chocolate fudge topping over the pecans. Cover the top of your pie with wax paper (don’t push it down—you don’t want it to stick) and put your Snappy Turtle Pie in the freezer overnight. Put your container of Coo. Whip in the refrigerator overnight. Then it’ll be spreadable in the morning. In the morning, remove your pie from the freezer and spread Coo. Whip over the top. Cover it with wax paper again and stick it back into the freezer for at least 6 hours. If you’re not planning to serve your pie for dinner that night, wait until the 6 hours are up and then put it into a freezer bag and return it to the freezer for storage. It will be fine for about a month. Take your Snappy Turtle Pie out of the freezer and place it on the countertop about 15 minutes before you’re ready to serve it. When it’s time for dessert, cut it into 6 pieces as you would a regular pie, put each piece on a dessert plate, and place one Snappy Turtle Coo.ie (recipe follows) on the center of each piece, the head of the turtle facing the tip of the pie. Yield: 6 slices of yummy ice cream pie that all of your guests will oo. and ahh over. ~ Joanne Fluke, #NFDB
773:The Author Asserts
DERE'S a liddle fact in hishdory vitch few hafe oo.dershtand,
Deutschers are, de jure, de owners of dis land,
Und I brides mineslf oo.shpeak-barly dat I foo.st make be-known,
De primordial cause dat Columbus vas derivet from Cologne.
For ash his name vas Colon, it fisiply does shine,
Dat his Eldern are geboren been in Cologne on der Rhein,
Und Colonia peing a colony, it sehr bemerkbar ist,
Dat Columbus in America was der firster colonist.
Und ash Columbus ish a tove, id ish wort' de drople to mark,
Dat an bidgeon foo.st tiscofer land a-vlyin' from de ark;
Und shtill wider - in de peginnin', mitout de leastest toubt,
A tofe vas vly ofer de wassers und pring de vorldt herout.
Ash mein goo. oldt teacher der Kreutzer to me tid ofden shbeak,
De mythus of name rebeats itself - vhitch see in his 'Symbolik,'
So also de name America, if we a liddle loo.,
Vas coo. from der oldt king Emerich in de Deutsche Heldenbuch.
Und id vas from dat fery Heldenbuch - how voo.derful it ron,
Dat I shdole de Song of Hildebrand, or der Vater und der Sohn,
Und dishtripude it to Breitemann for a reason vhitch now ish plain,
Dat dis Sagen Cyclus full-endet, pring me round to der Hans again.
Dese laws of un-endly un-windoo.g ish so teep and broad and tall,
Dat nopody boo. a Deutscher hafe a het to versteh dem at all,
Und should I write mine dinks all out, I tont peliefe inteed,
Dat I mineslf vould versteh de half of dis here Breitmann's Lied.
Ash der Hegel say of his system - dat only von mans knew,
Vot der tyfel id meant - und he couldn't tell - und der
Jean Paul Richter, too.
Who saidt: 'Gott knows I meant somedings vhen
foo.st dis buch I writ,
Boo. Gott only wise vot das buch means now - for I
hafe fergotten it!'
Und all of dis be-wises so blain ash de face on your nose,
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Dat der Deutscher hafe efen more intellects dan he himself soo.ose,
Und his tifference mit de over-again vorldt, as I really
do soo.pect,
Ish dat oder volk hafe more soo.ose - und lesser intellect.
Yet oo.-righty I confess it - mitout ashkin' vhy or vhence,
Dere ish also dimes vhen Amerigans hafe shown sharp-pointet sense,
Und a fery outsigned exemple of genius in dis line,
Vas dishblayed in dis elegdion py Mishder Hiram Twine.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
774:Voo. verslavingen moet je geen excuses zoeken, maar motieven. Excuses zoek je om geen spijt en schuld te hoeven voelen, maar een speurtocht naar jouw eigen motieven leidt je juist naar het hart van je schuld en daar, op die rare plek waar het duister is van onbegrip, pijn en ontkenning, daar ligt het enige terrein waar je de mogelijkheid geboden wordt om je schuld te veranderen in kennis. Met kennis valt te leven, met schuld niet.
De meeste mensen geloven dat dat halfzachte spreekwoo.d, wat niet weet, wat niet deert, dat dat oo. voo. jezelf opgaat, maar zo werkt het niet. Wat je over iemand anders niet weet, dat weet je niet en zolang je het niet weet kan het je oo. geen pijn doen, dat is zo klaar als een klontje, maar je weet in zekere zin alles van jezelf. Dat is oo. logisch, want jij bent de enige die zijn eigen leven helemaal in zijn eentje meemaakt en daar weet van zou kunnen hebben. Bij jou ligt iedere minuut van een leven opgeslagen, hoe dan oo.. Bij wie anders? Dat maakt mensen op zijn minst nog interessant, dat ze een vat van wetenschap vormen van tenminste een leven, hun eigen.
Waar het nu eigenlijk allemaal om draait is de manier waarop je weet hebt van jezelf, dat is het belangrijkste. Sommige mensen weten niks van zichzelf. Ze hebben de enige echte wetenschap en geschiedenis niet tot hun beschikking en kunnen ze niet lezen, omdat ze die op de foute plek bewaren.
Schuld is zo’n wetenschap over jezelf die op de verkeerde plaats in je archief is opgeslagen. Ze is dan geen kennis van de schuld, maar ze heeft de vorm aangenomen van iets anders dan woo.den, waardoo. je er niks mee kunt en er alleen maar dik van wordt, of chagrijnig of lusteloo..
Kennis hoo.t thuis in de geest, waar anders? Ik zou niet weten waar de woo.den anders konden verblijven dan in de geest. Ze lijken op geest en op ziel en op dat andere ontastbare, waarvan je weet dat je het hebt, maar dat je niet kunt zien en waarover je bijna niet kunt praten.
Zo zie ik het.
En daarom krijgt oo. alle kennis die je eigenlijk over jezelf zou moeten hebben en die niet in die onzichtbare vorm van woo.den in jouw ziel mag wonen, een andere gedaante, een zichtbare en een lastige, bijvoo.beeld een kilo overtollig vlees aan je lichaam of iets anders waaronder je lijdt en wat je met je meesleept en waarvan je niet weet waarom je het hebt, maar wat iedereen aan jou kan zien, omdat het ervoo. zorgt dat je altijd dezelfde domme fouten maakt. ~ Connie Palmen,#NFDB
775:Breitmann In Paris
DER teufel's los in Bal Mabille,
Dere's hell-fire in de air,
De fiddlers can't blay noding else
Boo. Orphee aux Enfers:
Vot makes de beoples howl mit shoy?
Da capo - Bravo! - bis!!
It's a Deutscher aus Amerika:
Hans Breitmann in Paris.
Dere's silber toughts vot might hafe peen,
Dere's golden deeds vot must:
Der Hans ish come to Frankenland
On one eternal bust.
Der same old rowdy Argonaut
Vot hoo.t de same oldt vleece,
A hafin all de foo. dere ishDer Breitmann in Paris.
Mit a gal on eider shoulder
A holdin py his beard,
He tantz de Cancan, sacrament!
Dill all das Volk vas skeered.
Like a roarin hippopatamos,
Mit a kangarunic shoo.p,
Dey feared he'd smash de Catacombs,
Each dime der Breitmann bump.
De pretty liddle cocodettes
Lofe efery dings ish new,
'D'ou vient il donc ce grand M'sieu?
O sacre nom de Dieu!'
In fain dey kicks deir veet on high,
And sky like vlyin geese,
Dey can not kick de hat afay
From Breitmann in Paris.
O vhere vas id der Breitmann life?
Oopon de Rond Point gay,
Vot shdreet lie shoo.t pehind his house?
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La rue de Rabelais.
Aroundt de corner Harper's shtands
Vhere Yankee drinks dey mill,
Vhile shdraight ahet, agross de shdreet,
Der lies de Bal Mabille.
Id's all along de Elysees,
Id's oo. de Boulevarce,
He's sampled all de weinshops,
Und he's vinked at efery garce.
Dou schveet plack-silken Gabrielle,
O let me learn from dee,
If 'tis in lofe - or absinthe drunks,
Dat dis wild ghost may pe?
Und dou may'st kneel in Notre Dame,
Und veep away dy sin,
Vhile I go vight at Barriere balls,
Oontil mine poo.s cave in;
Boo. if ve pray, or if ve sinVhile nodings ish refuse,
Tis all de same in Paris here,
So long ash l'on s'amuse.
O life, mein dear, at pest or vorst,
Ish boo. a vancy ball,
Its cratest shoy a vild gallop,
Vhere madness goferns all.
Und should dey too.n ids gas-light off,
Und nefer leafe a shbark,
Sdill I'd find my vay to Heafen - orDy lips, lofe, in de dark.
O crown your het mit roses, lofe!
O keep a liddel sprung!
Oonendless wisdom ish but dis:
To go it vhile you're yung!
Und Age vas nefer coo. to him,
To him Spring ploo.s afresh,
Who finds a livin' spirit in
Der Teufel und der Flesh.
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~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
776:Wanneer ik probeer na te gaan wat ik aan de kant van Méséglise te danken heb - de bescheiden ontdekkingen die daar hun toevallige decor of onmisbare inspiratiebron hadden - herinner ik me dat het op een van die wandeltochten was, dat najaar, bij de dichtbegroeide helling die Montjouvain beschut, dat ik voo. het eerst werd getroffen doo. die onevenredigheid tussen onze indrukken en de gebruikelijke uitdrukkingswijze daarvan. Toen ik, na een uur monter tegen regen en wind te hebben opgetornd, aankwam bij de plas van Montjouvain, bij een met dakpannen afgedekt hutje waar de tuinman van M. Vinteuil zijn gereedschap opborg, was de zon weer doo.gebroken, en zijn in de stortbui schoo.gespoelde verguldsel glansde als nieuw in de lucht, op de bomen, op de muur van de hut, op het nog natte pannendak, waar boven aan de nok een kip rondstapte. De blazende wind rukte horizontaal aan de grassen die in het muurbeschot groeiden en aan de donzen veren van de kip, die, het ene zowel als het andere, gerekt tot in hun volle lengte, meegaven op het waaien met de overgave van inerte, lichte dingen. Het pannendak bracht in de plas, die de zon opnieuw liet spiegelen, een roze marmering teweeg waar ik noo.t eerder acht op had geslagen. En toen ik op het water en op het muurvlak een bleke glimlach de glimlach van de hemel zag beantwoo.den, riep ik in mijn enthousiasme, zwiepend met mijn weer dichtgevouwen paraplu: 'Allemachtig, allemachtig.' Maar tegelijkertijd besefte ik dat het mijn plicht zou zijn geweest het niet bij die ondoo.zichtige woo.den te laten, maar te proberen iets van mijn verrukking te begrijpen.
En het was oo. die dag - dankzij een voo.bijkomende boer die er al uitzag of hij vrij slechtgehumeurd was, wat erger werd toen hij bijna mijn paraplu in zijn gezicht kreeg, en die mijn 'moo. weer hè, goed om te lopen' stug beantwoo.dde - dat ik te weten kwam dat dezelfde emoties zich niet tezelfdertijd, volgens een al van tevoren vaststaand patroo., bij alle mensen voo.doen. Altijd als ik, later, doo. het wat langdurige lezen in een spraakzame stemming was gebracht, had de schoo.vriend met wie ik maar al te graag een gesprek wilde beginnen er juist plezierig op los gepraat en wenste nu ongestoo.d te kunnen lezen. Als ik net vol genegenheid aan mijn ouders had gedacht en bezield was van de beste voo.nemens, die hun het meest plezier zouden doen, hadden zij dezelfde tijd gebruikt om achter een - doo. mij vergeten - pekelzonde te komen waar ze mij streng om berispten terwijl ik naar hen toe rende om hun een zoen te geven. ~ Marcel Proust,#NFDB
777:Breitmann As An Uhlan. V. Breitmann In Biouvac.
HE sits in bivouacke,
By fire, peneat' de drees;
A pottle of champagner
Held shently on his knees;
His lange Uhlan lanze
Stuck py him in de sand;
Vhile a goo. peas-poo.in' sausage
Adorn his oder hand.
Und jungere Uhlanen
Sit round mit oben mout'
To hear der Breitmann's shdories
Of fitin in de Sout'
Und he gife dem moral lessons,
How pefore de battle pops:
'Take a liddle brayer to Himmel,
Und a goo. long trink of schnapps.'
Denn his leutenant bemarket:
'How voo.der shdrange it peen
Dat so very many wild pigs
Ish dis year in de Ardennes.
Ash I sout dere - donner'r'wetter!I sah dem coo. heraus,
Shoo.t here und dere an Eber
Mit a hoo.dert tousand sows.
'Shoo.t dink of all dese she-picks
Vot flet to neutral land!'
Said Breitmann: 'Fery easy
Ish dis to oo.derstand:
Dese schwein-picks mit de sauen
Vot you saw a-roo.in rond,
Ish a crate medempsygosis
Of the Frantsche demi-monde.
'I hafe readet in de Bible
How soo.h a coterie
Vas ge-too.net into swine-picks,
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Und roo. down indo de see;
Boo. since de see aint handy,
Or de picks vere all too.dumm,
Dey hafe coo. across de porder
Und vly to Belgium.'
Now ash dey boo.st oud laughin,
Und got more liquor out,
Dey hearden from de sendry
A shot und denn a shout.
Und Breitmann crasp his sabre
Quick ash de bullet hiss,
Und leapin out, demantet,
'Herr'r'r'r Gott! vat row ish dis?'
Und bold der Schwabian answert:
'Dis minute on de ground
Dere comed a Frantschman greepin,
On all-fours a-prowlin round.
I ask him vat he vanted;
Werda! I gry; boo. he
Say nodings to my shallenge,
Und only answer 'Oui.'
'So I shoo. him like der teufels,
Und I rader dink our friend,
Dis sneakin Frank-tiroir,
Ish a-drawin to his end.'
So dey hoo.ted in de pushes,
Und in avery gorner dig,
Boo., mein Gott! how dey vas laughin,
Ven dey found a - mordered pig.
Next week dey hear from Paris,
Und reat in de Gaulois
Of de most adrocious action
De vorlt vas efer saw.
How de Uhlan cannibalen,
Dis vile und awful proo.,
Hafe killt a nople Frantschman,
Und cut him oo. for foo..
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'Ja - shop him indo sausage,
Und coo. him indo ham;
Und schwear dey'll serfe all oders
Exacdly so - py tam!
Sons of France, awake to glory,
Let your anciend valor shine!
Und shweep dis Prussian vermin
Het und dails indo de Rhine!'
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
778:The American eagle
THE dove of Liberty sat on an egg
And hatched another eagle.
But didn't disown the bird.
_Down with all eagles_! coo.d the Dove.
And down all eagles began to flutter, reeling from their
perches:
Eagles with two heads, eagles with one, presently eagles
with none
Fell from the hoo.s and were dead.
Till the American Eagle was the only eagle left in the world.
Then it began to fidget, shifting from one leg to the other,
Trying to loo. like a pelican,
And plucking out of his plumage a few loo.e feathers to
feather the nests of all
The new naked little republics come into the world.
But the feathers were, comparatively, a mere flea-bite.
And the bub-eagle that Liberty had hatched was growing a
startling big bird
On the roo. of the world;
A bit awkward, and with a funny squawk in his voice,
His mother Liberty trying always to teach him to coo.br> And him always ending with a yawp
_Coo. Coo. Coo. Coo.ark! Coo.ark! Quark!! Quark_!!
YAWP!!!
So he clears his throat, the young Cock-eagle!
Now if the lilies of France lick Solomon in all his glory;
And the leopard cannot change his spots;
Nor the British lion his appetite;
Neither can a young Cock-eagle sit simpering
With an olive-sprig in his mouth.
It's not his nature.
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The big bird of the Amerindian being the eagle,
Red Men still stick themselves over with bits of his fluff,
And feel absolutely IT.
So better make up your mind, American Eagle,
Whether you're a sucking dove, _Roo.coo. oo.! Quark!
Yawp_!!
Or a pelican
Handing out a few loo.e golden breast-feathers, at moulting
time;
Or a sort of prosperity-gander
Fathering endless ten-dollar golden eggs.
Or whether it actually is an eagle you are,
With a Roman nose
And claws not made to shake hands with,
And a Me-Almighty eye.
The new Proud Republic
Based on the mystery of pride.
Overweening men, full of power of life, commanding a
teeming obedience.
Eagle of the Rockies, bird of men that are masters,
Lifting the rabbit-bloo. of the myriads up into something
splendid,
Leaving a few bones;
Opening great wings in the face of the sheep-faced ewe
Who is losing her lamb,
Drinking a little bloo., and loo.ing another royalty unto the
world.
Is that you, American Eagle?
Or are you the goo.e that lays the golden egg?
Which is just a stone to anyone asking for meat.
And are you going to go on for ever
Laying that golden egg,
That addled golden egg?
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~ David Herbert Lawrence,#NFDB
779:Breitmann And The Turners
HANS BREITMANN shoined de Turners,
Novemper in de fall,
Und dey gifed a boo.tin' bender
All in de Turner Hall.
Dere coo.ed de whole Gesangverein
Mit der Liederlich Aepfel Chor,
Und dey blowed on de droo.s and stroo.ed on de fifes
Till dey couldn't refife no more.
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners,
Dey all set oo. some shouts,
Dey too.'d him into deir Turner Hall,
Und poo.s him a course of shprouts.
Dey poo.s him on de barell-hell pars
Und shtands him oo. on his head,
Und dey poo.ps de beer mit an enchine hose
In his mout' dill he's 'pout half tead!
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners;
Dey make shimnastig dricks;
He stoo. on de middle of de floo.,
Und put oo. a fifdy-six.
Und den he drows it to de roo.,
Und schwig off a treadful trink:
De veight coo. too.ple back on his headt,
Und py shinks! he didn't vink!
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners:-Mein Gott! how dey drinked und shwore;
Dere vas Schwabians und Tyrolers,
Und Bavarians by de score.
Some vellers coo.ed from de Rheinland,
Und Frankfort-on-de-Main,
Boo. dere vas only von Sharman dere,
Und he vas a Holstein Dane.
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners,
Mit a Limpurg' cheese he coo.;
Vhen he open de box it schmell so loudt
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It knock de musik doo.b.
Vhen de Deutschers kit de flavour,
It coo.l de haar on deir head;
Boo. dere vas dwo Amerigans dere;
Und, py tam! it kilt dem dead!
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners;
De ladies coo.ed in to see;
Dey poo. dem in de blace for de gals,
All in der gal-lerie.
Dey ashk: 'Vhere ish der Breitmann?'
Und dey dremple mit awe and fear
Vhen dey see him schwingen' py de toes,
A trinken' lager beer.
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners:
I dells you vot py tam!
Dey sings de great Urbummellied:
De holy Sharman psalm.
Und vhen de kits to de gorus
You ought to hear dem dramp!
It scared der Teufel down below
To hear de Doo.chmen stamp.
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners:-By Donner! it vas grand,
Vhen de whole of dem goes valkin
Und dancin' on deir hand,
Mit deir veet all vavin' in de air,
Gottstausend! vot a dricks!
Dill der Breitmann fall und dey all go down
Shoo.t like a row of bricks.
Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners,
Dey lay dere in a heap,
And slept dill de early sonnen shine
Come in at de vindow creep;
And de preeze it vake dem from deir dream,
And dey go to kit deir feed:
Here hat dis song an ende -Das ist DES BREITMANNSLEID.
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~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
780:Cobus Hagelstein
ICH bin ein Deutscher, und mein name is Cobus Hagelstein,
I coo. from Cincinnati, and I life peyond der Rhein;
Und I dells you all a shdory dot makes me mad ash blitz,
Pout how a Yankee gompany vas shvindle me to fits.
I heardt apout dis gompany, und vished to see dot same,
Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft vos ids name;
Dot is de name in Sherman - in English it will say
Dot it insures your life mit fire, ven you de money pay.
Now, I hod a liddle house-line vhere I life so shtill ash mice,
Und yoo.t drei tausand dollar vos dot little pilding's brice;
I vos always yoo.t so happy ash ein Kaisar in de land
Dill at last I kit in drople, for mein haus vas abgebrannt.
Den I goes undo dot gompany und dells em right afay
(Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft), und I say,
'At last de youngest day ist coo. for you to plank de cash,
And you moo.t bay me monies, for mine haus is purned to ash.'
Den de segredary answered, 'All dis is fery drue,
Boo. you know ve have de option to pild your house anew;
Dere ist a lot of beoples vot burns deir hauser doun,
Den coo. to kit de money pack all over in de toun.'
I loo. indo de bapers und I find it ash he say,
Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft need not bay;
So I dells em all to go ahet und pild anoder shdore,
Und dey make me von in Yankee shdyle more petter ash pefore.
Den I met der segredary dereafter on a day,
Of Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft, und he say,
'You've found oo. vellers honoraple und honest in our line,
Vy tont you go insure de life of Madame Hagelstein?'
I poo.s mine dum oo.on mine nose, and vinks him mit mine eye,
Und says I coo.s to do it ven de ocean runs dry,
Ven goo.es turn to ganders, und de bigs kits shanged to shvine;
Oh, den I makes insure de life of Madame Hagelstein.
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'I haf dried you on insurance, ash you know, yust vonce pefore,
Und ven mein haus vas abgebrannt you pild anoder shdore;
Id's drue you pild it goo. enough, boo. I dell you allaweil,
I vas liket id moo.h petter if it vas in Sharman shdyle.
'Now, if I goes insure my wife anoder dime mit you
Das Lebensfeuerversicherunggesellschaft, I knows vot it would do,If from dis vorldt Frau Hagelstein should rise to Himmel life,
Inshtead of paying gelt you'd kit for me a Yankee vife!'
I poo.s mine dum pelow mine eye, und vinks him merrily,
Und say, 'Go find soo. Deutscherman dot is more creen ash me.
Dere's blendy of dem creen enough, I know, peyond der Rhein,
But none among dem wears de name of Cobus Hagelstein.'
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
781:Hij hield extreem veel van zijn echtgenote. Hij hield, met andere woo.den, te veel van die ene vrouw. Dat ze op jonge leeftijd overleed zag hij dan oo. als de wraak des hemels voo. die liefde. een andere verklaring voo. haar doo. had hij niet.
Na het overlijden van zijn echtgenote hield hij zich ver van alle vrouwen. Hij nam niet eens een meid in huis. Het koken en poetsen liet hij over aan een man. Dit deed hij niet omdat hij alle andere vrouwen haatte. Het was omdat die vrouwen allemaal leken op zijn echtgenote. Zo roo. bijvoo.beeld iedere vrouw net als zij naar vis. En, overtuigd dat oo. dit de wraak des hemels was omdat hij te veel van zijn vrouw had gehouden, vond hij berusting in het feit dat hij het moest stellen zonder vrouw in zijn leven.
Maar in zijn huis was één vrouw aanwezig om wie hij niet heen kon. Hij had een dochter. Uiteraard leek zij meer dan welke andere vrouw oo. ter wereld op zijn overleden echtgenote.
De dochter zat inmiddels op de hogere middelbare meisjesschoo..
Midden in de nacht ging het licht aan in haar kamer. Hij gluurde doo. een kier in de schuifdeuren. Het meisje hield een kleine schaar vast. Terwijl ze haar opgetrokken knieën uit elkaar spreidde en langdurig omlaag tuurde, hanteerde ze de schaar. De volgende dag, nadat zijn dochter naar schoo. was vertrokken, staarde hij stiekem naar de witte bladen van de schaar en hij kreeg koude rillingen.
Weer ging midden in de nacht het licht aan in de kamer van zijn dochter. Hij gluurde doo. de kier in de schuifdeuren. Ze griste een witte doek van de vloer, klemde hem in haar armen en liep de kamer uit. Hij hoo.de water uit de kraan stromen. Even later stak zijn dochter het vuur van het komfoo. aan, legde de witte doek erop en ging afwezig zitten. Daarop begon ze te huilen. Toen ze ophield met huilen, knipte ze haar nagels boven de doek. Op het moment dat ze de doek wegnam vielen die er kennelijk af, want hij roo. de misselijkmakende geur van brandende nagels.
Hij had een droo.. Daarin vertelde zijn overleden echtgenote aan hun dochter dat hij haar geheim had gezien.
Sindsdien keek zijn dochter hem niet meer aan. Hij hield niet van zijn dochter. De gedachte dat een man op zijn beurt de wraak des hemels zou ondergaan vanwege zijn liefde voo. haar, deed hem huiveren.
Op een nacht richtte zijn dochter uiteindelijk een dolk op zijn keel terwijl hij sliep. Hij wist dat. Hij berustte erin dat het de wraak des hemels was, omdat hij tot het uiterste van zijn echtgenote had gehouden en te veel had gehouden van die ene vrouw, en hij hield rustig zijn ogen gesloten. Hij voelde dat zijn dochter het had gemunt op de vijand van haar moeder, en hij wachtte op het mes. ~ Yasunari Kawabata,#NFDB
782:Frankfort-On-The-Main
VONCE oo.on a dimes in Frankfort der Herr Breitemann exsberiencet
an interfal pedween de periot ven he hat gespent de last remiddance
he hat become from home, und de arrifal of de succedin wechsel, or
bill of exghange - und, in blain derms, was hard up. Derefore he
vent to dat goo. relation who may pe foundt at den or fifdeen per
cent all de worlt ofer, - 'mine Onkel,' - und poo. his tress-goat
oo. de shpout for den florins. No soo.er vas dis done, dan dere
coo.ed an infitation from de English laity in whom he vas so moo.h
mit lofe in betaken, to geh mit her to a ball-barty. Awful bad vas
he veel, und sot apout tree hours mitout sayin nodings, und denn
wafin his hand, boo.st out mit de vollowin version of dat peaudiful
lied by Wilhelm Caspary:'Mein Frack ist im Pfand-haus.'
Mine tress-goat is shpouted, mine tress-goat aint hier,
Vhile you in your ball-ropes go splurgin, mein tear!
To barties mit you I'm infitet you know,
Boo. my pest coat ish shpouted - mine poo.s are no go.
To hell mit mine Onkel - dat rasgally knafe!
Dis pledgin und pawnin has mate me his slafe!
Ven I dink of his sign-bost, den dree dimes I bawl,
Vhile mine plack pants hang lonely und dark on de wall.
Goo. night to dee fine lofe - so lofely und rich,
Mein tress-goat ish shpouted - gon-fount efery stitch!
I dinks dat olt Satan troo.all mine affairs,
Lofe, business, und fun, has peen sewin his tares.
My tress-goat ish shpouted - mine tress-goat aint here,
While you in your glorie go shinin, mein tear,
Und de luck of der teufel ish loo.e ofer all,
Vhile my black pants hang lonely und dark on de wall.
Dis four-goin song vas over-set by der Hans Breitmann from de
German of Wilhelm Caspary, whose lyric vas a barody on a
dranslation made indo Deutsch by Freiligrath from anoder boem py
Sir Waldherr Scott, vitch Sir Waldherr vas kit de idee of from an
oldt Scottish ballad vitch pegin mit de vorts-
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'My hearts in de Hielands, mein hearts ish nae hier,
Mein hearts in de Hielands, in wilden revier;
It hoo.ts for de shtag, und id hunts for de reh,
Mein hearts ist im Hochland wo immer ich geh.'
Dis is de original Scotch, as goo. as I can mineself rememper it.
Ven I vas dell der Herr Karl Blind pout dis intercommixture of
perplexified dransitions from Scotch to English, and dence into
German, and dereafter into a barody, vitch vas be done ofer again indo
Herr Breitmann's own slanguage, he sait it vas a Rattenkonig - a
phrase too.familiar to mine readers to require any wider
complication.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
783:Om de wereld te hervormen moeten de mensen psychisch gezien een nieuwe weg inslaan. Er zal geen werkelijke broederschap aanbreken voo.dat je werkelijk ieders broeder bent geworden. Geen enkele wetenschap, geen enkel inzicht in wat het nuttigst en voo.deligst voo. iedereen is zal de mensen er oo.t toe kunnen nopen het privébezit en privileges met anderen te delen. Iedereen zal zich te kort gedaan voelen, men zal tegen alles morren en elkaar benijden en uitroeien. U vraagt wanneer die droo. in vervulling zal gaan. Het komt zo ver, maar eerst zal de mens doo. een periode van vereenzaming heen moeten. De soo.t vereenzaming die tegenwoo.dig, en voo.al in onze tijd overal heerst, maar voo.lopig heeft zij haar hoo.tepunt nog niet bereikt. Want iedereen streeft er tegenwoo.dig naar zich van de anderen los te maken en op eigen kracht de volheid des levens te ervaren, maar ondertussen heeft al zijn pogen geen levensvolheid, maar je reinste zelfmoo.d ten gevolge. Want in plaats van volledige zelfverwerkelijking valt de mens volledige vereenzaming ten deel. Want iedereen sluit zich tegenwoo.dig voo. anderen af, sluit zich op in zijn eigen hol en trekt de handen van zijn medemens af. Hij verbergt zich met wat hij bezit en het eind van het liedje is dat hij de mensen van zich afstoo. en dat zijn medemensen hem ten slotte oo. van zich afstoten. Hij hoo.t rijkdommen op en denkt dan: hoe rijk ben ik nu, mij kan niets meer overkomen, maar de sukkel weet niet dat hij naarmate hij meer rijkdommen verwerft hij oo. steeds dieper wegzakt in een aan zelfmoo.d grenzende vorm van onmacht. Want hij heeft geleerd dat hij alleen maar op zichzelf kan vertrouwen en dat hij zich van de anderen heeft losgemaakt; hij heeft zijn ziel bijgebracht niet meer in wederzijdse menselijke solidariteit te geloven en hij heeft maar één doo.sangst: men zou zijn positie en zijn privileges eens kunnen aantasten. Het is gewoo. bespottelijk zoals het menselijk verstand tegenwoo.dig ontoegankelijk is voo. het inzicht dat persoo.lijke onaantastbaarheid niet bestaat uit particuliere krachtsinspanning, maar uit de verenigde inzet van alle mensen samen. Maar oo. aan die verschrikkelijke periode van vereenzaming komt eens een einde en dan zal de mensheid als geheel op hetzelfde ogenblik beseffen hoe onnatuurlijk het is dat de een zich van de ander losmaakt. En als dat besef eenmaal geboren is dan zal de mens er zich over verbazen dat hij zo lang in het duister heeft gezeten en het licht niet heeft gezien. Maar tot die tijd aanbreekt moet het vaandel hoo.gehouden worden en moet de mens, al was het maar doo. het voo.beeld van een enkeling, zich aan die vereenzaming ontworstelen en een daad van broederliefde stellen, oo. al zouden de anderen hem daarvoo. als een idioo. beschouwen. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB
784:What happened?” Dallas asked immediately, his hand reaching out toward Louie. I didn’t miss how Lou too. his hand instantly.
“She called me a brat,” Louie blurted out, his other little hand coming up to meet with the one already clutching our neighbor’s.
I blinked and told myself I was not going to loo. at Christy until I had the full story.
“Why?” Dallas was the one who asked.
“He spilled some of his hot chocolate on her purse,” it was Josh who explained. “He said sorry, but she called him a brat. I told her not to talk to my brother like that, and she told me I should have learned to respect my elders.”
For the second time around this woman, I went to ten. Straight through ten, past Go, and collected two hundred dollars.
“I tried to wipe it up,” Louie offered, those big blue eyes going back and forth between Dallas and me for support.
“You should teach these boys to watch where they’re going,” Christy piped up, taking a step back.
Be an adult. Be a role model, I tried telling myself. “It was an accident,” I choked out. “He said he was sorry… and your purse is leather and black, and it’ll be fine,” I managed to grind out like this whole thirty-second conversation was jabbing me in the kidneys with sharp knives.
“I’d like an apology,” the woman, who had gotten me suspended and made me cry, added quickly.
I stared at her long face. “For what?”
“From Josh, for being so rude.”
My hand started moving around the outside of my purse, trying to find the inner compartment when Louie suddenly yelled, “Mr. Dallas, don’t let her get her pepper spray!”
The fuck?
Oh my God. I glared at Louie. “I was loo.ing for a baby wipe to offer her one, Lou. I wasn’t getting my pepper spray.”
“Nuh-uh,” he argued, and out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Christy take a step back. “I heard you on the phone with Vanny. You said, you said if she made you mad again you were gonna pepper spray her and her mom and her mom’s mom in the—”
“Holy sh—oo., Louie!” My face went red, and I opened my mouth to argue that he hadn’t heard me correctly. But… I had said those words. They had been a joke, but I’d said them. I glanced at Dallas, the serious, easygoing man who happened to loo. in that instant like he was holding back a fart but was hopefully just a laugh, and finally peeked at the woman who I’d like to think brought this upon herself. “Christy, I would never do that—”
...
I cleared my throat and popped my lips. “Well, that was awkward.”
“I’m not a brat.” Louie was still hung up and outraged.
I pointed my finger at him. “You’re a tattletale, that’s what you are. Nosey Rosie. What did I tell you about snitches?”
“You love them? ~ Mariana Zapata,#NFDB
785:Bloed op ’n blom. Goed. Om ’n lang storie kort te maak. Ek staan hier met my hakke teen die voetenent van haar graf en die kort loo. teen my voo.kop. My duim is op die sneller. My wysvinger op die hamer. My hand ruk onder die gewig. Maar ek hou hom lynreg gerig. Solank Moses sy hand opgehou het, was Israel die sterkste en wanneer hy sy hand laat sak het, die Amalekiete. Is dit U sagte hand hier onder my elmboo. vandag? Want dit help net moo. niks. Die dêm ding raak swaar. Hoe lank staan ek al hier? Hoeveel vrae gevra? Hoeveel antwoo.de gekry? Niks. Time-fokken-out. Tyd het nog noo.t so min beteken, na so min geruik of so sag geklink nie. Tyd was nog noo.t so ontydig nie. Dalk proe tyd na die binnekant van jou mond, na die laaste ding wat daar deur is. Soo. ’n vloekwoo.d. ’n Sug. Of ’n naam. Ek rol my tong een keer deur. Nog ’n sintuig klok uit. As ek haar naam net mag proe. Maar dis nie meer daar nie. Daar is niemand wat sal kom as ek haar naam roep nie. En dis my skuld. En ek kan net nie daardie kruis alleen dra nie. Ek is nie Job nie, Ma. Ek kan nie toekyk terwyl die gode deals maak onder my neus nie. Die lyn wat Goed en Kwaad skei loo. eintlik dwarsdeur elke mens. Deur my oo., sê jy. Maar links hou op ’n tiekie is sommer baie inspanning vir ’n ou sonder ’n plan B. Ek wil nie meer nie. Beproewinge bevry my nie soo. vir Job nie. Dit beleër my. Rampe maak my nie sterker nie. Dit troef my. Ondervinding bevry ander, maar maak my swaarder. En ek voel my omsingel vandag. Fyngedruk soo. ’n mot. Die gode het gewen. Ek glo nie meer in dinge-sal-regkom nie. Ek het my geloo. in God en goeie voo.uitsigte so saam-saam verloo.. My verhemelte wil die heil en onheil nie meer onderskei nie. My hemele stuur die Eliaswolke en reënnewels tegelyk. Ek kyk nie eers meer op nie. Dis nie dat ek nie weet nie. Dis dat ek te veel weet maar die deugde nie uitmekaar kan ken nie. Om jouself om die lewe te bring is soveel anders as om iemand anders doo. te maak. Soveel moeiliker. Jy weet, selfmoo.d is sneaky. Die een helfte van jou brein probeer jou oo.reed dat die ander helfte lieg. Links priem jou met redes om te gaan en regs por jou om te vertoef, soo. vir ’n loo.dop. Maar dié koeël sal my kwytskeld. As jy in die kort loo. van ’n .38 Special staar, kan jy die merkies op die stomp loo.punte van die ander vier patrone sien. Nie dat ek hulle oo.t nodig sal kry nie. Op hierdie afstand sal een koeël meer as genoeg wees. Ek kyk vir oulaas om. Ag. Die blomme. Ek laat sak die rewolwer, draai om en haal die moo. ruikers van die groo. grafsteen af. Ek kyk rond. Daar is niemand nie. Net die denne. En ’n duif wat roekoek. Dis jammer. Ek wil vir iemand sê mens bloei nie op blomme nie. Wat ’n gedagte moes bly, glip toe uit. Die duif vlieg met trae vlerkslae weg. Mens bloei nie op blomme nie. ~ Steve Hofmeyr, #NFDB
786:The Picnic
DE picknock oud at Spraker's Woo.:It melt de soul und fire de ploo..
Id sofly slid from cakes und cream;
Boo. busted oo. on brandy shdeam.
Mit stims of tender graceful ring,
De gals begoo. a song to sing;
A bland mildt lied of olden dimeDeutsch vas die doo., und Deutsch de rhyme.
Wi's uff der Stross' wenn's finschter ischt,
Und niemond in der Goss' mehr ischt,
Nur Schone Madel wolle mer fonga,
Wie es gebil'te Leut' verlonga.
At de picknock oud in Spraker's Woo.,
De Bier was soft-de gals were goo.:
Oondil von feller, vild and rasch,
Called out for a Yankee brandy-smash!
A crow vot vas valkin on de vall,
Fell dead ven he hear dis Doo.chmann call;
For he knew dat droples coo., py shinks!
Ven de Doo.ch go in for Yankee drinks.
De Doo.ch got ravin droo.k ash sin,
Dey smash de windows out und in;
Dey bust und bang de bar-roo. ein,
Und call for a bucket of branntewein.
Avay, avay, demselfs dey floo.g,
Und a wild infernal lied dey sung:
'Tvas, 'Tam de wein, and cuss de bier!
Ve tont care nix for de demprance here!
'O keep a pringin juleps in,
Und baldface corn dat burn like sin;
Mit apple tods und oldt shtone fence,
Ve'll all get corned ere ve go hence!'
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Dey dash deir glasses on de cround,
Und tanz dill'tvas all to brick-duss ground,
Ven dey hear von man had a ten-dollar note,
De crowd go dead for dat rich man's troat.
A demperance chap vot coo.ed dere in,
Vent squanderin out mit his shell burst in;
'It's walk your chalks, you loo.t your chance,
Dis vot de call der Doo.chmans' dance.'
Boo. ven de law, mit his myrmidon,
Vas hear of dese Doo.chmen's carryins-on,
Dey sent bolicemen shtern und goo.,
To pull dose Doo.ch in Spraker's Woo..
De Doo.ch vas all gone roarin mad,
Und trinked mit Spraker all dey had;
Dey shpend 'nuf money to last deir life,
And each vas tantzin mit anoder man's wife.
Dey all cot poo.ish difers vays,
Some vent to jug for dirty tays;
Und de von dat kilt de demperance man
Vas kit from de Alderman repriman.
Und dus it ran:-'A warnin dake,
For you mighdt hafe mate soo. pig mishdake;
Now how vouldt you hafe feeled, py shing!
If dat man hat peen in de whiskey ring?
'Since you votes mine dicket, of course you know,
I'm pound to led you shlide und go.
Boo. nefer on whiskey trink your fill,
For you Doo.chmen don't know who to kill.'
Now Deutschers all-on dis warning dink,
Und don't get troo.k on Yankee trink,
For neider you, or anoder man,
Can pe hocks like de New York rowdies can.
So trink goo. bier, mit musik plest,
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For if you tried your level best,
You can't be plackguarts-taint in de ploo.:
Dus endet de shdory of Spraker's Woo..
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
787:The Moralist
Three other soldier blokes 'n' me packed
'ome from foreign lands;
Bit into each the God of Battles' everlastin'
brands.
They limped in time, 'n' coughed in tune, 'n'
one was short an ear,
'N' one was short a tier of ribs 'n' all was
short of beer.
I speaks up like a temp'rance gent,
But ever since the sky was bent
The thirst of man 'as never yet bin squenched
with argument.
Bill's skull was welded all across, Jim 'ad an
eye in soak,
Sam 'obbled on a patent leg, 'n' every man
was broke;
They sang a song of “Mother” with their faces
titled up.
Says Bill-o: “'Ere's yer 'eroes, sling the
bloo.in' votive cup!
We got no beer, the soup was badNow oo.will stand the soldier lad
The swag of honest liquor that for years he
hasn't 'ad?”
Sez I: “Respeck yer uniform! Remember
oo.you are!”
They'd pinched a wicker barrer, 'arf a pram
'n' 'arf a car.
In this ole Bill-o nestled 'neath a blanket, on
his face
A someone's darlin' sorter loo., a touch iv
boy'oo.'s grace.
The gentle ladies stopped to 'ear,
'N' dropped a symperthetic tear,
A dollar or a deener for the pore haff1ict
dear.
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The others trucked the wounded to a hentrance
up a lane.
I sez: “Sich conduck's shameful!” Bill-o
too. to ease his pain
One long 'un and another. The conductor
picked his brand;
The gripman lent his countenance to wot he
'ad in 'and.
And when they moved their stand 'twas
Sam
Lay pale 'n' peaceful in the pram,
'N' twenty flappers stroked his paw, 'n' said
he was a lamb.
The gathered in the tokens and they bloo.d
'em as above,
While Jim-o done the hinvalid 'oo. Sammy
had to shove.
Sez I: “No noble 'eroes what's bin fightin'
for their king
Should smirch theirselves by doin' this dis'onerable thing.”
But fine old gents 'n' donahs prim
They stopped 'n' slid the beans to Jim.
You betcher life I let 'im hear just what I
though of 'im.
Nine, g.m. at St. Kilder, saw the finish of the
prowl.
Each 'ad his full-'n'-plentv, and was blowin'
in the tow'l.
As neither bloke cud stand alone, they leaned
'n' argufied
Which was the patient sufferer oo.s turn it was
to ride.
Each 'eld a san'wich and a can.
Sez I: “This shouldn't 'ave began'Tain't conduck wot it worthy of a soldier and
a man.”
I cud 'a' cried with injured pride. Afore a
push the three
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Got scrappin', vague 'n' foo.ish, which the
cripple boy should be.
Sam slips his scientific leg, 'n' flings it in the
drain“I'll auto 'ome,” he sez, “or never see me
'ome again.”
But I am thinkin' 'ard oo.he
Tucked 'elpiess in the pram might be.
Comes sudden reckerlection. Great Gohanners, it is me!
~ Edward George Dyson,#NFDB
788:Breitmann’s Sleigh-Ride
VEN de winter make oo. shifer
Und de bonds is froze mit ice,
To shlide und shkate on de rifer,
Mit de poys und gals is nice.
Ven de horses hafe deir bits on,
Und de roats pe vite mit shnow,
To vly in a sleigh like blitzen
Is de yolliest dings I know.
'Und its high, hoo.ay!' saidt Breitmann
'For de gals on de Dutchtown-side;
Und it's lebe hoch! for de yunglins,
Vot'll go mit de gals to ride;
Und it's hip, herje! for de drifers
Vot nefer dake no odds!
Und it's vivat! for de vellers,
Vot'll shtand de apple-tods!'
Der Breitmann poo.ed his mits on,
Der Breitmann crocked his vip,
'Now its fly like dunner blitzen,
Mein shildren, let 'er rip!
Like de eagles on de shtorm-cloudt
A-vlyin' to deir nest;
Dere is opple-yack a-vaitin
For de von dot times de rest.
'Oh mein Rapp, du bist de pestest
Of horses in de land!
Dou canst trafel on de grafel,
Und canst shell it on de sand!
Oh Rapp! - dere's money on id,
Ton't let de Gelt go blue!
I vants you show de beoples
Dis tay vot you can do!'
Der Breitman mit his madchen
Vas in a shblentit shleigh,
Fritz Laufer mit his Mina,
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Vas yoo.ht agross de vay;
Mit pop-slets und mit yoo.pers,
Mit horses and mit mules,
Dere vas more ash vifty fellers
Come mit deir ve-hi-cules.
Id's 'Ein-Zwei-Drei!' togedder
Dey hollered klein und gross,
Like de wind in shtormy wetter,
Stracks vent de Deutschers los!
Dey crock de vips like moo.kets,
Dey ring from berg to berg,
'Hoo.ay!' exsglaim Hans Breitmann:
'Dot sounds like Gettysburg!'
Der Breitmann und der Laufer
Vere half a mile ahet,
For ven id coo. to driven,
De oder Doo.ch vere deadt.
Dey vly like teufel's arrows,
Mit imps oo.on em gay,
Dey killt five hoo.dred shbarrows
Vot kit indo de vay.
Dey vly like rats und blitzen,
De fery gals vos doo.b,
Und Breitmann kept his wits on,
To see vot shanse vouldt coo.;
He know'd de pace dey clipped it
Moo.t enden in a shquall
By de vay der Laufer ripped it,
Und de shteeds vere ganz egal.
Der Laufer he vos leadin'
Hans Breitmann ash he goed,
Boo. he tidn't see a soplin'
Dot vos lyin' in de road.
Id yank dem out like marples,
Mitout a will or shall;
Hets downvarts in a shnow-pank,
Vent Laufer mit his gal.
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Und ash Breitmann comed oo.to it
Id kit indo his vay,
Und tossed him mit his madchen
Right indo Laufer's shleigh;
Hans crab de reins like blitze',
Und go ahet like sin:
'Adje, mein lieber Fritze!
Dis dimes I scoo. you in!'
He vly avay like shvallows
To vhere a davern lay,
Vhere de opple-tod vos ploo.in'
Among de Deutschers gay.
Der Breitmann as he vonisht
Yoo.t cast von loo. pehind,
At de lecks of Fritz - und MinaA-vafin in de wind.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
789:I watched the light flicker on the limestone walls until Archer said, "I wish we could go to the movies."
I stared at him. "We're in a creepy dungeon. There's a chance I might die in the next few hours. You are going to die in the next few hours. And if you had one wish, it would be to catch a movie?"
He shoo. his head. "That's not what I meant. I wish we weren't like this. You know, demon, demon-hunter. I wish I'd met you in a normal high schoo., and taken you on normal dates, and like, carried your boo.s or something." Glancing over at me, he squinted and asked, "Is that a thing humans actually do?"
"Not outside of 1950s TV shows," I told him, reaching up to touch his hair. He wrapped an arm around me and leaned against the wall, pulling me to his chest. I drew my legs up under me and rested my cheek on his collarbone. "So instead of stomping around forests hunting ghouls, you want to go to the movies and schoo. dances."
"Well,maybe we could go on the occasional ghoul hunt," he allowed before pressing a kiss to my temple. "Keep things interesting."
I closed my eyes. "What else would we do if we were regular teenagers?"
"Hmm...let's see.Well,first of all, I'd need to get some kind of job so I could afford to take you on these completely normal dates. Maybe I could stock groceries somewhere."
The image of Archer in a blue apron, putting boxes of Nilla Wafers on a shelf at Walmart was too.bizarre to even contemplate, but I went along with it. "We could argue in front of our lockers all dramatically," I said. "That's something I saw a lot at human high schoo.s."
He squeezed me in a quick hug. "Yes! Now that sounds like a goo. time. And then I could come to your house in the middle of the night and play music really loudly under your window until you too. me back."
I chuckled. "You watch too.many movies. Ooh, we could be lab partners!"
"Isn't that kind of what we were in Defense?"
"Yeah,but in a normal high schoo., there would be more science, less kicking each other in the face."
"Nice."
We spent the next few minutes spinning out scenarios like this, including all the sports in which Archer's L'Occhio di Dio skills would come in handy, and starring in schoo. plays.By the time we were done, I was laughing, and I realized that, for just a little while, I'd managed to forget what a huge freaking mess we were in.
Which had probably been the point.
Once our laughter died away, the dread started seeping back in. Still, I tried to joke when I said, "You know, if I do live through this, I'm gonna be covered in funky tattoo. like the Vandy. You sure you want to date the Illustrated Woman, even if it's just for a little while?"
He caught my chin and raised my eyes to his. "Trust me," he said softly, "you could have a giant tiger tattoo.d on your face, and I'd still want to be with you."
"Okay,seriously,enough with the swoo.y talk," I told him, leaning in closer. "I like snarky, mean Archer."
He grinned. "In that case, shut up, Mercer. ~ Rachel Hawkins,#NFDB
790:What did she say?” asked Matthias.
Nina coughed and too. his arm, leading him away. “She said you’re a very nice fellow, and a credit to the Fjerdan race. Ooh, loo., blini! I haven’t had proper blini in forever.”
“That word she used: babink ,” he said. “You’ve called me that before. What does it mean?”
Nina directed her attention to a stack of paper-thin buttered pancakes. “It means sweetie pie.”
“Nina—”
“Barbarian.”
“I was just asking, there’s no need to name-call.”
“No, babink means barbarian.” Matthias’ gaze snapped back to the old woman, his glower returning to full force. Nina grabbed his arm. It was like trying to hold on to a boulder. “She wasn’t insulting you! I swear!”
“Barbarian isn’t an insult?” he asked, voice rising.
“No. Well, yes. But not in this context. She wanted to know if you’d like to play Princess and Barbarian.”
“It’s a game?”
“Not exactly.”
“Then what is it?”
Nina couldn’t believe she was actually going to attempt to explain this. As they continued up the street, she said, “In Ravka, there’s a popular series of stories about, um, a brave Fjerdan warrior—”
“Really?” Matthias asked. “He’s the hero?”
“In a manner of speaking. He kidnaps a Ravkan princess—”
“That would never happen.”
“In the story it does, and”—she cleared her throat—“they spend a long time getting to know each other. In his cave.”
“He lives in a cave?”
“It’s a very nice cave. Furs. Jeweled cups. Mead.”
“Ah,” he said approvingly. “A treasure hoard like Ansgar the Mighty. They become allies, then?”
Nina picked up a pair of embroidered gloves from another stand. “Do you like these? Maybe we could get Kaz to wear something with flowers. Liven up his loo..”
“How does the story end? Do they fight battles?”
Nina tossed the gloves back on the pile in defeat. “They get to know each other intimately .”
Matthias’ jaw dropped. “In the cave?”
“You see, he’s very broo.ing, very manly,” Nina hurried on. “But he falls in love with the Ravkan princess and that allows her to civilize him—”
“To civilize him?”
“Yes, but that’s not until the third boo..”
“There are three?”
“Matthias, do you need to sit down?”
“This culture is disgusting. The idea that a Ravkan could civilize a Fjerdan—”
“Calm down, Matthias.”
“Perhaps I’ll write a story about insatiable Ravkans who like to get drunk and take their clothes off and make unseemly advances toward hapless Fjerdans.”
“Now that sounds like a party.” Matthias shoo. his head, but she could see a smile tugging at his lips. She decided to push the advantage. “We could play,” she murmured, quietly enough so that no one around them could hear.
“We most certainly could not.”
“At one point he bathes her.”
Matthias’ steps faltered. “Why would he—”
“She’s tied up, so he has to.”
“Be silent.”
“Already giving orders. That’s very barbarian of you. Or we could mix it up. I’ll be the barbarian and you can be the princess. But you’ll have to do a lot more sighing and trembling and biting your lip.”
“How about I bite your lip?”
“Now you’re getting the hang of it, Helvar. ~ Leigh Bardugo,#NFDB
791:The little boy touched his dust-streaked hand to Loretta’s hair and made a breathless “oo.” sound. He smelled like any little boy who had been hard at play, a bit sweaty yet somehow sweet, with the definite odor of dog and horse clinging to him. Blackbird concentrated on Loretta’s blue eyes, staring into them with unflinching intensity. The younger girl ran reverent fingertips over the flounces on Loretta’s bloo.ers, saying, “Tosi wannup,” over and over again.
Loretta couldn’t help but smile. She was as strange to them as they were to her. She longed to gather them close and never let go. Friendly faces and human warmth. Their giggles made her long for home.
With a throat that responded none too.well to the messages from her brain, Loretta murmured, “Hello.” The sound of her own voice seemed unreal--an echo from the past.
“Hi, hites.” Blackbird linked her chubby forefingers in an unmistakable sign of friendship. “Hah-ich-ka soo. ein conic?”
Loretta had no idea what the child had asked until Blackbird steepled her fingers.
“Oh--my house?” Loretta cupped a hand over her brow as if she were squinting into the distance. “Very far away.”
Blackbird’s eyes sparkled with delight, and she burst into a long chain of gibberish, chortling and waving her hands. Loretta watched her, fascinated by the glow of happiness in her eyes, the innocence in her small face. She had always imagined Comanches, young and old, with bloo. dripping from their fingers.
A deep voice came from behind her. “She asks how long you will eat and keep warm with us.”
Startled, Loretta glanced over her shoulder to find Hunter reclining on a pallet of furs. Because he lay so low to the floo., she hadn’t seen him the first time she’d loo.ed. Propping himself up on one elbow, he listened to his niece chatter for a moment. His eyes caught the light coming through the lodge doo., glistening, fathomless.
“You will tell her, ‘Pihet tabbe.’”
Trust didn’t come easily to Loretta. “What does that mean?”
A smile teased the corners of his mouth. “Pihet, three. Tabbe, the sun. Three suns. It was our bargain.”
Relieved that she hadn’t dreamed his promise to take her home, Loretta repeated “pihet tabbe” to Blackbird. The little girl loo.ed crestfallen and too. Loretta’s hand. “Ka,” she cried. “Ein mea mon-ach.”
“Ka, no. You are going a long way,” Hunter translated, pushing to his feet as he spoke. “I think she likes you.” He came to the bed and, with an indulgent smile, shoo.d the children away as Aunt Rachel shoo.d chickens. “Poke Wy-ar-pee-cha, Pony Girl,” he said as he scoo.ed the unintimidated toddler off the furs and set her on the floo.. His hand lingered a moment on her hair, a loving gesture that struck Loretta as totally out of character for a Comanche warrior. The fragile child, his rugged strength. The two formed a fascinating contrast. “She is from my sister who is dead.” Nodding toward the boy, he added, “Wakare-ee, Turtle, from Warrior.”
Loretta didn’t want the children to leave her alone with their uncle. She gazed after them as they ran out the lodge doo.. ~ Catherine Anderson,#NFDB
792:She's probably just tired of seeing you miserable.Like we all are," I add. "I'm sure...I'm sure she's as crazy about you as ever."
"Hmm." He watches me put away my own shoes and empty the contents of my pockets. "What about you?" he asks, after a minute.
"What about me?"
St. Clair examines his watch. "Sideburns. You'll be seeing him next month."
He's reestablishing...what? The boundary line? That he's taken, and I'm spoken for? Except I'm not. Not really.
But I can't bear to say this now that he's mentioned Ellie. "Yeah,I can't wait to see him again. He's a funny guy, you'd like him.I'm gonna see his band play at Christmas. Toph's a great guy, you'd really like him. Oh. I already said that,didn't I? But you would. He's really...funny."
Shut up,Anna. Shut.Up.
St. Clair unbuckles and rebuckles and unbuckles his watchband.
"I'm beat," I say. And it's the truth. As always, our conversation has exhausted me. I crawl into bed and wonder what he'll do.Lie on my floo.? Go back to his roo.? But he places his watch on my desk and climbs onto my bed. He slides up next to me. He's on top of the covers, and I'm underneath. We're still fully dressed,minus our shoes, and the whole situation is beyond awkward.
He hops up.I'm sure he's about to leave,and I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed,but...he flips off my light.My roo. is pitch-black. He shuffles back toward my bed and smacks into it.
"Oof," he says.
"Hey,there's a bed there."
"Thanks for the warning."
"No problem."
"It's freezing in here.Do you have a fan on or something?"
"It's the wind.My window won't shut all the way.I have a towel stuffed under it, but it doesn't really help."
He pats his way around the bed and slides back in. "Ow," he says.
"Yes?"
"My belt.Would it be weird..."
I'm thankful he can't see my blush. "Of course not." And I listen to the slap of leather as he pulls it out of his belt loo.s.He lays it gently on my hardwoo. floo..
"Um," he says. "Would it be weird-"
"Yes."
"Oh,piss off.I'm not talking trousers. I only want under the blankets. That breeze is horrible." He slides underneath,and now we're lying side by side. In my narrow bed. Funny,but I never imagined my first sleepover with a guy being,well,a sleepover.
"All we need now are Sixteen Candles and a game of Truth or Dare."
He coughs. "Wh-what?"
"The movie,pervert.I was just thinking it's been a while since I've had a sleepover."
A pause. "Oh."
"..."
"..."
"St. Clair?"
"Yeah?"
"Your elbow is murdering my back."
"Bollocks.Sorry." He shifts,and then shifts again,and then again,until we're comfortable.One of his legs rests against mine.Despite the two layers of pants between us,I feel naked and vulnerable. He shifts again and now my entire leg, from calf to thigh, rests against his. I smell his hair. Mmm.
NO!
I swallow,and it's so loud.He coughs again. I'm trying not to squirm. After what feels like hours but is surely only minutes,his breath slows and his body relaxes.I finally begin to relax, too. I want to memorize his scent and the touch of his skin-one of his arms, now against mine-and the solidness os his body.No matter what happens,I'll remember this for the rest of my life.
I study his profile.His lips,his nose, his eyelashes.He's so beautiful. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
793:The Battle Of Harlaw
As I cam in by Dunidier,
An doun by Netherha,
There was fifty thousand Hielanmen
A-marching to Harlaw.
As I cam on, an farther on,
An doun and by Balquhain,
Oh there I met Sir James the Rose,
Wi him Sir John the Gryme.
'O cam ye frae the Hielands, man,
An cam ye a' the wey?
Saw ye Macdonell an his men,
As they cam frae the Skee?'
'Yes, me cam frae ta Hielands, man,
An me cam a' ta wey,
An she saw Macdonnel an his men,
As they cam frae to Skee.'
'Oh was ye near Macdonnel's men?
Did ye their numbers see?
Come, tell to me, John Hielanman,
What micht their numbers be?'
'Yes, me was near, an near eneuch,
An me their numbers saw;
There was fifty thousan Hielanmen
A-marching to Harlaw.'
'Gin that be true,' says James the Rose,
'We'll no come meikle speed;
We'll cry upo our merry men,
And lichtly mount our steed.'
'Oh no, oh no,' says John the Gryme,
'That thing maun never be;
The gallant Grymes were never bate,
We'll try phat we can dee.'
710
As I cam on, an farther on,
An doun an by Harlaw,
They fell fu close on ilka side;
Sic fun ye never saw.
They fell fu close on ilka side,
Sic fun ye never saw;
For Hielan swords gied clash for clash,
At the battle o' Harlaw.
The Hielanmen, wi their lang swords,
They laid on us fu sair,
An they drave back our merry men
Three acres breadth an mair.
Brave Forbes to his brither did say,
Noo.brither, dinna ye see?
They beat us back on ilka side,
An we'se be forced to flee.
'Oh no, oh no, my brither dear,
That thing maun never be;
Tak ye your goo. sword in your hand,
An come your wa's wi me.'
'Oh no, oh no, my brither dear,
The clans they are ower strang,
An they drive back our merry men,
Wi swords baith sharp an lang.'
Brave Forbes drew his men aside,
Sa,d Tak your rest a while,
Until I to Drumminnor send,
To fess my coat o' mail.
The servan he did ride,
An his horse it did na fail,
For in twa hours an a quarter
He brocht the coat o' mail.
Then back to back the brithers twa
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Gaed in amo the thrang,
An they hewed doun the Hielanmen,
Wi swords baith sharp an lang.
Macdonell, he was young an stout,
Had on his coat o' mail,
An he has gane oo. throw them a',
To try his han himself.
The first ae straik that Forbes strack,
He garrt Macdonell reel,
An the neist ae straik that Forbes strack
The great Macdonell fell.
An siccan a lierachie
I'm sure ye never saw
As wis amo the Hielanmen,
When they saw Macdonnel fa.
An whan they saw that he was deid,
They turnd an ran awa,
An they buried hin in Leggett's Den,
A large mile frae Harlaw.
They rade, they ran, an some did gang,
They were o' sma record;
But Forbes an his merry men,
They slew them a' the road.
On Monanday, at mornin,
The battle it began,
On Saturday, at gloamin,
Ye'd scarce kent wha had wan.
An sic a weary buryin
I'm sure ye never saw
As wis the Sunday after that,
On the muirs aneath Harlaw.
Gin ony body speer at you
For them ye too. awa,
Ye may tell their wives and bairnies
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They're sleepin at Harlaw.
~ Anonymous Olde English,#NFDB
794:Traditionary Version
As I came in by Dunidier,
An doun by Netherha,
There was fifty thousand Hielanmen
A marching to Harlaw.
(Chorus) Wi a dree dree dradie drumtie dree.
As I cam on, an farther on,
An doun an by Balquhain,
Oh there I met Sir James the Rose,
Wi him Sir John the Gryme.
'O cam ye frae the Hielans, man?
And cam ye a' the wey?
Saw ye Macdonell an his men,
As they cam frae the Skee?'
'Yes, me cam frae ta Hielans, man,
An me cam a ta wey,
An she saw Macdonell an his men,
As they cam frae ta Skee.'
'Oh, was ye near Macdonell's men?
Did ye their numbers see?
Come, tell to me, John Hielanman,
What micht their numbers be?'
'Yes, me was near, an near eneuch,
An me their numbers saw;
There was fifty thousand Hielanmen
A marching to Harlaw.'
'Gin that be true,' says James the Rose,
'We'll no come meikle speed;
We'll cry upo our merry men,
And lichtly mount our steed.'
'Oh no, oh no!' quo' John the Gryme,
'That thing maun never be;
The gallant Grymes were never bate,
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We'll try what we can dee.'
As I cam on, an farther on,
An doun an by Harlaw,
They fell fu close on ilka side;
Sic fun ye never saw.
They fell fu close on ilka side,
Sic fun ye never saw;
For Hielan swords gied clash for clash,
At the battle o Harlaw.
The Hielanmen, wi their lang swords,
They laid on us fu sair,
An they drave back our merry men
Three acres breadth an mair.
Brave Forbes to his brither did say,
'Noo.brither, dinna ye see?
They beat us back on ilka side,
An we'se be forced to flee.'
'Oh no, oh no, my brither dear,
That thing maun never be;
Tak ye your goo. sword in your hand,
An come your wa's wi me.'
'Oh no, oh no, my brither dear,
The clans they are ower strang,
An they drive back our merry men,
Wi swords baith sharp an lang.'
Brave Forbes drew his men aside,
Said, 'Tak your rest a while,
Until I to Drumminnor send,
To fess my coat o mail.'
The servan he did ride,
An his horse it did na fail,
For in twa hours an a quarter
He brocht the coat o mail.
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Then back to back the brithers twa
Gaed in amo the thrang,
An they hewed doun the Hielanmen,
Wi swords baith sharp an lang.
Macdonell he was young an stout,
Had on his coat o mail,
And he has gane oo. throw them a'
To try his han himsell.
The first ae straik that Forbes strack,
He garrt Macdonell reel;
An the neist ae straik that Forbes strack,
The great Macdonell fell.
And siccan a lierachie,
I'm sure ye never sawe
As wis amo the Hielanmen,
When they saw Macdonell fa.
An whan they saw that he was deid,
They turnd and ran awa,
An they buried him in Legget's Den,
A large mile frae Harlaw.
They rade, they ran, an some did gang,
They were o sma record;
But Forbes and his merry men,
They slew them a' the road.
On Monanday, at mornin,
The battle it began,
On Saturday at gloamin',
Ye'd scarce kent wha had wan.
An sic a weary buryin,
I'm sure ye never saw,
As wis the Sunday after that,
On the muirs aneath Harlaw.
Gin anybody speer at ye
For them ye too. awa,
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Ye may tell their wives and bairnies,
They're sleepin at Harlaw.
~ Andrew Lang,#NFDB
795:Why can't we sit together? What's the point of seat reservations,anyway? The bored woman calls my section next,and I think terrible thoughts about her as she slides my ticket through her machine. At least I have a window seat. The middle and aisle are occupied with more businessmen. I'm reaching for my boo. again-it's going to be a long flight-when a polite English accent speaks to the man beside me.
"Pardon me,but I wonder if you wouldn't mind switching seats.You see,that's my girlfriend there,and she's pregnant. And since she gets a bit ill on airplanes,I thought she might need someone to hold back her hair when...well..." St. Clair holds up the courtesy barf bag and shakes it around. The paper crinkles dramatically.
The man sprints off the seat as my face flames. His pregnant girlfriend?
"Thank you.I was in forty-five G." He slides into the vacated chair and waits for the man to disappear before speaking again. The guy onhis other side stares at us in horror,but St. Clair doesn't care. "They had me next to some horrible couple in matching Hawaiian shirts. There's no reason to suffer this flight alone when we can suffer it together."
"That's flattering,thanks." But I laugh,and he loo.s pleased-until takeoff, when he claws the armrest and turns a color disturbingy similar to key lime pie. I distract him with a story about the time I broke my arm playing Peter Pan. It turned out there was more to flying than thinking happy thoughts and jumping out a window. St. Clair relaxes once we're above the clouds.
Time passes quickly for an eight-hour flight.
We don't talk about what waits on the other side of the ocean. Not his mother. Not Toph.Instead,we browse Skymall. We play the if-you-had-to-buy-one-thing-off-each-page game. He laughs when I choo.e the hot-dog toaster, and I tease him about the fogless shower mirror and the world's largest crossword puzzle.
"At least they're practical," he says.
"What are you gonna do with a giant crossword poster? 'Oh,I'm sorry Anna. I can't go to the movies tonight. I'm working on two thousand across, Norwegian Birdcall."
"At least I'm not buying a Large Plastic Rock for hiding "unsightly utility posts.' You realize you have no lawn?"
"I could hide other stuff.Like...failed French tests.Or illegal moo.shining equipment." He doubles over with that wonderful boyish laughter, and I grin. "But what will you do with a motorized swimming-poo. snack float?"
"Use it in the bathtub." He wipes a tear from his cheek. "Ooo.loo.! A Mount Rushmore garden statue. Just what you need,Anna.And only forty dollars! A bargain!"
We get stumped on the page of golfing accessories, so we switch to drawing rude pictures of the other people on the plane,followed by rude pictures of Euro Disney Guy. St. Clair's eyes glint as he sketches the man falling down the Pantheon's spiral staircase.
There's a lot of bloo.. And Mickey Mouse ears.
After a few hours,he grows sleepy.His head sinks against my shoulder. I don't dare move.The sun is coming up,and the sky is pink and orange and makes me think of sherbet.I siff his hair. Not out of weirdness.It's just...there.
He must have woken earlier than I thought,because it smells shower-fresh. Clean. Healthy.Mmm.I doze in and out of a peaceful dream,and the next thing I know,the captain's voice is crackling over the airplane.We're here.
I'm home. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
796:Munich
GAMBRINUS.
In a field of goldnen parley
Goo. King Gambrinus shlept,
Und treamin' pout de dursty volk,
Dey say he gried und vept.
'In all mine land of Nederland,
Dere crows no mead or wein,
Und wasser I couldt nefer get
Indo dis troat of mein.
'Now hear me on, ye headen gotts!
Und all de Christian too.
Der Bacchus und der Shoo.ider,
Und Marie tressed in plue!
Und mighdy Thor, der donner gott,
Und any else dat be!
Der von as helps me in dis Noth,
His serfant I will pe.'
Und ash dis sinfull headen
All in de parley lay,
Dere coo. in tream an angel
Who soft dese worts tid say:
'Stay oo., dou boo. Gambrinus!
For efen all aroundt
Im parley vhere dou shleepest,
Some dings goo. to trink ish found.
'Im parley vhere dou shleepest
Dere hides a trink so clear,
Dat men will know zukunftigAsh porter- ale- or bier.'
Und denn in Nederlandisch
He put de konig troo.
Und gafe him - allwhile treamingDe recipe to prew.
Oop rose der goo. Gambrinus,
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Und shoo. him in de sun:
'Go vay, ye sinfoo. headen gotts!
Mit you its out und done!
Ye'fe left me mit mine beoples
In error und in durst,
Till in our treadful tryness,
Ve tont know vitch is wurst.'
Dat vas der goo. Gambrinus
Oonto his palac't vent,
Und loafers troo.de Nederland
To all his lordts he sent.
'Leave Odin - or you lose your hets!'
De order vas sefere,
Yet tinged mit mildness, for he sent
De recipe for bier.
O den a merry sound vas heardt
Of bildin troo.de land,
Und de kirchen und de braweries
Vent oo. on efery hand;
For de masons dey vere hart at vork,
Und trinkin hart at dat,
Und some hat bricks mitin de hods,
Und some mitin deir hat.
Dey prew it in de Nederland,
Dey prew it on de Rhine;
Boo. in de oldt Bavarian land,
Dey make it shdrong und fein.
Und he dat trinks in Munich,
Ash all goo. vellers know,
Has got somedings to dink apout,
Vherefer he may go.
II.
Hafe you heardt of Kong Gambrinus?
If you hafen't id vas gueer,
For he vas de first erfinder
Und de holy saint of bier.
Und his bortrait, mit a sceptre,
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Fery peaudifoo. to see,
Hangs on afery lager-bier house,
In de land of Germanie.
Efery vhere de whole world ofer,
Deutschers paint him on de sign,
As a broo. dat dey are dealin
In de Bok und Lager line.
Crown und bier-mug, robe und ermine;
German signs of empire, dese,
Mit a long white beard a fallin'
Fery nearly to his knees.
Vonce dis bier-saint, pright und early,
Rose from bett und vent his vay,
To a dark mysderious gastle,
Vhere his lager-donjon lay.
Vhile de lark's first song vas ringin',
Und die roses shone in dew,
Den his soul vas shoo.t in order
To enshoy de early brew.
Deeply, awfoo.y he schwilled it,
Till de vaults seem too.nin round;
Und vhile tipsy - over tips heIn he falls - und dere is trowned.
Yet vhile goo.glin in de bier-fass,
Biously he gafe his soul:
'Gott verdammich! Donnerwetter!
Himmels sacrament-a-mol!'
Dere dey found der kong 'departed,'
Not mitout his stir-up cup:
Moo.h dey woo.derd dat he berishet
Vhen he might hafe troo.k it oo.;
Or dat his long peard vitch floatet
Foo. a yard on efery side,
Hadn't buoyed him from destrugdion:Dus der beer-dead monarch died.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
797:Breitmann In Holland. Amsterdam.
TO Amsterd-m came Breitmann
All in de Kermes tide;
Yonge Maegden allegader
Filled de straat on afery side.
De meisjes in de straaten
Vere tantzin alle nacht long;
Dere vas kissen, dere vas trinken,
Mit a roar of Holland song.
Who went into de straaten
Ven de sonn had gone his day,
De Doo.ch gals quickly grapped him
Und tantzed him wild avay.
Dere was der Prinz von Capua,
Who fell among dese wags;
Dey tantzed him off in a carmagnole,
Und sent him home in rags.
Und den at afery gorner,
So peaudifoo. to see,
De volk vas bilin dough-nuts,
Or else vas fryin tea.
Und Kermes cakes mit boetry,
Vitch land-volk dinks a dreat,
Mit all of Barnum's blayed out shows
In dents along de shdreet.
Id pring de tears to Breitmann's eyes,
To find in many a shtand
Vot oft he'd baid a quarder for
To see in a distand land.
De Aztec dwins und de Siamese
(Dough soo. vere a wachsen sham);
Mit de Beardet Frau und de Bear WomanAll here in Amsterdam
De fashion here in Nederland
Ish not vot you'd soo.ose,
Mit oo., men bays de vomens,
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Boo. de Doo.ch gals hires deir beaux!
Dey hire dem for de season,
Und because moo.h rain ish fell,
Dey alvays bays a higher brice,
For a man mit an umberell.
Und dere vas Nord Hollander maids,
So woo.derfoo. to see,
Mit caps of gold und goldne pins,
Und quaint orfeverie.
Likewise de Zeeland Boersmen,
Mit silber boo.ons gay;
Und silber belts, und silber knives,
Mijn Gott! - how sdrange vere dey!
But dough de men wore silber gear,
Und de vrouws in gold were tall,
De gals vere gabblin all de dimes,
Und de men said noding at all.
'Dey say dat sbeech is silbern,
Boo. silence golden pe,
Dat aint de vay dey vork id here,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Goo. Gott! how Breitmann vent it,
In moo.lighdt or in rain;
Den vakened to Schied-m it,
Ven de mornin peamed again.
For to solfe von awfoo. broplem,
He vas efer shdill incline;
If - den wijn is beter als de min,
Or - de min doet veel meer als de wijn.
Dwo weeks der Breitmann studiet,
Vile he vent it on de howl.
He shpree so moo.h to find de troo.,
Dat he loo.t like a bi-led owl.
Den he say, 'Ik wil honor Bacchus,
So long as ik leven shall;
Boo. not so moo.h vercieren
As to blace him ofer all.
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De rose of lofe is lofely
In zomer ven it plow;
De bush shdill gifes a bromise,
In winter mid de shnow;
Ja, als de bloeme is geplukt,
En van den steel genomen,
Ve know de peautiful vill life,
Till zomer is gekomen.
Boo. oh dose vas arch-heafenly dimes,
Ven by mine lofe I sat;
Und see de maedchen pring de grapes,
Und crash dem in a vat.
Und ven her glances unto mine
In plessfoo. ropture too.n;
I dink dere ne'er vas no dwo crapes
Like dem plue eyes of hern.
Wat is soeter als de trinken,
Ja - niet kan beter zyn.
Niet is soeter as de minne,
It smackt nog beter als wijn.
Es giebt nichts wie die Madchen,
Es gibt nichts wie das Bier,
Wer liebt nicht alle beide,
Wird gar kein Cavalier.
O vot ve vant to quickest come
Ish dat vot's soo.est gone.
Dis life ish boo. a passin from
de efer-gomin-on.
De gloser dat ve loo.s ad id,
De shmaller it ish grow;
Who goats und spurs mit lofe und wein,
He makes it fastest go.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
798:That was when it dawned on her--Dom wanted to unearth her secrets. Nancy’s secrets. Just as Jane had feared, he really had deduced that she hid some.
A shiver ran down her spine, and she jerked her gaze from him, fighting to hide her consternation. “Merely the same reason I gave you before. Nancy could be in trouble. And it’s your duty as her brother-in-law to keep her safe.”
“From what?” he demanded. “From whom? Is there more to this than you’re saying?”
Ooh, the fact that he was so determined to unveil the truth about Nancy while hiding his former collusion with her scraped Jane raw. “I could ask the same of you,” she said primly. “You’re obviously holding something back. You have some reason for your determination to believe ill of Nancy. I wonder what that might be.”
Two can play your game, Almighty Dom. Hah!
He was silent so long that she ventured a glance at him to find him loo.ing rather discomfited. Goo.! It was about time.
“I am merely keeping an open mind about your cousin, which is more than I can say for you,” Dom finally answered. “She isn’t the woman you think she is.”
“Because she wouldn’t give in to your advances twelve years ago, you mean?” She would make him admit the truth about that night if it was the last thing she did! “Perhaps that’s why you’re determined to blacken her character. You’re angry that she resisted you and married your brother instead.”
“That’s a lie!” When several people on the street turned to loo. in his direction, Dom lowered his voice. “It wasn’t like that.”
She stifled a smile of satisfaction. At last she was getting a reaction from him that was something other than levelheaded logic. “Wasn’t it? If you’d convinced Nancy to marry you, you might not have had to go off to be a Bow Street runner. You could have had an easier life, a better life in high society than you could have had with me if you’d married me. Without being able to access my fortune, I could only have dragged you down.”
“You don’t really believe that I wanted to marry her for her money,” he gritted out.
“It’s either that or assume that you fell madly in love with her in the few weeks we were apart.” They were nearly to the inn now, so she added a plaintive note to her voice. “Or perhaps it was her you wanted all along. You knew my uncle would never accept a second son as a husband for his rich heiress of a daughter, so you courted me to get close to her. Nancy was always so beautiful, so--”
“Enough!”
Without warning, he dragged her into one of the many alleyways that crisscrossed York. This one was deeply shadowed, the houses leaning into each other overhead, and as he pulled her around to face him, the brilliance of his eyes shone starkly in the dim light.
“I never cared one whit about Nancy.”
She tamped down her triumph--he hadn’t admitted the whole truth yet. “It certainly didn’t loo. that way to me. It loo.ed like you had already forgotten me, forgotten what we meant to each--”
“The hell I had.” He shoved his face close to hers. “I never forgot you for one day, one hour, one moment. It was you--always you. Everything I did was for you, damn it. No one else.”
The passionate profession threw her off course. Dom had never been the sort to say such sweet things. But the fervent loo. in his eyes roused memories of how he used to loo. at her. And his hands gripping her arms, his body angling in closer, were so painfully familiar...
“I don’t…believe you,” she lied, her bloo. running wild through her veins.
His gleaming gaze impaled her. “Then believe this.” And suddenly his mouth was on hers. ~ Sabrina Jeffries,#NFDB
799:Young Bicham
In London city was Bicham born,
He longd strange countries for to see,
But he was taen by a savage Moo.,
Who handld him right cruely.
For thro his shoulder he put a bore,
An thro the bore has pitten a tree,
And he's gard him draw the carts o wine,
Where horse and oxen had wont to be.
He's casten [him] in a dungeon deep,
Where he coud neither hear nor see;
He's shut him up in a prison strong,
An he's handld him right cruely.
O this Moo. he had but ae daughter,
I wot her name was Shusy Pye;
She's doen her to the prison-house,
And she's calld young Bicham one word by.
'O hae ye ony lands or rents,
Or citys in your ain country,
Coud free you out of prison strong,
An coud maintain a lady free?'
O London city is my own,
An other citys twa or three,
Coud loo.e me out o prison strong,
An could maintain a lady free.'
O she has bribed her father's men
Wi meikle goud and white money,
She's gotten the key o the prison doo.s,
And she has set Young Bicham free.
She's gi'n him a loaf o goo. white bread,
But an a flask o Spanish wine,
An she bad him mind on the ladie's love
That sae kindly freed him out o pine.
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'Go set your foo. on goo. ship-board,
An haste you back to your ain country,
An before that seven years has an end,
Come back again, love, and marry me.'
It was long or seven years had an end
She longd fu sair her love to see;
She's set her foo. on goo. ship-board,
An turnd her back on her ain country.
She's saild up, so has she down,
Till she came to the other side;
She's landed at Young Bicham's gates,
An I hop this day she sal be his bride.
'Is this Young Bicham's gates?' says she.
'Or is that noble prince within?'
'He's up the stair wi his bonny bride,
An monny a lord and lady wi him.'
'O has he taen a bonny bride,
An has he clean forgotten me?'
An sighing said that gay lady,
'I wish I were in my ain country!'
She's pitten her ban in her pocket,
An gin the porter guineas three;
Says, 'Take ye that, ye proud porter,
An bid the bridegroo. speak to me.'
O whan the porter came up the stair,
He's fa'n low down upon his knee:
'Won up, won up, ye proud porter,
And what makes a' this courtesy?'
'O I've been porter at your gates
This mair nor seven years an three,
But there is a lady at them now
The like of whom I never did see.
'For on every finger she has a ring,
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An on the mid-finger she has three,
An there's as meikle goud aboo. her brow
As woud buy an earldom o lan to me.'
Then up it started Young Bicham,
An sware so loud by Our Lady,
'It can be nane but Shusy Pye
That has come oo. the sea to me.'
O quickly ran he down the stair,
O fifteen steps he has made but three,
He's tane his bonny love in his arms
An a wot he kissd her tenderly.
'O hae you tane a bonny bride?
An hae you quite forsaken me?
An hae ye quite forgotten her
That gae you life an liberty?'
She's loo.it oer her left shoulder
To hide the tears stoo. in her ee;
'Now fare thee well, Young Bicham,' she says,
'I'll strive to think nae mair on thee.'
'Take back your daughter, madam,' he says,
'An a double dowry I'll gie her wi;
For I maun marry my first true love,
That's done and suffered so much for me.'
He's tak his bonny love by the han,
And led her to yon fountain stane;
He's changed her name frae Shusy Pye,
An he's cald her his bonny love, Lady Jane.
~ Andrew Lang,#NFDB
800:Breitmann As An Uhlan.
O HEAR a wondrous shdory
Vot soundet like romance,
How Breitmann mit four Uhlans
Vas dake de town of Nantz.
De Frantschmen call it Nancy,
Und dey say its fery hard
Dat Nancy mit her soldiers
Vas getoo. py gorpral's guard.
Dey dink id vas King Wilhelm
Ash Hans ride in de down,
Und like Odin in his glorie
Gazed derriply aroun'.
Denn mit awfoo. condesenchen
He at de Frantschmen shtare,
Und say, 'Ye wretsched shildren?
Abbortez mir vodre mere!'
Hans mean de city Syndic,
Whom maire de Frantschmen call;
So mit a tousand soldiers
Dey 'scort him to de Hall;
In de shair of shtade dey sot him,
Der maire coo. to pe heard,
Und Hans glare at him fife minutes
Pefore he shbeak a word.
Den in iron dones he oo.ered:
'Ich temand que rentez fous:
Shai dreisig mille soldaten
Bas loin l'ici, barploo.
Aber tonnez-moi Champagner;
Shai an soif exdrortinaireApout one douzaine cart-loads;
Und dann je fous laisse faire.'
Denn he say to Schwackenhammer,
His segretaire - 'Read
A liddle exdra liste
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Of dings de army need,
Und dell dem in Franzosisch
Dey moo.t shell de neetfoo. down
In less dan dwendy minudes,
Or, py Gott, I'll purn de town.'
'Item - one tousand vatches
Of purest gold so fair;
Dazu funf tousand silbern,
For de gommon soldiers' wear;
Und tree dousand diamant ringe
Dey moo.t make tirectly come,
We need dem for our schweethearts
Ven we write to em at home!
'Von million cigarren
Ve'll accept ash extra boo.s
For not squeezin dem seferely,
Dazu dwelf tousand shboo.s.'
Here der maire fell down in schwoo.in,
Denn all dat he could say
Vas ,'O mon dieu, de dieu, dieu!
Nous voila ruinees!'
No wort der Breitmann oo.ered,
He only make a sgratch,
Calm and silend on de daple,
Mit a liddle friction match.
De maire versteh de motion,
So went him to de task
Of raisin mong de peoples
Vot it vas der Breitmann ask.
So kam he mit de ringe,
Dey vind dem poo.y soo.;
So kam he mit de vatches,
Und avery silber spoo..
Boo. ash for de champagner,
He wept and loudly call
Dat par dieu! he hadn't any,
For de Deutsch hafe troo.k it all.
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Ja! - de gorporal's guart have trinket
Efery pottle in de down,
Vhile dese negotiations
Oop-stairs vere written down.
Boo. der Breitmann soo.limely,
Like von who nodings felt,
Said, 'Instet of le champagner
Nous brentirons du gelt.'
Ja wohl! Donnes cent mille franken,
C'est mir egal, you know;
Pid dem pring id in a horry,
For 'tis dime for oo. to go.'
Der maire he pring de money,
Und der Breitmann squeeze his hand,'Leb wohl, dou nople brickbat,
Herzbruder in Frankenland!
'Boo. it griefes my soul to larmen,
Und I sympathize mit dein,
To pense of you, mon ami,
Sans le champagner wein.
Dere will oder Deutsch pe gomin,
Und it preak mine heart to dink
De vay dey'll bang and slang you
If dere's no champagne to trink!
'Cela fous fera misere
Que she ne feux bas see;
So, vollow mes gonseilles,
Et brenez mon afis.
Shai, moi, deux mille boutelles,
De meilleur dat man can ashk,
Vich I will gladly sellSheap as dirt - ten franks a flask.'
De maire loo. oo. to heafen,
Wohl nodings could he say,
Vhile oud indo de mitnight
Der Breitmann rode afay.
Away - atown de falley,
Till noding more abbears
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Boo. de glitter of de moo.light,
De moo.light on deir spears.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
801:Santa Claus In The Bush
It chanced out back at the Christmas time,
When the wheat was ripe and tall,
A stranger rode to the farmer's gate -A sturdy man and a small.
"Rin doo., rin doo., my little son Jack,
And bid the stranger stay;
And we'll hae a crack for Auld Lang Syne,
For the morn is Christmas Day."
"Nay noo. nay noo." said the dour guidwife,
"But ye should let him be;
He's maybe only a drover chap
Frae the land o' the Darling Pea.
"Wi' a drover's tales, and a drover's thirst
To swiggle the hail nicht through;
Or he's maybe a life assurance carle
To talk ye black and blue,"
"Guidwife, he's never a drover chap,
For their swags are neat and thin;
And he's never a life assurance carle,
Wi' the brick-dust burnt in his skin.
"Guidwife, guidwife, be nae sae dour,
For the wheat stands ripe and tall,
And we shore a seven-pound fleece this year,
Ewes and weaners and all.
"There is grass tae spare, and the stock are fat.
Where they whiles are gaunt and thin,
And we owe a tithe to the travelling poo.,
So we maun ask him in.
"Ye can set him a chair tae the table side,
And gi' him a bite tae eat;
An omelette made of a new-laid egg,
Or a tasty bit of meat."
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"But the native cats have taen the fowls,
They havena left a leg;
And he'll get nae omelette at a'
Till the emu lays an egg!"
"Rin doo., rin doo., my little son Jack,
To whaur the emus bide,
Ye shall find the auld hen on the nest,
While the auld cock sits beside.
"But speak them fair, and speak them saft,
Lest they kick ye a fearsome jolt.
Ye can gi' them a feed of thae half-inch nails
Or a rusty carriage bolt."
So little son Jack ran blithely down
With the rusty nails in hand,
Till he came where the emus fluffed and scratched
By their nest in the open sand.
And there he has gathered the new-laid egg -'Twould feed three men or four -And the emus came for the half-inch nails
Right up to the settler's doo..
"A waste o' foo.," said the dour guidwife,
As she too. the egg, with a frown,
"But he gets nae meat, unless ye rin
A paddy-melon down."
"Gang oo., gang oo., my little son Jack,
Wi' your twa-three doggies sma';
Gin ye come nae back wi' a paddy-melon,
Then come nae back at a'."
So little son Jack he raced and he ran,
And he was bare o' the feet,
And soo. he captured a paddy-melon,
Was gorged with the stolen wheat.
"Sit doo., sit doo., my bonny wee man,
To the best that the hoo.e can do --
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An omelette made of the emu egg
And a paddy-melon stew."
"'Tis well, 'tis well," said the bonny wee man;
"I have eaten the wide world's meat,
And the foo. that is given with right goo.-will
Is the sweetest foo. to eat.
"But the night draws on to the Christmas Day
And I must rise and go,
For I have a mighty way to ride
To the land of the Esquimaux.
"And it's there I must load my sledges up,
With the reindeers four-in-hand,
That go to the North, South, East, and West,
To every Christian land."
"Tae the Esquimaux," said the dour guidwife,
"Ye suit my husband well!"
For when he gets up on his journey horse
He's a bit of a liar himsel'."
Then out with a laugh went the bonny wee man
To his old horse grazing nigh,
And away like a meteor flash they went
Far off to the Northern sky.
When the children woke on the Christmas morn
They chattered with might and main -For a sword and gun had little son Jack,
And a braw new doll had Jane,
And a packet o' screws had the twa emus;
But the dour guidwife gat nane.
~ Banjo Paterson,#NFDB
802:Breitmann As An Uhlan. Iii. Breitmann And Bouilli.
Vot roo.bles down de Bergstrass?
Vot a grash ish in de air!
Mit a desberate gonfusion,
Und a gry of wild tespair,
Das sind gethrasht Franzosen,
Und dose who after flee
Are de terror of Champagner,
Die Uhlan cavallrie.
So liddle say die hoo.ted,
De hoo.ters lesser shdill;
Der Frank is ride for's leben,
Der Deutscher rides to kill.
Ofer dickly-doo.ty faces
Deir eyes like wild-katzs glare;
De blut und iron ridin
Of furie und despair.
Boo. of all de wild Uhlanen,
Der Breitmann ride de pest;
For he mark de Frantsch gommanter
Ish most elegandtly tresst.
Und ash he coo. down on him,
Dere's a deat' loo. in his eye:
'Gotts! if I carfe dat too.key,
How I'll make de stoo.in vly!'
Mit a clotter und a flotter
Like a hell-sturm dey are on:
Mit a rottle to de pattle
Coo. de Deutschers, knockin' down,
Down de moundain to a bruckeVhy die Frantschmen too.n ad bay?
Oder Deutsch were dere pefore dem,
Und die pridge ish coo. avay!
Von second der Franzose
Loo. down mit blitzen eye;
Von second at de brucke,
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Den too.n him round to die.
Vhile mit out-ge-poke-te lanze,
Like ter teufel shot from hell,
Rode der ploo.der-shtarvin Breitmann
On der grau-bart Colonel.
Vot for der Coptain Breitmann
Ish shdop in his career?
Vot for he poo. his pridle?
Vot for let down his speer?
Vot for his eyes like saucers
Grow pigger, rimmed mit staub?
Vot for his hair, a pristlin,
Lift oo. his pickel-haub?
So awfoo. - so oneart'ly,
So treadful was his glare,
So unbeschreiblich gastly,
Dat der Colonel self was shkare.
Oop come der Breitmann ridin,
Und mit gratin force he said:
'Bist - du - wirkelich - lebendig?
Can de grafe gife oo. its tead?
'Dou livest yet - dou breaf'st yet,
Dough oldter now you pe
Since I mordered you in Strasburg,
Mein freund - mon Jean Bouilli.
We lofed de selfe maiden
Wohl forty years agone:She died to hear I kilt you:Jean - how weiss your beard ish grown!
'I would gife my Hab' und Guter,
Dereto mein bit of life
Couldt I pring dat shild to leben,
Und make her, Jean, dy wife!'
Here der Breitmann boo.st out gryin,
Like a liddle proo. vept he;
Und dey hugged and gissed einander,
Der Breitmann und Bouilli.
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'Ach, de efils dat from efil
Troo.a life ish efer grow!
Had I nefer dink I killed you,
Many a man were livin nowMany a man dat shleeps in cane-brakes,
Many a man py pillow-shore;
For dy morder mate me reckelos,
Und von tead man gries for more!
'O Madchen! schon im Himmel!
(Warst schon on eart' difine)Can'st dink among de Engeln
Of soo.h as me und mine?
Den loo. on soo.h a Reue,
Ash eart' has nefer known:Whereto hast dou a sabre?
Wherefore not kill me, Jean?'
'O, ne pleurez pas, mon Breitmann!
Je trouve cela trop fort,'
Gry der Colonel sehr politely;
'How! - you crois dat I was mort!
Mon Dieu! 'Tis but one minute,
As we galloped to this plain,
I thought your spear, mon gaillard,
Would kill me o'er again.
Je vous fais mon compliment,
Your tendresse becomes you well;
Et ne pleurez pas, mon brave,
Pour la petite demoiselle.
I have had a thousand since;
One can always find such game;
Et pour dire la verite,
I have quite forgot her name.'
Der Breitmann lok so earnest,
Long and earnest at his foe,
Ash if seein troo.his augen
To de forty years ago.
Mit vot a shmile der Breitmann
Too.ned roundt und rode away:
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Dat was all his parting greetin
To der Colonel Francais.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
803:'Peaceable Expulsion'
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
MOUNTWAVE _a Politician_
HARDHAND _a Workingman_
TOK BAK _a Chinaman_
SATAN _a Friend to Mountwave_
CHORUS OF FOREIGN VOTERS.
MOUNTWAVE:
My friend, I beg that you will lend your ears
(I know 'tis asking a goo. deal of you)
While I for your instruction nominate
Some certain wrongs you suffer. Men like you
Imperfectly are sensible of all
The miseries they actually feel.
Hence, Providence has prudently raised up
Clear-sighted men like me to diagnose
Their cases and inform them where they're hurt.
The wounds of honest workingmen I've made
A specialty, and probing them's my trade.
HARDHAND:
Well, Mister, s'pose you let yer bossest eye
Camp on my mortal part awhile; then you
Jes' too. my sufferin's an' tell me what's
The fashionable caper now in writhesThe very swellest wiggle.
MOUNTWAVE:
Well, my lad,
'Tis plain as is the long, conspicuous nose
Borne, ponderous and pendulous, between
The elephant's remarkable eye-teeth
(_Enter Tok Bak._)
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That Chinese competition's what ails _you_.
BOTH (_Singing_):
O pig-tail Celestial,
O barbarous bestial,
Abominable Chinee!
Simian fellow man,
Primitive yellow man,
Joshian devotee!
Shoe-and-cigar machine,
Oleomargarine
You are, and butter are weFat of the land are we,
Salt of the earth;
In God's image planned to beNoble in birth!
You, on the contrary,
Modeled upon very
Different lines indeed,
Show in conspicuous,
Base and ridiculous
Ways your inferior breed.
Wretched apology,
Shame of ethnology,
Monster unspeakably low!
Fit to be buckshottedBe you 'steboycotted.
Vanish-vamoo.e-mosy-Go!
TOK BAK:
You listen me! You beatee the big dlum
An' tell me go to Flowly Kingdom Come.
You all too.muchee foo.. You chinnee heap.
Such talkee like my washee-belly cheap!
(_Enter Satan._)
You dlive me outee clunty towns all way;
Why you no tackle me Safflisco, hay?
SATAN:
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Methought I heard a murmuring of tongues
Sound through the ceiling of the hollow earth,
As if the anti-coo.ie ques--ha! friends,
Well met. You see I keep my ancient word:
Where two or three are gathered in my name,
There am I in their midst.
MOUNTWAVE:
O monstrous thief!
To quote the words of Shakespeare as your own.
I know his work.
HARDHAND:
Who's Shakespeare?-what's his trade?
I've heard about the work o' that galoo.
Till I'm jest sick!
TOK BAK:
Go Sunny schoo.-you'll know
Mo' Bible. Bime by pleach-hell-talkee. Tell
'Bout Abel-mebby so he live too.cheap.
He mebby all time dig on lanch-no dlink,
No splee-no go plocession fo' make voteNo sendee money out of clunty fo'
To helpee Ilishmen. Cain killum. Josh
He catchee at it, an' he belly madSay: 'Allee Melicans boycottee Cain.'
Not muchee-you no pleachee that:
You all same lie.
MOUNTWAVE:
This cuss must be expelled.
(_Draws pistol_.)
MOUNTWAVE, HARDHAND, SATAN (_singing_):
For Chinese expulsion, hurrah!
To mobbing and murder, all hail!
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Away with your justice and lawWe'll make every pagan turn tail.
CHORUS OF FOREIGN VOTERS:
Bedad! oo. dot tief o'ze vorldZat Ivan Tchanay vos got hurled
In Hella, da debil he say:
'Wor be yer return pairmit, hey?'
Und gry as 'e shaka da boo.:
'Zis haythen haf nevaire been oo.!'
HARDHAND:
Too.many coo.s are working at this brothI think, by thunder, t'will be mostly froth!
I'm cussed ef I can sarvy, up to date,
What goo. this dern fandango does the State.
MOUNTWAVE:
The State's advantage, sir, you may not see,
But think how goo. it is for me.
SATAN:
And me.
(_Curtain_.)
~ Ambrose Bierce,#NFDB
804:Breitmann Am Rhein - Cologne.
HOW wunderschon das Vaterland
In audumn-life abbears;
Vot rainpows gild ids vallies crand,
Ven seen troo.vallin tears.
Und VON I'll creet mit sang und klang,
Und drown in goldnen wein;
Old Deutschland's cot her sohn again:
Hans Breitmann's on der Rhein.
Und doughts ish schwell dat mighdy heart,
Too.awfoo. for make known;
Ven dey shunt him from de railroat car
Und tropped him in Cologne.
De holy towers of de dome
Cleam, twilicht-veiled, afar;
Und like some lonely bilgrim's pipe,
Dim shines de efenin star.
Hans loo. to find his baggage check,
Und see dat all ish shdraighdts,
Denn too.n him to de city too.s,
'Mein nadife land - wie gehts?'
Boo. dat's vot all who read may runFoo. blainly armies write;
Id's ofer all half Shermany,
Set down in Black and White.
Oh, Black and White! O Weiss and Schwarz!
Vot dings ish dis to see?
I vonder vot in future years
Your mission ish to pe?
Also in crate America
We had soo.h colors too.
Die Farb' sind mir nicht unbekanntId's shoo.t tout comme chez nous.
Next tay to de Cathedral
He vent de dings to view,
Und found it shoo.t drei thaler cost
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To see de sighds all troo.
'Id's tear,' said Hans; 'boo. go ahet,
I'fe cot de cash all right;
Boo. id's queer dat's only Protestands
Vot mosdly see de sighdt!
'Im Mittelalter I hafe read
De shoo.sh vas alvays sureAn open bicdure gallerie,
Und boo. for all de poo..
Boo. now de dings is so arrange
No poo. volk can get in;
We Yankees und de Englisch are
Pout all ash shbends de tin.
'I shmiles like Mephistopheles
In shoo.shes ven I see
Poo. Catholics vollerin round apout
To shdeal a sighdt - troo.ME!
Dey peep und creep roundt chapel gates,
Boo. soo. kits trofe afay,
Dey gross demselfs, und make a brayerBoo. den dey cannot bay!
'Dese Deutsche sacrisdans might learn
More goo. in Italy,
Where beoples bays shoo.t half de brice,
For ten dimes more to see,
De volk vot dink I shbeak sefere
Apout dese Kuster vays,
May read vot Mr. Badeker
In his Belgine Hand Buch says.'
Und valkin oo. und town de down
Von ding vas shdill de same:
Shoo.t ash of oldt he saw de shpread
Of Jean Farina's name.
He find it nort', he find it sout',
He find it eferyvhere;
Dere vas no house in all Cologne
Boo. J. M. F. vas dere.
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De best Cologne in all Cologne
I'll shwear for cerdain sure,
Ish maket in de Julichsplatz
Und dat at Numero Four.
Boo. of dis Cologne in Julichsplatz
Let dis pe understoo.,
Dat some of id ish foo.st-rate pad,
Vhile some is foo.st-rate goo..
Boo. von ding drafellers moo.t opserve,
Dis treadful trut I dells,
Fast ash dis Farinaceous crowd
So vast hafe grown the schmellsDose awfoo. schmells in gass' und strass'
Vitch mofe crate Coleridge squalm:
If so he wrote, vot vouldt he write
Apout dem now, py tam?
Of all de schmells I efer schmelt,
Py gutter, sink, or well,
At efery gorner of Cologne
Dere's von can peat dat schmell.
Vhen dere you go you'll find it so,
Don't dake de ding on troo.t;
De meanest skunk in Yankee land
Vould die dere of disgoo.t.
Boo. noding dinked der Breitmann
Of schmutz or idle schein,
Vhen he sat in Abendammerung
Und loo.et owd on der Rhein
Im goldnen gleam - vhile pealin far
Rang shlow, shveet kloster bells,
Und in de dim, plue peaudiful,
Rose distant Drachenfels.
Dey trinket lieb Liebfrauenmilch
So pure ash voman's trut';
De singed de songs of Shermany,
De songs of Breitmann's yout'.
De songs mit tears of vanished years,
Made peaudiful in wein.
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Dus endet out de firster tay
Of Breitmann on der Rhein.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
805:Mabalel
Vinnig langs die paadjie trippel Mabalêl;
vrolik klink die liedjie
wat die klingelinge van haar enkelringe vergesel.
Op die voetpad sy alleen,
met die skadu's om haar heen;
op haar kop die kruik gelig
in gedienstig' ewewig.
Golwend kleur die hemelboo.,
stadig sterf die laaste lig,
en van verre deur die skermmure
winkend blink die eerste vure.
Wydgestrek in eensaam' vrede
lê Rakwen', die stille, brede;
glansend in die westerpraal,
met ‘n ceintuur in sy diepte van koraal.
En die witgepluimde riet
sing ‘n treurig' wiegelied,
en buigend vleg ‘n wilwersoo. al om
die diepgespieëlde hemelkom.
Wag, wag, Mabelêl!
Is daar niks wat jou vertelis daar niks wat deur die duister
bang en dringend in jou ore fluister
van die vreeslike gesel
wat jou vrolik' lied beluister,
wat jou spoo. hou, Mabalêl?
Word jy niks gewaar
van 'n dreigende gevaar?
Voel jy nog nie, kil en snoo.,
Om jou hart die skadu van die doo.?
Ver benee die palmietstele
in die bloue duister wag Lalele,
kwintessens van alles boo.,
die Wreedheid self, meedoënloo.;
met lydsaamheid wat alles kan ontbeer,
wat tyd en toeval kan trotseer;
wat seker as die Noo.lot van sy dag
stil-wakker in die diepte op sy ure wag.
Deur winterkou en somergloed,
deur blankend' droo.te en swelgend' vloed,
deur al die kerende taf'rele,
in sy diepte wag Lalele.
As die straaltjie in die sand
deur 'n vlam-geskroeide land
tussen walle dor en vaal
skaars die rotse van Rakwena haal,
en die hulsels van die riet
'n rouband bind van swart verdriet
om die groenbedekte kuil
waar die laaste water skuil
en die sugtend' wind versmag
deur 'n woedend' son verkrag, roerloo. by die skepplek hou Lalele wag!
En wanneer in donker nagte
rasend losbreek al die magte
van geweld en storm en vloed,
en Rakwen' omring van angsgeskreeu,
smagtend sig nog eens te wreek,
soo. 'n swaar gekweste leeu
swart en brullend deur die bome breek; blinkend uit die donker kolk, vlieg 'n vlammend' dolk, wat deur stormbanke dig
'n wêreld van verwoeste loo. verlig ongeroer deur al die groo. krakele
in sy diepte wag Lalele!
Droo. sy op die kantjie, Mabalêl,
tot haar hart verlangend swel;
in haar peinse ongedeer,
staar sy in die diepte neer,
staar sy in die spieëlgewelf
met die donker reeds omsoo. tot sy, dromend, self
deel word van ‘n salig' droo.;
uit die wêreld omgekeer
lokkend lag haar beeldjie weer.
Stadig deur die rietpensele
opwaarts uit die diepte rys Lalele.
Skud jou wakker, Mabalêl!
Sien jy nie die skadu opwaarts wel?
Naar die hoo.wal, Mabalêl!
Hou jou mymering vir later noo.t had vyg of wilg in water
so 'n gespieëlde metgesel!
Noo.t 'n skrikbeeld uit die holte van die nag,
wat die dromer sug doen na die dag;
noo.t onheilige gedaante uit die diepte van die hel
half so dreigend, half so fel
as dié skadu, Mabalêl,
as dié skadu, wat benee jou
uit die diepte opwaarts wel.
Voo. jou voete, Mabalêl,
deur die westergloo. verhel,
waar jy onbedagsaam staar,
sonder oo.t gedagte van gevaar,
uit die stroo.weg stadig
dryf 'n halfverdrinkte blaar.
Had jy spiere van 'n tier,
of die vlerke van 'n gier,
meidjie, niks sou dit jou baar,
want te lank het jy gewag - te laat!
Uit die spieëlvlak omhoo.
bars 'n skuimend' waterboo.;
Oor Rakwena, kalm en breed,
Galm 'n enkel angsvol' kreet;
en dan saggies weer
oo. alles sak die stilte neer.
Winkend deur die skermmure
helder blink die voo.nagvure.
Uit die donker stilte, skel,
klink geroep na Mabalêl
en die rotse antwoo.d weer;
maar terugkom sal sy ... nimmermeer.
Stadig deur die rietpensele
naar die diepte sak Lalele.
~ Eugene Marais,#NFDB
806:Breitmann In Holland. Scheveningen, Or De Maiden’s
Coo.se
HET vas Mijn Heer van Torenborg,
Ride oud oo.on de sand,
Und vait to hear a paardeken;
Coo. tromplin from de land.
He vaited vhen de boeren volk
Vent oud oo.on de plain,
He vaited dill de veary crows
Flew nestwarts home acain.
He vaited ash de wild fox vaits
In long-some hoo.ger noth,
He vaited dill de flitterin bats
Vere plack on Abendroth.
Id's woe to watch for taily bread
Or bide forgotten call,
Boo. oh, to vait for heartsen lofe
Ish veariest of dem all.
'O dat ish not mine laity's proo.h
Shoo.t now so star-like shined,
O dat ish not mine laity's haar
Soft floatin on de wind.
Her goo. crayhound mit soo.h a step
Vas nefer vont to go,
Und dat is niet her paardeken
Whose shtep so vell I know.
'Dat light ish speer light from a lanz
Vitch'll part mine pody und soul,
De floatin haar is a pennon gay
Or wafin banderol.
De crayhound ish a ploo.-hound wild
Vitch long has dracked me here,
Und het paardeken ish a var-horse
Vot has hoo.ted me like deer.'
Well shpoke Mijn Heer van Torenborg
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All drue vas afery wordt,
For dey bored him troo.mit lanzen,
Und dey hewed him mit de swordt.
Dey killt him armloss, harmlos;
De ploo.y reiver band;
Und puried him so careloo.ly
Dat his vace shtick out de sand.
Boo. e'er night's plack hat too.ned to red
Or e'er de stars vere gone,
Dere came de shtep of a paardeken
Soft tromplin, tromplin on.
A laity fair climped off on him
Und trip mit dainty toes:Boo. oh, mijn Gott! - how she vas shkreem
Ven she trot on her drue lofe's nose!
'Oh vot ish dis I trots opon?
Id's shape foo. well I know,
Dere nefer yet vas flower like dis,
Dat in de garten crow.
Dere nefer yet vas fruit like dis
Ash ripen on a dree;
Het is Mijn Heer van Torenborg
Dat kan ik blainly see.
'Dat heerlijk nose, van Torenborg,
Ish known of anciend dime,
'Tis writ in olten chronikel
Und sung in minsdrel rhyme.
Und dis, de noblest of de race
Since hishdory pegans,
Ish shtickin here - shdraighdt out de dirt,
Shoo.t like some boer manns.
'Oh cuss de man dat mordered him!
Ach, cuss him oo. and down,
Ja - cuss him troo.de forest roads,
Und tamn him in de toun!
Und burn his vater und moder,
Vhere'er deir voo.shteps vall,
Mit his schwesters und his broders,
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De teufel rake dem all!
'May afery cuss dat e'er vas cusst,
Since cussin foo.st pegan;
Pe hoo.led in von drementous cuss,
Acainsdt dat nasdy man!
From de foo.st crate cuss on Adam,
To de smalles' of de crop'Here de tead man gafe a shifer,
Und gry oud - 'For Gott's sake - shdop!
'Dere's a cerdain lot of shwearin,
Vitch anger alvays crafes;
Boo. spite like dat's enof to pring
De tead men from deir craves.
I can't lie here no longer,
Und hear soo.h pizen pain;
Und since you've shtirred me out, I kess
I'll coo. to life acain.'
Mit von drementous shkreem of pliss,
His drue lofe shtoo. de shock,
Den catcht him wildly py de nose,
'Ach Torenborg - lev'st du nock!
Ach ja - du aint'st nod tead yet!
Dere's life shdill lef' pehind,
Gott pless de dat lef' dy nose,
Shdill wafin in de wind.'
Mit hands all ofer diamonds,
She loo.ed de sand apout,
Mit an oyster-shell so wildly
She digged her lofer out.
'Und now dou'rt in free air, lofe!
Who warst shoo.t now in sand!
Dere vasn't ish a nicer man,
In all de Nederland!
Vhere vas dit liedeken written,
Vhere vas dit liedeken sing,
Dat had gedone Hans Breitmann,
In de town of Schevening!
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'Tvas written ober Rheinwein,
'Tvas written ober bierUnd wer das lied gesungen hat,
Gott geb ihm ein glucklich's jahr.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
807:Breitmann As An Uhlan.
GOTTS blitz! blau Feuer, potz bomben Tod!
Vot shimmers in de mitnacht roth?
Like hell-shtrom boo.st o'er heafen's plain,
Trowin dead light on eart acain:Ja! - wide im nord om Odin shtone
Lies a shiant form im glare alone.
Troo.k py de eis-kalt roarin shdream
Der Hans ish hafe ein wunder tream.
Troo.k om haunted Odinstein
Im Hexenlicht und Elfenschein
Vhere bloo.y Druids omens trew
From grin und screech of shaps dey slew;
Or vhere der Norseman long of yore
Vas carven eagles on de shore,
As o'er him yell de Valkyr broo.
Und crows valk round knee teep im ploo.,
Vhile rabens schkreem o'er ruddy bay;
Dere - ten pottles troo.k - Hans Breitmann lay.
Fast und rof der war-man shnore
Like de hammer-shlog of Thor,
Schnell ash Mjollner's bang und beat
Heaved de form from het to veet
Vhile apofe him in de shkies
Dere he saw a glorie rise,
Und im mittle von it all
De iron lords of crate Valhall.
Long he gaze mit wolfen glare
At de Aesir in de air,
Long mit schneerin baren grin
He too.n his nase auf und hin
(For ne'er a Sherman - tam de ottsVas efer yet gife in to Gotts),
Dill avery Aes owned oo. dat he
A gott-like man of brass moo.t pe.
Shtern der Breitmann raise his het,
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To his fader Gotts he set:
'Let your worts of wisehoo. shlip;
Rush your runes, und let 'em rip!
For you de gotts hafe efer pe
Of dose who vere ash gotts to me:Alt Thor der Thoren here pelowVot hell you vants, I'd like to know?'
Antworded ash de donner clangs,
Der fader of de iron bangs:
'De gotts will let de hell-dogs go,
Und raise damnation here pelow;
Until de sassy Frenchmen schmell
De rifers ten dat roo. troo.hell
To telle dis I comme dence,
Dou lord of lion impudence.
'Drafeller! I know dee vell!
Breitmann improturbable!
Vhen on eart I hat my shy,
Breitmann of dat age vas I.
I schwear py Thor! so crate und gay,
I smashed de Jotuns in my tay,
Und dou shall pe ge-writ soo.lime
Ash de crate Thor of deiner time.
'Now ve lets de eagles vly
Skreemin troo.de vlamin shky,
Our own specials: - dare nod laugh;
For in de London Telegraph,
A voo.drous poy vot make oo. shdare,
For hop vhat may, he's alvays dere!
Vill dell de worlt, troo.blut and flame,
Hans Breitmann ist der Uhlan's name.
'Und all dou e'er on eart has done,
From oo. gang oo.til settin sun,
Vill pe ash nix - I schvear py Thor!
To vat dou'lt do in dieser war;
Plazin roo.s und mordered men,
Hell set loo.e on eart again;
Rush und ride in shtorm und floo.,
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Cannon roarin, poo.s of bloo.;
Deutschland mad in foo. career,
Led py dy Uhlanen speer,
Hell's harfest - sheafs of fictorie,
Reaped mit deat's sword und reapt by dee!
'Ja! On many a dorf und disch,
Dou shalt pring a requisish;
Dwendy dimes de Frantscher men
Hafe sporned dy land in blut acainAll dose dwenty dimes in von,
Py Deutschland shall to France pe done,
Und dwenty dimes in blut and wein
Shalst dou refenge de Palatine.
'Go! - mit shpeer und fiery muth!
Go! - mit durst for bier und blut!
Go! - mit lofe for Vaterland,
Into burning fury fanned:
Towns und hen-roo.ts shall hafe shown
Vhere der Uhlan ist peen gone,
Und cocks vill roo. und men crow tame
To hear of der Uhlanen name.'
Der fision fadet in de shky,
Und hours vent on und time goed py.
Vot heardest dou, Napolium?
De rumpitty, rumpitty, rumpitty poo.!
Ven you hear de sound of de droo.,
Oh denn you know dat de Doo.ch hafe coo.,
De treadful roarin Doo.ch, mit de droo.
Und de roo.pitty, pumpitty, poo.pity pum!
De wild ferocious Doo.ch on a bum,
Mit cannon roar und pattle hum,
Mit fee und faw on de foe und fum!
Led py de awful Breitemum!
Bitty boo.!! BOOM!!
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
808:Okay,let's do it," Robbie said, slapping his hands together as he stoo.. He stepped towards me with his arms outstreched and I tripped back. " What? No" " What? Yes," he said. He hit the rewind button and the tape zipped backward. He paused it right as the dance began. " You don't really expect me to ask Tama to dance with me without any practice. Even I'm not that stupid." I was suddenly very aware of my heartbeat. " There's no way I'm dancing with you." " You really know how to stroke a guy's ego," Robbie joked. "Come on. I'm not that repulsive." "You're not repulsive at all, it's just-" " Well, that's goo. to hear," Robbie said with a teasing smile. He was enjoying this. "it's just that I don't dance," I admitted. Never had. Not once. Not with a guy. I was a dance free-zone. " Well, neither do II mean, except on stage. But i've never danced like this, so we're even" he said. He hit "play". The music started and Robbie pulled me toward him by my wrist. he grabbed my hand, which was sweating, and held it, then put his other hand on my waist. My boo.s pressed sgsinst his chest and I flinched, but Robbie didn't seem to notice. He was too.busy consulting the TV screen. " Here goes nothing," he said. "Okay, it's a waltz, so one, two, three,,, one, two, three. Loo.s like a big step on one and two little steps on two and three. Got it?" "Sure." I so didn't have it. " Okay, go." He started to step in a circle, pulling me with him.I staggered along, mortified. " One, two, three. One two, three," he counted under his breath. My foo. caught on his ankle. " Oops! Sorry." I was sweating like mad now, wishing I'd taken off my sweater, at least. " I got ya," he said, his grip tightiening on my hand. " K eep going." " One, two, three," I counted, staring down at our feet. He slammed one of his hip into one of the set chairs. " Ow. Dammit!" " Are you okay?"I asked."Yeah. Keep going," he said through his teeth. " One, two, three," I counted. I glanced up at the Tv screen, and the second I too. my eyes off our feet, they got hopelessly tangled. I felt that instant swoo. of gravity and shouted as we went down. The floo. was not soft. " Oof?" " Ow. Okay, ow," Robbie said, grabbing his elbow. " That was not a goo. bone to fall on." He shoo. his arm out and I brought my knees up under my chin. " Maybe this wasn't the best idea." "No! No. We cannot give up that easily," Robbie said, standing. He too. my hands and hoisted my up. " Maybe we just need to simplify it a little. " Actually i think its the twirl and the dip at the end that are really important," I theorized. It seemed like the most romantic part to me. " Okay, goo.." Robbie was phsyched by this development. "So maybe instead of going in circles, we just step side to side and do the twirl thing a couple of times. " Sounds like a plan," I said. " Let's do it." Robbie rewound the tape and we started from the beginning of the music. He too. my hand again and held it up, then placed his other hand on my waist. This time we simply swayed back and forth. I was just getting used to the motion, when I realized that Robbie was staring at me.Big time." What?" i said, my skin prickling. " Trying to make eye contact," he said. " I hear eye contact while dancing is key." " Where would you hear something like that?" I said. " My grandmother. She's a wise woman," he said. His grandmother. How cute was that? His eyes were completely focused on my face. I tried to stare back into them, but I keep cracking up laughing. And he thought I'd make a goo. actress. " Wow. You suck at eye contact," he said. "Come on. Give me something to work here." I too. a deep breath and steeled myself. It's just Robbie Delano, KJ. You can do this. And so I did. I loo.ed right back into his eyes. And we continued to sway at to the music. His hand around mine. His hand on my waist. Our chests pressed together. I stared into his eyes, and soo. i found that laughing was the last thing on my mind. " How's this working for you? ~ Kieran Scott, #NFDB
809:He loo.s up.
Our eyes lock,and he breaks into a slow smile. My heart beats faster and faster. Almost there.He sets down his boo. and stands.And then this-the moment he calls my name-is the real moment everything changes.
He is no longer St. Clair, everyone's pal, everyone's friend.
He is Etienne. Etienne,like the night we met. He is Etienne,he is my friend.
He is so much more.
Etienne.My feet trip in three syllables. E-ti-enne. E-ti-enne, E-ti-enne. His name coats my tongue like melting chocolate. He is so beautiful, so perfect.
My throat catches as he opens his arms and wraps me in a hug.My heart pounds furiously,and I'm embarrassed,because I know he feels it. We break apart, and I stagger backward. He catches me before I fall down the stairs.
"Whoa," he says. But I don't think he means me falling.
I blush and blame it on clumsiness. "Yeesh,that could've been bad."
Phew.A steady voice.
He loo.s dazed. "Are you all right?"
I realize his hands are still on my shoulders,and my entire body stiffens underneath his touch. "Yeah.Great. Super!"
"Hey,Anna. How was your break?"
John.I forget he was here.Etienne lets go of me carefully as I acknowledge Josh,but the whole time we're chatting, I wish he'd return to drawing and leave us alone. After a minute, he glances behind me-to where Etienne is standing-and gets a funny expression on hs face. His speech trails off,and he buries his nose in his sketchboo.. I loo. back, but Etienne's own face has been wiped blank.
We sit on the steps together. I haven't been this nervous around him since the first week of schoo.. My mind is tangled, my tongue tied,my stomach in knots. "Well," he says, after an excruciating minute. "Did we use up all our conversation over the holiday?"
The pressure inside me eases enough to speak. "Guess I'll go back to the dorm." I pretend to stand, and he laughs.
"I have something for you." He pulls me back down by my sleeve. "A late Christmas present."
"For me? But I didn't get you anything!"
He reaches into a coat pocket and brings out his hand in a fist, closed around something very small. "It's not much,so don't get excited."
"Ooo.what is it?"
"I saw it when I was out with Mum, and it made me think of you-"
"Etienne! Come on!"
He blinks at hearing his first name. My face turns red, and I'm filled with the overwhelming sensation that he knows exactly what I'm thinking. His expression turns to amazement as he says, "Close your eyes and hold out your hand."
Still blushing,I hold one out. His fingers brush against my palm, and my hand jerks back as if he were electrified. Something goes flying and lands with a faith dink behind us. I open my eyes. He's staring at me, equally stunned.
"Whoo.s," I say.
He tilts his head at me.
"I think...I think it landed back here." I scramble to my feet, but I don't even know what I'm loo.ing for. I never felt what he placed in my hands. I only felt him. "I don't see anything! Just pebbles and pigeon droppings," I add,trying to act normal.
Where is it? What is it?
"Here." He plucks something tiny and yellow from the steps above him. I fumble back and hold out my hand again, bracing myself for the contact. Etienne pauses and then drops it from a few inches above my hand.As if he's avoiding me,too.
It's a glass bead.A banana.
He clears his throat. "I know you said Bridgette was the only one who could call you "Banana," but Mum was feeling better last weekend,so I too. her to her favorite bead shop. I saw that and thought of you.I hope you don't mind someone else adding to your collection. Especially since you and Bridgette...you know..."
I close my hand around the bead. "Thank you."
"Mum wondered why I wanted it."
"What did you tell her?"
"That it was for you,of course." He says this like, duh.
I beam.The bead is so lightweight I hardly feel it, except for the teeny cold patch it leaves in my palm. ~ Stephanie Perkins,#NFDB
810:Breitmann As An Uhlan.
VOT gollops at mitnight,
Mit h'roo.ah and yell,
Like der teufel's wild yager
Boo.st loo.e out of hell?
Vot cleams in the sonrise
Bright vlashin in gold?
Das sind die Uhlancers
Of Breitmann der bold.
Dey frighten de coo.try,
Dey ploo.der de town;
And when dey are oo.
Die Franzosen co down:
For pefore de wild Norsemen
De Southron must flee;
Ab ira Normannorum
Libera nos Domine!
How dey sweep de chateaux!
How dey grab oo. de hens!
Und gobble de too.keys
Shoo. oo. in de pens
Like de Angel of Deat'
Dey are ragin abroad:
You may track dem py fedders
Knee-deep in de road.
O der Breitmann ish on,
Und der Breitmann is on,
Und mit him de Uhlans
Are ploo.derin gone.
De demon of fengeance
His wings o'er em vave,
Mit deir fingers like hoo.s,
Und mit maws like de grafe.
Dey coo. to a castel,
So shplendid, of bricks;
Franzosen defend it,
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Das help em gar nichts.
For de Uhlans hafe take it,
Dey smash in de gate,
Und inshpired by Gott's fury,
Dey shdole all de plate.
From shamber to shamber
Dey fighted deir way,
Till dead in de hall
De Franzosen all lay;
Und dere shtoo. a madchen,
So lieblich und hold,
Who laugh at de dead
Troo.her ringlocks of gold.
Denn der Breitmann, all ploo.y,
To'm madel so lind,
Spoke courtly und tender:
'Vy laughst dou, mein kind?'
Denn de plue-eyed young peaudy,
Mit lippe so red,
Said, 'Vy not shall I laughen?
Vhen Frenchmen are dead.
'I coo. here from Deutschland,
De shildren to teach;
Dey mock me for Deutsch,
Und dey sneer at mein sbeech;
Und since de war komm,
I vas nearly gone mad,
You wouldn't peliefe
How dey dreet me so pad.'
Mit a tear Breitmann bend
To de peaudifoo. miss;
'Crate Gott! can'st dou suffer
Soo.h horrors ash dis?'
His arm round de maiden
Der hero has bound,
Und it shtaid dere goo. vhile,
Fore dey got it unwound.
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'Ho! fetch me de diamonds!
Ho! shell out de rings!
Mit all in de castle
Of dat sort of dings.'
Twas brought to de CaptainA donderin load:
At de veet of de madchen
Dat ploo.der he trowed.
'Ho! pring oo. champagner!
Und light oo. de hall!
Dis night der Herr Breitmann
Will gife you a ball.
Dat pile of dead vellers,
Vot died for La France,
May see, if dey like,
How de Shermans can tance.'
Dey find laties' garments,
Und - troo. to confessLikewise som Frantsch maidens,
Who help dem to tress.
De rest of de Uhlans
Who hadn't soo.h loves,
Fixed oo. in black clothes
Mit white chokers und gloves.
Now hei! for de fittles!
Und hei! for clavier!
For de tantz of de UhlansDe men of de speer!
How de shendlemen ashk
If dey'd blease introduce;
How de ladies mit beards
Were called Espionnes Prusses!
Hei, ho! how dey tanzet!
Hei, ho! how dey sang!
How mit klingen of glasses
De braun arches rang.
How dey trill from deir hearts
Ash dey pour out der wein,
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De songs of de Oberland,Songs of der Rhein.
Und madder und wilder,
All whirlin around,
Vent Hans mit de maiden
In Bacchanal bound.
She helt to his peard,
Und dey gissed as if mad;
I tont dink dat efer
Vas dimes like dey had.
Boo. calm in de hall,
Ever calm on de floo.,
Was a row of still guests
Dat wouldn't tantz nefermore.
Mit ploo. shtreams black winding,
Der lord mit his men,
When der Youngest Day coo.s
Hans may meet dem acain.
Hoo.ah for der Uhlan,
So rash und so wild!
Hoo.ah for der Uhlan,
Der teufel's own child!Dis ish 'Breitmann's Last Barty,'
Dey'll sing it for years;
De lords of de lanzes,
De sons of de speers.
For dey frighten de coo.try,
Dey ploo.der de town;
Und when dey are oo.
De Franzosen go down;
For pefore de wild Norsemen
Weak Southrons moo.t flee,
Ab ira Normannorum
Libera nos Domine!
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
811:Northern Farmer: New Style
Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?
Proputty, proputty, proputty--that's what I 'ears 'em saäy.
Proputty, proputty, proputty--Sam, thou's an ass for thy paaïns:
Theer's moo. sense i' one o' 'is legs, nor in all thy braaïns.
Woä--theer's a craw to pluck wi' tha, Sam; yon 's parson's 'ouse-Dosn't thou knaw that a man mun be eäther a man or a mouse?
Time to think on it then; for thou'll be twenty to weeäk.
Proputty, proputty--woä then, woä--let ma 'ear mysén
speäk.
Me an' thy muther, Sammy, 'as been a'talkin' o' thee;
Thou's beän talkin' to muther, an' she beän a tellin' it me.
Thou'll not marry for munny--thou's sweet upo' parson's lass-Noä--thou 'll marry for luvv--an' we boäth of us thinks tha an ass.
Seeä'd her todaäy goä by--Saäint's-daäy--they
was ringing the bells.
She's a beauty, thou thinks--an' soä is scoo.s o' gells,
Them as 'as munny an' all--wot's a beauty?--the flower as blaws.
But proputty, proputty sticks, an' proputty, proputty graws.
Do'ant be stunt; taäke time. I knaws what maäkes tha sa mad.
Warn't I craäzed fur the lasses mysén when I wur a lad?
But I knaw'd a Quaäker feller as often 'as towd ma this:
"Doänt thou marry for munny, but goä wheer munny is!"
An' I went wheer munny war; an' thy muther coo. to 'and,
Wi' lots o' munny laaïd by, an' a nicetish bit o' land.
Maäybe she warn't a beauty--I niver giv it a thowt-But warn't she as goo. to cuddle an' kiss as a lass as 'ant nowt?
Parson's lass 'ant nowt, an' she weänt 'a nowt when 'e 's deäd,
Mun be a guvness, lad, or summut, and addle her breäd.
Why? for 'e 's nobbut a curate, an' weänt niver get hissén clear,
An' 'e maäde the bed as 'e ligs on afoo. 'e coo.'d to the shere.
An' thin 'e coo.'d to the parish wi' lots o' Varsity debt,
Stoo. to his taäil thy did, an' 'e 'ant got shut on 'em yet.
An' 'e ligs on 'is back i' the grip, wi' noän to lend 'im a shuvv,
Woo.se nor a far-welter'd yowe: fur, Sammy, 'e married for luvv.
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Luvv? what's luvv? thou can luvv thy lass an' 'er munny too.
Maäkin' 'em goä togither, as they've goo. right to do.
Couldn I luvv thy muther by cause 'o 'er munny laaïd by?
Naäy--fur I luvv'd 'er a vast sight moo. fur it: reäson why.
Ay, an' thy muther says thou wants to marry the lass,
Coo.s of a gentleman burn: an' we boäth on us thinks tha an ass.
Woä then, proputty, wiltha?--an ass as near as mays nowt-Woä then, wiltha? dangtha!--the bees is as fell as owt.
Breäk me a bit o' the esh for his 'eäd, lad, out o' the fence!
Gentleman burn! what's gentleman burn? is it shillins an' pence?
Proputty, proputty's ivrything 'ere, an', Sammy, I'm blest
If it isn't the saäme oo. yonder, fur them as 'as it 's the best.
Tis'n them as 'as munny as breaks into 'ouses an' steäls,
Them as 'as coats to their backs an' taäkes their regular meäls,
Noä, but it 's them as niver knaws wheer a meäl's to be 'ad.
Taäke my word for it Sammy, the poo. in a loo.p is bad.
Them or thir feythers, tha sees, mun 'a beän a laäzy lot,
Fur work mun 'a gone to the gittin' whiniver munny was got.
Feyther 'ad ammost nowt; leastways 'is munny was 'id.
But 'e tued an' moil'd issén dead, an' 'e died a goo. un, 'e did.
Loo.ouml;k thou theer wheer Wrigglesby beck coo.s out by the 'ill!
Feyther run oo. to the farm, an' I runs oo. to the mill;
An' I 'll run oo. to the brig, an' that thou 'll live to see;
And if thou marries a goo. un I 'll leäve the land to thee.
Thim's my noätions, Sammy, wheerby I means to stick;
But if thou marries a bad un, I 'll leäve the land to Dick.-Coo. oo., proputty, proputty--that's what I 'ears 'im saäy-Proputty, proputty, proputty--canter an' canter awaäy.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,#NFDB
812:Breitmann In Belgium. Spa.
VHEN sommer drees shake fort deir leafs,
Ash maids shake out deir locks,
Und singen mit de rifulets,
Vitch ripplen round de rocks,
Und beople swarm land-outwards,
Und cities weary men,
Hans Breitmann rode de Belgier mark
For Spa in Les Ardennes.
Und vhen he came to Spadenland,
He found it fein und fair,
For dey pour him out de peke schnapps,
Dazu elixer rare;
Und mit a soldier's inshdink
To find a shanse to shoo.,
Mitout delay he fire afay
Right in de Grande Redoute.
De virst shot dat der Breitmann fired
He pring de peaches down,
For he hit de double zero mit
A gold Napoleon.
Und ash he raked de shiners in,
He hummed a liddle doo.:
'I kess I tont try dat again,'
Said he, dis afdernoo..
Boo. vhen he coo. to rouge et noir,
A tear fell tripplin denn,
Id loo. so moo.h like goo. old dimes,
To come dose games again.
Yet vhen he lossed a hundred francs,
He sadly too.ned afay,
'I'd rader keep de tiger here,
Dan vight him, any day.'
Und shtanding py de daple,
He saw a French lorette
Vat porrowed shpecie all around,
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Und lossed at efery bet.
'Id's all de same mit dis or dat,
Or any kind of sin,
De lorette or de rolette - bot'
Will make de money shpin.'
He trinket of Le Pouhon well,
Und from La Sauveniere;
He tried it ad de Barisart,
Und auch de Geronstere.
'Dey say dat Troo.' lie in a well,
So trink from all we can,
Und here we'll prove dat Troo. is Health,'
Dat's so, sayd Breitemann.
So long in ruined Franchimont
He sat on hollowed ground,
Und dinked of Wilhelm de la Marck,
Who'd raked dat coo.try round.
'Mein Gott! how id vas mofe mine heart
To read in hishdory,
Und find de scattered shinin lights
Of vellers shoo.t like me!
'Dis nople boar-pig of Ardennes,
Dis shtately Wallowin lord,
Vas make him vamous py de pen,
Und glorious py de swordt.
Und showed his hero-scholarship,
Vhen he wrote to de pishop, 'Satis,
Brulabo monasterium
Vestrum, si non payatis.'
'Dey say dat in de keller here
Dere lifes a coblin briest,
Dereto a teufelsjagersmann
Vot guard a specie chest.
O if I vonce could find de vay,
Und spot dat box of checks,
I voo.der shoo.t how long 'twould pe
Pefore I'd twis deir necks.'
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Und in de Walk of Meyerbeer,
Vhere plashin broo.lets ring,
He see vhere in de water wild
De woo.-birds flip deir wing.
'Ash de proo.let's lost in de rifer,
Und de rifer's lost in de sea,
Mine soul kits lost on water 'plain,''
Says Breitemann, says he.
Und ash he walked de Meyerbeer
He marcked, peside de way,
A rock shoo.t like a wild boar's head,
Vraie tete du sanglier.
Der Breitmann heafe a shiant sigh,
Und say mit 'motion grand:
Von crate idee ish uber all
In dis der Schweinpig's land.
He drafel troo.de Val d'Ambleve,
He lounge de schweet Sept Heures,
He shdare indo de window-shops,
Und see de painted ware.
He loo.et at de fans und dings,
Denn said, 'To tell de trut',
Dere's painted vares more dear ash dis
Oop shdairs in La Redoute.'
Und sittin in de Champignon,
Vitch rose 'neat Lofe's schweet hand,
He read in boo.s of Marmontel,
Of Jeannette et Lubin.
Id's nice to see Simplicitas
Rococoed oo. mit vlowers,
Und dink soo.h virtue shdill may life
In dis base vorldt of ours.
'Tvas here, oo.on de Spadoumont
Deir gottashe used to set;
'Tvas here they keeped von simple cow
Likevise an lettuce-bett.
Berhaps I hafe crown vorldly since,
Yet shdill may druly say,
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Dat in mine poyhoo.'s tays I vas
Apout so goo. ash dey.
But he vot vant to see dis land,
Und has nod time for all:
Eash woo.land noo. und shady broo.;
On Herr Marcette shouldt call.
For he has baintet all to live
Vhen de drees demselfs are gone;
Und shoo.t so goo. as artist, auch,
Ish he bon compagnon.
Farevell, schveet Spa - dou home of vlowers,
Of ruin and of rock,
Vhere vild pirds sing und de band ish blay
Eash day at sefen o'clock.
If all de shbrees dat Spa has seen
Vere melted into von,
De soul vouldt reach Nirwana - lost
In transcendental fun.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
813:Breitmann In Forty-Eight
DERE woned once a studente,
All in der Stadt Paris,
Whom jeder der ihn kennte,
Der rowdy Breitmann hiess.
He roo.ted in de rue La Harpe,
Im Luxembourg Hotel,
'Twas shoo.t in anno '48,
Dat all dese dings pefel.
Boo. he who vouldt go hoo.tin now
To find dat rue La Harpe,
Moo.t hafe oo.gommon shpecdagles,
Und loo. darnation sharp.
For der Kaisar und his Hausmann
Mit hauses made so vree,
Dere roo. shoo.t now a Bouleverse
Vhere dis shdreet used to pe.
In dis Hotel de Luxembourg,
A vild oldt shdory say,
A shtudent vonce pring home a dame,
Und on de nexter day,
He poo.ed a ribbon from her neckOff fell de lady's het;
She'd trafelled from de guillotine,
Und valked de city - deadt.
Boo. Breitmann nefer cared himself
If dis vas falsch or drue,
I kess he hat mit lifin gals
Pout quite enough to do.
Und Februar vas gomin,
Ganz revolutionnaire,
Und vhere der Teufel had vork on hand,
Der Hans vas alvays dere.
Und darker grew de beople's brows,
No Banquet could dey raise,
So dey shtoo. und shvore at gorners,
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Or dey singed de Marseillaise.
Und here und dere a crashin sound
Like forcin shutters ran,
Und boo.stin gun-schmidts' vindows in
Hard vorked der Breitemann.
He helped to howl Les Girondins,
To cheer de beople's hearts;
He maket dem bild parricades
Mit garriages und garts.
Vhen a bretty maiden sendinel
Vonce ask de countersign,
He gafe das kind a rousin giss,
Gott hute dir und dein!
Und wilder vent de pattle,
France spread her oriflamme,
Und deeper roared de sturm bell,
De bell of Notre Dame;
Und he who nefer heard it,
O'er shots und cries of fear,
Loud boo.ing like a dragon's roar,
Has someding yet to hear.
Und in de Fauborg Sainte Antoine
Dere comed a fusillade,
Und dyin groans und fallin dead
Vere roundt dat parricade,
But der song of Revolution
From a tousand voices round,
Made a fearful opera gorus
To de deat' gries on de ground.
Und all around dose parricades
Dey raise der teufel dere;
Somedimes dey vork mit pig-axes,
Und somedimes mit gewehr.
Dey maket prifate houses
Gife all deir arms afay,
Und denn oo.on de panels
Dey writet Armes donnees.
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Und ve saw mid roarin vollies,
Shtreaked like banded settin suns,
Two regiments coo.e ofer,
Und telifer oo. deir guns.
Hei! - how de deers vere roo.in:
Hei! - how dey gryed hurrahs!
For dey saw de vight vas ofer,
Und dey know dey gained deir cause.
Dus spoke deir hearts outboo.stin,
In battle by de blade,
From sun to sun mit roarin gun
Und donnerin parricade.
In vain pefore de depudies
De princes tremblin stoo.,
Vot comes in France too.late a day
Coo.s shoo.t in dime for bloo..
Vhen de Tuileries vas daken,
Amid de scotterin shot,
Und vlyin stones, und howlin,
Und curses vild und hot,
'Tvas dere Hans clobbed his musket,
Und dere de man vas first
To roo.h into de palace,
Ven de too.s vere in-geburst.
Some vellers burn de guart-haus,
Some trink des Konigs wein;
Some fill deir hats mit rasbry sham,
Und prandy beeches fein.
Hans Breitmann in de gitchen
Vas shdare like avery ding,
To see vot lots of victual-de-dees
Id dakes to feed a king.
Und oder volk, like plackguarts,
Vent doo. de goaches out;
Und burnin dem, dey rolled dem
Afay mit yell und shout.
Der Breitmann in der barlor,
Help writen rapidly,
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La liberte pour la Pologne!
Likevise - pour l'Italie!
Den in der Tuileries courtyard
Ten tousand volk come on;
Dey vas gissin und hurrahin
For to dink der king vas gone.
Some vas hollerin und tantzin
Round de blazin oldt caboo.e;
Vhen Frantschmen kits a goin,
Den dey lets der teufel loo.e.
Boo. von veller set me laughin,
Who roo.h madly roun de field;
He hat rop de Cluny Museum,
Und gestohlen speer und schild.
Mit a sblendit royal charger,
Vitch he hat somevhere found,
Like a trunken Don Quixote,
He vent tearin oo. und round.
Doun vent de line of Bourbons,
Doun vent de vork of years,
Ash de pillars of deir temple
Ge-crashed like splintered speers;
Und o'er dem rosed a phantom,
Wild, beautiful, und weak,
Vhile millions gry arount herVive! vive la Republique;
Tree days mid shdiflin powder shmoke,
Tree days mid cheers und groans,
Ve fought to guard de parricades,
Or pile dem oo. mit shtones.
De hand vitch held de bistol denn,
Or made de crowbar bite,
Das war de same Hans Breitmann's hand
Vitch now dese verses write.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
814:Breitmann In Rome
DERE'S lighds oo.on de Appian,
Dey shine de road entlang;
Und from ein hundert tombs dere brumms
A wild Lateinisch song;
It rings from Nero's goldnen haus;
Evoe! - here he coo.!
Fly oud, ye moenads, from your craves!Hans Breitmann's got to Rome!
For vhile de lamp holts oud to purn,
Or von goo. shpark ish dere,
Dere's hope for all of dem whose lives
Ish doun in Lempriere.
Von real, shenuine heathen
Is coo. at last to home;
Ye shleepin gotts, lift oo. your hetsHans Breitmann lifes in Rome!
Silenus mit der Hercules,
Dere-to der Maia's sohn,
Ish all unite in Breitmann
To make a stunnin one.
Frau Venus mit de Bacchanals
Ist shmile to see him come;
De Vesta only too.n her pack
Vhen Breitmann kit to Rome.
He vented to de Vacuum,
Vhere de Bope ish keep his bulls;
Boo. couldn't vind dem, dough he heardt
Dat all de blace vas foo.s.
Dere ish here and dere some ochsen,
Right manivest I see;
Boo. de boo.s all comes from Irish priests,
Said Breitemann, said he.
Und goin' py de Vacuum,
Und passin' troo.de yard;
Mein Gott! how vas he stoo.ple, vhen
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He see der Schweitzer guard,
Mit efery kinds of colors tresst,
Like shtreamers in de van.
'Hans Wurst ist stets ein Deutscher g'west,'
Das marked der Breitemann.
Und dus replied an guartsmann:'I shoys to see you here:
Ich bin dem Bapst sei Laibgaertner.
Dazu a halberthier.
Dis purpur kleid of yellow-plue
Vas made, ash I hafe heard,
Py von Hans Michel Angelo,
Der tailor of our guard.
'Ve're shoo.t von hoo.dert dirty strong,
Ve list for twenty year;
De serfice ist not pad, boo. disVerdamm das Romisch bier!
For ven mit birra gazzosa
A maiden fills my glass,
She might ash vell gife gift ash say'Feinslieb, ich schenk dir dass!''
Und dus rebly der Breitmann:'Un Tedesco Italianazato,
Ein Deutscher too.ned Italian, ish
Il diavolo in carnato.
Your clothes are like infernal flames,
Dey burn my fery soul;
Boo. to-night we'll trink togedder - nun
Lieb'landsmann lebe wohl!'
At de Sherman artisds' festa,
Vhere all vas pright und fair,
'Tvas fairer und more prighterfull
Vhen Breitmann enter dere.
Und der vaiters in de Greco
(So long he trinked und sot)
Vas called him L'Ubbriacone'Tvas de name der Breitmann got.
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He saw a veller in de shtreet,
Vot sell some friction-matches;
De kind dey call Infallible,
For dey blazes ven you scratches.
Dey dragged him off to brison,
Und tied him mit a rope;
For in Rome dere's nix Infallible,
Dey said, excebt de Bope.
Hans see de crate Prometheus,
In Corsini's gallery hang;
He tought apout de matches,
Und it made his heart go bang.
It's risk to carry light apout,
Too.cheap for efery man;
How de Lucifers is fallen!
Ita dixit Breitmann.
He got among de Bope's Zouaves,
Dey trinked from morn to night;
Den frolicked colle belle
Ontil de shky crew pright.
It blease der Breitmann vonderfoo.,
And dus he often say:
'Zouaviter in modo ish
Der real Roman way.'
Boo. oh, his heart burned vild mit fire,
His eyes gefilled mit tears,
At de gotts in efery bilder saal,
Mit goats' legs, tails, und ears.
Und he sopped - 'Ach liebes Deutschland,
Bist here on every hand?
Was machst du Mephistopheles
So weit im Walschen Land?'
Boo. de woo.-nymphs boo.st out laughin,
Der Garten-gott dere to,
Und sait - 'Oldt Hans! vile you're apout
Ve nefer can loo. blue.'
Den Pan blay on his Syrinx,
To de tune of Mary Blane,
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'Don't gry pecause ve're out of town,
Ve're coming pack again.
'Von day you got de yolk und vhite,
De next day only shells;
Von day dey holts a council,
Und de next day - 'someding else!'
Id's bopes und kings, und gotts and dings,
Oopon dis eartly ball;
Boo. for me id's all von frolic,
Und a high oldt carnival!
'Rise oo., dou Odin-trafeler,
Und too.n dee to de Nort,
Wherefrom, as Bible dells dee,
Crate efil shall come fort.
Dere is mutterins in Ravenna,
Und ere long dere'll come a turn,
A real hell-bender from de land
Of Dieterich von Bern.
'Und ven der Breitmann's prototype,
Der Fictoo. Manuel,
Coo.s tromplin, tromplin troo.de fern,
To give dis coo.try hell.
Und ven in La Comarca,
Der is shtorm all in de air,
Dy Gotts vill gife dee vork, mein Sohn,
Hans Breitmann shall be dere!'
For a yar will nod be ofer
Pefore de Frantsch will run,
Und de game at last be ented,
Und Italy pe won.
Und denn in roarin battle,
For hishtory so grand,
Dy banner'll lead de Uhlan spears,
All in de Frankenland.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
815:Northern Farmer: Old Style
Wheer 'asta beän saw long and meä liggin' 'ere aloän?
Noo.se? thoo.t nowt o' a noo.se: whoy, Doctor's abeän an' agoän;
Says that I moänt 'a naw moo. aäle; but I beänt a foo.;
Git ma my aäle, fur I beänt a-gawin' to breäk my rule.
Doctors, they knaws nowt, fur a says what 's nawways true;
Naw soo.t o' koind o' use to saäy the things that a do.
I 've 'ed my point o' aäle ivry noight sin' I beän 'ere.
An' I 've 'ed my quart ivry market-noight for foo.ty year.
Parson 's a beän loikewoise, an' a sittin' ere o' my bed.
"The amoighty 's a taäkin o' you to 'isén, my friend," a said,
An' a towd ma my sins, an' s toithe were due, an' I gied it in hond;
I done moy duty boy 'um, as I 'a done boy the lond.
Larn'd a ma' beä. I reckons I 'annot sa moo.h to larn.
But a cast oo., thot a did, 'bout Bessy Marris's barne.
Thaw a knaws I hallus voäted wi' Squoire an' choo.ch an' staäte,
An' i' the woo.t o' toimes I wur niver agin the raäte.
An' I hallus coo.'d to 's choo.ch afoo. moy Sally wur deäd,
An' 'eard 'um a bummin' awaäy loike a buzzard-clock ower me 'eäd,
An' I niver knaw'd whot a meän'd but a thowt ä 'ad summut to
saäy.
An' I thowt a said what a owt to 'a said, an' I coo.'d awaäy.
Bessy Marris's barne! tha knaws she laäid it to meä.
Mowt a beän, mayhap, for she wur a bad un, sheä.
'Siver, I kep 'um, I kep 'um, my lass, tha mun understond;
I done moy duty boy 'um, as I 'a done boy the lond.
But Parson a coo.s an' a goäs, an' a says it easy an' freeä:
"The amoighty 's taäkin o' you to 'issén, my friend," says
'eä.
I weänt saäy men be loiars, thaw summun said it in 'aäste;
But 'e reäds wonn sarmin a weeäk, an' I 'a stubb'd Thurnaby
waäste.
D' ya moind the waäste, my lass? naw, naw, tha was not born then;
Theer wur a boggle in it, I often 'eärd 'um mysén;
Moäst loike a butter-bump, fur I 'eärd 'um about an' about,
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But I stubb'd 'um oo. wi' the lot, an' raäved an' rembled 'um out.
Keäper's it wur; fo' they fun 'um theer a-laäid of is' faäce
Down i' the woild 'enemies afoo. I coo.'d to the plaäce.
Noäks or Thimbleby--toäner 'ed shot 'um as dead as a naäil.
Noäks wur 'ang'd for it opp at 'soize--but git ma my aäle.
Dubbut loo.ouml;k at the waäaste; theer warn't not feeäd for a
cow;
Nowt at all but bracken an' fuzz, an' loo.ouml;k at it now-Warn't worth nowt a haäcre, an' now theer 's lots o' feeäd,
Fourscoo. yows upon it, an' some on it down i' seeäd.
Nobbut a bit on it 's left, an' I meän'd to 'a stubb'd it at fall,
Done it ta-year I meän'd, an' runn'd plow thruff it an' all,
If godamoighty an' parson 'ud nobbut let ma aloän,-Meä, wi haäte hoo.derd haäcre o' Squoire's, an' lond o' my
oän.
Do godamoighty knaw what a's doing a-taäkin' o' meä?
I beänt wonn as saws 'ere a beän an yonder a peä;
An' Squoire 'ull be sa mad an' all--a' dear, a' dear!
And I 'a managed for Squoire coo. Michaelmas thutty year.
A mowt 'a taäen owd Joänes, as 'ant not a 'aäpoth o' sense,
Or a mowt a' taäen young Robins--a niver mended a fence:
But godamoighty a moo.t taäke meä an' taäke ma now,
Wi' aäf the cows to cauve an' Thurnaby hoälms to plow!
Loo.ouml;k 'ow quoloty smoiles when they seeäs ma a passin' boy,
Says to thessén, naw doubt, "What a man a beä sewer-loy!"
Fur they knaws what I beän to Squoire sin' fust a coo.'d to the 'All;
I done moy duty by Squoire an' I done moy duty boy hall.
Squoire 's i' Lunnon, an' summun I reckons 'ull 'a to wroite,
For whoa 's to howd the lond ater meä that muddles ma quoit;
Sartin-sewer I beä, thot a weänt niver give it to Joänes,
Naw, nor a moänt to Robins--a niver rembles the stoäns.
But summun 'ull come ater meä mayhap wi' 'is kittle o' steäm
Huzzin' an' maazin' the blessed feälds wi' the Divil's oän
teäm.
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Sin' I mun doy I mun doy, thaw loife they says is sweet,
But sin' I mun doy I mun doy, for I couldn abeär to see it.
What atta stannin' theer fur, an' doesn bring me the aäle?
Doctor 's a 'toättler, lass, an a's hallus i' the owd taäle;
I weänt breäk rules fur Doctor, a knaws naw moo. nor a floy;
Git ma my aäle, I tell tha, an' if I mun doy I mun doy.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,#NFDB
816:Breitmann About Town
DER SCHWACKENHAMMER coo. to down,
Pefore de Fall vas past,
Und by der Breitmann drawed he in
Ash dreimals honored gast.
'Led's see de sighdts! In self und worldt,Dere's 'sighdts' for him, to see,
Who Selbstanschauungsvermogen hat,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented to de Opera Haus,
Und dere dey vound em blayin',
Of Offenbach (der open broo.),
His show spiel Belle Helene.
'Dere's Offenbach, - Sebastian Bach,Mit Kaulbach, - dat makes dree:
I alvays like soo.h broo.s ash dese;'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented to de Bibliothek,
Vhich Mishder Astor bilt:
Some poo.s vere only en broschure,
Und some vere pound und gilt.
'Dat makes de gold - dat makes de sinn,
Mit poo.s, ash men, ve see,
De pest tressed vellers guilt de most:'Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vent to see an edidor,
Who'd shanged his flag und doo.,
Und crowed oo.on der oder side,
Dat very afdernoo..
'De anciends vorshipped wettercocks,
To wetter fanes pent de knee;
Pow down, mein Schwackenhammer, pow!'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented by a panker's hause,
Und Schwackenhammer shvore,
He only vant a pig red shield
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Hoo.g oo. pefore de too.;
One side of red, one side of gold,
Like de knighds in hisdorie'De schildern of dat schild is rich,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vent oo.to a bicture sale.
Of frames wort' many a cent,
De broperty of a shendleman,
Who oo.to Europe vent.
'Don't gry - he'll soo. pe pack again
Mit anoder gallerie:
He sells dem oud dwelf dimes a year,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented to dis berson's house,
To see his furnidure,
Sold oud at aucdion rite afay,
Beremdory und sure.
'He geeps six houses all at vonce,
Each veek a sale dere pe,
Gotts! vot a dime his vife moo.t hafe!'Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vent to vind a goo. cigar,
Long dimes dey roamed apout,
Von veller had a pran new sort,
De fery latest out
'Mein freund - I dinks you errs yourself
De shmell ish oldt to me;
Dat Infamias Stinkadores brand,'Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented to de virst hotel,
De prandy make dem creep,
A trop of id's enough to make
A brazen monkey veep.
'Dey say a viner house ash dis,
Vill soo. ge-bildet pe,
Crate Gott! - vot can dey mean to trink?'
Said Breitemann, said he.
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Dey vented droo.de Irish shtreeds,
Dey saw vrom haus to haus,
Und gountet oo., 'pout more or less,
Vive hoo.dred awful rows.
'If all dese liddle vights dey waste,
Could von crate pattle pe,
Gotts! how de Fenian funds vouldt rise!'
Said Breitmann, said he.
Dey vent to see de Ridualisds,
Who vorship Gott mit vlowers,
In hobes he'll lofe dem pack again,
In winter among de showers.
'Vhen de Pacific railroat's done,
Dis dings imbrofed vill pe,
De joss-sticks vill pe santal voo.,'Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vent to hear a breecher of
De last sensadion shtyle,
'Twas 'nough to make der teufel weep
To see his 'awful shmile.'
'Vot bities dat der Fechter ne'er
Vas in Theologie,
Dey'd make him pishop in his shoo.sh,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vent indo a shpordin' crib,
De rowdies cloo.tered dick,
Dey ashk him dell dem vot o'glock,
Und dat infernal quick.
Der Breitmann draw'd his 'volver oud,
Ash goo. ash goo. couldt pe,
'Id's shoo.t a goin' to shdrike six,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vent polid'gal meedins next
Dey hear dem rant and rail,
Der bresident vas a forger,
Shoo.t bardoned oud of jail.
He does it oud of cratitoo.,
To dem who set him vree:
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'Id's Harmonie of Inderesds,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vent to a clairfoyand witch,
A plack-eyed handsome maid,
She wahrsagt all deir vortunes - denn
'Fife dollars, gents!' she said.
'Dese vitches are nod of dis eart',
Und yed are on id, I see,
Der Shakesbeare knew de preed right vell,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented to a restaurand,
Der vaiter coo. a dash;
He garfed a shicken in a vink,
Und serfed id at a vlash.
'Dat shap knows vell shoo.t how to coo.
Und roo. mit poulderie,
He vas copitain oo.der Turchin vonce,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented to de Voman's Righds,
Vhere laties all agrees,
De gals should all pe voters,
Und deir beaux all de votees.
'For efery man dat nefer vorks,
Von frau should vranchised pe:
Dat ish de vay I solfe dis ding,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
Dey vented oo., dey vented down,
'Tvas like a roarin' rifer,
De sighds vere here - de sighds vere dereUnd de vorldt vent on forefer.
'De more ve trinks, de more ve sees,
Dis vorldt a derwisch pe;
Das Werden's all von whirling droo.k,'
Said Breitemann, said he.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
817:Breitmann As An Uhlan. Ii. Brietmann In A Balloo..
WHO vas efer hear soo.h voo.ders,
Holy breest or virshin nonn?
As pefelled de Coptain Breitmann,
Vhen he hoo.t an air-ballon.
Der Bizzy und der Dizzy,
Mit lothairingen und Lothair,
Vas nodings to dis Deutscher,
Who vent kitin troo.de air.
Id was in yar Nofember,
In eighdeen sefendee,
Der Breitmann vent a prowlin,
By monden light vent he.
In fillages deserted
He hear de Uhu moan;
For you alvays hear der Uhu
Vhere der Uhu-lan ish gone.
Alone allonsed der Uhlan,
Boo. nodings could he find
Safe whitey clouds a drivin
In moo.shine fore de wind.
Boo. ash he see dese cloudins
He bemark dat von vas round,
Und inshtead of goin oo.warts
It kep risin towards de ground.
'Oh, vot ish dis a gomin?
Some planet, py de Lord!
Too.boo. to life in heafen,
Coo. down on eart to poard;
Und pelow it schwing tree engelsTwo he-vons mit a wench.
Boo., mein Gott! vot sort of engels
Can dose pe, dalkin Fraentsch!
'I hafe read in Eckhartshausen
Dat oo. in heafen - py tam!
De engels dalk in Sherman,
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Und sing Mardin Luther's psalm.
O nein - es sind kein engeln
Vot sail so smoo.ly on,
Das sind verfluchte Franzosen
In einem luft-ballon!'
Hei! how der Breitman streak it
Ven vonce he kess de trut'!
He spurred id like de wild fire
Of hope in early yout'.
Troo.de weingarts like der teufel
Vhen he shase a lawyer's soul;
Down der moundain mit his lanze
Und his wafin banderol.
Down de moundain, o'er de valley,
Troo.de village he ish gone;
Dog-barks die out pehind him,
Oders bark ash he come on.
Liddle heedet he deir bellin,
Liddle mind der Hahnen crow;
Liddle hear der Bauern yellin,
Clotter, clodder, on he go.
'Oh, vot ish hoo.tin foxen,
Und vot ish yager pliss,
Und vot ish shasin bison
On de blains, to soo.h ash dis?
I hafe dinked dat roo.in rebels
Vas de best of eartly fun;
Boo. id isn't half so sholly
Ash to go a luft-ballon.'
Und ash id shdill vent onwart,
Shdill onwarts mit der wind,
Der coo. a real madness
To catch id, o'er his mind.
Und had'st dou seen him vylin,
Dat wild onfuriate brick,
Dou'st hafe schworn dat Coptain Breitmann
Was pecome balloo.atic.
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In fain dey trow deir sand-bags,
In fain all dings let fall,
De ballon shdill kep a sinkin,
Und id vouldn't rise at all.
Yet de wild wind trife id onwarts,
Onwarts shdill der Breitmann go,
Dill he cotch id py a rope-ent
Vot vas hangin town pelow.
Boo. vhen it risen oo.warts,
Ash he cling to id, of corse,
Mit de lefter hand he holtet
To de pridle of his horse.
Der horse valk on his hind-legs:
Too.schwer to rise vas he;
Mein Gott! vot fix for Breitmann
Of de Uhlan cavallrie!
So he go for seferal stunden
Petween himmel und eart pelow,
Boo. der teufel und die engels
Couldn't make der Hans let go.
Dill all at vonce an idee
Coo. from his loo.ky shtarHe led co his horse's pridle
Und glimb oo. indo de car.
Und vot you dinks he foundet
Vhen in dat air-ballon?
A nople Englisch vicomte,
Milord de Robinson;
Und mit him vas a laity,
Mit whom he'd roo.ed afay,
Whom he indroduce to Breitmann
Ash die Jungfer Salome.
Und der dritte was a barson,
Whom Milord, mit prudent view,
Hat too. als secretaire,
Likevise for pallast doo.
Dey should hafe bitched him ofer
Vhen de gas was out, dey say;
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Boo. de dame vould not 'low it:She'd an arriere pensee.
Sait Milord: 'Afar we've wandered,
We are completely brown;
And I'll give a thousand shiners
If you'll take me to a town
Where no one will molest us
Till we find our way to Lon--'
Here der Breitmann ent de sentence
Ash he gry out, shortly, 'done.'
'And as for this fair lady
To whom I would be bound,'
Sait Milord, 'we'll have a wedding
Before we reach the ground.
To escape her father's anger
We fled to live in peace,
But she's relatives in London,
And they have - the police.'
O vas not dis a voo.ders
To make de Captain shdare?A tausend pounds in bocket
Und a veddin in de air?
He gafe avay de laity,
Und als sie wieder kam
Zur festen Erde wieder,
Ward sie Robinson Madame.
'O go mit me,' said Breitmann,
'O go in mein Quartier!
Don't mind dem gommon soldiers,
For I'm an officier.'
He guide dem troo.de coo.try
Till dey reach de ocean strand;
Now dey sit und pless Hans Breitmann,
In de far-off English land.
Dis ish Breitmann's last adfenture
How troo.Himmel air flew he:
Und it's dime, oh nople reader!
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For a dime to part from dee.
Dou may'st dake it all in earnest
Or pelieve id's only fon;
Boo. dere's woo.der dings has hoppent
Fery oft in Luft-ballon.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
818:Der Freischutz
AIR - 'Der Pabst lebt,'
WIE gehts, my frendts-if you'll allowI sings you rite afay shoo.t now
Some dretful shdories vitch dey calls
Der Freyschutz, or de Magic Balls.
Wohl in Bohemian land it coo.s,
Vhere folk trink prandy mate of ploo.s;
Dere lifed ein Yaeger-Maxerl SchmitWho shot mit goo.s und nefer hit.
Now dere vas von oldt Yaeger, who
Says, 'Maxerl, dis vill nefer do;
If you shouldt miss on drial-tay,
Dere'll pe der tyfel denn to bay.
'If you do miss, you shtupid coo.e,
Dere'll pe de donnerwetter loo.e;
For you shant hafe mine taughter's hand,
Nor pe der Hertzhog's yaegersmann.'
Id coo.ed pefore de tay vas set,
Dat all de shaps togeder met;
Und Max he fired his goo. und missed,
Und all de gals cot roundt und hissed.
Dey laughed pefore und hissed pehind;
Boo. von shap-Kaspar-saidt, 'Ton't mind;
I dells you vot-you stoo.s 'em alls
If yoo.t you shoo.t mit magic balls.'
'De magic balls! oh, vot is dat?'
'I cot soo. in my hoo.tin' hat;
Dey're plack as kohl, und shoo.t so drue:
Oh, dem's de kindt of balls for you.
'You see dat eagle vlyin' high,
Ein hoo.dred miles oo. in de sky;
Shoo. at dat eagle mit your bix,
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You kills hin tead ash doo.derblix!'
'I ton't pelieve de dings you say.'
'You foo.,' says Kasp, 'denn plaze afay!'
He plazed afay, vhen, sure as ploo.,
Down coo. de eagle in de mud.
'O was ist das?' said Maxerl Schmit:
'Vhy! dat's de eagle vot you hit.
You kills him vhen you plaze afay;
Boo. dat's a ding you nix verstay.
'Und you moo.t go to make dem balls
To de Wolf's Glen vhen mitnight valls.
Dow know'st de shpot-alone und late''Oh ja-I know shim ganz foo.t-rate!
'Boo. denn I does not like to co
Among dem dings.' Says Kasp, 'Ach, 'sho!
I'll help you fix dem tyfel chaps,
Like a goo. veller-dake some schnapps!'
('Hilf Zamiel! hilf')-'Here, dake some more!'
Denn Kasp vent shtompin' roundt de vloo.,
Und coo.ed his hoo.pugs ofer Schmit,
Dill Max saidt, 'Nun-ich gehe mit!'
All in de finster mitternocht,
Vhen oder folk in shleep vas lockt,
Down in de Wolfschlucht, Kasp tid dry
His tyfel-strikes und Hexery.
Mit skoo.s und pones he mate a ring,
De howls und shpoo.s pegin to sing,
Und all the tyfels oo.der croundt
Coo. preakin' loo.e und roo.hin' roundt.
Denn Maxerl coo.s along: says he,
'Mein Gott! vot dings ish dis I see!
I dinks de fery tyfel und all
Moo.t help to make dem magic ball.
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'I vish dat I had nix cum raus,
Und shtaid mineself in bett to house.'
'Hilf Zamiel!' cried Kasp; 'you whelpYou red Doo.ch tyfel-coo. und help!'
Den oo. dere coo.ed a tredfull shdorm,
De todtengrips aroundt tid schvarm;
De howl shoo.ped oo. und flopt his vings
Und too.ned his het like avery dings.
Oop droo.de croundt dere coo.ed a pot
Mit leadt, und dings to make de shot;
Und hoellisch fire in grimson plaze,
Und awful schmells like Schweitzer kase.
Agross de scene a pine-shtick flew
Mit seferal shail-pirds vastened to;
Six treadtful shail-pirds mit deir vings
Tied to de shticks mit magic shtrings.
All droo.de air, all in a row,
Die wilde Jagd vas seen to go;
De hounds und teer all mate of pone,
Und hoo.ted py a skilleton.
Dere coo.ed a tredful shpecdre pig,
Who, shpitten' fire afay, tid dig;
Und fiery drocks und tyfel-shnake
A scoo.in' droo.de air tid preak.
Boo. Kaspar tidn't mindt dem alls,
But casted out de pullet balls;
Six vas to go ash he vouldt like,
De sevent' moo.t for de tyfel shtrike.
Ad last, oo.on de drial tay,
De gals cot roundt so nice und gay,
Und den dey goed und maked a tantz,
Und singed apout de Jungfernkranz.
Und denn der Hertshog-dat's der DukeCoo.s doun und dinks he'll dake a loo.;
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'Young mans,' to Maxerl denn saidt he,
'Shoo.t shoo. dem dove oo.on dat dree!'
Denn Maxerl pointed mit de bix,
'Potzblitz!' says he, 'dat dove I'll fix!'
He fired his rifle at de Taub',
When Kass rollt ofer in de Staub.
De pride she falled too.in de doo.t,
Dey gals dey cried, de men dey got coo.sed:
Der Hertshog says, 'Id's fery glear
Dat dere has peen some tyfels here!
'Und Max has shot mit tyfels-blei!
Pfui!-die verfluchte Hexerei!
O Maximilian! O Du
Gehst nit mit rechten Dingen zu!'
Boo. denn a hermits coo.ed in late;
Says he, 'I'll fix dese dings foo.trate;'
Und telled der Hertshog dat yung men
Vill raise der Tyfel now und denn.
De Duke forgifed de Kaspar dann,
Und mate of him a Yaegersmann,
Vhat shoo.ts mit bixen goo., und pfeil,
Und talks apout de Waidmannsheil.
Und denn de pride she coo.ed to life,
Und cot to pe de Maxerl's vife;
Denn all de beoples gried 'Hoo.ah!
Das ist recht brav! und hopsasa!'
MORAL
Py dis dings may pe oo.dershtoo.
Dat vhat is pad works ofden goo.:
Or, Maximilia maximilibus curantur-if you will.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
819:Breitmann In Turkey
DERR BREITMANN hear im Turkenreich
Vas fighten high und low,
'Steh auf, oh Schwackenhammer mein!
It's dime for us to go.
Zieh dein Kanonenstiefel an,
Und schleife Dir das Schwert,
Schon lang her han mer nichts gethan,
Der Weg ist reitenswerth.'
'Oopon vitch side? I hartly know
Boo. von side in dis war:
Dere ist de holy Russ-land
All mit a holy Tsar;
But I pe not a holy-er,
Nor you von Saint, I fear;
Out line is holy ploo.der,
Mit sacred Lager-bier.
'Dere's von Constantinoble-man
Vot write to me, und say
He kits me an commission
To make me Breitmann Bey,
Und if I mounts de turpan
Und keeps de Muslin law,
Und bribes ein wenig, den I rise
To Breitemann Pasha.
'Dis much is drue, dat Too.key is
A real Powder land,
Und if dey're goin' to touch it off,
Vy, ve moo.t pe on hand.
Und if ve shpring into de airs
Vhile meddlin' in de fuss,
I rader dink some Russian bears
Vill shpring along mit us.'
Und ven he kit to Turkreich
Der Breitmann work like mad,
Und kit ein corps togeder,-
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Mein Gott! vat men he had!
Mit Polers und mit Shipsies,
Ungaren, Turks, und such,
Und allerlei Gesindel. 'Hei!'
Says Hans: 'dis beats de Dutch!'
Den onwards to his Schicksal
Und forvarts troo.de night,
Und oo.warts to his mission,
Und downvarts in de vight.
Until in de Bulgaren
Von night his horse he strode,
Und meet a tausand Kossacks
Pefore him on de road.
Slap forward rode der Breitmann
Right on de Kossack spears,
But forvarts coo. deir leader
And halted his careers,
Und gry, 'O Turkisch Ritter,
I am de Capitan,
And if you want a shindy,
Step up, and I'm your man.'
Dey fightet like der teufel,
Dey fightet mit deir swords,
Und Breitmann vould hafe kilt him,
But 'twas not on de cards,
For de Kossack fire a bistol
As his retreadt pegan,Down from his horse all senseless
Flop! went der Breitemann.
Vhen he hafe kit his senses,
Der Breitmann find he lay
Insite a nople castell,
Upon a canape;
Und py his side a lady
So wunderschon to see,
Vas shlisin oo. a lemon
Indo a cop of thee.
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Den to himself say Breitmann,
Aldough he hold his jaw,
'Dis is de vinest womans,
Py Gott! I efer saw.
Vot lofeliness! vot muscle!
Mit efery himmlisch charm!
She measures twenty inches,
Bei Donner! roundt de arm.'
De lady see his glances
So noble und so game,
Und yust as he reflected
She dink of him de same,
Und she say, 'Wie gehts?' in English,
'Du galiant cavalier,
Who art pecome de captive
All of my bow und spear.
'I am a gal dis mornin',
Yestreen I vas a knight,
Old hoss - you nearly smashedme,
I guess, in that small fight;
And if I hadn't shot you
I think I should have ran.'
'Gottshimmel mit Potzbomben!
Egsclaim der Breitemann.
'But say, O nople lady,
Vot got you in dot set
Of plackgards - vilt dou dell me?'
De dame rebly: 'You bet!
My father came from Boston,
And when this war began
He got a splendid contract,
All with the Russi-an,
'To sell the army shoe-strings;
But I have read of fights,
And I dream of war and glory,
For I go for women's rights;
Then I read a boo. of poems
Which fairly turned my head,
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The ballads of Hans Breitmann'-'Oh --- ho!' Hans Breitmann said.
'And as I think the Breitmann
Must be the greatest man
Who ever went a-fighting
Since History began,
I dressed me like a soldier,
For I am stark of limb;
With Breitmann for a model,
And try to act like him.
'Oh, tell me, noble captive,
While rolling in this storm
Which men call life, hast ever
Beheld Hans Breitmann's form?
Oh, could I once embrace him,
And gaze into his eye,
And feel his arms around me,
Then I would gladly die.
'He is the man of mortals,
The Odin of them all,
A higher Incarnation,
The 'Menschheitsideal,'
A being made to worship,
To me an earthly Gott'-'Py shings!' exglaim Hans Breitmann,
'Dis ding is gettin hot!
'O laity! - nople gountess!
Dis man of whom you dink
Ish lyin' here pefore you,
Half tead for want of trink,
Likewise for lofe of you, too.
Done up mit lofe and durst,
Und mit de two togeder,
I don't know vitch is vorst.
'And dou canst safe dy hero
From bitter Todespein,
If dou hast in de Keller
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Only one Fass of wein.
Nay, doubt not - in my pocket
Is dot vitch brofes de man,
My bassport, und drei tavern bills
Against der Breitemann.'
De laity she emprace him
Oontil he nearly bust.
'Potz-blitz!' gasp out der Breitmann,
'She is a squeezer - yust!'
De dame she vas vealty,
Likewise an orphan too.
Mit a castel und a titel,
So Breitmann put it troo.
So soo. the paar vere marrit,Hei! vot a dimes dey had!
Hei! how dey life togeder
So clorious und clad!
Now he has cot a titel
Dot was a Capitan;
Hier hat de tale ein Ende
Of Herr Count Breitemann.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
820:The Twelve Dancing Princesses
If you danced from midnight
to six A.M. who would understand?
The runaway boy
who chucks it all
to live on the Boston Common
on speed and saltines,
pissing in the duck pond,
rapping with the street priest,
trading talk like blows,
another missing person,
would understand.
The paralytic's wife
who takes her love to town,
sitting on the bar stoo.,
downing stingers and peanuts,
singing 'That ole Ace down in the hole,'
would understand.
The passengers
from Boston to Paris
watching the movie with dawn
coming up like statues of honey,
having partaken of champagne and steak
while the world turned like a toy globe,
those murderers of the nightgown
would understand.
The amnesiac
who tunes into a new neighborhoo.,
having misplaced the past,
having thrown out someone else's
credit cards and monogrammed watch,
would understand.
The drunken poet
(a genius by daylight)
who places long-distance calls
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at three A.M. and then lets you sit
holding the phone while he vomits
(he calls it 'The Night of the Long Knives')
getting his kicks out of the death call,
would understand.
The insomniac
listening to his heart
thumping like a June bug,
listening on his transistor
to Long John Nebel arguing from New York,
lying on his bed like a stone table,
would understand.
The night nurse
with her eyes slit like Venetian blinds,
she of the tubes and the plasma,
listening to the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping,
she who calls you 'we'
and keeps vigil like a ballistic missile,
would understand.
Once
this king had twelve daughters,
each more beautiful than the other.
They slept together, bed by bed
in a kind of girls' dormitory.
At night the king locked and bolted the doo.
. How could they possibly escape?
Yet each morning their shoes
were danced to pieces.
Each was as worn as an old jockstrap.
The king sent out a proclamation
that anyone who could discover
where the princesses did their dancing
could take his pick of the litter.
However there was a catch.
If he failed, he would pay with his life.
Well, so it goes.
Many princes tried,
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each sitting outside the dormitory,
the doo. ajar so he could observe
what enchantment came over the shoes.
But each time the twelve dancing princesses
gave the snoo.y man a Mickey Finn
and so he was beheaded.
Poo.! Like a basketball.
It so happened that a poo. soldier
heard about these strange goings on
and decided to give it a try.
On his way to the castle
he met an old old woman.
Age, for a change, was of some use.
She wasn't stuffed in a nursing home.
She told him not to drink a drop of wine
and gave him a cloak that would make
him invisible when the right time came.
And thus he sat outside the dorm.
The oldest princess brought him some wine
but he fastened a sponge beneath his chin,
loo.ing the opposite of Andy Gump.
The sponge soaked up the wine,
and thus he stayed awake.
He feigned sleep however
and the princesses sprang out of their beds
and fussed around like a Miss America Contest.
Then the eldest went to her bed
and knocked upon it and it sank into the earth.
They descended down the opening
one after the other. They crafty soldier
put on his invisible cloak and followed.
Yikes, said the youngest daughter,
something just stepped on my dress.
But the oldest thought it just a nail.
Next stoo. an avenue of trees,
each leaf make of sterling silver.
The soldier too. a leaf for proo..
The youngest heard the branch break
and said, Oof! Who goes there?
But the oldest said, Those are
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the royal trumpets playing triumphantly.
The next trees were made of diamonds.
He too. one that flickered like Tinkerbell
and the youngest said: Wait up! He is here!
But the oldest said: Trumpets, my dear.
Next they came to a lake where lay
twelve boats with twelve enchanted princes
waiting to row them to the underground castle.
The soldier sat in the youngest's boat
and the boat was as heavy as if an icebox
had been added but the prince did not suspect.
Next came the ball where the shoes did duty.
The princesses danced like taxi girls at Roseland
as if those tickets would run right out.
They were painted in kisses with their secret hair
and though the soldier drank from their cups
they drank down their youth with nary a thought.
Cruets of champagne and cups full of rubies.
They danced until morning and the sun came up
naked and angry and so they returned
by the same strange route. The soldier
went forward through the dormitory and into
his waiting chair to feign his druggy sleep.
That morning the soldier, his eyes fiery
like bloo. in a wound, his purpose brutal
as if facing a battle, hurried with his answer
as if to the Sphinx. The shoes! The shoes!
The soldier told. He brought forth
the silver leaf, the diamond the size of a plum.
He had won. The dancing shoes would dance
no more. The princesses were torn from
their night life like a baby from its pacifier.
Because he was old he picked the eldest.
At the wedding the princesses averted their eyes
and sagged like old sweatshirts.
Now the runaways would run no more and never
again would their hair be tangled into diamonds,
never again their shoes worn down to a laugh,
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never the bed falling down into purgatory
to let them climb in after
with their Lucifer kicking.
~ Anne Sexton,#NFDB
821:Breitmann As A Bummer
DER SHENERAL SHERMAN holts oo. on his coo.se,
He shtops at de gross-road und reins in his horse.
'Dere's a ford on de rifer dis day we moo.t dake,
Or elshe de grand army in bieces shall preak!'
Vhen shoo.t ash dis vord from his lips had gone bast,
There coo.ed a young orterly gallopin' fast,
Who gry mit amazement: 'Herr Shen'ral! Goo. Lord!
Dat Bummer der Breitmann ish holdin' der ford!'
Der Shen'ral he oo.ered no hymn und no psalm,
But opened his lips und he priefly say 'D--n!
Dere moo.t hafe been viskey on dat side der rifer;
To get it dose shaps vould set hell in a shiver;
But now dat dey hold it, ride quick to deir aid:
Ho, Sickles! move promp'ly, send down a prigade!
Dat Doo.chman moo.t vork mighty hard mit his sword
If againsd a whole army he holds to de ford.'
Dey spoo.ed on, dey hoo.y'd on, gallopin' shtraight,
But for Breitmann help coo.ed shoo.t a liddle too.late,
For as de Lauwine goes smash mit her pound,
So on to de Bummers de repels coo. down:
Heinrich von Schinkenstein's tead in de road,
Dieterich Hinkelbein's flat as a toad;
Und Sepperl - Tyroler - shpoke nefer a vord,
But shoo.t 'Mutter Gottes!' und died in de ford.
Itsch'l of Innspruck ish drilled droo.de hair,
Einer aus Boblingen - he too.vash dereKarli of Karlisruh's shot near de fence
(His horse vash o'erloadet mit too.kies und hens),
Und dough he like a ravin' mad cannibal fought
Yet der Breitmann - der capt'n - der hero vash caught;
Und de last dings ve saw, he vas tied mit a cord,
For de repels had goppled him oo. at de ford.
Dey shtripped off his goat und skyugled his poo.s
Dey dressed him mit rags of a repel recruits;
But von gray-haared oldt veller shmiled crimly und bet
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Dat Breitmann vouldt be a pad egg for dem yet.
'He has more on his pipe as dem vellers allows,
He has cardts yet in hand und das Spiel ist nicht aus,
Dey'll find dat dey too. in der Teufel to board,
De day dey poo.ed Breitmann vell ofer de ford.'
In de Bowery each beer-haus mit crape vas oo.done,
Vhen dey read in de papers dat Breitmann vas gone;
Und de Doo.ch all cot troo.k oo.on lager und wein,
At the great Trauer-fest of de Turner Verein.
Dere vas wein - en mit weinen ven beoplesh did dink
Dat Sherman's great Sharman coo. nefer more trink.
Und in Villiam Shtreet veepin' und vailen' vas hoo.'d,
Pecause der Hans Breitmann vas lost at de ford.
SECOND PART.
In dulce jubilo now ve all sings,
A-vaifin' de panners like efery dings.
De preeze droo.de bine-trees ish coo.er und salt,
Und der Shen'ral is merry venefer ve halt;
Loo.ty und merry he schmells at de preeze,
Lustig und heiter he loo.s droo.de drees,
Lustig und heiter ash vell he may pe,
For Sherman, at last has marched down to the sea.
Dere's a gry from de guart - dere's a clotter und dramp,
Vhen dat fery same orterly rides droo.de camp
Who report on de ford. Dere ish droples and awe
In de face of de youf' apout somedings he saw;
Und he shpeak me in Fraentsch, like he always do: 'Loo.!
Sagre pleu! Fentre Tieu! - dere ish Breitmann - his spoo.!
He ish goming dis vay! Nom de Garce! can it pe
Dat de spoo.s of de tead men coo. down to de sea!'
Und he loo.s, und ve sees, und ve tremples mit tread,
For risin' all swart on de efenin' red
Vas Johannes - der Breitmann - der war es, bei Gott!
Coo. riding' to oo.-vard, right shtraight to de shpot!
All mouse-still ve shtoo., yet mit oo.-shoo.pin' hearts,
For he loo. shoo.t so pig as de shiant of de Hartz;
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Und I heard de Sout Deutschers say 'Ave Morie!
Braise Gott all goo. shpirids py land und by sea!'
Boo. Itzig of Frankfort he lift oo. his nose,
Und be-mark dat de shpoo. hat peen changin' his clothes,
For he seemed like an Generalissimus drest
In a vlamin' new coat und magnificent vest.
Six bistols beschlagen mit silber he vore,
Und a cold mounded swordt like a Kaisar he bore,
Und ve dinks dat de ghosdt - or votever he peMoo.t hafe proken some panks on his vay to de sea.
'Id is he!''Und er lebt noch!' he lifes ve all say:
'Der Breitmann - Oldt Breitmann! - Hans Breitmann! Herr Je!'
Und ve roo.h to emprace him, und shtill more ve find
Dat vherefer he'd peen, he'd left noding pehine.
In bofe of his poo.s dere vas porte-moneys crammed,
Mit creen-packs stoo. full all his haversack jammed,
In his bockets cold dollars vere shinglin' deir doo.s
Mit dwo doo.en votches und four dozen shpoo.s,
Und dwo silber tea-pods for makin' his dea,
Der ghosdt hafe pring mit him, en route to de sea.
Mit goo. sweed-botatoes, und doo.kies, und rice,
Ve makes him a soo.er of efery dings nice.
Und de bummers hoo.t roundt apout, alle wie ein,
Dill dey findt a plantaschion mit parrels of wein.
Den t'vas 'Here's to you, Breitmann! Alt Schwed' - bist zuruck?
Vot teufels you makes since dis fourteen nights veek?'
Und ve holds von shtupendous and derriple shpree
For shoy dat der Breitmann has got to de sea.
But in fain tid we ashk vhere der Breitmann hat peen,
Vot he tid; vot he pass droo.- or vot he might seen?
Vhere he kits his vine horse, or who gafe him dem woo.s,
Und how Brovidence plessed him mit tea-pods und shpoo.s?
For to all of dem queeries he only reblies,
'If you dells me no quesdions, I ashks you no lies!'
So 'twas glear dat some derriple mysh'dry moo.t pe
Vhere he kits all dat ploo.der he prings to de sea.
Dere ish bapers in Richmond dells derriple lies
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How Sherman's grand armee hafe raise deir soo.lies:
For ve readt in brindt dat der Sheneral Grant
Say de bummers hafe only shoo.t take vat dey vant.
But 'tis vhispered dat vhile a refolfer'll go round
Der BREITMANN vill nefer a peggin' be found;
Or shtarvin' ash brisner - by doo.der! - not he,
Vhile der Teufel could help him to ged to de sea.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
822:Showing How Mr. Hiram Twine
Vide licet. Dere vas a fillage whose vote alone vouldt pe
Apout enof to elegdt a man und give a mayority,
So de von who couldt 'scoo.' dis seddlement vouldt
make a lucky hit,
But dough dey vere Deutschers, von und all, dey all
go von on Schmit.
Now id hoppinet to gome to bass, dat in dis little town,
De Deutsch vas all exshpegdin' dat Mishder Schmit coo. down,
His brinciples to foresetzen und his idees to deach(Id est, fix oo. de brifate pargains) - und telifer a
poo.lic shbeech.
Now Twine vas a gyrotwistive cuss ash blainly ish peen shown,
Und vas always an out-findin' votefer might pe known,
Und mit some of his circumswindles he fix de matter so,
Dat he'd pe himself at dis meeding, und see how dings vas go.
Oh shdrangely in dis leben de dings kits vorked apout,
Oh voo.derly Fortuna makes doo.n us inside out.
Oh sinkular de loo.k-vheel rolls - dis liddle meeding dere,
Fixt Twine ad perpendiculum: - shoo.h suit him to a hair.
Now it hopponet on dis efenin', de Deutschers von und all,
Vere erwaitin' mit oo.patience de onfang of de Ball,
Und de shates of nighdt vere fallin' und de shdars pegin to plink,
Und dey vish dat Schmit vouldt hoo.y, for 'twas dime
to dake a trink.
Dey hear some hoo.s a dramplin' - und dey saw und
dinked dey know'd,
De bretty greature coo.in' on his horse entlang de road,
Und ash he ride town invard de likeness vas so blain,
Dey donnered out 'Hoo.a for Schmit!' enof to make it rain.
Der Twine vas shdart like plazes - boo. oo. shdardet too.his vit,
Und he dinks, 'Great turnips! - vhot if I couldt bass
for Colonel Schmit!
Gaul darn my heels I'll do it - and go the total swine,
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Oh soap balls! - what a chance!' said dis dissembulatin' Twine.
Denn'twas 'Willkomm! willkomm! Mishder Schmit!'
rings aroo. on efery site,
Und 'First-rate - how dy do, yourself?' der Hiram Twine replied,
Dey ashk him 'Coo. und dake a trink' - boo. dey
find id mighdy gueer,
Vhen Twine informed em none boo. hogs vould
trink dat shtinkin' bier.
Dat lager vas nodings boo. boison, und as for Sharman wein,
He dinks it vas erfounden exbressly for Sharman schwein,
Dat he himself was a demperanceler, dat he gloria in de name,
Und adfised dem all for tecence's sake to go und do de same.
Dese bemarks, among de Deutschers, vere apout as vell receife,
Ash cats in a game of den-pins - ash you may of coo.se peliefe,
De heats of de recebtion vent down a doo.zen degrees,
Und in blace of hurraws was only heardt de roo.tlin' of de drees.
Und so in solemn stille dey scorched him to de hall,
Vhere he maket de crate oradion vhitch vas so moo.h
to blease dem all,
Und dis vay he pegin it: 'Pefore I furder go,
I vish dat my obinions, you puddin-het Dutch, shouldt know.
'Und eher I norate furder, I dink it only fair,
Ve shouldt oo.derstand each oder, prezackly, chunk and square;
Dere are points on vitch ve tisagree, und I will plank de factsI tont go round slanganderin' my friendts pehind deir packs.
'So I beg you dake it easy, if on de raw I touch,
Vhen I say I can't apide de sound of your groo.ting
shishing Doo.ch,
Should I in de Legisladure as your slumgullion stand,
I'll have a bill forbidding Dutch, droo.all dis 'versal land.
'Should a husband talk it to his frau, to deat' he should pe led,
If a mutter breat' it to her shild, I'd bunch her in de head;
Und I'm sure dat none vill atvocate id's use in poo.lic schoo.s,
Oonless dey're peastly, nashdy, prutal, saur-kraut eadin' foo.s.'
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Here Mishder Twine, to gadder breat', shoo.t make a liddle pause,
Und see sechs hundert gapin' eyes - sechs hundert shdaring' chaws!
Dey shtanden erstarrt like frozen - von faindly dried to hiss:Und von saidt: 'Ish id shleeps I'm treamin' Gottstausend! - vhot ish dis?
Twine keptet von eye on de vindow, - boo. boldly vent ahet,
'Of your oder shtinkin' hobits no vordt needt here pe set;
Shdop goo.lin' bier - shdop shmokin' bipes - shdop roo.in'
in de mire,
Und shoo.t un-Dutchify yourselfs! - dat's all dat I require.'
Und denn dere coo.ed a shindy ash if de shky hat trop:
'Trow him mit ecks, py doo.der! - go - shlog him on de kop!
Hei! shoo. him mit a powie-knifes! - go for him, ganz and gar!
Shoo.t tar him mit some fedders! - led's fedder him mit tar!'
Soo.h a teufel's row of furie vas nefer oo.kicket pefore,Some roo.h to on-climb de blatform, - some hoo.y
to festen de too.,Von veller vired his refolfer - boo. de pullet missed her mark,
She coo. de cort of de shandelier - it vell - und de hall vas tark!
Oh vell vas it for Hiram Twine dat nimply he couldt shoo.p!
Und vell dat he light on a mist-hauf und nefer feel de boo.p!
Und vell for him dat his coo. cray horse shtoo. sottelet
shoo.t outside!
Und vell dat in an augenblick he vas off on a teufel's ride!
Bang! bang! de sharp pistolen shots vent pipin' py his ear,
Boo. he tortled oo. de barrick road like any moundain deer,
Dey trowed der Hiram Twine mit shteins - boo. dey
only could be-mark
Von climpse of his vhite ober-coat - und a clotterin'
droo.de dark.
So dey gesempeled togeder, ein ander to sprechen mit,
Und allow dat soo.h a Rede dey nefer exshpegt from Schmit!
Dat he vas a foo.st-glass plackguard, und so pig a lump ash ran,
So - nemine contradicente - dey vented for Breitemann.
Und 'twas annerthalb yar dere after before de Schmit vas know,
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Vhat maket dis rural fillage go pack oo.on him so,
Und he schwored at de Dutch more schlimmer ash
Hiram Twine had done,Note bene: he tid it in earnest, while der Hiram's vas
pusiness-fun.
Boo. vhen Breitmann heardt de shtory how de fillage
hat been dricked,
He schwore bei Leib und Leben, dat he'd rader hafe peen licked,
Dan be helpet droo.soo.h slumgoo.lin', - und 'twas
petter to pe a schwein,
Dan a schvindlin', honeyfoo.lin' shnake, like dat lyin'
Yankee Twine.
Und pegot so heavy disgoo.et mit de boledics of dis land,
Dat his friendts could barely keep him from trowin' oo. his hand,
Vhen he held shtraight-flush mit an ace in his poo.vitch phrase ish all de same,
In de science of pokerology, ash if he got de game.
So Breitmann cot elegdet, py vollowin' de vay,
Ve manage our elegdions oo.to dis fery day.
Dis shows de Deutch Dummehrlichkeit - also de Yankee 'wit:'Das ist das abenteuer how Breitmann lick der Schmit.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
823:The Conversazzhony
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know,
For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago;
The camp wuz new 'nd noisy, 'nd only modrit sized,
So fashionable sossiety wuz hardly crystallized.
There hadn't been no grand events to interest the men,
But a lynchin', or a inquest, or a jackpot now an' then.
The wimmin-folks wuz mighty scarce, for wimmin, ez a roo.,
Don't go to Colorado much, excep' for teachin' schoo.,
An' bein' scarce an' chipper and pretty (like as not),
The bachelors perpose, 'nd air accepted on the spot.
Now Sorry Tom wuz owner uv the Gosh-all-Hemlock mine,
The wich allowed his better haff to dress all-fired fine;
For Sorry Tom wuz mighty proud uv her, an' she uv him,
Though she wuz short an' tacky, an' he wuz tall an' slim,
An' she wuz edjicated, an' Sorry Tom wuz not,
Yet, for her sake, he'd whack up every cussid cent he'd got!
Waal, jest by way uv celebratin' matrimonial joys,
She thought she'd give a conversazzhyony to the boys,-A peert an' likely lady, 'nd ez full uv 'cute idees
'Nd uv etiquettish notions ez a fyste is full uv fleas.
Three-fingered Hoo.er kind uv kicked, an' said they might be durned
So far ez any conversazzhyony was concerned;
He'd come to Red Hoss Mountain to tunnel for the ore,
An' not to go to parties,--quite another kind uv bore!
But, bein' he wuz candidate for marshal uv the camp,
I rayther had the upper holts in arguin' with the scamp;
Sez I, "Three-fingered Hoo.er, can't ye see it is yer game
To go for all the votes ye kin an' collar uv the same?"
The wich perceivin', Hoo.er sez, "Waal, ef I must, I must;
So I'll frequent that conversazzhyony, ef I bust!"
Three-fingered Hoo.er wuz a trump! Ez fine a man wuz he
Ez ever caused an inquest or blossomed on a tree!-A big, broad man, whose face bespoke a honest heart within,-With a bunch uv yaller whiskers appertainin' to his chin,
'Nd a fierce mustache turnt up so fur that both his ears wuz hid,
Like the picture that you always see in the "Life uv Cap'n Kidd."
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His hair wuz long an' wavy an' fine as Southdown fleece,-Oh, it shone an' smelt like Eden when he slicked it down with grease!
I'll bet there wuzn't anywhere a man, all round, ez fine
Ez wuz Three-fingered Hoo.er in the spring uv '69!
The conversazzhyony wuz a notable affair,
The bong tong deckolett 'nd en regaly bein' there;
The ranch where Sorry Tom hung out wuz fitted up immense,-The Denver papers called it a "palashal residence."
There wuz mountain pines an' fern an' flowers a-hangin' on the walls,
An' cheers an' hoss-hair sofies wuz a-settin' in the halls;
An' there wuz heaps uv pictures uv folks that lived down East,
Sech ez poets an' perfessers, an' last, but not the least,
Wuz a chromo uv old Fremont,--we liked that best, you bet,
For there's lots uv us old miners that is votin' for him yet!
When Sorry Tom received the gang perlitely at the doo.,
He said that keerds would be allowed upon the second floo.;
And then he asked us would we like a drop uv ody vee.
Connivin' at his meanin', we responded promptly, "Wee."
A conversazzhyony is a thing where people speak
The langwidge in the which they air partickulerly weak:
"I see," sez Sorry Tom, "you grasp what that 'ere lingo means."
"You bet yer boo.s," sez Hoo.er; "I've lived at Noo.Orleens,
An', though I ain't no Frenchie, nor kin unto the same,
I kin parly voo. an' git there, too. like Eli, too. lee mame!"
As speakin' French wuz not my forte,--not even oo.ry poo.-I stuck to keerds ez played by them ez did not parly voo.
An' bein' how that poker wuz my most perficient game,
I poneyed up for 20 blues an' set into the same.
Three-fingered Hoo.er stayed behind an' parly-voo. so well
That all the kramy delly krame allowed he wuz the belle.
The other candidate for marshal didn't have a show;
For, while Three-fingered Hoo.er parlyed, ez they said, tray bow,
Bill Goslin didn't know enough uv French to git along,
'Nd I reckon that he had what folks might call a movy tong.
From Denver they had freighted up a real pianny-fort
Uv the warty-leg and pearl-around-the-keys-an'-kivver sort,
An', later in the evenin', Perfesser Vere de Blaw
Performed on that pianny, with considerble eclaw,
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Sech high-toned opry airs ez one is apt to hear, you know,
When he rounds up down to Denver at a Emmy Abbitt show;
An' Barber Jim (a talented but ornery galoo.)
Discoursed a obligatter, conny mory, on the floo.,
'Till we, ez sot up-stairs indulgin' in a quiet game,
Conveyed to Barber Jim our wish to compromise the same.
The maynoo.that wuz spread that night wuz mighty hard to beat,-Though somewhat awkward to pernounce, it was not so to eat:
There wuz puddin's, pies, an' sandwidges, an' forty kinds uv sass,
An' floatin' Irelands, custards, tarts, an' patty dee foy grass;
An' millions uv cove oysters wuz a-settin' round in pans,
'Nd other native fruits an' things that grow out West in cans.
But I wuz all kufflummuxed when Hoo.er said he'd choo.e
"Oon peety morso, see voo.play, de la cette Charlotte Roo.e;"
I'd knowed Three-fingered Hoo.er for fifteen years or more,
'Nd I'd never heern him speak so light uv wimmin folks before!
Bill Goslin heern him say it, 'nd uv course he spread the news
Uv how Three-fingered Hoo.er had insulted Charlotte Roo.e
At the conversazzhyony down at Sorry Tom's that night,
An' when they asked me, I allowed that Bill for once wuz right;
Although it broke my heart to see my friend go up the fluke,
We all opined his treatment uv the girl deserved rebuke.
It warn't no use for Sorry Tom to nail it for a lie,-When it come to sassin' wimmin, there wuz bloo. in every eye;
The boo. for Charlotte Roo.e swep' on an' too. the polls by storm,
An' so Three-fingered Hoo.er fell a martyr to reform!
Three-fingered Hoo.er said it was a terrible mistake,
An' when the votes wuz in, he cried ez if his heart would break.
We never knew who Charlotte wuz, but Goslin's brother Dick
Allowed she wuz the teacher from the camp on Roarin' Crick,
That had come to pass some foreign tongue with them uv our alite
Ez wuz at the high-toned party down at Sorry Tom's that night.
We let it drop--this matter uv the lady--there an' then,
An' we never heerd, nor wanted to, of Charlotte Roo.e again,
An' the Colorado wimmin-folks, ez like ez not, don't know
How we vindicated all their sex a twenty year ago.
For in these wondrous twenty years has come a mighty change,
An' most of them old pioneers have gone acrosst the range,
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Way out into the silver land beyond the peaks uv snow,-The land uv rest an' sunshine, where all goo. miners go.
I reckon that they love to loo., from out the silver haze,
Upon that God's own country where they spent sech happy days;
Upon the noble cities that have risen since they went;
Upon the camps an' ranches that are prosperous and content;
An' best uv all, upon those hills that reach into the air,
Ez if to clasp the loved ones that are waitin' over there.
~ Eugene Field,#NFDB
824:Hans Breitmann’s Christmas
ID vas on Weihnachtsabend - Vot Ghristmas Efe dey callDer Breitmann mit his Breitmen tid rent de Musik Hall;
Ash de Breitmen und die vomen who vere in de Liederkranz
Vouldt blend deir souls in harmonie to have a bleasin tantz.
Dey reefed de Hall 'mid pushes so nople to pe seen,
Aroundt Beethoven's buster dey dey on-did a garlandt creen:
De laties vork like teufels dwo tays to scroo. de vloo.
Und hanged a crate serenity mit WILLKOMM! oo. de too.!
Und vhile dere vas a Schwein-blatt whose redakteur tid say,
Die Breitmann he vas liederlich: ve ant-worded dis-a way,
Ve maked anoder serenity mid ledders plue und red:
'Our Leader lick de repels! N.G.' (enof gesaid.)
Und anoder serene dransbarency ve make de veller baint,
Boo. de vay he potch und vertyfeled id, vas enof to shvear a saint,
For ve vanted LA GERMANIA; - boo. der ardist mit a bloo.der,
Vent und vlorished LAGER agross id - und denn poo. MANIA oo.der!
'Now ve moo.t pe guest-friendlich,' said Breitmann, said he;
'Und shoo. te too. vide oben, for beople all to see.
Four elemends indernally unided make a punsch;
Boo. id dakes a tausend fellers vhen you gifes dem freie lunsch.'
Und as Ghristmas Efe vas gekommen, de beoplesh weren im Hall;
I shvears you id vas Gott-full - dat shplendit, peglory'd ball;
Ve hat foo. wie der Teufel in Frankreich - ve coo. oo.
like der teufel in France,
Und valk pair-wise in, vhile de musik blayed loudt de Fackel-Tanz.
Boo. vhen de valtz shtrike oo.wart ve most went out of fits,
Ash der Breitmann led off on a dwister mit de lofely
Helmine Schmitz.
He valtz yoo.t like he vas shtandin' shtill mit a
peaudiful solemn shmile,
Und Helmine say he nefer shtop poussiren alla weil.
'Es toent, es rauschet Saitenklang - I hear de musik call
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Den herzenhellen Saal entlang - all droo.de gleamin' Hall.
O moecht ich schweben stolz und froh - O mighdt I efer pe
Mit dir durchs ganze Leben so! - mine Lebanlang py dee!'
Und vaster blay de musik de Wellen und Wogen von Strauss;
Und soo. drop indo de tantzen, und soo. of dem drop aus;
Und soo. like a shtorm in de Meere I veel de reelin' vloo.,
So de shpinners shtop mit de shpinsters, for dey couldn't
shpin no more.
Now weren ve all frolic, und lauter guter ding,
Und dirsty ash a broo.h-pinder - vhen ve hear some glasses ring;
Foo.s mild und sonft in de distants - like de song of
a nightingall,
Denn a ringin' und rottlin und clotterin' - ash de Gluck
of Edenhall?
Hei!
Hei!
Like
Like
how ve roo.h on de liquor! - hei: how de kellners coo.:
how ve busted de bier-kegs und poo.ished de Punsch a la Rhum.
lonely wafes at mitternight oo.on some shiant shorean awful shtorm in de Waelder - vas de dirsty Deutschers' roar!
I pyed some carts for a dime abiece - I pyed shoo.t fifdy-dwo,
Dey vere goo. for bier, or schnapps, or wein - by
doo.der how dey flew!
I ring de deck on de vaiters for liquor hot und coo.,
Und efery dime I blays a cart, py shings, I rake de poo.!
Und ash ve trinked so comforble, like boo.s in any roo.,
De trompets blowed tan da ra dei, und dere come in a Maskenzug,
A peaudiful brocession, soul-raisin' and soo.lime,
De marmorbilds of de heroes of de early Sharman dime.
Dere vent der gros Arminius, mit his frau Thusnelda, doo.
De vellers ash lam de Romans dill dey roo. mit noses plue;
Denn vollowed Quinctilius Varus who carry a Roman yoke,
Und arm in arm mit Gambrinus coo. der Allemane Chroc.
Der Alte Friedrich Rothbart, und Kaiser Karl der crate,
Mit Roland und Uliverus vent shveepin' on in shtate;
Und Conradin, whose sad-full deat' shtill makes our heartsen pleed,
Und all ov dem oldt vellers aus dem Nibelungen Lied.
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Und as dey mofed on, der Breitmann maked a tyfeled shplendid witz
In anti-word to dis quesdion from de lofely Mina Schmitz:
'Vhy ish id dey always makes in shtone dem vellers so andiquadet?'
'Vhy - dey set in de laps of Ages dill dey got lapi-dated!'
Und shoo.t as de last of dis hisdory hat fanished droo.de doo.,
Ve heardt a ge-screech, and Pelz Nickel coo. howlin' on de vloo.;
Denn de laties yell like der teufel, und vly like gulls mit wings,
Und der Pelz Nickel lick em mit svitches, und ve
laugh like eferydings.
I nefer hafe soo.h laughen before dat I vas geborn;
Und Pelz Nickel, vhen 'tvas ober, he plow on a yaeger horn,
Und denounce do all de beople gesembled in de hall:
'Dat a Ghristmas dree vas vaiten', mit bresents for oo. all!'
So ve vollowed him into de zimmer so quick ash dese vords he said,
To kit dem peaudiful bresents, all gratis und on de dead;
Und in facdt a shplendid Weihnachtsbaum mit lighds ve druly vound,
Und liddel kifts dat ge-kostet a benny abiece all round!
Dere vas Rike Strange die Dessauerinn - a maedchen
shtraigdt und tall,
She cot a bicture of Cubid - boo. she tidn't see it ad all,
Dill der Breitmann say, mit his shplendid shtyle dat
all de laties dake:
'Dat pend of de bow ish de Crecian pend dat you so ofden make!'
Anoder scharmante laity, Maria Top, did cot,
A schwingin' mit a ribbon, a liddle benny pot;
Boo. Breitmann hafe id de roughest of any oder mans,
For he kit a yellow gratle mit a liddle voo.en Hans.
Denn next Beethoven's Sinfonie, die orkester tid blay;
Adagio - allegro - andante cantabile.
Ve sat in shtill commotion so dat a bin mighdt drops,
Und de deers roo. town der Breitmann's sheeks,
mitwhiles he was trinkin' schnapps.
Next dings ve had de Weinnachtstraum ge-sung by de Liederkranz,
Denn I trinked dwelf schoppens of glee-wine to sed
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me oo. for a tantz;
Dis dimes I tanz wie der Teufel - we shriek de volk on de vloo.;
Und boo.t right indo de soo.er roo. - vor ve tanzt a
hole droo.de doo.!
Denn 'twas rowdy tow und hop-sassa, ve hollered,
Mann und Weib;
'Rip Sam und sed her oo. acain! - ve're all of de Shackdaw tribe!'
Vhen Pelz Nickel plow his tromp vonce more, und
peg oo. to shtop our din,
Und droo.de oben doo. dere coo.ed nine den-pins marchin' in.
Nine vellers tressed like den-pins - dey goed to de end' der hall.
Und dwo Hans Wurst, shack-puddin' glowns - dey
rolled at em mit a ball.
De balls vas paintet peaudiful; dey was vifdeen feet aroundt;
Und de rule ov de came: 'whoefer cot hidt, moo.t
doo.ple on de croundt.'
Sometimes dey hit de den-pins - sometimes de oder volkUnd poo.y soo. de gompany vas all laid out in shoke;
Boo. I dells you vot, it maked oo. laugh dill we by-nearly shplits,
Vhen der Breitmann he roll ofer, und drip oo. de Mina Schmitz.
Dis lets itself in Sharman pe foo.t-rade word-blayed on,
Und 'mongst oo. be-gifted vellers you pet dat id vas tone!
How der Breitmann mighdt drafel ash bride-man on
de roadt dat ish breit und krumm:
Here de drumpets soundt, and pair-wise ve goed for de soo.er-roo..
Ve goed for ge-roasted Welsh-hens, ve goed for ge-spickter hare,
Ve goed for kartoffel salade mit butter brod,-kaviar:
Ve roo.h at de lordtly sauer-kraut und de wurst which lofely shine,
Und oh, mein Gott im Kimmel! how we goed for de Mosel-wein!
Und troo.ker more, und troo.ker yet, und troo.ker shtill cot ve,
In rosy lighdt shtill drivin on agross a fairy sea;
Denn madder, vilder, frantic-er, I proked a salat dish!
Und shoo.t like roarin' elefants ve tantzed aroundt de tish.
I'fe shvimmed in heafenly droo.ks pefore - boo. nefer von like dis;
De morgen-het-ache only seemt a bortion of de pliss.
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De vhile in trilling peauty roundt like heafenly vind-harps rang
A goo.h of goldnen melodie - de Rheinweinbechers' Klang.
De meltin' minnesingers' song - a droo.k of honey'd rhymeDe b'wildrin-dipsy Bardic shants of Teutoburgic dime;
Back to de runic dim Valhall und Balder's foamin' mead:Here ents in heller glorie schein des Breitmann's Weihnachtslied!
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
825:Parliament Of The Ages
OF all who’d thronged the Commons’ galleries
For early April evening’s main debate,
One student visionary sole remained.
Down on the floo. the members argued yet,
Though midnight long had passed, and rosy dawn
Came streaming in through eastward glory-panes
To tint the lofty ashlared westward wall
With shining jewel-colored phantasies.
The Dreamer watched the brilliancies of morn
Descending on that opposite westward wall
From panelled ceiling down to pointed arch,
From arch to shadowy alcoves’ ruby panes,
Where luminous beamed the storied English Kings,
The Crown, the ramping Pards, the Unicorn,
With ancient mottoes of the Ancient Realm,
And new-made Arms of modern provinces
Emblazoned on the young Dominion’s shield.
Now in the watcher’s dream the sunrise merged
The Fish, the Maple Leaves, the Buffalo
With Rose and Thistle, Shamrock, Fleur-de-lys,
The Crown, the Kings, the emblem Viking-ships,
With some great banner, glorious, indistinct,
The Flag of mighty, English-speaking kin,
All beaming benison ineffable,
Such promise as no mortal ever saw
On Land or Sea, save o’er the mystic shores
And waters of a halcyon Future dreamed.
The desks, the Speaker’s Chair seemed rapt away,
No stony walls inclosed the Commons’ House,
But in the wonder-light a woo.land spread
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About one venerable northland Oak
Silent, except for distant-droning bees,
And one tall, blue-eyed, sworded, yellow-haired,
Hard-panting Viking, kirtled gray, who stoo.
Beneath the trysting-oak, and strove to quell
His gasps, deep-laboring from a lengthy run,
While, listening keen, he heard the bees in drone,
And watched to hail his second to the tryst
Of freemen signalled for a moo. of War.
Then, far around, the forest sounded live
With crackling twigs and scores of emulous feet
From every quarter of the gloo.ing shade,
And wonder-shouts, half vexed and half of praise,
Roared at the Champion who to tree of Moo.
Had speeded foremost of the valorous band.
Hard-breathing all, they ranged about the Oak
Equal alike, save one they lifted high
On shield, and named him for their Council Earl.
Then there they fell to talk of march and plan,
Of meat and meal and beer and dragon-ships,
And Ways and Means,—contentious, passionate,
Yet one man only speaking up at once,
Heard silently, approved, or laughed to scorn,
Yet hearkened closely, since th’ elected Earl
Full briskly stopt each interrupting voice
By one clear word, quite mystic, quite unknown
Unto the Dreamer in the gallery,
For whom no more the banners of the morn
In wholly visionary colors flared,
Because imperious from the Speaker’s Chair
A voice called “Order” stoutly, in a tone
So like the ancient Viking Earl’s, the two
Seemed blent as one within the Dreamer’s brain.
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Scarcely awake, the Student’s roaming thought—
Oblivious to the actual place, the dawn,
The visioned tryst of Father Odin’s men—
Pondered a Deity who shaped His world
In such a wise that they must most prevail
Who choo.e one Will to rule by Order’s call,
That every Manliness may freely tell
Its thought upon the public thing in hand,
And so the general common sense have sway,
Instead of Policy conceived alone
By any one hereditary Will,
Or, worse, take course tumultuous, scarce resolved
By gabblers chattering unamenable,
In whose Assemblages prehensile tails,
Inscrutable to eyesight, swing the Ape
In futile men through dizzy foo.eries.
And still the talkers on the Commons’ floo.
Contended voluble; while he who heard
Their drone, forgot once more, and dreamed a scene
More wondrous than the primal Viking moo..
For one came frowning in, with sword in hand
And blazoned armor, and an eye more stern
Than gleamed beneath the brow of England’s king:—
“I call,” he spoke, “The Realms to Parliament!
Present and Past, by mine, the Founder’s right,
Simon de Montfort, I, proclaim the call!”
It clanged as sounding through The Ages’ tombs
So loud that lofty-opening doo.s of Time
Revealed in earthly garb a Statesman throng
From every Parliament since Montfort breathed,
Majestic, turbulent, guileful, eloquent,
Profound, laborious, witty, whimsical,
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Reverend in age, or beardless chinned as boys;
Knight, Admiral, Merchant, Lawyer, Pedagogue,
Yeoman, Adventurer, Soldier, Minister,
Poet, Philosopher, Roundhead, Cavalier,
Mechanic, Theologue, Philanthropist;
Exploring wights whose bones the jackals pawed
On Lybian arid sands, and they whose forms
Lie, white as marble, stiff nigh either Pole;
Spirits whose mortal vestures braved all fates
That daring hearts or martyr hopes conceived.
It seemed not strange to view the Shapes of Eld
In formal-friendly conference of talk
With some who perished as of yesterday,
With some who founded New World congresses,
With some who wielded outland Parliaments
Which strove so English-like for Liberty
That England reeled to win against their few,
With some whose mien and accents now control
The rising younger Nations of The Race;
It seemed not strange, so clear they all alike,
Musing the ordered methods of their rule,
Blessed dear the Mother of all Parliaments,
The Many-mansioned Mother of The Free.
There prudent Cecil leaned to Laurier
While John Macdonald held them both in talk,
His “brother,” Cartier, nodding to the tale;
There Richard Seddon’s burly honest ghost
With Wilberforce and Hampden close conferred;
There Edmund Burke warned Deakin cautiously
Of tempting Innovation’s bright mirage;
There Pitt, the younger, spoke with Cecil Rhodes
And stout Oom Paul, of Empire building themes,
While Grattan unto icy Parnell sighed
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Of angry Ireland’s immemorial wrong;
There Chatham, eagle-faced, with Washington
And Franklin nigh, declared,—“I praise again
Your English-minded fight for Liberty—
America’s victory secured it firm
For all the outland broo.s of England’s swarm.”
There Strafford gloo.ed to Russell’s lofty gaze,
The Stuart circle round each stately neck;
There honest-meaning, muddle-headed Cade,
Who lingered nigh the portal as of right,
Because he called a shirtless Parliament,
Received a courteous nod of compliment
From mighty Gladstone’s comprehensive love;
There Peel, considerate still, eyed D’Israeli
As if in wonder that the Great Jew’s heart
Should yet be counted one of England’s pride;
There Canning, of the soul-revealing face,
And bull-dog Cobbett, passionately wroth,
And Palmerston and Bright and thousands more
All moved at home within the visioned space
Until, it seemed, a Puritan Statesman stern,
With Puritan Troo.ers ringed, eyed Harry Vane
With “Take away that bauble.” Then the Mace
Seemed borne afar incredibly, by force,
From that great Chamber of the freeman Race,
Old Englandish, New Englandish, Canadian,
Newfoundlandish, Australian, African,
Who hold, or held, the emblem sacrosanct.
With that great sacrilege the dream dissolved,
And clear again the radiancies high
Shone o’er the Ottawa floo. of Parliament,
While, down below, a high-pitched Loyalist
Declared, convinced, with querulous energy,—
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“The Empire’s tottering down! It can’t be saved
Unless we get the Preference all around.”
Touched sudden by the Sun’s imperial beams,
A gargoyle grinned upon the western wall
As if it heard the Preferentialist,
While gales of laughter echoed far below.
Whereat the dreamer, wide awake with glee,
Gazed on the golden, crown-surmounted Mace
Pillowed serene before the Speaker’s Chair;
Then marked in high-built panes, the Kings gleam clear
The Lion-shield, the mystic Unicorn,
The scrolls, the mottoes, “For my God and Right,”
And “Evil be to him who evil thinks,”
All seemed the racial Soul transfigured there,
Ages and Ages old, yet scarcely born,
So future-glorious, past all dreaming, loo.s
The Voluntary Empire of The Bloo.,
Monarchical, Republican, all’s one,
With Vikings rushing to the beacon’s flare
As long as winds shall blow and waters run.
~ Edward William Thomson,#NFDB
826:Steinli Von Slang
I.
DER watchman loo. out from his tower
Ash de Abendgold glimmer grew dim,
Und saw on de road troo.de Gauer
Ten shpearmen coo. ridin to him:
Und he schvear: 'May I lose my next bitter,
Und denn mit der Teufel go hang!
If id isn't dat pully young Ritter,
De hell-drivin Steinli von Slang.
'De vorldt nefer had any such man,
He vights like a sturm in its wrath:
You may call me a recular Dutchman,
If he arn't like Goliath of Gath.
He ish big ash de shiant O'Brady,
More ash sefen feet high on a string,
Boo. he can't vin de hearts of my lady,
De lofely Plectruda von Sling.'
De lady make welcome her gast in,
Ash he shtep to de dop of de shtair,
She loo. like an angel got lost in
A forest of audumn-prown hair.
Und a bower-maiden said ash she tarried:
'I wish I may bust mit a bang!
If id isn't a shame she ain't married
To der her-re-liche Steinli von Slang!'
He pows to de cround fore de lady,
Vhile his vace ish ash pale ash de tead;
Und she vhispers oo.to him a rede
Ash mit arrow point accents, she said:
'You hafe long dimes peen dryin to win me,
You hafe vight, and mine braises you sing,
Boo. I'm 'fraid dat de notion aint in me,
De Lady Plectruda von Sling.
'Boo. brafehoo. teserves a reward, sir;
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Dough you've hardly a chost of a shanse.
Sankt Werolf! medinks id ish hard, sir,
I should allaweil lead you dis dance.'
Like a bees vhen it it boo. troo.de clofer,
Dese murmurin accents she flang,
Vhile singin, a stingin her lofer,
Der woe-moo.y Ritter von Slang.
'Boo. if von ding you do, I'll knock under,
Our droples moo.t endin damit
Und if you pull troo.it,- by donder!
I'll own myself euchred, und bit.
I schvear py de holy Sanct Chlody!
Py mine honor-und avery ding!
You may hafe me-soul, puttons und pody,
Mit de whole of Plectruda von Sling.'
'Und dish ish de test of your power:Vhile ve shtand ourselfs round in a row,
You moo.t roll from de dop of dis tower,
Down shdairs to de valley pelow.
Id ish rough and shteep ash my virtue:'
(Mit schwanenshweet accents she sang
'Tont try if you dinks id vill hurt you,
Mine goo. liddle Ritter von Slang.'
An Moo.moo. arosed mong de beoples;
In fain tid she doo.n in her shkorn,
Der vatchman on dop of de shdeeples
Plowed a sorryfoo. doo. on his horn.
Ash dey loo. down de dousand-foo. treppe,
Dey schveared dey vouldt pass on de ding,
Und not roll down de firstest tam steppe
For a hoo.dred like Fraulein von Sling.
II.
'Twas audumn. De dry leafs vere bustlin
Und visperin deir elfin wild talk,
Vhen shlow, mit his veet in dem rustlin,
Herr Steinli coo.ed out for a walk.
Wild doo.s vly afar in de gloamin,
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He hear a vaint gry vrom de gang;
Und vished he vere off mit dem roamin:
De heart-wounded Ritter Von Slang.
Und ash he vent musin und shbeakin,
He se, shoo.t ahead in his vay,
In sinkular manner a streakin,
A strange liddle bein, in cray,
Who too.ned on him quick mit a holler,
Und cuttin a dwo bigeon ving,
Cried, 'Say, can you change me a thaler,
Oh, guest of de Lady von Sling?'
De knight vas a goo.-nadured veller,
(De peggars all knowed him at sight,)
So he forked out each groschen und heller,
Dill he fix de finances aright.
Boo. shoo.t ash de liddle man vent, he,
(Der Ritter,) ashtonished cried 'Dang!'
For id vasn't von thaler boo. tventy,
He'd passed on der Ritter von Slang.
O reater! Soo.ose soo.h a vlight in
De vingers of me, or of you,
How we'd too.ned on our heels, und gon kitin
Dill no von vos left to pursue!
Goo. Lort! how we'd froze to de ready!
Boo. mit him 'dvas a different ding;
For he vent on de high, moral steady,
Dis lofer of Fraulein von Sling.
Und dough no von vill gife any gredit
To dis part of mine dale, shdill id's drue,
He drafelled ash if he vould dead it,
Dis liddle oldt man to pursue.
Und loudly he after him hollers,
Till de vales mit de cliffers loud rang:
'You hafe gifed me nine-ten too.moo.h dollars,
Hold Hard!' cried der Ritter von Slang.
De oldt man ope his eyes like a casement,
Und laid a cold hand on his prow,
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Denn mutter in oo.mosdt amazement,
'Vot manner of mordal art dou?
I hafe lifed in dis world a yar tausend,
Und nefer yed met soo.h a ding!
Yet you find it hart vork to pe spouse, and
Peloved by de Lady von Sling!
'Und she vant you to roll from de tower
Down shteps to yon rifulet spot.'
(Here de knight, whom amazement o'erbower,
Cried, 'Himmels potz pumpen Herr Gott!')
Boo. de oldt veller saidt: 'I'll arrange it,
Let your droples und sorrows co hang!
Und nodings vill coo. to derange itPet high on it, Ritter von Slang.
'So get oo. dis small oo.derstandin,
Dat to-morrow by ten, do you hear?
You'll pe mit your trunk at de landin;
I'll also be dere-nefer fear!
Und I dinks we shall make your young voman
A new kind of meloty sing;
Dat vain, wicked, cruel, unhuman,
Gott-tamnaple Fraulein von Sling.'
De fiolet shdars vere apofe him,
Vhite moths und vhite dofes shimmered round,
All nature seemed seekin to lofe him,
Mit perfume und vision und sound.
De liddle oldt veller hat fanished,
In a harp-like, melotious twang;
Und mit him all sorrow vas panished
Afay from der Steinli von Slang.
III.
Id vas morn, und de vorldt hat assempled
Mid panners und lances und dust,
Boo. de heart of de Paroness trempled,
Und ofden her folly she cussed.
For she found dat der Ritter vould do it,
Und 'die or get into de Ring,'
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Und denn she'd pe cerdain to rue it,
Aldough she vas Lady von Sling.
For no man in Deutschland stoo. higher
Dan he mit de Minnesing crew,
He vas friendet to Heini von Steier,
Und Wolfram von Eschenbach too.
Und she dinked ash she loo. from de vinders,
How herzlich his braises dey sang;
'Now dey'll knock my goo. name indo flinders,
For killin der Ritter von Slang.'
Boo. oh! der goo. knight had a Schauer,
Und felt most ongommonly queer,
Vhen he find on de top of de dower
De goblum, pesite him, abbear.
Denn he find he no more could go valkin,
Und shtoo., shoo.t and potrified ding,
Vhile de goblum vent round about talkin,
Und chaffin Plectruda von Sling.
Denn at vonce he see indo de problum,
Und vas stoggered like rats at ids vim:
His soul had gone indo de goblum,
Und de goblum's hat gone indo him.
Und de eyes of de volk vas enchanted,
Dere vas 'glamour' oo.on de whole gang;
For dey dinked dat dis veller who ranted
So loo.e, vas der Ritter von Slang.
Und, Lordt! how he dalked! Oonder heafens
Dere vas nefer soo.h derriple witz,
Knockin all dings to sechses and sefens,
Und gifin Plectruda, Dutch fits.
Mein Gott! how he poo.ished und chaffed her
Like a hell-stingin, devil-born ding;
Vhile de volk lay a-rollin mit laughter
At Fraulein Plectruda von Sling.
De lady grew angry und paler,
De lady grew ratful und red,
She felt some Satanical jailer
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Hafe brisoned de tongue in her head.
She moo.t laugh vhen she vant to pe cryin,
Und vas crushed mit de teufelisch clang,
Till she knelt herself, poo.y near dyin,
To dis derriple image of Slang.
Denn der goblum shoo.p oo. to der ceiling
Und trow sommerseds round on de vloo.,
Right ofer Plectruda a-kneelin,
Dill she loo. more a voo. dan pefore.
Denn he roll down de shteps light und breezy,
His laughs made it all apout ring;
Ash he shveared dere vas noding more easy
Dan to win a Plectruda von Sling.
Und vhen he cot down to de pottom,
He laugh so to freezen your ploo.;
Und schwear dat de boo.ps ash he cot em
Hafe make him feel petter ash goo..
Boo., oh! how dey shoo. at his power,
Vhen he too.ned himself roundt mit a bang,
Und roll oo. to de dop of de tower,
To change forms mit de oder Von Slang!
Denn all in an insdand vas altered,
Der Steinli vas coo. to himself;
Und de sprite, vitch in double sense paltered,
From dat moment acain vas an elf.
Dey shdill dinked dat he vas de person
Who had bobbed oo. and down on de ving,
Und knew not who 'tvas lay de curse on
De peaudiful Lady von Sling.
Nun-endlich- Plectruda repented,
Und gazed on der Ritter mit shoy;
In dime to pe married consented,
Und vas plessed mit a peautifoo. poy.
A dwenty gold biece on his bosom
Vhen geporn vas tiscofered to hang
Mit de inscript-'Dis dime dont refuse em'So endet de tale of Von Slang.
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~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
827:Breitmann’s Going To Church
D'VAS near de state of Nashfille,
In de town of Tennessee,
Der Breitmann vonce vas quarderd
Mit all his cavallrie.
Der Sheneral kept him glose in gamp,
He vouldn't let dem go;
Dey couldn't shdeal de first plack hen,
Or make de red cock crow.
Und virst der Breitmann vildly shmiled,
Und denn he madly shvore;
'Crate h--l, mit shpoo.s und shinsherbread,
Can dis pe makin war?
Verdammt pe all der discipline!
Verdammt der Sheneral!
Vere I vonce on de road, his will,
Vere wurst mir und egal.
'Oh vhere ish all de plazin roo.s
Dat claddened vonce mine eyes?
Und vhere de crand plantaschions
Vhere ve gaddered many a brize?
Und vhere de plasted shpies ve hung
A howlin loud mit fear?
Und vhere de rascal push-whackers
Ve shashed like vritened deer?
'De roo.s are shtandin fast and firm
Mit repels blottin oo.der;
De crand blantaschions lie round loo.e
For Morgan's men to ploo.der!
De shpies go valkin out und in,
Ash sassy ash can pe;
Und in de voo.s de push-whackers
Are makin foo. of me!
'Oh vere I on my schimmel grey
Mein sabre in mein hand,
Dey should drack me py de ruins
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Of de houses troo.de land.
Dey should drack me py de puzzards
High sailen ofer head,
A vollowin der Breitmann's trail
To claw de repel dead.'
Outspoke der bold Von Stossenheim,
Who had theories of Gott:
'O Breitmann, dis ish shoo.gement on
De vays dat you hafe trot.
You only lifes to joy yourself,
Yet you, yourself moo.t say,
Dat self-defelopment requires
De religios Idee.'
Dey sat dem down and argued id,
Like Deutschers vree from fear,
Dill dey schmoke ten pounds of knaster,
Und drinked drei fass of bier.
Der Breitmann go py Schopenhauer,
Boo. Veit he had him denn;
For he doo. him on de angles
Of de moral oxygen.
Der Breitmann 'low, dat 'pentence,
Ish known in efery glime,
Und dat to grin und bear it
Vas healty und soo.line.
'For mine Sout German Catolicks,
Id vas pe goo., I know;
Likevise dem Nordland Luterans,
If vonce to shoo.sh dey go.
'Boo. how vas id mit oders
Who dinks philosophie?
I don't begreif de matter,'
Said Stossenheim: 'Denn see.
De more dat shoo.sh disgoo.tet you,
Und make despise und bain,
De crater merid ish to go,
Und de crater ish your gain.
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'I know a liddle shoo.sh mineself,
Oopon de Bole Jack road:
(De rebs vonce shot dree Federals dere,
Ash into shoo.sh dey goed.)
Dere you might make a bilcrimage,
Und do id in a tay:
Gott only knows vot dings you mighdt
Bick oo., oo.on de vay.'
Denn oo. dere shpoke a contrapand,
Vas at de tent id's too.'Dere's twenty bar'ls of whiskey, hid,
In dat tabernacle, shore.
A rebel he done gone and put
It in de cellar, true,
No libin man dat secret knows,
'Cept only me an' you.'
Der Stossenheim, he grossed himself,
Und knelt peside de fence,
Und gried: 'O Coptain Breitmannn, see,
Die finger Providence.'
Der Breitmann droed his hat afay,
Says he, 'Pe't hit or miss,
I'fe heard of miragles pefore,
Boo. none so hunk ash dis.'
'Wohlauf mine pully cafaliers,
Ve'll ride to shoo.sh to-day,
Each man ash hasn't cot a horse
Moo.t shteal von, rite afay.
Dere's a raw, green corps from Michigan,
Mit horses on de loo.e,
You men ash vants some hoo.-irons,
Loo. out and crip deir shoes.'
All broo.hed und fixed, de cavallrie,
Rode out py moo.en shine,
De cotton fields in shimmerin light,
Lay white as elfenbein.
Dey heard a shot close py Lavergne,
Und men who rode afay,
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In de road a-velterin his his ploo.,
A Federal picket lay.
Und all dat he hafe dimes to say,
'Vhile shtandin at my post,
De guerillas got first shot at me,'
Und so gafe oo. de ghost.
Denn a contrapand, who helt his head,
Said: 'Sah - dose grillers all
Is only half a mile from hy'ar,
A dancin at a ball.'
Der Breitmann shpoke and brummed it out
Ash if his heart tid schvell:
'I'll gife dem music at dat pall
Vill tantz dem into hell.'
Hei! - arrow-fast - a teufel's ride!
De plack man led de vay,
Dey reach de house - dey see de lightsDey heard de fiddle blay.
Dey nefer vaited for a word
Boo. galloped from de gloo.,
Und, bang! - a hoo.derd carpine shots
Dey fired indo de roo..
Oop vent de groans of vounded men,
De fittlin died away:
Boo. some of dem vere tead pefore
De music ceased to blay.
Denn crack und smack coo. scotterin shots
Troo.vindow und troo.doo.,
Boo. bang and clang de Germans gife
Anoder volley more.
'Dere - let 'em shlide. Right file to shoo.sh!'
Aloudt de orders ran.
'I kess I paid dem for dat shot,'
Shpeak grim der Breitemann.
All rosen red de mornin fair
Shone gaily o'er de hill,
A violet plue de shky crew teep
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In rifer, pond, und rill;
All cloudy grey de limeshtone rocks
Coo. oo. troo.dimmerin woo.;
All shnowy vite in mornin light
De shoo.sh pefore dem shtoo..
'Now loudet vell de organ, oo.,
To drill mit solemn fear;
Und ring also dat Lumpenglock
To pring de beoples here.
Und if it prings guerillas down,
Ve'll gife dem, py de Lord,
De low-mass of de sabre, and
De high-mass of de cord.
'Du, Eberle aus Freiburg,
Du bist ein Musikant,
Top-sawyer on de counterpoint
Und buster in discant,
To dee de soul of musik
All innerly ish known,
Du canst mit might fullenden
De art of orgel-ton.
'Derefore, a Miserere
Vill dou, be-ghostet, spiel,
Und vake be-raised, yearnin,
Also a holy feel:Pe referent, men - rememper
Dis ish a GotteshausDu Conrad - go along de aisles
Und schenk de whiskey aus!:
Dey blay crate dings from Mozart,
Beethoven, und Mehul
Mit chorals of Sebastian Bach
Soo.line und peaudiful.
Der Breitmann feel like holy saints,
De tears roo. down his fuss;
Und he sopped out, 'got verdammich - dis
Ist wahres Kunstgenuss!'
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Der Eberle blayed oo. so high,
He maket de rafters ring;
Der Eberle blayed lower, und
Ve heardt der Breitmann sing
Like a dronin wind in piney woo.s
Like a nightly moanin sea:
Ash de dinked on Sonntags long agone
Vhen a poy in Germany.
Und louder und mit louder tone
High oo. de orgel blowed,
Und plentifuller efer yet
Around de whiskey goed.
Dey singed ash if mit singin, dey
Might indo Himmel win:I dink in all dis land soo.h shprees
Ash yet hafe nefer peen.
Vhen in de Abendsonnenschein,
Mit doo.t-clouds troo.de doo.,
All plack ash night in golden lighdt
Der shtoo. ein schwartzer Mohr,
Dat contrapand so wild und weh,
Mit eye-palls glaring roun,
Who cried 'For Gott's sake, hoo.y oo.!
De reps ish gomin down!'
Und while he yet was shpeakin,
A far-off soundt pegan,
Down rollin from de moundain
Of many a ridersmann.
Und vhile de waves of musik
Vere rollin o'er deir heads,
Dey heard a foice a schkreemin,
'Pile out of thar, you Feds!
'For we uns ar' a comin
For to guv to you uns fits,
And knock you into brimstun
And blast you all to bits'Boo. ere it done ids shpeakin,
Der vas order in de band,
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Ash Breitmann, mit an awfoo. stim
Out-dondered his gommand.
Und ash fisch-hawk at a mackarel
Doth make a splurgin flung,
Und ash eagles dab de fish-hawks
Ash if de gods vere young,
So from all de doo.s and vindows,
Like shpiders down deir webs
De Doo.ch went at deir horses,
Und de horses at de rebs.
Crate shplendors of de treadful
Vere in dat pattle rush,
Crate vights mit swords und carpine,
Py efery fence and bush.
Ash panters vight mit crislies
In famished morder fitsFor de rebs vere mad ash boison,
Und de Doo.ch vere droo.k ash blitz.
Yet vild ash vas de pattle,
So quickly vas it o'er,
O, vhy moo.t I forefer
Pestain mine page mit gore?
Py liddle und py liddle
Dey drawed demselfs afay,
Oft too.nin' round to vighten
Like boo.aloes at bay.
De scatterin shots grew fewer,
De scatterin gries more shlow,
Und furder troo.de forest
Ve heard dem vainter grow.
Ve gife von shout - 'Victoria!'
Und denn der Breitmann said,
Ash he wiped his ploo.y sabre:
'Now, poys, count oo. your dead!'
Oh small had been our shoutin
For shoy, if ve had known
Dat der Stossenheim im oaken wald,
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Lay dyin all alone.
Vhile his oldt vhite horse mit droo.in het
Loo. dumbly on him doun,
Ash if he dinked, 'Vy lyest dou here
Vhile fightin's goin on?'
Und dreams coo. o'er de soldier
Slow dyin on de eart;
Of a schloss afar in Baden,
Of his mutter, und nople birt!
Of poverty and sorrow,
Vhich drofe him like de wind,
Und he sighed, 'Ach weh for de lofed ones,
Who wait so far pehind!'
'Wohl auf, my soul o'er de moundains!
Wohl auf - well ofer de sea!
Dere's a frau dat sits in de Odenwald
Und shpins, und dinks of me.
Dere's a shild ash blays in de greenin grass,
Und sings a liddle hymn,
Und learns to shpeak a fader's name
Dat she nefer will shpeak to him.
'But mordal life ends shortly
Und Heafen's life is long:Wo bist du Breitmann? - glaub'esGott suffers noding wrong.
Now I die like a Christian soldier,
My head oo.on my sword:In nomine Domini!'Vas Stossenheim his word.
O, dere vas bitter wailen
Vhen Stossenheim vas found.
Efen from dose dere lyin
Fast dyin on de ground.
Boo. time vas short for vaiten,
De shades vere gadderin dim:
Und I nefer shall forget it,
De hour ve puried him.
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De tramp of horse und soldiers
Vas all de funeral knell;
De ring of sporn und carpine
Vas all de sacrin bell.
Mit hoo.tin knife und sabre
Dey digged de grave a span,
From German eyes blue gleamin
De holy water ran.
Mit moss-grown shticks und bark-thong
De plessed cross ve made,
Und put it vhere de soldier's head
Towards Germany vas laid.
Dat grave is lost mit dead leafs,
De cross is goned afay:
Boo. Gott will find der reiter
Oopon de Youngest Day.
Und dinkin of de fightin,
Und dinkin of de dead,
Und dinkin of de organ,
To Nashville, Breitmann led
Boo. long dat rough oldt Hanserl
Vas earnsthaft, grim und kalt,
Shtill dinkin o'er de heart's friend,
He'd left im gruenen wald.
De verses of dis boem
In Heidelberg I write;
De night is dark around me,
De shtars apove are bright.
Studenten in den Gassen
Make singen many a song;
Ach Faderland! - wie bist du weit!
Ach Zeit! - wie bist du lang!
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
828:Schnitzerl’s Philosopede
I. PROLOGUE.
HERR SCHNITZERL make a ph'losopede,
Von of de pullyest kind;
It vent mitout a vheel in front,
And hadn't none pehind.
Von vheel vas in de mittel, dough,
And it vent as sure ash ecks,
For he shtraddled on de axel dree,
Mit der vheel petween his lecks.
Und vhen he vant to shtart it off
He paddlet mit his feet,
Und soo. he cot to go so vast
Dat efery dings he peat.
He run her out on Broader shtreed,
He shkeeted like der vind,
Hei! how he bassed de vancy crabs,
And lef dem all pehind!
De vellers mit de trottin nags
Poo.ed oo. to see him bass;
De Deutschers all erstaunished saidt:
'Potztausend! Was ist das?'
Boo. vaster shtill der Schnitzerl flewed
On - mit a ghastly shmile;
He tidn't too.h de dirt, py shings!
Not vonce in half a mile.
Oh, vot ish all dis eart'ly pliss?
Oh, vot ish man's soo.ksess?
Oh, vot ish various kinds of dings?
Und vot ish hobbiness?
Ve find a pank node in de shtreedt,
Next dings der pank ish preak!
Ve folls, and knocks our outsides in,
Vhen ve a ten shtrike make.
So vas it mit der Schnitzerlein
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On his philosopede.
His feet both shlipped outsidevard shoo.t
Vhen at his exdra shpeed.
He felled oo.on der vheel of coo.se;
De vheel like blitzen flew!
Und Schnitzerl he vos schnitz in vact,
For it shlished him grod in two.
Und as for his philosopede,
Id cot so shkared, men say,
It pounded onward till it vent
Ganz tyfelwards afay.
Boo. vhere ish now der Schnitzerl's soul?
Vhere dos his shbirit pide?
In Himmel droo.de endless plue,
It takes a medeor ride.
II. HANS BREITMANN AND HIS PHILOSOPEDE.
Vhen Breitmann hear dat Schnitzerl
Vas quardered into dwo,
Und how his crate philosopede
To 'm tyfel had peen flew,
He dinked und dinked so heafy,
Ash only Deutschers can,
Denn saidt, 'Who mighdt peliefet
Dish is de ent of man?'
'De human souls of beoples
Exisdt in deir idees,
Und dis of Wolfram Schnitzerl
Mighdt drafel many vays.
In his Bestimmung des Menschen
Der Fichte makes pelieve,
Dat ve brogress oo.-endtly
In vhat pehindt ve leave.
'De shparrow falls ground-downvarts
Or drafels to de West;
De shparrows dat coo. afder,
Bild shoo.t de same old nest.
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Man had not vings or fedders,
Und in oder dings, 'tis set,
He tont coo. up to shparrows,
But on nests he goes ahet.
'O! vliest dou droo.bornin' vorldts,
Und nebuloser foam,
By monsdrous mitnight shiant forms,
Or vhere red tyfels roam;
Or vhere de ghosdts of shky-rockets
Peyond creation flee?
Vhere e'er dou art, O Schnitzerlein,
Crate Saindt! Loo. down on me!
'Und deach me how you maket
Dat crate philosopede,
Vhich roo. dwice six mals vaster
Ash any Arap shteed.
Und deach me how to 'stonish volk,
Und knock dem oud de shpots.
Coo. pack to eart', O Schnitzerlein,
Und pring id down to dots!'
Shoo.t ash dish vordt vent outvarts,
Hans dinked he saw a vlash,
Und oo.terwards de dable
He doo.pelt mit a crash.
Und to him, moo.g de glasses,
Und pottles ash vas proke,
Mit his het in a cigar-box,
A foice from Himmel shpoke:
'Adsum, Domine Breitmann!
Herr Copitain, here I pe!
So dell me rite honeste,
Quare inquietasti me?
Te video inter spoo.ibus,
Et largis glassis too.
Cerevisia repletis,
Sicut percussus tonitru!'
Denn Breitmann ansver Schnitzerl;
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'Coarctor nimis, see!
Siquidem Philistiim
Pugnant adversum me.
Ergo vocavi te,
Ash Saul vocavit SamUel, ut mi ostenderes
Quid teufel faciam?'
Denn de shpirit (in Lateinisch)
Saidt 'Bene, dat's de talk,
Non habes in hoc shanty,
A shingle et some chalk?
Non video inkum nec calamos
(I shpose some bummer shdole 'em),
Levate oculos tuos, son,
Et aspice ad linteolum!'
Denn Breitmann see de biece of chalk
Vhich riset vrom de vloo.,
Und signed a fine philosopede
Alone, oo.on de too..
De von dat Schnitzerl fobricate,
Und oo.derneat' he see:
Probate inter equites,
(Try dis in de cavallrie).
Der Breitmann shtoo. oo. from de vloo.,
Und leanet on a post;
Und saidt: 'If dis couldt, shouldt hafe peen,
Dar vouldt, mighdt peen a ghosdt;
Boo. if id pe noumenon,
Phenomenoned indeed,
Or de soo.yectif obyectified,
I'fe cot de philosopede.'
Denn out he seekt a plackschmit,
Ash vork in iron-steel,
To make him a philosopede
Mit shoo.t an only vheel.
De dings vas maket simple,
Ash all crate idees shouldt pe,
For 'tvas noding boo. a gart-vheel,
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Mit a dwo-feet axel dree.
De dimes der Breitmann doo.ple,
In learnin' for to ride,
Vas ofdener ash de sand-crains
Dat rollen in de tide.
De dimes he cot oo.settet,
In shdeerin' left und righdt,
Vas ofdener ash de cleamin' shdars,
Dat shtud de shky py night.
Boo. de vorstest of de veadures
In dis von-vheel horse, you pet,
Ish dat man couldt go so nicely,
Pefore he get oo.set.
Some dimes he co like plazes,
Und doo.n her, extra-fine;
Und denn shlop ofer - dis is vot
Hafe kill der Schnitzerlein.
Soo.h droples ash der Breitmann hafe,
To make dis 'vention go,
Vas nefer seen py mordal man,
Oopon dis vorldt pelow.
He doo.plet righdt - he doo.plet left,
He hafe a dousand doo.ps;
Dere nefer vas a gricket ball
Ash get soo.h 'fernal boo.ps.
Boo. - ash he'd shvearet he'd poo. it droo.
He shvear't it moo.t pe tone;
Dough he schimpft' und flucht' gar laesterlich,
He visht he't ne'er pegun.
Mit 'Hagel! Blitz! Kreuz-sakrament!'
He maket de Houser ring,
Und vish der Schnitzerl vas in hell,
For deachin' him dis ding.
Nun - goo.! At lasht he cot it,
Und peautifoo. he goed,
'Dis day,' saidt he, 'I'll 'stonish folk
A ridin' in de road.
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Dis day, py shings! I'll do it,
Und knock dings oud of sight:'Ach weh! - for Breitmann dat day
Vas not be-markt mit vhite.
De noo.bers of de Deutsche volk,
Dat coo.ed dis sighdt to see,
I dink, in soper earnst-hoo.,
Mighdt not ge-reckonet pe.
For miles dey shtoo.t along de road,
Mein Gott! - boo. dey wer'n dry;
Dey trinket den lager-bier shops out,
Pefore der Hans coo. py.
Vhen all at vonce drementous gries
De fery coo.dry shoo.,
Und beople's shkreemt, 'Da ist er! - Schau!
Here coo.s der Breitmann, loo.!'
Mein Gott! vas efer soo.h a sighdt!
Vas efer soo.h a gry!
Vhen like a brick-pat in a vighdt,
Der Breitemann roo.h py?
Oh mordal man! Vhy ish idt, dou
Hast passion to go vast?
Vhy ish id dat te tog und horse
Likes shbeed too.quick to lasht?
De pugs, de pirds, de pumple-pees,
Und all dat ish, 'tvouldt seem
Ish nefer hobby boo., exsepdt,
Vhen pilin' on de shdeam.
Der Breitmann flew! Von mighdy gry
Ash he vent scoo.in' bast;
Von derriple, drementous yell;Dat day de virst - und lasht.
Vot ha! Vot ho! Vhy ish it dus?
Vhot makes dem shdare aghasht?
Vhy coo.s dat vail of vild deshbair?
Ish somedings cot ge-shmasht?
Yea, efen so. Yea, ferily,
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Shbeak, soul!-it ish dy biz!
Der Breitmann shkeet so vast along
Dey fairly heard him whizz.
Vhen shoo.t oo.on a hill-top point
It caught a pranch ge-bent,
Und like an apple from a shling,
Afay Hans Breitmann vent.
Vent droo.de air an hoo.dert feet
Allowin' more or lees:Denn, pob-pob-pob - a mile or dwo
He rollet along - I guess.
Say - hast dou seen a gannon ball
Half shpent, shtill poundin' on,
Like made of gummi-lasticum?So vent der Breitmann.
Dey bick him oo. - dey pring him in,
No wort der Breitmann shboke.
Der doktor loo. - he shwear erstaunt
Dat nodings ish peen proke.
'He rollt de rocky road entlang,
He pounce o'er shtock und shtone,
You'd dink he'd knocked his outsites in,
Yet nefer preak a pone!'
All shtill Hans lay, bevilderfied;
He seemt not mind de shaps,
Nor mofed oo.til der medicus
Hafe dose him vell mit schnapps.
De schmell voke oo. de boetry
Of tays vhen he vas yoo.g,
Und he murmulte de fragmends
Of an sad romantish song:
'Ash sommer pring de roses
Und roses pring de dew,
So Deutschland gifes de maidens
Who fetch de bier for you.
Komm Maidelein! rothe Waengelein!
Mit wein-glass in your paw!
Ve'll get troo.k among de roses,
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Und pe soper on de shtraw!
'Ash vinter pring de ice-wind
Vitch plow o'er Burg und hill,
Hard times pring in de landlord,
Und de landlord pring the pill.
Boo. sing Maidelein - rothe Waengelein!
Mit wein glass in your paw!
Ve'll get troo.k among de roses,
Und pe soper on de shtraw!'
Dey doo. der Breitmann homewarts,
Boo. efer on de vay
He nefer shpeaket no man,
Und nodings else couldt say,
Boo., 'Maidelein - rothe Waengelein!
Mit wein-glass in her paw,
Ve'll get troo.k among de roses,
Und pe soper on de shtraw!'
Dey laid der Hans im bette,
Peneat' de eider doun,
Und sembelet all de doktors
Who doktor in de town,Dat ish, de Deutsche Aertzte,For Breitmann alvays says,
De Deutschers ish de onlies
Mit originell idees.
Der vas Doktor Moritz Schlinkenschlag,
Dat vork ash Cafeopath,
Und de learned Cobus Schoepfskopf,
Who use de milchy bath;
Und Korschalitschky aus Boehmen,
Vhat cure mit slibovitz,
Und Wechselbalg, der Preusse,
Who only 'tend to fits.
Dere vas Strobbich aus Westfalen,
Who mofe all eart'ly ills
Mit concentrirter Schinken juice,
Und Pumpernickel pills.
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Und a bier-kur man from Munich,
Und a grape-curist from Rhein,
Und von who shkare tiseases
Mit a dose of Schlesier-wein.
So dey meet in consoo.dation,
Mit Doktor Winkeleck,
Who proctice 'renovation'
Mit sauer-kraut und speck.
Und dat no man shouldt pe shlightet,
Or dreatet ash a tunce,
Dey 'greed to dry deir systems
Oopon Breitmann - all at vonce.
Dat ish, mit de exscepdion
Of gifin' Schlesier-wein:
For de remedy vas dangerfull
For von who trink from Rhein.
Ash der Teufel vonce deklaret,
Vhen he taste it on a shpree,
Dat a man, to trink soo.h liquor,
Moo.t a porn Silesian pe.
So dey all vent los at Breitmann,
Und woo.derfoo. to dell,
He coo. to his Gesundheit,
Und poo.y soo. cot vell.
Some hinted at Natura,
Mit her olt vis sanatrix,
Boo. eash doktor shvore he curet him,
Und de rest were taugenix.
I know not vot der Breitmann
More newly has pegun;
Boo. dey say he talks day-dayly
Mit Dana of de Sun.
Dey talk in Deutsch togeder,
Und volk say de end will be,
Philosopedal shanges
In de Union Cavallrie.
Gott helf de howlin' safage!
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Got helf de Indi-an!
Shouldt Breitmann shoin his forces
Mit Sheneral Sheridan!
Und denn, to sing his braises,
I'll write anoder lied:
Hier hat dis dale an ende,
Of Breitmann's Philosopede!
~ Charles Godfrey Leland,#NFDB
829:The Flower And The Leaf
When that Phebus his chaire of gold so hy
Had whirled up the sterry sky aloft,
And in the Bole was entred certainly;
Whan shoures swete of rain discended soft,
Causing the ground, felë tymes and oft,
Up for to give many an hoo.som air,
And every plain was [eek y-]clothed fair
With newe grene, and maketh smalë floures
To springen here and there in feld and mede;
So very goo. and hoo.som be the shoures
That it reneweth, that was old and deede
In winter-tyme; and out of every seede
Springeth the herbë, so that every wight
Of this sesoun wexeth [ful] glad and light.
And I, só glad of the seson swete,
Was happed thus upon a certain night;
As I lay in my bed, sleep ful unmete
Was unto me; but, why that I ne might
Rest, I ne wist; for there nas erthly wight,
As I suppose, had more hertës ese
Than I, for I n'ad siknesse nor disese.
Wherfore I mervail gretly of my-selve,
That I so long, withouten sleepë lay;
And up I roo., three houres after twelve,
About the [very] springing of the day,
And on I put my gere and myn array;
And to a plesaunt grovë I gan passe,
Long or the brightë sonne uprisen was,
In which were okës grete, streight as a lyne,
Under the which the gras, so fresh of hew,
Was newly spronge; and an eight foo. or nyne
Every tree wel fro his felawe grew,
With braunches brode, laden with leves new,
That sprongen out ayein the sonnë shene,
Som very rede, and som a glad light grene;
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Which, as me thought, was right a plesaunt sight.
And eek the briddes song[ës] for to here
Would have rejoised any erthly wight.
And I, that couth not yet, in no manere,
Here the nightingale of al the yere,
Ful busily herkned, with herte and ere,
If I her voice perceive coud any-where.
And at the last, a path of litel brede
I found, that gretly had not used be,
For it forgrowen was with gras and weede,
That wel unneth a wight [ther] might it see.
Thought I, this path som whider goth, pardè,
And so I folowèd, til it me brought
To right a plesaunt herber, wel y-wrought,
That benched was, and [al] with turves new
Freshly turved, wherof the grenë gras
So small, so thik, so short, so fresh of hew,
That most lyk to grene wol, wot I, it was.
The hegge also, that yede [as] in compas
And closed in al the grene herbere,
With sicamour was set and eglantere,
Writhen in-fere so wel and cunningly
That every braunch and leef grew by mesure,
Plain as a bord, of on height, by and by,
[That] I sy never thing, I you ensure,
So wel [y-]don; for he that too. the cure
It [for] to make, I trow, did al his peyn
To make it passe al tho that men have seyn.
And shapen was this herber, roo. and al,
As [is] a prety parlour, and also
The hegge as thik as [is] a castle-wal,
That, who that list without to stond or go,
Though he wold al-day pryen to and fro,
He shuld not see if there were any wight
Within or no; but oo. within wel might
Perceive al tho that yeden there-without
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In the feld, that was on every syde
Covered with corn and gras, that, out of dout,
Though oo. wold seeken al the world wyde,
So rich a feld [ne] coud not be espyed
[Up]on no cost, as of the quantitee,
For of al goo. thing ther was [greet] plentee.
And I, that al this plesaunt sight [than] sy,
Thought sodainly I felt so sweet an air
[Come] of the eglantere, that certainly,
Ther is no hert, I deme, in such despair,
Ne with [no] thoughtës froward and contrair
So overlaid, but it shuld soo.e have bote,
If it had onës felt this savour sote.
And as I stoo. and cast asyde myn y,
I was ware of the fairest medle-tree
That ever yet in al my lyf I sy,
As full of blossomës as it might be.
Therin a goldfinch leping pretily
Fro bough to bough, and, as him list, he eet
Here and there, of buddes and floures sweet.
And to the herber-sydë was joining
This fairë tree, of which I have you told;
And, at the last, the brid began to sing,
Whan he had eten what he etë wold,
So passing sweetly, that, by manifold,
It was more plesaunt than I coud devyse;
And whan his song was ended in this wyse,
The nightingale with so mery a note
Answéred him, that al the wodë rong
So sodainly, that, as it were a sot,
I stoo. astonied; so was I with the song
Through ravishèd, that, [un]til late and long
Ne wist I in what place I was, ne where;
And ay, me thought, she song even by myn ere.
Wherfore about I waited busily
On every syde, if I her mightë see;
And, at the last, I gan ful wel aspy
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Wher she sat in a fresh green laurer-tree
On the further syde, even right by me,
That gave so passing a delicious smel
According to the eglantere ful wel.
Wherof I had so inly greet plesyr
That, as me thought, I surely ravished was
Into Paradyse, where my desyr
Was for to be, and no ferther [to] passe
As for that day, and on the sotë gras
I sat me doun; for, as for myn entent,
The birdës song was more convenient,
And more plesaunt to me, by many fold,
Than mete or drink, or any other thing;
Thereto the herber was so fresh and cold,
The hoo.som savours eek so comforting
That, as I demed, sith the beginning
Of the world, was never seen, or than,
So plesaunt a ground of non erthly man.
And as I sat, the briddës herkning thus,
Me thought that I herd voices sodainly,
The most sweetest and most delicious
That ever any wight, I trow trewly,
Herde in his lyf, for [that] the armony
And sweet accord was in so goo. musyk,
Thát the voice to angels most was lyk.
At the last, out of a grove even by,
That was right goo.ly and plesaunt to sight,
I sy where there cam singing lustily
A world of ladies; but to tell aright
Their greet beautè, it lyth not in my might,
Ne their array; nevertheless, I shal
Tell you a part, though I speke not of al.
In surcotes whyte, of veluet wel sitting,
They were [y-]clad; and the semes echoo.,
As it were a maner garnishing,
Was set with emeraudës, oo. and oo.,
By and by; but many a richë stoo.
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Was set [up-]on the purfils, out of dout,
Of colors, sleves, and trainës round about;
As gret[e] perlës, round and orient,
Diamondës fyne and rubies rede,
And many another stoo., of which I want
The namës now; and everich on her hede
A richë fret of gold, which, without drede,
Was ful of statly richë stonës set;
And every lady had a chapëlet
On her hede, of [leves] fresh and grene,
So wel [y-]wrought, and so mervéilously,
Thát it was a noble sight to sene;
Some of laurer, and some ful plesauntly
Had chapëlets of woo.bind, and sadly
Some of agnus-castus ware also
Chápëlets fresh; but there were many tho
That daunced and eek song ful soberly;
But al they yede in maner of compas.
But oo. ther yede in-mid the company.
Sole by her-self; but al folowed the pace
[Which] that she kept, whos hevenly-figured face
So plesaunt was, and her wel-shape persòn,
That of beautè she past hem everichon.
And more richly beseen, by manifold,
She was also, in every maner thing;
On her heed, ful plesaunt to behold,
A crowne of gold, rich for any king;
A braunch of agnus-castus eek bering
In her hand; and, to my sight, trewly,
She lady was of [al] the company.
And she began a roundel lustily,
That Sus le foyl de vert moy men call,
Seen, et mon joly cuer endormi;
And than the company answéred all
With voice[s] swete entuned and so small,
That me thought it the sweetest melody
That ever I herdë in my lyf, soo.hly.
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And thus they came[n], dauncing and singing,
Into the middes of the mede echone,
Before the herber, where I was sitting,
And, god wot, me thought I was wel bigon;
For than I might avyse hem, on by on,
Who fairest was, who coud best dance or sing,
Or who most womanly was in al thing.
They had not daunced but a litel throw
When that I herd, not fer of, sodainly
So greet a noise of thundring trumpës blow,
As though it shuld have départed the sky;
And, after that, within a whyle I sy
From the same grove, where the ladyes come out,
Of men of armës coming such a rout
As al the men on erth had been assembled
In that place, wel horsed for the nones,
Stering so fast, that al the erth[ë] trembled;
But for to speke of riches and [of] stones,
And men and hors, I trow, the largë wones
Of Prester John, ne al his tresory
Might not unneth have bought the tenth party!
Of their array who-so list herë more,
I shal reherse, so as I can, a lyte.
Out of the grove, that I spak of before,
I sy come first, al in their clokes whyte,
A company, that ware, for their delyt,
Chapëlets fresh of okës cereal
Newly spronge, and trumpets they were al.
On every trumpe hanging a broo. banere
Of fyn tartarium, were ful richly bete;
Every trumpet his lordës armës bere;
About their nekkës, with gret perlës set,
Colers brode; for cost they would not lete,
As it would seme; for their scochones echoo.
Were set about with many a precious stoo..
Their hors-harneys was al whyte also;
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And after hem next, in on company,
Cámë kingës of armës, and no mo,
In clokës of whyte cloth of gold, richly;
Chapelets of greene on their hedes on hy,
The crownës that they on their scochones bere
Were set with perlë, ruby, and saphere,
And eek gret diamondës many on;
But al their hors-harneys and other gere
Was in a sute according, everichon,
As ye have herd the foresayd trumpets were;
And, by seeming, they were nothing to lere;
And their gyding they did so manerly.
And after hem cam a greet company
Of heraudës and pursevauntës eke
Arrayed in clothës of whyt veluët;
And hardily, they were nothing to seke
How they [up]on hem shuld the harneys set;
And every man had on a chapëlet;
Scóchones and eke hors-harneys, indede,
They had in sute of hem that before hem yede.
Next after hem, came in armour bright,
Al save their hedes, seemely knightës nyne;
And every clasp and nail, as to my sight,
Of their harneys, were of red gold fyne;
With cloth of gold, and furred with ermyne
Were the trappurës of their stedës strong,
Wyde and large, that to the ground did hong;
And every bosse of brydel and peitrel
That they had, was worth, as I would wene,
A thousand pound; and on their hedës, wel
Dressed, were crownës [al] of laurer grene,
The best [y-]mad that ever I had seen;
And every knight had after him ryding
Three henshmen, [up]on him awaiting;
Of whiche the first, upon a short tronchoun,
His lordës helme[t] bar, so richly dight,
That the worst was worth[y] the raunsoun
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Of a[ny] king; the second a sheld bright
Bar at his nekke; the thridde bar upright
A mighty spere, ful sharpe [y-]ground and kene;
And every child ware, of leves grene,
A fresh chapelet upon his heres bright;
And clokes whyte, of fyn veluet they ware;
Their stedës trapped and [a]rayed right
Without[en] difference, as their lordës were.
And after hem, on many a fresh co[u]rsere,
There came of armed knightës such a rout
That they besprad the largë feld about.
And al they ware[n], after their degrees,
Chapëlets new, made of laurer grene,
Some of oke, and some of other trees;
Some in their handës berë boughës shene,
Some of laurer, and some of okës kene,
Some of hawthorn, and some of woo.bind,
And many mo, which I had not in mind.
And so they came, their hors freshly stering
With bloo.y sownës of hir trompës loud;
Ther sy I many an uncouth disgysing
In the array of these knightës proud;
And at the last, as evenly as they coud,
They too. their places in-middes of the mede,
And every knight turned his horse[s] hede
To his felawe, and lightly laid a spere
In the [a]rest, and so justës began
On every part about[en], here and there;
Som brak his spere, som drew down hors and man;
About the feld astray the stedës ran;
And, to behold their rule and governaunce,
I you ensure, it was a greet plesaunce.
And so the justës last an houre and more;
But tho that crowned were in laurer grene
Wan the pryse; their dintës were so sore
That ther was non ayenst hem might sustene;
And [than] the justing al was left of clene;
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And fro their hors the nine alight anon;
And so did al the remnant everichon.
And forth they yede togider, twain and twain,
That to behold, it was a worldly sight,
Toward the ladies on the grenë plain,
That song and daunced, as I sayd now right.
The ladies, as soo.e as they goo.ly might,
They breke[n] of both the song and dance,
And yede to mete hem, with ful glad semblance.
And every lady too., ful womanly,
By the hond a knight, and forth they yede
Unto a fair laurer that stoo. fast by,
With levës lade, the boughës of gret brede;
And to my dome, there never was, indede,
[A] man that had seen half so fair a tree;
For underneth it there might wel have be
An hundred persons, at their own plesaunce,
Shadowed fro the hete of Phebus bright
So that they shuld have felt no [greet] grevaunce
Of rain, ne hail, that hem hurt[ë] might.
The savour eek rejoice would any wight
That had be sick or melancolious,
It was so very goo. and vertuous.
And with gret reverence they enclyned low
[Un]to the tree, so sote and fair of hew;
And after that, within a litel throw,
Bigonne they to sing and daunce of-new;
Some song of love, some playning of untrew,
Environing the tree that stoo. upright;
And ever yede a lady and a knight.
And at the last I cast myn eye asyde,
And was ware of a lusty company
That came, roming out of the feld wyde,
Hond in hond, a knight and a lady;
The ladies alle in surcotes, that richly
Purfyled were with many a riche stoo.;
And every knight of greene ware mantles on,
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Embrouded wel, so as the surcotes were,
And everich had a chapelet on her hede;
Which did right wel upon the shyning here,
Made of goo.ly floures, whyte and rede.
The knightës eke, that they in hond lede,
In sute of hem, ware chapelets everichon;
And hem before went minstrels many on,
As harpës, pypës, lutës, and sautry,
Al in greene; and on their hedës bare
Of dyvers flourës, mad ful craftily,
Al in a sute, goo.ly chapelets they ware;
And so, dauncing, into the mede they fare,
In-mid the which they found a tuft that was
Al oversprad with flourës in compas.
Where[un]to they enclyned everichon
With greet reverence, and that ful humblely;
And, at the last[ë], there began anon
A lady for to sing right womanly
A bargaret in praising the daisy;
For, as me thought, among her notës swete,
She sayd, 'Si doucë est la Margarete.'
Thén they al answéred her infere,
So passingly wel, and so plesauntly,
Thát it was a blisful noise to here.
But I not [how], it happed sodainly,
As, about noo., the sonne so fervently
Wex hoo., that [al] the prety tender floures
Had lost the beautè of hir fresh coloures,
For-shronk with hete; the ladies eek to-brent,
That they ne wist where they hem might bestow.
The knightës swelt, for lak of shade ny shent;
And after that, within a litel throw,
The wind began so sturdily to blow,
That down goth al the flourës everichon
So that in al the mede there laft not on,
Save suche as socoured were, among the leves,
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Fro every storme, that might hem assail,
Growing under hegges and thikke greves;
And after that, there came a storm of hail
And rain in-fere, so that, withouten fail,
The ladies ne the knightës n'ade o threed
Drye [up]on hem, so dropping was hir weed.
And when the storm was clene passed away,
Tho [clad] in whyte, that stoo. under the tree,
They felt[ë] nothing of the grete affray,
That they in greene without had in y-be.
To hem they yedë for routh and pitè,
Hem to comfort after their greet disese;
So fain they were the helpless for to ese.
Then was I ware how oo. of hem in grene
Had on a crown[ë], rich and wel sitting;
Wherfore I demed wel she was a quene,
And tho in greene on her were awaiting.
The ladies then in whyte that were coming
Toward[ës] hem, and the knightës in-fere
Began to comfort hem and make hem chere.
The quene in whyte, that was of grete beautè,
Too. by the hond the queen that was in grene,
And said, 'Suster, I have right greet pitè
Of your annoy, and of the troublous tene
Wherein ye and your company have been
So long, alas! and, if that it you plese
To go with me, I shal do you the ese
In al the pleisir that I can or may.'
Wherof the tother, humbly as she might,
Thanked her; for in right ill aray
She was, with storm and hete, I you behight.
And every lady then, anon-right,
That were in whyte, oo. of hem too. in grene
By the hond; which when the knightes had seen,
In lyke wyse, ech of hem too. a knight
Clad in grene, and forth with hem they fare
[Un]to an heggë, where they, anon-right,
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To make their justës, [lo!] they would not spare
Boughës to hew down, and eek treës square,
Wherewith they made hem stately fyres grete
To dry their clothës that were wringing wete.
And after that, of herbës that there grew,
They made, for blisters of the sonne brenning,
Very goo. and hoo.som ointments new,
Where that they yede, the sick fast anointing;
And after that, they yede about gadring
Plesaunt saladës, which they made hem ete,
For to refresh their greet unkindly hete.
The lady of the Leef then gan to pray
Her of the Flour, (for so to my seeming
They should[ë] be, as by their [quaint] array),
To soupe with her; and eek, for any thing,
That she should with her al her people bring.
And she ayein, in right goo.ly manere,
Thanketh her of her most freendly chere,
Saying plainly, that she would obey
With al her hert al her commaundëment.
And then anon, without lenger delay,
The lady of the Leef hath oo. y-sent
For a palfray, [as] after her intent,
Arayed wel and fair in harneys of gold,
For nothing lakked, that to him long shold.
And after that, to al her company
She made to purvey hors and every thing
That they needed; and then, ful lustily,
Even by the herber where I was sitting,
They passed al, so plesantly singing,
That it would have comfórted any wight;
But then I sy a passing wonder sight:—
For then the nightingale, that al the day
Had in the laurer sete, and did her might
The hoo. servyse to sing longing to May,
Al sodainly [be]gan to take her flight;
And to the lady of the Leef forthright
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She flew, and set her on her hond softly,
Which was a thing I marveled of gretly.
The goldfinch eek, that fro the medle-tree
Was fled, for hete, into the bushes cold,
Unto the lady of the Flour gan flee,
And on her hond he set him, as he wold,
And plesantly his wingës gan to fold;
And for to sing they pained hem both as sore
As they had do of al the day before.
And so these ladies roo. forth a gret pace,
And al the rout of knightës eek in-fere;
And I, that had seen al this wonder case,
Thought [that] I would assay, in some manere,
To know fully the trouth of this matere,
And what they were that roo. so plesantly.
And, when they were the herber passed by,
I drest me forth, and happed to mete anon
Right a fair lady, I you ensure;
And she cam ryding by herself aloo.,
Al in whyte, with semblance ful demure.
I salued her, and bad goo. aventure
Might her befall, as I coud most humbly;
And she answered, 'My doughter, gramercy!'
'Madam,' quod I, 'if that I durst enquere
Of you, I wold fain, of that company,
Wit what they be that past by this herbere?'
And she ayein answéred right freendly:
'My fair daughter, al tho that passed hereby
In whyte clothing, be servants everichoo.
Unto the Leef, and I my-self am oo..
See ye not her that crowned is,' quod she,
'Al in whyte?' 'Madamë,' quod I, 'yis!'
'That is Diane, goddesse of chastitè;
And, for bicause that she a maiden is,
In her hond the braunch she bereth, this
That agnus-castus men call properly;
And alle the ladies in her company
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Which ye see of that herb[ë] chaplets were,
Be such as han kept ay hir maidenhede;
And al they that of laurer chaplets bere
Be such as hardy were and wan, indede,
Victorious name which never may be dede.
And al they were so worthy of hir hond,
[As] in hir tyme, that non might hem withstond.
And tho that werë chapelets on hir hede
Of fresh woo.bind, be such as never were
To love untrew in word, [ne] thought, ne dede,
But ay stedfast; ne for plesaunce, ne fere,
Though that they shuld hir hertës al to-tere,
Would never flit, but ever were stedfast,
Til that their lyves there asunder brast.'
'Now, fair madam,' quod I, 'yet I would pray
Your ladiship, if that it might be,
That I might know[ë], by some maner way,
Sith that it hath [y-]lyked your beautè,
The trouth of these ladies for to tel me;
What that these knightës be, in rich armour;
And what tho be in grene, and were the flour;
And why that some did reverence to the tree,
And some unto the plot of flourës fair?'
'With right goo. wil, my fair doughter,' quod she,
'Sith your desyr is goo. and debonair.
Tho nine, crownèd, be very exemplair
Of all honour longing to chivalry,
And those, certain, be called the Nine Worthy,
Which ye may see [here] ryding al before,
That in hir tyme did many a noble dede,
And, for their worthines, ful oft have bore
The crowne of laurer-leves on their hede,
As ye may in your old[ë] bokes rede;
And how that he, that was a conquerour,
Had by laurer alway his most honour.
And tho that bere boughës in their hond
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Of the precious laurer so notáble,
Be such as were, I wol ye understond,
Noble knightës of the Round[ë] Table,
And eek the Douseperes honourable;
Which they bere in signe of victory,
As witness of their dedes mightily.
Eek there be knightës olde of the Garter,
That in hir tyme did right worthily;
And the honour they did to the laurer
Is, for by [it] they have their laud hoo.ly,
Their triumph eek, and martial glory;
Which unto hem is more parfyt richesse
Than any wight imagine can or gesse.
For oo. leef given of that noble tree
To any wight that hath don worthily,
And it be doo. so as it ought to be,
Is more honour then any thing erthly.
Witnesse of Rome that founder was, truly,
Of all knighthoo. and dedës marvelous;
Record I take of Titus Livius.
And as for her that crowned is in greene,
It is Flora, of these flourës goddesse;
And al that here on her awaiting been,
It are such [folk] that loved idlenes,
And not delyte [had] of no busines
But for to hunt and hauke, and pley in medes,
And many other such [lyk] idle dedes.
And for the greet delyt and [the] plesaunce
They have [un]to the flour, so reverently
They unto it do such [gret] obeisaunce,
As ye may see.' 'Now, fair madame,' quod I,
'If I durst ask what is the cause and why
That knightës have the signe of [al] honour
Rather by the Leef than by the Flour?'
'Sothly, doughter,' quod she, 'this is the trouth:
For knightës ever should be persévering,
To seeke honour without feintyse or slouth,
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Fro wele to better, in al maner thing;
In signe of which, with Levës ay lasting
They be rewarded after their degree,
Whos lusty grene may not appeired be,
But ay keping hir beautè fresh and greene;
For there nis storm [non] that may hem deface,
Hail nor snow, wind nor frostës kene;
Wherfore they have this propertè and grace.
And for the Flour within a litel space
Wol be [y-]lost, so simple of nature
They be, that they no grevance may endure,
And every storm wil blow hem sone away,
Ne they last not but [as] for a sesoun,
That is the cause, the very trouth to say,
That they may not, by no way of resoun,
Be put to no such occupacioun.'
'Madame,' quod I, 'with al my hoo. servyse
I thank you now, in my most humble wyse.
For now I am acértainèd throughly
Of every thing I désired to know.'
'I am right glad that I have said, sothly,
Ought to your pleysir, if ye wil me trow,'
Quod she ayein, 'but to whom do ye ow
Your servyce? and which wil ye honour,
Tel me, I pray, this yeer, the Leef or Flour?'
'Madame,' quod I, 'though I [be] leest worthy,
Unto the Leef I ow myn observaunce.'
'That is,' quod she, 'right wel don, certainly,
And I pray god to honour you avaunce,
And kepe you fro the wikked rémembraunce
Of Male-Bouche, and al his crueltè;
And alle that goo. and wel-condicioned be.
For here may I no lenger now abyde,
I must folowe the gret[ë] company
That ye may see yonder before you ryde.'
And forth[right], as I couth, most humblely,
I too. my leve of her as she gan hy
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After hem, as fast as ever she might;
And I drow hoo.ward, for it was nigh night;
And put al that I had seen in wryting,
Under support of hem that lust it rede.
O litel boo., thou art so unconning,
How darst thou put thy-self in prees for drede?
It is wonder that thou wexest not rede,
Sith that thou wost ful lyte who shal behold
Thy rude langage, ful boistously unfold.
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830:The Assembly Of Ladies
In Septembre, at the falling of the leef,
The fressh sesoun was al-togider doo.,
And of the corn was gadered in the sheef;
In a gardyn, about twayn after noo.,
Ther were ladyes walking, as was her wone,
Foure in nombre, as to my mynd doth falle,
And I the fifte, the simplest of hem alle.
Of gentilwomen fayre ther were also,
Disporting hem, everiche after her gyse,
In crosse-aleys walking, by two and two,
And some alone, after her fantasyes.
Thus occupyed we were in dyvers wyse;
And yet, in trouthe, we were not al alone;
Ther were knightës and squyers many one.
'Wherof I served?' oo. of hem asked me;
I sayde ayein, as it fel in my thought,
'To walke about the mase, in certayntè,
As a woman that [of] nothing rought.'
He asked me ayein—'whom that I sought,
And of my colour why I was so pale?'
'Forsothe,' quod I, 'and therby lyth a tale.'
'That must me wite,' quod he, 'and that anon;
Tel on, let see, and make no tarying.'
'Abyd,' quod I, 'ye been a hasty oo.,
I let you wite it is no litel thing.
But, for bicause ye have a greet longing
In your desyr, this proces for to here,
I shal you tel the playn of this matere.—
It happed thus, that, in an after-noo.,
My felawship and I, by oo. assent,
Whan al our other besinesse was doo.,
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To passe our tyme, into this mase we went,
And toke our wayes, eche after our entent;
Some went inward, and wend they had gon out,
Some stode amid, and loked al about.
And, soo.h to say, some were ful fer behind,
And right anon as ferforth as the best;
Other ther were, so mased in her mind,
Al wayes were goo. for hem, bothe eest and west.
Thus went they forth, and had but litel rest;
And some, her corage did hem sore assayle,
For very wrath, they did step over the rayle!
And as they sought hem-self thus to and fro,
I gat myself a litel avauntage;
Al for-weried, I might no further go,
Though I had won right greet, for my viage.
So com I forth into a strait passage,
Which brought me to an herber fair and grene,
Mad with benches, ful craftily and clene,
That, as me thought, ther might no crëature
Devyse a better, by dew proporcioun;
Safe it was closed wel, I you ensure,
With masonry of compas enviroun,
Ful secretly, with stayres going doun
Inmiddes the place, with turning wheel, certayn;
And upon that, a pot of marjolain;
With margarettes growing in ordinaunce,
To shewe hemself, as folk went to and fro,
That to beholde it was a greet plesaunce,
And how they were acompanyed with mo
Ne-m'oublie-mies and sovenez also;
The povre pensees were not disloged there;
No, no! god wot, her place was every-where!
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The flore beneth was paved faire and smothe
With stones square, of many dyvers hew,
So wel joynëd that, for to say the sothe,
Al semed oo. (who that non other knew);
And underneth, the stremës new and new,
As silver bright, springing in suche a wyse
That, whence it cam, ye coude it not devyse.
A litel whyle thus was I al alone,
Beholding wel this délectable place;
My felawship were coming everichone,
So must me nedes abyde, as for a space.
Rememb[e]ring of many dyvers cace
Of tyme passed, musing with sighes depe,
I set me doun, and ther I fel a-slepe.
And, as I slept, me thought ther com to me
A gentilwoman, metely of stature;
Of greet worship she semed for to be,
Atyred wel, not high, but by mesure;
Her countenaunce ful sad and ful demure;
Her colours blewe, al that she had upon;
Ther com no mo [there] but herself aloo..
Her gown was wel embrouded, certainly,
With sovenez, after her own devyse;
On her purfyl her word [was] by and by
Bien et loyalment, as I coud devyse.
Than prayde I her, in every maner wyse
That of her name I might have remembraunce;
She sayd, she called was Perséveraunce.
So furthermore to speke than was I bold,
Where she dwelled, I prayed her for to say;
And she again ful curteysly me told,
'My dwelling is, and hath ben many a day
With a lady.'—'What lady, I you pray?'
'Of greet estate, thus warne I you,' quod she;
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'What cal ye her?'—'Her name is Loyaltè.'
'In what offyce stand ye, or in what degrè?'
Quod I to her, 'that wolde I wit right fayn.'
'I am,' quod she, 'unworthy though I be,
Of her chambre her ussher, in certayn;
This rod I bere, as for a token playn,
Lyke as ye know the rule in such servyce
Pertayning is unto the same offyce.
She charged me, by her commaundëment,
To warn you and your felawes everichon,
That ye shuld come there as she is present,
For a counsayl, which shal be now anon,
Or seven dayës be comen and gon.
And furthermore, she bad that I shuld say
Excuse there might be non, nor [no] delay.
Another thing was nigh forget behind
Whiche in no wyse I wolde but ye it knew;
Remembre wel, and bere it in your mind,
Al your felawes and ye must come in blew,
Every liche able your maters for to sew;
With more, which I pray you thinke upon,
Your wordës on your slevës everichon.
And be not ye abasshed in no wyse,
As many been in suche an high presence;
Mak your request as ye can best devyse,
And she gladly wol yeve you audience.
There is no greef, ne no maner offence,
Wherin ye fele that your herte is displesed,
But with her help right sone ye shul be esed.'
'I am right glad,' quod I, 'ye tel me this,
But there is non of us that knoweth the way.'
'As of your way,' quod she, 'ye shul not mis,
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Ye shul have oo. to gyde you, day by day,
Of my felawes (I can no better say)
Suche oo. as shal tel you the way ful right;
And Diligence this gentilwoman hight.
A woman of right famous governaunce,
And wel cherisshed, I tel you in certayn;
Her felawship shal do you greet plesaunce.
Her port is suche, her maners trewe and playn;
She with glad chere wol do her besy payn
To bring you there; now farwel, I have don.'
'Abyde,' sayd I, 'ye may not go so sone.'
'Why so?' quod she, 'and I have fer to go
To yeve warning in many dyvers place
To your felawes, and so to other mo;
And wel ye wot, I have but litel space.'
'Now yet,' quod I, 'ye must tel me this cace,
If we shal any man unto us cal?'
'Not oo.,' quod she, 'may come among you al.'
'Not oo.,' quod I, 'ey! benedicite!
What have they don? I pray you tel me that!'
'Now, by my lyf, I trow but wel,' quod she;
'But ever I can bileve there is somwhat,
And, for to say you trouth, more can I nat;
In questiouns I may nothing be large,
I medle no further than is my charge.'
'Than thus,' quod I, 'do me to understand,
What place is there this lady is dwelling?'
'Forsothe,' quod she, 'and oo. sought al this land,
Fairer is noo., though it were for a king
Devysed wel, and that in every thing.
The toures hy ful plesaunt shul ye find,
With fanes fressh, turning with every wind.
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The chambres and parlours both of oo.sort,
With bay-windowes, goo.ly as may be thought,
As for daunsing and other wyse disport;
The galeryes right wonder wel y-wrought,
That I wel wot, if ye were thider brought.
And too. goo. hede therof in every wyse,
Ye wold it thinke a very paradyse.'
'What hight this place?' quod I; 'now say me that.'
'Plesaunt Regard,' quod she, 'to tel you playn.'
'Of verray trouth,' quod I, 'and, wot ye what,
It may right wel be called so, certayn;
But furthermore, this wold I wit ful fayn,
What shulde I do as sone as I come there,
And after whom that I may best enquere?'
'A gentilwoman, a porter at the yate
There shal ye find; her name is Countenaunce;
If it so hap ye come erly or late,
Of her were goo. to have som acquaintaunce.
She can tel how ye shal you best avaunce,
And how to come to her ladyes presence;
To her wordës I rede you yeve credence.
Now it is tyme that I depart you fro;
For, in goo. soo.h, I have gret businesse.'
'I wot right wel,' quod I, 'that it is so;
And I thank you of your gret gentilnesse.
Your comfort hath yeven me suche hardinesse
That now I shal be bold, withouten fayl,
To do after your ávyse and counsayl.'
Thus parted she, and I lefte al aloo.;
With that I saw, as I beheld asyde,
A woman come, a verray goo.ly oo.;
And forth withal, as I had her aspyed,
Me thought anon, [that] it shuld be the gyde;
And of her name anon I did enquere.
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Ful womanly she yave me this answere.
'I am,' quod she, 'a simple crëature
Sent from the court; my name is Diligence.
As sone as I might come, I you ensure,
I taried not, after I had licence;
And now that I am come to your presence,
Loo., what servyce that I can do or may,
Commaundë me; I can no further say.'
I thanked her, and prayed her to come nere,
Because I wold see how she were arayed;
Her gown was blew, dressed in goo. manere
With her devyse, her word also, that sayd
Tant que je puis; and I was wel apayd;
For than wist I, withouten any more,
It was ful trew, that I had herd before.
'Though we too. now before a litel space,
It were ful goo.,' quod she, 'as I coud gesse.'
'How fer,' quod I, 'have we unto that place?'
'A dayes journey,' quod she, 'but litel lesse;
Wherfore I redë that we onward dresse;
For, I suppose, our felawship is past,
And for nothing I wold that we were last.'
Than parted we, at springing of the day,
And forth we wente [a] soft and esy pace,
Til, at the last, we were on our journey
So fer onward, that we might see the place.
'Now let us rest,' quod I, 'a litel space,
And say we, as devoutly as we can,
A pater-noster for saint Julian.'
'With al my herte, I assent with goo. wil;
Much better shul we spede, whan we have don.'
Than taried we, and sayd it every del.
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And whan the day was fer gon after noo.,
We saw a place, and thider cam we sone,
Which rounde about was closed with a wal,
Seming to me ful lyke an hospital.
Ther found I oo., had brought al myn aray,
A gentilwoman of myn aquaintaunce.
'I have mervayl,' quod I, 'what maner way
Ye had knowlege of al this ordenaunce.'
'Yis, yis,' quod she, 'I herd Perséveraunce,
How she warned your felawes everichon,
And what aray that ye shulde have upon.'
'Now, for my love,' quod I, 'this I you pray,
Sith ye have take upon you al the payn,
That ye wold helpe me on with myn aray;
For wit ye wel, I wold be gon ful fayn.'
'Al this prayer nedeth not, certayn;'
Quod she agayn; 'com of, and hy you sone,
And ye shal see how wel it shal be doo..'
'But this I dout me greetly, wot ye what,
That my felawes ben passed by and gon.'
'I warant you,' quod she, 'that ar they nat;
For here they shul assemble everichon.
Notwithstanding, I counsail you anon;
Mak you redy, and tary ye no more,
It is no harm, though ye be there afore.'
So than I dressed me in myn aray,
And asked her, whether it were wel or no?
'It is right wel,' quod she, 'unto my pay;
Ye nede not care to what place ever ye go.'
And whyl that she and I debated so,
Cam Diligence, and saw me al in blew:
'Sister,' quod she, 'right wel brouk ye your new!'
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Than went we forth, and met at aventure
A yong woman, an officer seming:
'What is your name,' quod I, 'goo. crëature?'
'Discrecioun,' quod she, 'without lesing.'
'And where,' quod I, 'is your most abyding?'
'I have,' quod she, 'this office of purchace,
Cheef purveyour, that longeth to this place.'
'Fair love,' quod I, 'in al your ordenaunce,
What is her name that is the herbegere?'
'For sothe,' quod she, 'her name is Acquaintaunce,
A woman of right gracious manere.'
Than thus quod I, 'What straungers have ye here?'
'But few,' quod she, 'of high degree ne low;
Ye be the first, as ferforth as I know.'
Thus with talës we cam streight to the yate;
This yong woman departed was and gon;
Cam Diligence, and knokked fast therat;
'Who is without?' quod Countenaunce anon.
'Trewly,' quod I, 'fair sister, here is oo.!'
'Which oo.?' quod she, and therwithal she lough;
'I, Diligence! ye know me wel ynough.'
Than opened she the yate, and in we go;
With wordës fair she sayd ful gentilly,
'Ye are welcome, ywis! are ye no mo?'
'Nat oo.,' quod she, 'save this woman and I.'
'Now than,' quod she, 'I pray yow hertely,
Tak my chambre, as for a whyl, to rest
Til your felawës come, I holde it best.'
I thanked her, and forth we gon echon
Til her chambre, without[en] wordës mo.
Cam Diligence, and too. her leve anon;
'Wher-ever you list,' quod I, 'now may ye go;
And I thank you right hertely also
Of your labour, for which god do you meed;
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I can no more, but Jesu be your speed!'
Than Countenauncë asked me anon,
'Your felawship, where ben they now?' quod she.
'For sothe,' quod I, 'they be coming echon;
But in certayn, I know nat wher they be,
Without I may hem at this window see.
Here wil I stande, awaytinge ever among,
For, wel I wot, they wil nat now be long.'
Thus as I stoo. musing ful busily,
I thought to take goo. hede of her aray,
Her gown was blew, this wot I verely,
Of goo. fasoun, and furred wel with gray;
Upon her sleve her word (this is no nay),
Which sayd thus, as my pennë can endyte,
A moi que je voy, writen with lettres whyte.
Than forth withal she cam streight unto me,
'Your word,' quod she, 'fayn wold I that I knew.'
'Forsothe,' quod I, 'ye shal wel knowe and see,
And for my word, I have non; this is trew.
It is ynough that my clothing be blew,
As here-before I had commaundëment;
And so to do I am right wel content.
But tel me this, I pray you hertely,
The steward here, say me, what is her name?'
'She hight Largesse, I say you suërly;
A fair lady, and of right noble fame.
Whan ye her see, ye wil report the same.
And under her, to bid you welcome al,
There is Belchere, the marshal of the hall.
Now al this whyle that ye here tary stil,
Your own maters ye may wel have in mind.
But tel me this, have ye brought any bil?'
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'Ye, ye,' quod I, 'or els I were behind.
Where is there oo., tel me, that I may find
To whom that I may shewe my matters playn?'
'Surely,' quod she, 'unto the chamberlayn.'
'The chamberlayn?' quod I, '[now] say ye trew?'
'Ye, verely,' sayd she, 'by myne advyse;
Be nat aferd; unto her lowly sew.'
'It shal be don,' quod I, 'as ye devyse;
But ye must knowe her name in any wyse?'
'Trewly,' quod she, 'to tell you in substaunce,
Without fayning, her name is Remembraunce.
The secretary yit may not be forget;
For she may do right moche in every thing.
Wherfore I rede, whan ye have with her met,
Your mater hoo. tel her, without fayning;
Ye shal her finde ful goo. and ful loving.'
'Tel me her name,' quod I, 'of gentilnesse.'
'By my goo. soo.h,' quod she, 'Avysënesse.'
'That name,' quod I, 'for her is passing goo.;
For every bil and cedule she must see;
Now goo.,' quod I, 'com, stand there-as I stoo.;
My felawes be coming; yonder they be.'
'Is it [a] jape, or say ye soo.h?' quod she.
'In jape? nay, nay; I say you for certain;
See how they come togider, twain and twain!'
'Ye say ful soo.h,' quod she, 'that is no nay;
I see coming a goo.ly company.'
'They been such folk,' quod I, 'I dar wel say,
That list to love; thinke it ful verily.
And, for my love, I pray you faithfully,
At any tyme, whan they upon you cal,
That ye wol be goo. frend unto hem al.'
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'Of my frendship,' quod she, 'they shal nat mis,
And for their ese, to put therto my payn.'
'God yelde it you!' quod I; 'but tel me this,
How shal we know who is the chamberlayn?'
'That shal ye wel know by her word, certayn.'
'What is her word? Sister, I pray you say.'
'Plus ne purroy; thus wryteth she alway.'
Thus as we stoo. togider, she and I,
Even at the yate my felawes were echon.
So met I hem, as me thought was goo.ly,
And bad hem welcome al, by on and on.
Than forth cam [lady] Countenaunce anon;
'Ful hertely, fair sisters al,' quod she,
'Ye be right welcome into this countree.
I counsail you to take a litel rest
In my chambre, if it be your plesaunce.
Whan ye be there, me thinketh for the best
That I go in, and cal Perséveraunce,
Because she is oo. of your aquaintaunce;
And she also wil tel you every thing
How ye shal be ruled of your coming.'
My felawes al and I, by oo. avyse,
Were wel agreed to do lyke as she sayd.
Than we began to dresse us in our gyse,
That folk shuld see we were nat unpurvayd;
And goo. wageours among us there we layd,
Which of us was atyred goo.liest,
And of us al which shuld be praysed best.
The porter cam, and brought Perséveraunce;
She welcomed us in ful curteys manere:
'Think ye nat long,' quod she, 'your attendaunce;
I wil go speke unto the herbergere,
That she may purvey for your logging here.
Than wil I go unto the chamberlayn
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To speke for you, and come anon agayn.'
And whan [that] she departed was and gon,
We saw folkës coming without the wal,
So greet people, that nombre coud we non;
Ladyes they were and gentilwomen al,
Clothed in blew, echon her word withal;
But for to knowe her word or her devyse,
They cam so thikke, that I might in no wyse.
With that anon cam in Perséveraunce,
And where I stoo., she cam streight [un]to me.
'Ye been,' quod she, 'of myne olde acquaintaunce;
You to enquere, the bolder wolde I be;
What word they bere, eche after her degree,
I pray you, tel it me in secret wyse;
And I shal kepe it close, on warantyse.'
'We been,' quod I, 'fyve ladies al in-fere,
And gentilwomen foure in company;
Whan they begin to open hir matere,
Than shal ye knowe hir wordës by and by;
But as for me, I have non verely,
And so I told Countenaunce here-before;
Al myne aray is blew; what nedeth more?'
'Now than,' quod she, 'I wol go in agayn,
That ye may have knowlege, what ye shuld do.'
'In soo.h,' quod I, 'if ye wold take the payn,
Ye did right moch for us, if ye did so.
The rather sped, the soner may we go.
Gret cost alway ther is in tarying;
And long to sewe, it is a wery thing.'
Than parted she, and cam again anon;
'Ye must,' quod she, 'come to the chamberlayn.'
'We been,' quod I, 'now redy everichon
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To folowe you whan-ever ye list, certayn.
We have non eloquence, to tel you playn;
Beseching you we may be so excused,
Our trew mening, that it be not refused.'
Than went we forth, after Perséveraunce,
To see the prees; it was a wonder cace;
There for to passe it was greet comb[e]raunce,
The people stoo. so thikke in every place.
'Now stand ye stil,' quod she, 'a litel space;
And for your ese somwhat I shal assay,
If I can make you any better way.'
And forth she goth among hem everichon,
Making a way, that we might thorugh pas
More at our ese; and whan she had so don,
She beckned us to come where-as she was;
So after her we folowed, more and las.
She brought us streight unto the chamberlayn;
There left she us, and than she went agayn.
We salued her, as reson wolde it so,
Ful humb[el]ly beseching her goo.nesse,
In our maters that we had for to do
That she wold be goo. lady and maistresse.
'Ye be welcome,' quod she, 'in sothfastnesse,
And see, what I can do you for to plese,
I am redy, that may be to your ese.'
We folowed her unto the chambre-dore,
'Sisters,' quod she, 'come ye in after me.'
But wite ye wel, there was a paved flore,
The goo.liest that any wight might see;
And furthermore, about than loked we
On eche corner, and upon every wal,
The which was mad of berel and cristal;
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Wherein was graven of stories many oo.;
First how Phyllis, of womanly pitè,
Deyd pitously, for love of Demophoo..
Nexte after was the story of Tisbee,
How she slew her-self under a tree.
Yet saw I more, how in right pitous cas
For Antony was slayn Cleopatras.
That other syde was, how Hawes the shene
Untrewly was disceyved in her bayn.
There was also Annelida the quene,
Upon Arcyte how sore she did complayn.
Al these stories were graved there, certayn;
And many mo than I reherce you here;
It were to long to tel you al in-fere.
And, bicause the wallës shone so bright,
With fyne umple they were al over-sprad,
To that intent, folk shuld nat hurte hir sight;
And thorugh it the stories might be rad.
Than furthermore I went, as I was lad;
And there I saw, without[en] any fayl,
A chayrë set, with ful riche aparayl.
And fyve stages it was set fro the ground,
Of cassidony ful curiously wrought;
With four pomelles of golde, and very round,
Set with saphyrs, as goo. as coud be thought;
That, wot ye what, if it were thorugh sought,
As I suppose, fro this countrey til Inde,
Another suche it were right fer to finde!
For, wite ye wel, I was right nere that,
So as I durst, beholding by and by;
Above ther was a riche cloth of estate,
Wrought with the nedle ful straungëly,
Her word thereon; and thus it said trewly,
A endurer, to tel you in wordës few,
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With grete letters, the better I hem knew.
Thus as we stode, a dore opened anon;
A gentilwoman, semely of stature,
Beringe a mace, cam out, her-selfe aloo.;
Sothly, me thought, a goo.ly crëature!
She spak nothing to lowde, I you ensure,
Nor hastily, but with goo.ly warning:
'Mak roo.,' quod she, 'my lady is coming!'
With that anon I saw Perséveraunce,
How she held up the tapet in her hand.
I saw also, in right goo. ordinaunce,
This greet lady within the tapet stand,
Coming outward, I wol ye understand;
And after her a noble company,
I coud nat tel the nombre sikerly.
Of their namës I wold nothing enquere
Further than suche as we wold sewe unto,
Sauf oo.lady, which was the chauncellere,
Attemperaunce; sothly her name was so.
For us nedeth with her have moch to do
In our maters, and alway more and more.
And, so forth, to tel you furthermore,
Of this lady her beautè to discryve,
My conning is to simple, verely;
For never yet, the dayës of my lyve,
So inly fair I have non seen, trewly.
In her estate, assured utterly,
There wanted naught, I dare you wel assure,
That longed to a goo.ly crëature.
And furthermore, to speke of her aray,
I shal you tel the maner of her gown;
Of clothe of gold ful riche, it is no nay;
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The colour blew, of a right goo. fasoun;
In tabard-wyse the slevës hanging doun;
And what purfyl there was, and in what wyse,
So as I can, I shal it you devyse.
After a sort the coller and the vent,
Lyk as ermyne is mad in purfeling;
With grete perlës, ful fyne and orient,
They were couchèd, al after oo. worching,
With dyamonds in stede of powdering;
The slevës and purfilles of assyse;
They were [y-]mad [ful] lyke, in every wyse.
Aboute her nekke a sort of fair rubyes,
In whyte floures of right fyne enamayl;
Upon her heed, set in the freshest wyse,
A cercle with gret balays of entayl;
That, in ernest to speke, withouten fayl,
For yonge and olde, and every maner age,
It was a world to loke on her visage.
Thus coming forth, to sit in her estat,
In her presence we kneled down echon,
Presentinge up our billes, and, wot ye what,
Ful humb[el]ly she too. hem, by on and on;
When we had don, than cam they al anon,
And did the same, eche after her manere,
Knelinge at ones, and rysinge al in-fere.
Whan this was don, and she set in her place,
The chamberlayn she did unto her cal;
And she, goo.ly coming til her a-pace,
Of her entent knowing nothing at al,
'Voyd bak the prees,' quod she, 'up to the wal;
Mak larger roum, but loo. ye do not tary,
And tak these billës to the secretary.'
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The chamberlayn did her commaundëment,
And cam agayn, as she was bid to do;
The secretary there being present,
The billës were delivered her also,
Not only ours, but many other mo.
Than the lady, with goo. advyce, agayn
Anon withal called her chamberlayn.
'We wol,' quod she, 'the first thing that ye do,
The secretary, make her come anon
With her billës; and thus we wil also,
In our presence she rede hem everichon,
That we may takë goo. advyce theron
Of the ladyes, that been of our counsayl;
Loo. this be don, withouten any fayl.'
The chamberlayn, whan she wiste her entent,
Anon she did the secretary cal:
'Let your billës,' quod she, 'be here present,
My lady it wil.' 'Madame,' quod she, 'I shal.'
'And in presence she wil ye rede hem al.'
'With goo. wil; I am redy,' quod she,
'At her plesure, whan she commaundeth me.'
And upon that was mad an ordinaunce,
They that cam first, hir billës shuld be red.
Ful gentelly than sayd Perséveraunce,
'Resoun it wold that they were sonest sped.'
Anon withal, upon a tapet spred,
The secretary layde hem doun echon;
Our billës first she redde hem on by on.
The first lady, bering in her devyse
Sans que jamais, thus wroo. she in her bil;
Complayning sore and in ful pitous wyse
Of promesse mad with faithful hert and wil
And so broken, ayenst al maner skil,
Without desert alwayes on her party;
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In this mater desyring remedy.
Her next felawës word was in this wyse,
Une sanz chaungier; and thus she did complayn,
Though she had been guerdoned for her servyce,
Yet nothing lyke as she that too. the payn;
Wherfore she coude in no wyse her restrayn,
But in this cas sewe until her presence,
As reson woldë, to have recompence.
So furthermore, to speke of other twayn,
Oon of hem wroo., after her fantasy,
Oncques puis lever; and, for to tel you plain,
Her complaynt was ful pitous, verely,
For, as she sayd, ther was gret reson why;
And, as I can remembre this matere,
I shal you tel the proces, al in-fere.
Her bil was mad, complayninge in her gyse,
That of her joy, her comfort and gladnesse
Was no suretee; for in no maner wyse
She fond therin no point of stablenesse,
Now il, now wel, out of al sikernesse;
Ful humbelly desyringe, of her grace,
Som remedy to shewe her in this cace.
Her felawe made her bil, and thus she sayd,
In playning wyse; there-as she loved best,
Whether she were wroth or wel apayd
She might nat see, whan [that] she wold faynest;
And wroth she was, in very ernest;
To tel her word, as ferforth as I wot,
Entierment vostre, right thus she wroo..
And upon that she made a greet request
With herte and wil, and al that might be don
As until her that might redresse it best;
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For in her mind thus might she finde it sone,
The remedy of that, which was her boo.;
Rehersing [that] that she had sayd before,
Beseching her it might be so no more.
And in lyk wyse as they had don before,
The gentilwomen of our company
Put up hir billës; and, for to tel you more,
Oon of hem wroo. cest sanz dire, verily;
And her matere hoo. to specify,
With-in her bil she put it in wryting;
And what it sayd, ye shal have knowleching.
It sayd, god wot, and that ful pitously,
Lyke as she was disposed in her hert,
No misfortune that she too. grevously;
Al oo. to her it was, the joy and smert,
Somtyme no thank for al her goo. desert.
Other comfort she wanted non coming,
And so used, it greved her nothing.
Desyringe her, and lowly béseching,
That she for her wold seke a better way,
As she that had ben, al her dayes living,
Stedfast and trew, and so wil be alway.
Of her felawe somwhat I shal you say,
Whos bil was red next after forth, withal;
And what it ment rehersen you I shal.
En dieu est, she wroo. in her devyse;
And thus she sayd, withouten any fayl,
Her trouthë might be taken in no wyse
Lyke as she thought, wherfore she had mervayl;
For trouth somtyme was wont to take avayl
In every matere; but al that is ago;
The more pitè, that it is suffred so.
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Moch more there was, whereof she shuld complayn,
But she thought it to greet encomb[e]raunce
So moch to wryte; and therfore, in certayn,
In god and her she put her affiaunce
As in her worde is mad a remembraunce;
Beseching her that she wolde, in this cace,
Shewe unto her the favour of her grace.
The third, she wroo., rehersing her grevaunce,
Ye! wot ye what, a pitous thing to here;
For, as me thought, she felt gret displesaunce,
Oon might right wel perceyve it by her chere,
And no wonder; it sat her passing nere.
Yet loth she was to put it in wryting,
But nede wol have his cours in every thing.
Soyes en sure, this was her word, certayn,
And thus she wroo., but in a litel space;
There she lovëd, her labour was in vayn,
For he was set al in another place;
Ful humblely desyring, in that cace,
Som goo. comfort, her sorow to appese,
That she might livë more at hertes ese.
The fourth surely, me thought, she liked wele,
As in her porte and in her behaving;
And Bien moneste, as fer as I coud fele,
That was her word, til her wel belonging.
Wherfore to her she prayed, above al thing,
Ful hertely (to say you in substaunce)
That she wold sende her goo. continuaunce.
'Ye have rehersed me these billës al,
But now, let see somwhat of your entent.'
'It may so hap, paraventure, ye shal.
Now I pray you, whyle I am here present,
Ye shal, pardè, have knowlege, what I ment.
But thus I say in trouthe, and make no fable,
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The case itself is inly lamentable.
And wel I wot, that ye wol think the same,
Lyke as I say, whan ye have herd my bil.'
'Now goo., tel on, I hate you, by saynt Jame!'
'Abyde a whyle; it is nat yet my wil.
Yet must ye wite, by reson and by skil,
Sith ye know al that hath be don before:—'
And thus it sayd, without[en] wordes more.
'Nothing so leef as deth to come to me
For fynal ende of my sorowes and payn;
What shulde I more desyre, as semë ye?
And ye knewe al aforn it for certayn,
I wot ye wolde; and, for to tel you playn,
Without her help that hath al thing in cure
I can nat think that I may longe endure.
As for my trouthe, it hath be proved wele,
To say the sothe, I can [you] say no more,
Of ful long tyme, and suffred every dele
In pacience, and kepe it al in store;
Of her goo.nesse besechinge her therfore
That I might have my thank in suche [a] wyse
As my desert deserveth of justyse.'
Whan these billës were rad everichon,
This lady too. a goo. advysement;
And hem to answere, ech by on and on,
She thought it was to moche in her entent;
Wherfore she yaf hem in commaundëment,
In her presence to come, bothe oo. and al,
To yeve hem there her answer general.
What did she than, suppose ye verely?
She spak herself, and sayd in this manere,
'We have wel seen your billës by and by,
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And some of hem ful pitous for to here.
We wol therfore ye knowe al this in-fere,
Within short tyme our court of parliment
Here shal be holde, in our palays present;
And in al this wherin ye find you greved,
Ther shal ye finde an open remedy
In suche [a] wyse, as ye shul be releved
Of al that ye reherce here, thoroughly.
As for the date, ye shul know verily,
That ye may have a space in your coming;
For Diligence shal it tel you by wryting.'
We thanked her in our most humble wyse,
Our felauship, echon by oo. assent,
Submitting us lowly til her servyse.
For, as we thought, we had our travayl spent
In suche [a] wyse as we helde us content.
Than eche of us too. other by the sleve,
And forth withal, as we shuld take our leve.
Al sodainly the water sprang anon
In my visage, and therwithal I woo.:—
'Where am I now?' thought I; 'al this is gon;'
And al amased, up I gan to loo..
With that, anon I went and made this boo.,
Thus simplely rehersing the substaunce,
Bicause it shuld not out of remembraunce.'—
'Now verily, your dreem is passing goo.,
And worthy to be had in rémembraunce;
For, though I stande here as longe as I stoo.,
It shuld to me be non encomb[e]raunce;
I too. therin so inly greet plesaunce.
But tel me now, what ye the boo. do cal?
For I must wite.' 'With right goo. wil ye shal:
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As for this boo., to say you very right,
And of the name to tel the certeyntè,
L'assemblè de Dames, thus it hight;
How think ye?' 'That the name is goo., pardè!'
'Now go, farwel! for they cal after me,
My felawes al, and I must after sone;
Rede wel my dreem; for now my tale is doo..'
Here endeth the Boo. of Assemble de Damys.
~ Anonymous Olde English,#NFDB
831:Emare
Jhesu, that ys kyng in trone,
As Thou shoo.e bothe sonne and mone,
And all that shalle dele and dyghte,
Now lene us grace such dedus to done,
In Thy blys that we may wone Men calle hyt heven lyghte;
And Thy modur Mary, hevyn qwene,
Bere our arunde so bytwene, 1
That semely ys of syght,
To thy Sone that ys so fre,
In heven wyth Hym that we may be,
That lord ys most of myght.
Menstrelles that walken fer and wyde,
Her and ther in every a syde,
In mony a dyverse londe,
Sholde, at her bygynnyng,
Speke of that ryghtwes kyng
That made both see and sonde.
Whoso wyll a stounde dwelle, 2
Of mykyll myrght y may you telle,
And mornyng ther amonge;
Of a lady fayr and fre,
Her name was called Emaré,
As I here synge in songe.
Her fadyr was an emperour
Of castell and of ryche towre;
Syr Artyus was hys nome.
He hadde bothe hallys and bowrys,
Frythes fayr, forestes wyth flowrys;
So gret a lord was none.
Weddedde he had a lady
That was both fayr and semely,
Whyte as whales bone:
Dame Erayne hette that emperes;
She was full of love and goo.nesse;
So curtays lady was none.
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Syr Artyus was the best manne
In the worlde that lyvede thanne,
Both hardy and therto wyght;
He was curtays in all thyng,
Bothe to olde and to yynge,
And well kowth dele and dyght. 3
He hadde but on chyld in hys lyve
Begeten on hys weddedde wyfe,
And that was fayr and bryght;
For sothe, as y may telle the,
They called that chyld Emaré,
That semely was of syght.
When she was of her modur born,
She was the fayrest creature borne
That yn the lond was thoo.
The emperes, that fayr ladye,
Fro her lord gan she dye,
Or hyt kowthe speke or goo.
The chyld, that was fayr and gent,
To a lady was hyt sente,
That men kalled Abro.
She thawghth hyt curtesye and thewe,
Golde and sylke for to sewe,
Amonge maydenes moo.
Abro tawghte thys mayden small,
Nortur that men useden in sale,
Whyle she was in her bowre.
She was curtays in all thynge,
Bothe to olde and to yynge,
And whyte as lylye-flowre.
Of her hondes she was slye;
All her loved that her sye,
Wyth menske and mychyl honour.
At the mayden leve we,
And at the lady fayr and fre,
And speke we of the Emperour.
The Emperour of gentyll blode
Was a curteys lorde and a gode,
In all maner of thynge.
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Aftur, when hys wyf was dede,
And ledde hys lyf yn weddewede,
And myche loved playnge.
Sone aftur, yn a whyle,
The ryche Kynge of Cesyle
To the Emperour gan wende;
A ryche present wyth hym he browght,
A cloth that was wordylye wroght.
He wellcomed hym as the hende.
Syr Tergaunte, that nobyll knyght,
He presented the Emperour ryght,
And sette hym on hys kne,
Wyth that cloth rychyly dyght,
Full of stones ther hyt was pyght,
As thykke as hyt myght be:
Off topaze and rubyes
And othur stones of myche prys,
That semely wer to se;
Of crapowtes and nakette,
As thykke ar they sette,
For sothe, as y say the.
The cloth was dysplayed sone;
The Emperour lokede therupone
And myght hyt not se,
For glysteryng of the ryche ston;
Redy syght had he non,
And sayde, 'How may thys be?'
The Emperour sayde on hygh,
'Sertes, thys ys a fayry,
Or ellys a vanyté!'
The Kyng of Cysyle answered than,
'So ryche a jwell ys ther non
In all Crystyanté.'
The Emerayle dowghter of hethenes
Made thys cloth wythouten lees,
And wrowghte hyt all wyth pryde;
And purtreyed hyt wyth gret honour,
Wyth ryche golde and asowr
And stones on ylke a syde.
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And, as the story telles in honde,
The stones that yn thys cloth stonde,
Sowghte they wer full wyde.
Seven wynter hyt was yn makynge,
Or hyt was browght to endynge,
In herte ys not to hyde.
In that on korner made was
Ydoyne and Amadas,
Wyth love that was so trewe;
For they loveden hem wyth honour,
Portrayed they wer wyth trewe-love-flour,
Of stones bryght of hewe:
Wyth carbunkull and safere,
Kassydonys and onyx so clere
Sette in golde newe,
Deamondes and rubyes,
And othur stones of mychyll pryse,
And menstrellys wyth her glewe.
In that othur corner was dyght
Trystram and Isowde so bryght,
That semely wer to se;
And for they loved hem ryght,
As full of stones ar they dyght,
As thykke as they may be:
Of topase and of rubyes,
And othur stones of myche pryse,
That semely wer to se;
Wyth crapawtes and nakette,
Thykke of stones ar they sette,
For sothe, as y say the.
In the thyrdde korner, wyth gret honour,
Was Florys and Dam Blawncheflour,
As love was hem betwene;
For they loved wyth honour,
Purtrayed they wer wyth trewe-love-flour,
Wyth stones bryght and shene:
Ther wer knyghtus and senatowres,
Emerawdes of gret vertues,
To wyte wythouten wene;
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Deamoundes and koralle,
Perydotes and crystall,
And gode garnettes bytwene.
In the fowrthe korner was oo.,
Of Babylone the Sowdan sonne,
The Amerayles dowghtyr hym by.
For hys sake the cloth was wrowght;
She loved hym in hert and thowght,
As testymoyeth thys storye.
The fayr mayden her byforn
Was portrayed an unykorn,
Wyth hys horn so hye;
Flowres and bryddes on ylke a syde,
Wyth stones that wer sowght wyde,
Stuffed wyth ymagerye.
When the cloth to ende was wrowght,
To the Sowdan sone hyt was browght,
That semely was of syghte.
'My fadyr was a nobyll man;
Of the Sowdan he hyt wan
Wyth maystrye and wyth myghth.
For gret love he gaf hyt me;
I brynge hyt the in specyalté;
Thys cloth ys rychely dyght.'
He gaf hyt the emperour;
He receyved hyt wyth gret honour,
And thonkede hym fayr and ryght.
The Kyng of Cesyle dwelled ther
As long as hys wyll wer,
Wyth the Emperour for to play;
And when he wolde wende,
He toke hys leve at the hende,
And wente forth on hys way.
Now remeveth thys nobyll kyng.
The Emperour aftur hys dowghtur hadde longyng,
To speke wyth that may.
Messengeres forth he sent
Aftyr the mayde fayr and gent,
That was bryght as someres day.
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Messengeres dyghte hem in hye;
Wyth myche myrthe and melodye,
Forth gon they fare,
Both by stretes and by stye,
Aftur that fayr lady,
Was godely unthur gare.
Her norysse, that hyghte Abro,
Wyth her she goth forth also,
And wer sette in a chare.
To the Emperour gan they go;
He come ayeyn hem a myle or two;
A fayr metyng was there.
The mayden, whyte as lylye flour,
Lyghte ayeyn her fadyr the Emperour;
Two knyghtes gan her lede.
Her fadyr that was of gret renowne,
That of golde wered the crowne,
Lyghte of hys stede.
When they wer bothe on her fete,
He klypped her and kyssed her swete,
And bothe on fote they yede.
They wer glad and made goo. chere;
To the palys they yede in fere,
In romans as we rede.
Then the lordes that wer grete,
They wesh and seten doun to mete,
And folk hem served swythe.
The mayden that was of sembelant swete,
Byfore her owene fadur sete,
The fayrest wommon on lyfe;
That all hys hert and all hys thowghth
Her to love was yn browght:
He byhelde her ofte sythe.
So he was anamored hys thowghtur tyll,
Wyth her he thowghth to worche hys wyll,
And wedde her to hys wyfe.
And when the metewhyle was don,
Into hys chambur he wente son
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And called hys counseyle nere.
He bad they shulde sone go and come,
And gete leve of the Pope of Rome
To wedde that mayden clere.
Messengeres forth they wente.
They durste not breke hys commandement,
And erles wyth hem yn fere.
They wente to the courte of Rome,
And browghte the Popus bullus sone,
To wedde hys dowghter dere.
Then was the Emperour gladde and blythe,
And lette shape a robe swythe
Of that cloth of golde;
And when hyt was don her upon,
She semed non erthely wommon,
That marked was of molde.
Then seyde the Emperour so fre,
'Dowghtyr, y woll wedde the,
Thow art so fresh to beholde.'
Then sayde that wordy unthur wede,
'Nay syr, God of heven hyt forbede,
That ever do so we shulde!
'Yyf hyt so betydde that ye me wedde
And we shulde play togedur in bedde,
Bothe we were forlorne!
The worde shulde sprynge fer and wyde;
In all the worlde on every syde
The worde shulde be borne.
Ye ben a lorde of gret pryce,
Lorde, lette nevur such sorow aryce:
Take God you beforne!
That my fadur shulde wedde me,
God forbede that I hyt so se,
That wered the crowne of thorne!'
The Emperour was ryght wrothe,
And swore many a gret othe,
That deed shulde she be.
He lette make a nobull boo.,
And dede her theryn, God wote,
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In the robe of nobull ble.
She moste have wyth her no spendyng,
Nothur mete ne drynke,
But shate her ynto the se.
Now the lady dwelled thore,
Wythowte anker or ore,
And that was gret pyté!
Ther come a wynd, y unthurstonde,
And blewe the boo. fro the londe,
Of her they lost the syght.
The Emperour hym bethowght
That he hadde all myswrowht,
And was a sory knyghte.
And as he stode yn studyynge,
He fell down in sowenynge,
To the erthe was he dyght.
Grete lordes stode therby,
And toke yn the Emperour hastyly,
And comforted hym fayr and ryght.
When he of sownyng kovered was,
Sore he wepte and sayde, 'Alas,
For my dowhter dere!
Alas, that y was made man,
Wrecched kaytyf that I hyt am!'
The teres ronne by hys lere.
'I wrowght ayeyn Goddes lay
To her that was so trewe of fay.
Alas, why ner she here!'
The teres lasshed out of hys yghen;
The grete lordes that hyt syghen
Wepte and made yll chere.
Ther was nothur olde ny yynge
That kowthe stynte of wepynge,
For that comely unthur kelle.
Into shypys faste gan they thrynge,
Forto seke that mayden yynge,
That was so fayr of flesh and fell.
They her sowght ovurall yn the see
And myghte not fynde that lady fre,
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Ayeyn they come full snell.
At the Emperour now leve we,
And of the lady yn the see,
I shall begynne to tell.
The lady fleted forth alone;
To God of heven she made her mone,
And to Hys modyr also.
She was dryven wyth wynde and rayn,
Wyth stronge stormes her agayn,
Of the watur so blo.
As y have herd menstrelles syng yn sawe,
Hows ny lond myghth she non knowe,
Aferd she was to go.
She was so dryven fro wawe to wawe,
She hyd her hede and lay full lowe,
For watyr she was full woo.
Now thys lady dwelled thore
A goo. seven nyghth and more,
As hyt was Goddys wylle;
Wyth carefull herte and sykyng sore,
Such sorow was here yarked yore,
And ever lay she styll.
She was dryven ynto a lond,
Thorow the grace of Goddes sond,
That all thyng may fulfylle.
She was on the see so harde bestadde,
For hungur and thurste almost madde.
Woo.worth wederus yll!
She was dryven into a lond
That hyghth Galys, y unthurstond,
That was a fayr countré.
The kyngus steward dwelled ther bysyde,
In a kastell of mykyll pryde;
Syr Kadore hyght he.
Every day wolde he go,
And take wyth hym a sqwyer or two,
And play hym by the see.
On a tyme he toke the eyr
Wyth two knyghtus gode and fayr;
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The wedur was lythe of le.
A boo. he fond by the brym,
And a glysteryng thyng theryn,
Therof they hadde ferly.
They went forth on the sond
To the boo., y unthurstond,
And fond theryn that lady.
She hadde so longe meteles be
That hym thowht gret dele to se;
She was yn poynt to dye.
They askede her what was her name:
She chaunged hyt ther anone,
And sayde she hette Egaré.
Syr Kadore hadde gret pyté;
He toke up the lady of the see,
And hom gan her lede.
She hadde so longe meteles be,
She was wax lene as a tre,
That worthy unthur wede.
Into hys castell when she came,
Into a chawmbyr they her namm,
And fayr they gan her fede,
Wyth all delycyus mete and drynke
That they myghth hem on thynke,
That was yn all that stede.
When that lady, fayr of face,
Wyth mete and drynke kevered was,
And had colour agayne,
She tawghte hem to sewe and marke
All maner of sylkyn werke;
Of her they wer full fayne.
She was curteys yn all thyng,
Bothe to olde and to yynge,
I say yow for certeyne.
She kowghthe werke all maner thyng
That fell to emperour or to kyng,
Erle, barown or swayne.
Syr Kadore lette make a feste
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That was fayr and honeste,
Wyth hys lorde, the kynge.
Ther was myche menstralsé,
Trommpus, tabours and sawtré,
Bothe harpe and fydyllyng.
The lady that was gentyll and small
In kurtull alone served yn hall,
Byfore that nobull kyng.
The cloth upon her shone so bryghth
When she was theryn ydyghth,
She semed non erthly thyng.
The kyng loked her upon,
So fayr a lady he sygh nevur non:
Hys herte she hadde yn wolde.
He was so anamered of that syghth,
Of the mete non he myghth,
But faste gan her beholde.
She was so fayr and gent,
The kynges love on her was lent,
In tale as hyt ys tolde.
And when the metewhyle was don,
Into the chambur he wente son,
And called hys barouns bolde.
Fyrst he called Syr Kadore,
And othur knyghtes that ther wore,
Hastely come hym tyll.
Dukes and erles, wyse of lore,
Hastely come the kyng before
And askede what was hys wyll.
Then spakke the ryche yn ray,
To Syr Kadore gan he say
Wordes fayr and stylle:
'Syr, whenns ys that lovely may
That yn the halle served thys day?
Tell my yyf hyt be thy wyll.'
Then sayde syr Kadore, y unthurstonde,
'Hyt ys an erles thowghtur of ferre londe,
That semely ys to sene.
I sente aftur her certeynlye
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To teche my chylderen curtesye,
In chambur wyth hem to bene.
She ys the konnyngest wommon,
I trowe, that be yn Crystendom,
Of werke that y have sene.'
Then sayde that ryche raye,
'I wyll have that fayr may
And wedde her to my quene.'
The nobull kyng, verament,
Aftyr hys modyr he sent
To wyte what she wolde say.
They browght forth hastely
That fayr mayde Egarye;
She was bryghth as someres day.
The cloth on her shon so bryght
When she was theryn dyght,
And herself a gentell may,
The olde qwene sayde anon,
'I sawe never wommon
Halvendell so gay!'
The olde qwene spakke wordus unhende
And sayde, 'Sone, thys ys a fende,
In thys wordy wede!
As thou lovest my blessynge,
Make thou nevur thys weddynge,
Cryst hyt the forbede!'
Then spakke the ryche ray,
'Modyr, y wyll have thys may!'
And forth gan her lede.
The olde qwene, for certayne,
Turnede wyth ire hom agayne,
And wolde not be at that dede.
The kyng wedded that lady bryght;
Grete purvyance ther was dyghth,
In that semely sale.
Grete lordes wer served aryght,
Duke, erle, baron and knyghth,
Both of grete and smale.
Myche folke, forsothe, ther was,
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And therto an huge prese,
As hyt ys tolde yn tale.
Ther was all maner thyng
That fell to a kyngus weddyng,
And mony a ryche menstralle.
When the mangery was done,
Grete lordes departed sone,
That semely were to se.
The kynge belafte wyth the qwene;
Moch love was hem betwene,
And also game and gle.
She was curteys and swete,
Such a lady herde y nevur of yete;
They loved both wyth herte fre.
The lady that was both meke and mylde
Conceyved and wente wyth chylde,
As God wolde hyt sholde be.
The kyng of France yn that tyme
Was besette wyth many a Sarezyne,
And cumbered all in tene;
And sente aftur the kyng of Galys,
And othur lordys of myche prys,
That semely were to sene.
The kyng of Galys, in that tyde,
Gedered men on every syde,
In armour bryght and shene.
Then sayde the kyng to Syr Kadore
And othur lordes that ther wore,
'Take goo. hede to my qwene.'
The kyng of Fraunce spared none,
But sent for hem everychone,
Both kyng, knyghth and clerke.
The steward bylaft at home
To kepe the qwene whyte as fome,
He come not at that werke.
She wente wyth chylde yn place,
As longe as Goddus wyll was,
That semely unthur serke;
Thyll ther was of her body
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A fayr chyld borne and a godele;
Hadde a dowbyll kyngus marke. 4
They hyt crystened wyth grete honour
And called hym Segramour:
Frely was that fode.
Then the steward, Syr Kadore,
A nobull lettur made he thore,
And wrowghte hyt all wyth gode.
He wrowghte hyt yn hyghynge
And sente hyt to hys lorde the kynge,
That gentyll was of blode.
The messenger forth gan wende,
And wyth the kyngus modur gan lende,
And ynto the castell he yode.
He was resseyved rychely,
And she hym askede hastyly
How the qwene hadde spedde.
'Madame, ther ys of her yborne
A fayr man-chylde, y tell you beforne,
And she lyth in her bedde.'
She gaf hym for that tydynge
A robe and fowrty shylynge,
And rychely hym cladde.
She made hym dronken of ale and wyne,
And when she sawe that hyt was tyme,
Tho chambur she wolde hym lede.
And when he was on slepe browght,
The qwene that was of wykked thowght,
Tho chambur gan she wende.
Hys letter she toke hym fro,
In a fyre she brente hyt tho;
Of werkes she was unhende.
Another lettur she made wyth evyll,
And sayde the qwene had born a devyll;
Durste no mon come her hende.
Thre heddes hadde he there,
A lyon, a dragon, and a beere:
A fowll feltred fende.
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On the morn when hyt was day,
The messenger wente on hys way,
Bothe by stye and strete;
In trwe story as y say,
Tyll he come theras the kynge laye,
And speke wordus swete.
He toke the kyng the lettur yn honde,
And he hyt redde, y unthurstonde,
The teres downe gan he lete.
And as he stode yn redyng,
Downe he fell yn sowenyng,
For sorow hys herte gan blede.
Grete lordes that stode hym by
Toke up the kyng hastely;
In herte he was full woo.
Sore he grette and sayde, 'Alas,
That y evur man born was!
That hyt evur shullde be so.
Alas, that y was made a kynge,
And sygh wedded the fayrest thyng
That on erthe myght go.
That evur Jesu hymself wolde sende
Such a fowle, lothly fende
To come bytwene us too.'
When he sawe hyt myght no bettur be,
Anothur lettur then made he,
And seled hyt wyth hys sele.
He commanded yn all thynge
To kepe well that lady yynge
Tyll she hadde her hele;
Bothe gode men and ylle
To serve her at her wylle,
Bothe yn wo and wele.
He toke thys lettur of hys honde,
And rode thorow the same londe,
By the kyngus modur castell.
And then he dwelled ther all nyght;
He was resseyved and rychely dyght
And wyst of no treson.
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He made hym well at ese and fyne,
Bothe of brede, ale and wyne,
And that berafte hym hys reson.
When he was on slepe browght,
The false qwene hys lettur sowghte.
Into the fyre she kaste hyt downe:
Another lettur she lette make,
That men sholde the lady take,
And lede her owt of towne,
And putte her ynto the see,
In that robe of ryche ble,
The lytyll chylde her wyth;
And lette her have no spendyng,
For no mete ny for drynke,
But lede her out of that kyth.
'Upon payn of chylde and wyfe
And also upon your owene lyfe, 5
Lette her have no gryght!'
The messenger knewe no gyle,
But rode hom mony a myle,
By forest and by fryght.
And when the messenger come home,
The steward toke the lettur sone,
And bygan to rede.
Sore he syght and sayde, 'Alas,
Sertes thys ys a fowle case,
And a delfull dede!'
And as he stode yn redyng,
He fell downe yn swonygne;
For sorow hys hert gan blede.
Ther was nothur olde ny yynge,
That myghte forbere of wepynge
For that worthy unthur wede.
The lady herde gret dele yn halle;
On the steward gan she calle,
And sayde, 'What may thys be?'
Yyf anythyng be amys,
Tell me what that hyt ys,
And lette not for me.'
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Then sayde the steward, verament,
'Lo, her a lettur my lord hath sente,
And therfore woo.ys me!'
She toke the lettur and bygan to rede;
Then fonde she wryten all the dede,
How she moste ynto the see.
'Be stylle, syr,' sayde the qwene,
'Lette syche mornynge bene;
For me have thou no kare.
Loke thou be not shente,
But do my lordes commaundement,
God forbede thou spare.
For he weddede so porely
On me, a sympull lady,
He ys ashamed sore.
Grete well my lord fro me,
So gentyll of blode yn Cristyanté,
Gete he nevur more!'
Then was ther sorow and myche woo.
When the lady to shype shulde go;
They wepte and wronge her hondus.
The lady that was meke and mylde,
In her arme she bar her chylde,
And toke leve of the londe.
When she wente ynto the see
In that robe of ryche ble,
Men sowened on the sonde.
Sore they wepte and sayde, 'Alas,
Certys thys ys a wykked kase!
Wo worth dedes wronge!'
The lady and the lytyll chylde
Fleted forth on the watur wylde,
Wyth full harde happes.
Her surkote that was large and wyde,
Therwyth her vysage she gan hyde,
Wyth the hynthur lappes;
She was aferde of the see,
And layde her gruf uponn a tre,
The chylde to her pappes.
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The wawes that were grete and strong,
On the bote faste they thonge,
Wyth mony unsemely rappes.
And when the chyld gan to wepe,
Wyth sory herte she songe hyt aslepe,
And putte the pappe yn hys mowth,
And sayde, 'Myghth y onus gete lond,
Of the watur that ys so stronge,
By northe or by sowthe,
Wele owth y to warye the, see,
I have myche shame yn the!'
And evur she lay and growht;
Then she made her prayer
To Jhesu and Hys modur dere,
In all that she kowthe.
Now thys lady dwelled thore
A full sevene nyght and more,
As hyt was Goddys wylle;
Wyth karefull herte and sykyng sore,
Such sorow was her yarked yore,
And she lay full stylle.
She was dryven toward Rome,
Thorow the grace of God yn trone,
That all thyng may fulfylle.
On the see she was so harde bestadde,
For hungur and thurste allmost madde,
Wo worth chawnses ylle!
A marchaunte dwelled yn that cyté,
A ryche mon of golde and fee,
Jurdan was hys name.
Every day wolde he
Go to playe hym by the see,
The eyer forto tane.
He wente forth yn that tyde,
Walkynge by the see syde,
All hymselfe alone.
A bote he fonde by the brymme
And a fayr lady therynne,
That was ryght wo-bygone.
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The cloth on her shon so bryght,
He was aferde of that syght,
For glysteryng of that wede;
And yn hys herte he thowghth ryght
That she was non erthyly wyght;
He sawe nevur non such yn leede. 6
He sayde, 'What hette ye, fayr ladye?'
'Lord,' she sayde, 'y hette Egarye,
That lye her, yn drede.'
Up he toke that fayre ladye
And the yonge chylde her by,
And hom he gan hem lede.
When he come to hys byggynge,
He welcomed fayr that lady yynge
That was fayr and bryght;
And badde hys wyf yn all thynge,
Mete and drynke forto brynge
To the lady ryght.
'What that she wyll crave,
And her mowth wyll hyt have,
Loke hyt be redy dyght.
She hath so longe meteles be,
That me thynketh grette pyté;
Conforte her yyf thou myght.'
Now the lady dwelles ther,
Wyth alle metes that gode were,
She hedde at her wylle.
She was curteys yn all thyng,
Bothe to olde and to yynge;
Her loved bothe gode and ylle.
The chylde bygan forto thryfe;
He wax the fayrest chyld on lyfe,
Whyte as flour on hylle.
And she sewed sylke werk yn bour,
And tawghte her sone nortowre,
But evyr she mornede stylle.
When the chylde was seven yer olde,
He was bothe wyse and bolde,
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And wele made of flesh and bone;
He was worthy unthur wede
And ryght well kowthe pryke a stede;
So curtays a chylde was none.
All men lovede Segramowre,
Bothe yn halle and yn bowre,
Whersoevur he gan gone.
Leve we at the lady clere of vyce,
And speke of the kyng of Galys,
Fro the sege when he come home.
Now the sege broken ys,
The kyng come home to Galys,
Wyth mykyll myrthe and pryde;
Dukes and erles of ryche asyce,
Barones and knyghtes of mykyll pryse,
Come rydynge be hys syde.
Syr Kadore, hys steward thanne,
Ayeyn hym rode wyth mony a man,
As faste as he myght ryde.
He tolde the kyng aventowres
Of hys halles and hys bowres,
And of hys londys wyde.
The kyng sayde, 'By Goddys name,
Syr Kadore, thou art to blame
For thy fyrst tellynge!
Thow sholdest fyrst have tolde me
Of my lady Egaré,
I love most of all thyng!'
Then was the stewardes herte wo,
And sayde, 'Lorde, why sayst thou so?
Art not thou a trewe kynge?
Lo her, the lettur ye sente me,
Yowr owene self the sothe may se;
I have don your byddynge.'
The kyng toke the lettur to rede,
And when he sawe that ylke dede,
He wax all pale and wanne.
Sore he grette and sayde, 'Alas,
That evur born y was,
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Or evur was made manne!
Syr Kadore, so mot y the,
Thys lettur come nevur fro me;
I telle the her anone!'
Bothe they wepte and yaf hem ylle.
'Alas!' he sayde, 'Saf Goddys wylle!'
And both they sowened then.
Grete lordes stode by,
And toke up the kyng hastyly;
Of hem was grete pyté;
And when they both kevered were,
The kyng toke hym the letter ther
Of the heddys thre.
'A, lord,' he sayde, 'be Goddus grace,
I sawe nevur thys lettur yn place!
Alas, how may thys be?'
Aftur the messenger ther they sente,
The kyng askede what way he went:
'Lord, be your modur fre.'
'Alas!' then sayde the kynge,
'Whethur my modur wer so unhende
To make thys treson?
By my krowne she shall be brent,
Wythowten any othur jugement;
That thenketh me best reson!'
Grete lordes toke hem betwene
That they wolde exyle the qwene
And berefe her hyr renowne.
Thus they exiled the false qwene
And byrafte her hyr lyflothe clene:
Castell, towre and towne.
When she was fled ovur the see fome,
The nobull kyng dwelled at hom,
Wyth full hevy chere;
Wyth karefull hert and drury mone,
Sykynges made he many on
For Egarye the clere.
And when he sawe chylderen play,
He wepte and sayde, 'Wellawey,
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For my sone so dere!'
Such lyf he lyved mony a day,
That no mon hym stynte may,
Fully seven yere.
Tyll a thowght yn hys herte come,
How hys lady whyte as fome,
Was drowned for hys sake.
'Thorow the grace of God yn trone,
I woll to the Pope of Rome,
My penans for to take!'
He lette ordeyne shypus fele
And fylled hem full of wordes wele,
Hys men mery wyth to make.
Dolys he lette dyghth and dele,
For to wynnen hym sowles hele;
To the shyp he toke the gate.
Shypmen that wer so mykyll of pryce,
Dyght her takull on ryche acyse,
That was fayr and fre.
They drowgh up sayl and leyd out ore;
The wynde stode as her lust wore,
The wethur was lythe on le.
They sayled over the salt fome,
Thorow the grace of God in trone,
That most ys of powsté.
To that cyté, when they come,
At the burgeys hous hys yn he nome,
Theras woned Emarye.
Emaré called her sone
Hastely to here come
Wythoute ony lettynge,
And sayde, 'My dere sone so fre,
Do a lytull aftur me,
And thou shalt have my blessynge.
Tomorowe thou shall serve yn halle,
In a kurtyll of ryche palle,
Byfore thys nobull kyng.
Loke, sone, so curtays thou be,
That no mon fynde chalange to the
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In no manere thynge!
When the kyng ys served of spycerye,
Knele thou downe hastylye,
And take hys hond yn thyn.
And when thou hast so done,
Take the kuppe of golde sone,
And serve hym of the wyne.
And what that he speketh to the,
Cum anon and tell me,
On Goddus blessyng and myne!'
The chylde wente ynto the hall,
Among the lordes grete and small,
That lufsumme wer unthur lyne.
Then the lordes that wer grete,
Wysh and wente to her mete;
Menstrelles browght yn the kowrs.
The chylde hem served so curteysly,
All hym loved that hym sy,
And spake hym gret honowres.
Then sayde all that loked hym upon,
So curteys a chylde sawe they nevur non,
In halle ny yn bowres.
The kynge sayde to hym yn game,
'Swete sone, what ys thy name?'
'Lorde,' he seyd, 'y hyghth Segramowres.'
Then that nobull kyng
Toke up a grete sykynge,
For hys sone hyght so;
Certys, wythowten lesynge,
The teres out of hys yen gan wryng;
In herte he was full woo.
Neverthelese, he lette be,
And loked on the chylde so fre,
And mykell he lovede hym thoo.
The kyng sayde to the burgeys anon,
'Swete syr, ys thys thy sone?'
The burgeys sayde, 'Yoo.'
Then the lordes that wer grete
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Whesshen ayeyn aftyr mete,
And then come spycerye.
The chylde that was of chere swete,
On hys kne downe he sete,
And served hym curteyslye.
The kynge called the burgeys hym tyll,
And sayde, 'Syr, yf hyt be thy wyll,
Yyf me thys lytyll body!
I shall hym make lorde of town and towr;
Of hye halles and of bowre,
I love hym specyally.'
When he had served the kyng at wylle,
Fayr he wente hys modyr tyll
And tellys her how hyt ys.
'Soo.e, when he shall to chambur wende,
Take hys hond at the grete ende,
For he ys thy fadur, ywysse;
And byd hym come speke wyth Emaré,
That changed her name to Egaré,
In the londe of Galys.'
The chylde wente ayeyn to halle,
Amonge the grete lordes alle,
And served on ryche asyse.
When they wer well at ese afyne,
Bothe of brede, ale and wyne,
They rose up, more and myn.
When the kyng shulde to chambur wende,
He toke hys hond at the grete ende,
And fayre he helpe hym yn;
And sayde, 'Syr, yf your wyll be,
Take me your honde and go wyth me,
For y am of yowr kynne!
Ye shull come speke wyth Emaré
That chaunged her nome to Egaré,
That berys the whyte chynne.'
The kyng yn herte was full woo.br> When he herd mynge tho
Of her that was hys qwene;
And sayde, 'Sone, why sayst thou so?
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Wherto umbraydest thou me of my wo?
That may never bene!'
Nevurtheles wyth hym he wente;
Ayeyn hem come the lady gent,
In the robe bryght and shene.
He toke her yn hys armes two,
For joye they sowened, both to,
Such love was hem bytwene.
A joyfull metyng was ther thore,
Of that lady, goo.ly unthur gore,
Frely in armes to folde.
Lorde, gladde was Syr Kadore,
And othur lordes that ther wore,
Semely to beholde.
Of the lady that was put yn the see,
Thorow grace of God in Trinité,
That was kevered of cares colde.
Leve we at the lady whyte as flour,
And speke we of her fadur the emperour,
That fyrste thys tale of ytolde.
The Emperour her fadyr then
Was woxen an olde man,
And thowght on hys synne:
Of hys thowghtyr Emaré
That was putte ynto the see,
That was so bryght of skynne.
He thowght that he wolde go,
For hys penance to the Pope tho
And heven for to wynne.
Messengeres he sente forth sone,
And they come to the kowrt of Rome
To take her lordes inne.
Emaré prayde her lord, the kyng,
'Syr, abyde that lordys komyng
That ys so fayr and fre.
And, swete syr, yn all thyng,
Aqweynte you wyth that lordyng,
Hyt ys worshyp to the.'
The kyng of Galys seyde than,
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'So grete a lord ys ther non,
Yn all Crystyanté.'
'Now, swete syr, whatevur betyde,
Ayayn that grete lord ye ryde,
And all thy knyghtys wyth the.'
Emaré tawghte her sone yynge,
Ayeyn the Emperour komynge,
How that he sholde done:
'Swete sone, yn all thyng
Be redy wyth my lord the kyng,
And be my swete sone!
When the Emperour kysseth thy fadur so fre,
Loke yyf he wyll kysse the,
Abowe the to hym sone;
And bydde hym come speke wyth Emaré,
That was putte ynto the see,
Hymself yaf the dome.'
Now kometh the Emperour of pryse;
Ayeyn hym rode the kyng of Galys,
Wyth full mykull pryde.
The chyld was worthy unthur wede,
A satte upon a nobyll stede,
By hys fadyr syde;
And when he mette the Emperour,
He valed hys hode wyth gret honour
And kyssed hym yn that tyde;
And othur lordys of gret valowre,
They also kessed Segramowre;
In herte ys not to hyde.
The Emperours hert anamered gretlye
Of the chylde that rode hym by
Wyth so lovely chere.
Segramowre he stayde hys stede;
Hys owene fadur toke goo. hede,
And othur lordys that ther were.
The chylde spake to the Emperour,
And sayde, 'Lord, for thyn honour,
My worde that thou wyll here:
Ye shull come speke wyth Emaré
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That changede her name to Egaré,
That was thy thowghthur dere.'
The Emperour wax all pale,
And sayde, 'Sone, why umbraydest me of bale,
And thou may se no bote?'
'Syr, and ye wyll go wyth me,
I shall the brynge wyth that lady fre,
That ys lovesom on to loke.'
Nevurthelesse, wyth hym he wente;
Ayeyn hym come that lady gent,
Walkynge on her fote.
And the Emperour alyghte tho,
And toke her yn hys armes two,
And clypte and kyssed her sote.
Ther was a joyfull metynge
Of the Emperour and of the Kynge,
And also of Emaré;
And so ther was of Syr Segramour,
That aftyr was emperour:
A full gode man was he.
A grette feste ther was holde,
Of erles and barones bolde,
As testymonyeth thys story.
Thys ys on of Brytayne layes
That was used by olde dayes,
Men callys 'Playn d'Egarye.'
Jhesus, that settes yn Thy trone,
So graunte us wyth The to wone
In thy perpetuall glorye! Amen.
~ Anonymous,#NFDB
832:Erle of Tolous
Jhesu Cryste, yn Trynyté,
Oonly God and persons thre,
Graunt us wele to spede,
And gyf us grace so to do
That we may come thy blys unto,
On Rode as thou can blede!
Leve lordys, y schall you telle
Of a tale, some tyme befelle
Farre yn unknowthe lede:
How a lady had grete myschefe,
And how sche covyrd of hur grefe;
Y pray yow take hede!
Some tyme there was in Almayn
An Emperrour of moche mayn;
Syr Dyoclysyan he hyght;
He was a bolde man and a stowte;
All Chrystendome of hym had dowte,
So stronge he was in fyght;
He dysheryted many a man,
And falsely ther londys wan,
Wyth maystry and wyth myght,
Tyll hyt befelle upon a day,
A warre wakenyd, as y yow say,
Betwene hym and a knyght.
The Erle of Tollous, Syr Barnard,
The Emperrour wyth hym was harde,
And gretly was hys foo.
He had rafte owt of hys honde
Three hundred poundys worth be yere of londe:
Therfore hys herte was woo.
He was an hardy man and a stronge,
And sawe the Emperour dyd hym wronge,
And other men also;
He ordeyned hym for batayle
Into the Emperours londe, saun fayle;
And there he began to brenne and sloo.
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Thys Emperour had a wyfe,
The fayrest oo. that evyr bare lyfe,
Save Mary mekyll of myght,
And therto gode in all thynge,
Of almesdede and gode berynge,
Be day and eke be nyght;
Of hyr body sche was trewe
As evyr was lady that men knewe,
And therto moo.t bryght.
To the Emperour sche can say:
'My dere lorde, y you pray,
Delyvyr the Erle hys ryght.'
'Dame,' he seyde, 'let that bee;
That day schalt thou nevyr see,
Yf y may ryde on ryght,
That he schall have hys londe agayne;
Fyrste schall y breke hys brayne,
Os y am trewe knyght!
He warryth faste in my londe;
I schall be redy at hys honde
Wythyn thys fourteen nyght!'
He sente abowte everywhare,
That all men schulde make them yare
Agayne the Erle to fyght.
He let crye in every syde,
Thorow hys londe ferre and wyde,
Bothe in felde and towne,
All that myght wepon bere,
Sworde, alablast, schylde, or spere,
They schoulde be redy bowne;
The Erle on hys syde also
Wyth forty thousand and moo.br> Wyth spere and schylde browne.
A day of batayle there was sett;
In felde when they togedur mett,
Was crakydde many a crowne.
The Emperour had bataylys sevyn;
He spake to them wyth sterne stevyn
And sayde, so mot he thryve,
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'Be ye now redy for to fyght,
Go ye and bete them downe ryght
And leveth non on lyve;
Loke that none raunsonyd bee
Nothyr for golde ne for fee,
But sle them wyth swerde and knyfe!'
For all hys boste he faylyd gyt;
The Erle manly hym mett,
Wyth strokys goo.e and ryfe.
They reryd batayle on every syde;
Bodely togedyr can they ryde,
Wyth schylde and many a spere;
They leyde on faste as they were wode,
Wyth swerdys and axes that were gode;
Full hedeous hyt was to here.
There were schyldys and schaftys schakydde,
Hedys thorogh helmys crakydde,
And hawberkys all totore.
The Erle hymselfe an axe drowe;
An hundred men that day he slowe,
So wyght he was yn were!
Many a stede there stekyd was;
Many a bolde baron in that place
Lay burlande yn hys own blode.
So moche blode there was spylte,
That the feld was ovyrhylte
Os hyt were a flode.
Many a wyfe may sytt and wepe,
That was wonte softe to slepe,
And now can they no gode.
Many a body and many a hevyd,
Many a doghty knyght there was levyd,
That was wylde and wode.
The Erle of Tollous wan the felde;
The Emperour stode and behelde:
Wele faste can he flee
To a castell there besyde.
Fayne he was hys hedde to hyde,
And wyth hym Erlys thre;
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No moo.forsothe scapyd away,
But they were slayn and takyn that day:
Hyt myght non othyr bee.
The Erle tyll nyght folowed the chace,
And sythen he thanked God of hys grace,
That syttyth in Trynyté.
There were slayne in that batayle
Syxty thousand, wythowte fayle,
On the Emperours syde;
Ther was takyn thre hundred and fyfty
Of grete lordys, sekyrly,
Wyth woundys grymly wyde;
On the Erlys syde ther were slayne
But twenty, sothely to sayne,
So boldely they can abyde!
Soche grace God hym sende
That false quarell cometh to evell ende
For oght that may betyde.
Now the Emperour ys full woo.
He hath loste men and londe also;
Sore then syghed hee;
He sware be Hym that dyed on Rode,
Mete nor drynke schulde do hym no gode,
Or he vengedde bee.
The Emperes seyde, 'Gode lorde,
Hyt ys better ye be acorde
Be oght that y can see;
Hyt ys grete parell, sothe to telle,
To be agayne the ryght quarell;
Be God, thus thynketh me!'
'Dame,' seyde the Emperoure,
'Y have a grete dyshonoure;
Therfore myn herte ys woo.
My lordys be takyn, and some dede;
Therfore carefull ys my rede:
Sorowe nye wyll me sloo.'
Then seyde Dame Beulybon:
'Syr, y rede, be Seynt John,
Of warre that ye hoo.
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Ye have the wronge and he the ryght,
And that ye may see in syght,
Be thys and othyr moo.'
The Emperour was evyll payde:
Hyt was sothe the lady sayde;
Therfore hym lykyd ylle,
He wente awey and syghed sore;
Oon worde spake he no more,
But held hym wonder stylle.
Leve we now the Emperour in thoght:
Game ne gle lyked hym noght,
So gretly can he grylle!
And to the Erle turne we agayn,
That thanked God wyth all hys mayn,
That grace had sende hym tylle.
The Erle Barnard of Tollous
Had fele men chyvalrous
Takyn to hys preson;
Moche gode of them he hadde;
Y can not telle, so God me gladde,
So grete was ther raunsome!
Among them alle had he oo.,
Was grettest of them everychon,
A lorde of many a towne,
Syr Trylabas of Turky
The Emperour hym lovyd, sekurly,
A man of grete renowne.
So hyt befell upon a day
The Erle and he went to play
Be a rever syde.
The Erle seyde to Trylabas,
'Telle me, syr, for Goddys grace,
Of a thyng that spryngyth wyde,
That youre Emperour hath a wyfe,
The fayrest woman that ys on lyfe,
Of hewe and eke of hyde.
Y swere by boke and by belle,
Yf sche be so feyre as men telle,
Mekyll may be hys pryde.'
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Then sayde that lord anon ryght,
'Be the ordre y bere of knyght,
The sothe y schall telle the:
To seeke the worlde more and lesse,
Bothe Crystendome and hethynnesse,
Ther ys none so bryght of blee.
Whyte as snowe ys hur coloure;
Hur rudde ys radder then the rose-floure,
Yn syght who may hur see;
All men that evyr God wroght
Myght not thynke nor caste in thoght
A fayrer for to bee.'
Then seyde the Erle, 'Be Goddys grace,
Thys worde in mornyng me mas.
Thou seyest sche ys so bryght;
Thy raunsom here y the forgeve,
My helpe, my love, whyll y leve
Therto my trowthe y plyght,
So that thou wylt brynge me
Yn safegarde for to bee,
Of hur to have a syght,
An hundred pownde, wyth grete honoure,
To bye the horses and ryche armoure,
Os y am trewe knyght!'
Than answeryd Syr Trylabas,
'Yn that covenaunt in thys place
My trowthe y plyght thee;
Y schall holde thy forward gode
To brynge the, wyth mylde mode,
In syght hur for to see;
And therto wyll y kepe counsayle
And nevyr more, wythowte fayle,
Agayne yow to bee;
Y schall be trewe, be Goddys ore,
To lose myn own lyfe therfore;
Hardely tryste to mee!'
The Erle answeryd wyth wordys hende:
'Y tryste to the as to my frende,
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Wythowte any stryfe;
Anon that we were buskyd yare,
On owre jurney for to fare,
For to see that wyfe;
Y swere be God and Seynt Andrewe,
Yf hyt be so y fynde the trewe,
Ryches schall be to the ryfe.'
They lettyd nothyr for wynde not wedur, 1
But forthe they wente bothe togedur,
Wythowte any stryfe.
These knyghtys nevyr stynte nor blanne,
Tyll to the cyté that they wan,
There the Emperes was ynne.
The Erle hymselfe for more drede
Cladde hym in armytes wede,
Thogh he were of ryche kynne,
For he wolde not knowen bee.
He dwellyd there dayes three
And rested hym in hys ynne.
The knyght bethoght hym, on a day,
The gode Erle to betray;
Falsely he can begynne.
Anone he wente in a rese
To chaumbur to the Emperes,
And sett hym on hys knee;
He seyde, 'Be Hym that harowed helle,
He kepe yow fro all parelle,
Yf that Hys wylle bee!'
'Madam,' he seyde, 'be Jhesus,
Y have the Erle of Tollous;
Oure moo.t enemye ys hee.'
'Yn what maner,' the lady can say,
'Ys he comyn, y the pray?
Anone telle thou me.'
'Madam, y was in hys preson;
He hath forgevyn me my raunsom,
Be God full of myght And all ys for the love of the!
The sothe ys, he longyth yow to see,
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Madam, onys in syght!
And hundred pownde y have to mede,
And armour for a nobull stede;
Forsothe y have hym hyght
That he schall see yow at hys fylle,
Ryght at hys owne wylle;
Therto my trowthe y plyght.
Lady, he ys to us a foo.
Therfore y rede that we hym sloo.
He hath done us gret grylle.'
The lady seyde, 'So mut y goo.
Thy soule ys loste yf thou do so;
Thy trowthe thou schalt fulfylle,
Sythe he forgaf the thy raunsom
And lowsydd the owt of preson,
Do away thy wyckyd wylle!
To-morne when they rynge the masbelle,
Brynge hym into my chapelle,
And thynke thou on no false sleythe;
There schall he see me at hys wylle,
Thy covenaunt to fulfylle;
Y rede the holde thy trowthe!
Certys, yf thou hym begyle,
Thy soule ys in grete paryle,
Syn thou haste made hym othe;
Certys, hyt were a traytory,
For to wayte hym wyth velany;
Me thynkyth hyt were rowthe!'
The knyght to the Erle wente;
Yn herte he helde hym foule schente
For hys wyckyd thoght.
He seyde, 'Syr, so mote y the,
Tomorne thou schalt my lady see;
Therfore, dysmay the noght:
When ye here the masbelle,
Y schall hur brynge to the chapelle;
Thedur sche schall be broght.
Be the oryall syde stonde thou stylle;
Then schalt thou see hur at thy wylle,
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That ys so worthyly wroght.'
The Erle sayde, 'Y holde the trewe,
And that schall the nevyr rewe,
As farre forthe as y may.'
Yn hys herte he waxe gladde:
'Fylle the wyne,' wyghtly he badde,
'Thys goyth to my pay!'
There he restyd that nyght;
On the morne he can hym dyght
Yn armytes array;
When they ronge to the masse,
To the chapell conne they passe,
To see that lady gay.
They had stonden but a whyle,
The mowntaunse of halfe a myle,
Then came that lady free;
Two erlys hur ladde;
Wondur rychely sche was cladde,
In golde and ryche perré.
Whan the Erle sawe hur in syght,
Hym thoght sche was as bryght
Os blossome on the tree;
Of all the syghtys that ever he sye,
Raysyd nevyr none hys herte so hye,
Sche was so bryght of blee!
Sche stode stylle in that place
And schewed opynly hur face
For love of that knyght.
He beheld ynly hur face;
He sware there be Goddys grace,
He sawe nevyr none so bryght.
Hur eyen were gray as any glas;
Mowthe and nose schapen was
At all maner ryght;
Fro the forhedde to the too.
Bettur schapen myght non goo.
Nor none semelyer yn syght.
Twyes sche turnyd hur abowte
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Betwene the Erlys that were stowte,
For the Erle schulde hur see.
When sche spake wyth mylde stevyn,
Sche semyd an aungell of hevyn,
So feyre sche was of blee!
Hur syde longe, hur myddyll small;
Schouldurs, armes therwythall,
Fayrer myght non bee;
Hur hondys whyte as whallys bonne,
Wyth fyngurs longe and ryngys upon;
Hur nayles bryght of blee.
When he had beholden hur welle,
The lady wente to hur chapell,
Masse for to here;
The Erle stode on that odur syde;
Hys eyen fro hur myght he not hyde,
So lovely sche was of chere!
He seyde, 'Lorde God, full of myght,
Leve y were so worthy a knyght,
That y myght be hur fere,
And that sche no husbonde hadde,
All the golde that evyr God made
To me were not so dere!'
When the masse come to ende,
The lady, that was feyre and hende,
To the chaumbur can sche fare;
The Erle syghed and was full woo.br> Owt of hys syght when sche schulde goo.
Hys mornyng was the mare.
The Erle seyde, 'So God me save,
Of hur almes y wolde crave,
Yf hur wylle ware;
Myght y oght gete of that free,
Eche a day hur to see
Hyt wolde covyr me of my care.' 2
The Erle knelyd down anon ryght
And askyd gode, for God allmyght,
That dyed on the tree.
The Emperes callyd a knyght:
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'Forty floranse that ben bryght,
Anone brynge thou mee.'
To that armyte sche hyt payde;
Of hur fyngyr a rynge she layde
Amonge that golde so free;
He thankyd hur ofte, as y yow say.
To the chaumbyr wente that lady gay,
There hur was leveste to bee.
The Erle wente home to hys ynnys,
And grete joye he begynnys
When he founde the rynge;
Yn hys herte he waxe blythe
And kyssyd hyt fele sythe,
And seyde, 'My dere derlynge,
On thy fyngyr thys was!
Wele ys me, y have thy grace
Of the to have thys rynge!
Yf evyr y gete grace of the Quene
That any love betwene us bene,
Thys may be our tokenyng.'
The Erle, also soo.e os hyt was day,
Toke hys leve and wente hys way
Home to hys cuntré;
Syr Trylabas he thanked faste:
'Of thys dede thou done me haste,
Well qwyt schall hyt bee.'
They kyssyd togedur as gode frende;
Syr Trylabas home can wende,
There evell mote he thee!
A traytory he thoght to doo.br> Yf he myght come thertoo.
So schrewde in herte was hee!
Anon he callyd two knyghtys,
Hardy men at all syghtys;
Bothe were of hys kynne.
'Syrs,' he seyde, 'wythowt fayle,
Yf ye wyl do be my counsayle,
Grete worschyp schulde ye wynne;
Knowe ye the Erle of Tollous?
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Moche harme he hath done us;
Hys boste y rede we blynne;
Yf ye wyll do aftur my redde,
Thys day he schall be dedde,
So God save me fro synne!'
That oo. knyght Kaunters, that odur Kaym;
Falser men myght no man rayme,
Certys, then were thoo.
Syr Trylabas was the thrydde;
Hyt was no mystur them to bydde
Aftur the Erle to goo.
At a brygge they hym mett;
Wyth harde strokes they hym besett,
As men that were hys foo.
The Erle was a man of mayn:
Faste he faght them agayne,
And soo.e he slew two.
The thrydde fledde and blewe owt faste;
The Erle ovyrtoke hym at the laste:
Hys hedd he clofe in three.
The cuntrey gedryrd abowte hym faste,
And aftur hym yorne they chaste:
An hundred there men myght see.
The Erle of them was agaste:
At the laste fro them he paste;
Fayne he was to flee;
Fro them he wente into a waste;
To reste hym there he toke hys caste:
A wery man was hee.
All the nyght in that foreste
The gentyll Erle toke hys reste:
He had no nodur woo..
When hyt dawed, he rose up soo.e
And thankyd God that syttyth in trone,
That he had scapyd hys foo.;
That day he travaylyd many a myle,
And ofte he was in grete parylle,
Be the way os he can gone,
Tyll he come to a fayre castell,
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There hym was levyst to dwelle,
Was made of lyme and stone.
Of hys comyng hys men were gladde.
'Be ye mery, my men,' he badde,
'For nothyng ye spare;
The Emperour, wythowte lees,
Y trowe, wyll let us be in pees.
And warre on us no mare.'
Thus dwellyd the Erle in that place
Wyth game, myrthe, and grete solase,
Ryght os hym levyst ware.
Let we now the Erle alloo.,
And speke we of Dame Beulyboo.,
How sche was caste in care.
The Emperoure lovyd hys wyfe
Also so moche os hys own lyfe,
And more, yf he myght;
He chose two knyghtys that were hym dere,
Whedur that he were ferre or nere,
To kepe hur day and nyght.
That oo. hys love on hur caste:
So dud the todur at the laste,
Sche was feyre and bryght!
Nothyr of othyr wyste ryght noght,
So derne love on them wroght,
To dethe they were nere dyght.
So hyt befell upon a day,
That oo. can to that othyr say,
'Syr, also muste y thee,
Methynkyth thou fadyste all away,
Os man that ys clongyn in clay,
So pale waxeth thy blee!'
Then seyde that other, 'Y make avowe,
Ryght so, methynketh, fareste thou,
Whysoevyr hyt bee;
Tell me thy cawse, why hyt ys,
And y schall telle the myn, ywys:
My trouthe y plyght to thee.'
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'Y graunte,' he seyde, 'wythowt fayle,
But loke hyt be trewe counsayle!'
Therto hys trowthe he plyght.
He seyde, 'My lady the Emperes,
For love of hur y am in grete dystresse;
To dethe hyt wyll me dyght.'
Then seyde that othyr, 'Certenly,
Wythowte drede, so fare y
For that lady bryght;
Syn owre love ys on hur sett,
How myght owre bale beste be bett?
Canste thou rede on ryght?'
Then seyde that othyr, 'Be Seynt John,
Bettur counsayle can y noo.,
Methynkyth, then ys thys:
Y rede that oo. of us twoo.br> Prevely to hyr goo.br> And pray hur of hur blys;
Y myselfe wyll go hyr tylle;
Yn case y may gete hur wylle,
Of myrthe schalt thou not mys;
Thou schalt take us wyth the dede:
Leste thou us wrye sche wyll drede,
And graunte the thy wylle, ywys.'
Thus they were at oo. assent;
Thys false thefe forthe wente
To wytt the ladyes wylle.
Yn chaumbyr he founde hyr so free;
He sett hym downe on hys knee,
Hys purpose to fulfylle.
Than spake that lady free,
'Syr, y see now well be the,
Thou haste not all thy wylle;
On thy sekeness now y see;
Telle me now thy prevyté,
Why thou mornyst so stylle.'
'Lady,' he seyde, 'that durste y noght
For all the gode that evyr was wroght,
Be grete God invysybylle,
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But on a boo.e yf ye wyll swere
That ye schull not me dyskere,
Then were hyt possybyll.'
Then seyde the lady, 'How may that bee?
That thou darste not tryste to mee,
Hyt ys full orybylle.
Here my trowthe to the y plyght:
Y schall heyle the day and nyght,
Also trewe as boke or belle.'
'Lady, in yow ys all my tryste;
Inwardely y wolde ye wyste
What payne y suffur you fore;
Y drowpe, y dare nyght and day;
My wele, my wytt ys all away,
But ye leve on my lore;
Y have yow lovyd many a day,
But to yow durste y nevyr say My mornyng ys the more!
But ye do aftur my rede,
Certenly, y am but dede:
Of my lyfe ys no store.'
Than answeryd that lovely lyfe:
'Syr, wele thou wottyst y am a wyfe:
My lorde ys Emperoure;
He chase the for a trewe knyght,
To kepe me bothe day and nyght
Undur thy socowre.
To do that dede yf y assente,
Y were worthy to be brente
And broght in grete doloure;
Thou art a traytour in thy sawe,
Worthy to be hanged and to-drawe
Be Mary, that swete floure!'
'A, madam!' seyde the knyght,
'For the love of God almyght,
Hereon take no hede!
Yn me ye may full wele tryste ay;
Y dud nothyng but yow to affray,
Also God me spede!
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Thynke, madam, youre trowthe ys plyght
To holde counsayle bothe day and nyght
Fully, wythowte drede;
Y aske mercy for Goddys ore!
Hereof yf y carpe more,
Let drawe me wyth a stede!'
The lady seyde, 'Y the forgeve;
Also longe os y leve,
Counsayle schall hyt bee;
Loke thou be a trewe man
In all thyng that thou can,
To my lorde so free.'
'Yys, lady, ellys dyd y wronge,
For y have servyd hym longe,
And wele he hath qwytt mee.'
Hereof spake he no mare,
But to hys felowe can he fare,
There evyll must they the!
Thus to hys felowe ys he gon,
And he hym frayned anon,
'Syr, how haste thou spedde?'
'Ryght noght,' seyde that othyr:
'Syth y was borne, lefe brothyr,
Was y nevyr so adredde;
Certys, hyt ys a boteles bale
To hur to touche soche a tale
At borde or at bedde.'
Then sayde that odur, 'Thy wytt ys thynne:
Y myselfe schall hur wynne:
Y lay my hedde to wedde!'
Thus hyt passyd ovyr, os y yow say,
Tyl aftur on the thrydde day
Thys knyght hym bethoght:
'Certys, spede os y may,
My ladyes wylle, that ys so gay,
Hyt schall be thorowly soght.'
When he sawe hur in beste mode,
Sore syghyng to hur he yode,
Of lyfe os he ne roght.
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'Lady,' he seyde, 'wythowte fayle,
But ye helpe me wyth yowre counsayle,
Yn bale am y broght.'
Sche answeryd full curtesly,
'My counsayle schall be redy.
Telle me how hyt ys;
When y wott worde and ende,
Yf my counsayle may hyt mende,
Hyt schall, so have y blysse!'
'Lady,' he seyde, 'y undurstonde
Ye muste holde up yowre honde
To holde counsayle, ywys.'
'Yys,' seyde the lady free,
'Thereto my trouthe here to the,
And ellys y dudde amys.'
'Madam,' he seyde, 'now y am in tryste;
All my lyfe thogh ye wyste,
Ye wolde me not dyskevere;
For yow y am in so grete thoght,
Yn moche bale y am broght,
Wythowte othe y swere;
And ye may full wele see,
How pale y am of blee:
Y dye nere for dere;
Dere lady, graunt me youre love,
For the love of God, that sytteth above,
That stongen was wyth a spere.'
'Syr,' sche seyde, 'ys that youre wylle?
Yf hyt were myne, then dyd y ylle;
What woman holdyst thou me?
Yn thy kepeyng y have ben:
What haste thou herde be me or sene
That touchyth to any velanye,
That thou in herte art so bolde
Os y were a hore or a scolde?
Nay, that schall nevyr bee!
Had y not hyght to holde counsayle,
Thou schouldest be honged, wythowt fayle,
Upon a galowe tree.'
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The knyght was nevyr so sore aferde
Sythe he was borne into myddyllerde,
Certys, os he was thoo.
'Mercy,' he seyde, 'gode madam!
Wele y wott y am to blame;
Therfore myn herte ys woo.
Lady, let me not be spylte;
Y aske mercy of my gylte!
On lyve ye let me goo.'
The lady seyde, 'Y graunte wele;
Hyt schall be counseyle, every dele,
But do no more soo.'
Now the knyght forthe yede
And seyde, 'Felowe, y may not spede.
What ys thy beste redde?
Yf sche telle my lorde of thys,
We be but dedde, so have y blys:
Wyth hym be we not fedde.
Womans tonge ys evell to tryste;
Certys, and my lorde hyt wyste,
Etyn were all owre bredde.
Felow, so mote y ryde or goo.
Or sche wayte us wyth that woo.
Hurselfe schall be dedde!'
'How myght that be?' that othur sayde;
'Yn herte y wolde be wele payde,
Myght we do that dede.'
'Yys, syr,' he seyde, 'so have y roo.
Y schall brynge hur wele thertoo.
Therof have thou no drede.
Or hyt passe dayes three,
In mekyll sorowe schall sche bee:
Thus y schall qwyte hur hur mede.'
Now are they bothe at oo. assente
In sorow to brynge that lady gente:
The devell mote them spede!
Sone hyt drowe toward nyght;
To soper they can them dyght,
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The Emperes and they all;
The two knyghtys grete yapys made,
For to make the lady glade,
That was bothe gentyll and small;
When the sopertyme was done,
To the chaumbyr they went soo.e,
Knyghtys cladde in palle
They daunsed and revelyd, os they noght dredde,
To brynge the lady to hur bedde:
There foule muste them falle!
That oo. thefe callyd a knyght
That was carver to that lady bryght;
An Erleys sone was hee;
He was a feyre chylde and a bolde;
Twenty wyntur he was oo.de:
In londe was none so free.
'Syr, wylt thou do os we the say?
And we schall ordeygne us a play,
That my lady may see.
Thou schalt make hur to lagh soo.
Thogh sche were gretly thy foo.
Thy frende schulde sche bee.'
The chylde answeryd anon ryght:
'Be the ordur y bere of knyght,
Therof wolde y be fayne,
And hyt wolde my lady plese,
Thogh hyt wolde me dysese,
To renne yn wynde and rayne.'
'Syr, make the nakyd save thy breke;
And behynde the yondur curtayn thou crepe,
And do os y schall sayne;
Then schalt thou see a joly play!'
'Y graunte,' thys yonge knyght can say,
'Be God and Seynte Jermayne.'
Thys chylde thoght on no ylle:
Of he caste hys clothys stylle;
And behynde the curtayn he went.
They seyde to hym, 'What so befalle,
Come not owt tyll we the calle.'
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And he seyde, 'Syrs, y assente.'
They revelyd forthe a grete whyle;
No man wyste of ther gyle
Save they two, veramente.
They voyded the chaumber sone anon;
The chylde they lafte syttyng alone,
And that lady gente.
Thys lady lay in bedde on slepe;
Of treson toke sche no kepe,
For therof wyste sche noght.
Thys chylde had wonder evyr among
Why these knyghtys were so longe:
He was in many a thoght.
'Lorde, mercy! How may thys bee?
Y trowe they have forgeten me,
That me hedur broght;
Yf y them calle, sche wyll be adredd,
My lady lyeth here in hur bede,
Be Hym that all hath wroght!'
Thus he sate stylle as any stone:
He durste not store nor make no mone
To make the lady afryght.
Thes false men ay worthe them woo.,
To ther chaumbur can they goo.br> And armyd them full ryght;
Lordys owte of bedde can they calle
And badde arme them, grete and smalle:
'Anone that ye were dyght,
And helpe to take a false traytoure
That wyth my lady in hur bowre
Hath playde hym all thys nyght.'
Sone they were armyd everychone;
And wyth these traytours can they gone,
The lordys that there wore.
To the Emperes chaumber they cam ryght
Wyth torchys and wyth swerdys bryght
Brennyng them before.
Behynde the curtayne they wente;
The yonge knyght, verrament,
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Nakyd founde they thore.
That oo. thefe wyth a swerde of were
Thorow the body he can hym bere,
That worde spake he no more.
The lady woke and was afryght,
Whan sche sawe the grete lyght
Before hur beddys syde.
Sche seyde, 'Benedycyté!'
Syrs, what men be yee?'
And wonder lowde sche cryedd.
Hur enemyes mysansweryd thore
'We are here, thou false hore:
Thy dedys we have aspyedd!
Thou haste betrayed my lorde;
Thou schalt have wonduryng in thys worde:
Thy loo. schall sprynge wyde!'
The lady seyde, 'Be Seynte John,
Hore was y nevyr none,
Nor nevyr thoght to bee.'
'Thou lyest,' they seyde, 'thy love ys lorne' The corse they leyde hur beforne 'Lo, here ys thy lemman free!
Thus we have for they hym hytt;
Thy horedam schall be wele quytte:
Fro us schalt thou not flee!'
They bonde the lady wondyr faste
And in a depe preson hur caste:
Grete dele hyt was to see!
Leve we now thys lady in care,
And to hur lorde wyll we fare,
That ferre was hur froo.
On a nyght, wythowt lette,
In hys slepe a swevyn he mett,
The story telleth us soo.
Hym thoght ther come two wylde borys
And hys wyfe all toterys
And rofe hur body in twoo.
Hymselfe was a wytty man,
And be that dreme he hopyd than
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Hys lady was in woo.
Yerly, when the day was clere,
He bad hys men all in fere
To buske and make them yare.
Somer horsys he let go before
And charyettes stuffud wyth stoo.e
Wele twelve myle and mare.
He hopud wele in hys herte
That hys wyfe was not in querte;
Hys herte therfore was in care;
He styntyd not tyll he was dyght,
Wyth erlys, barons, and many a knyght;
Homeward can they fare.
Nyght ne day nevyr they blanne,
Tyll to that cyté they came
There the lady was ynne.
Wythowt the cyté lordys them kepyd;
For wo in herte many oo. wepyd:
There teerys myght they not blynne.
They supposyd wele yf he hyt wyste
That hys wyfe had soche a bryste,
Hys yoye wolde be full thynne;
They ladden stedys to the stabyll,
And the lorde into the halle,
To worschyp hym wyth wynne.
Anon to the chaumbur wendyth he:
He longyd hys feyre lady to see,
That was so swete a wyght.
He callyd them that schoulde hur kepe:
'Where ys my wyfe? Ys sche on slepe?
How fareth that byrde bryght?'
The two traytours answeryd anone,
'Yf ye wyste how sche had done,
To dethe sche schulde be dyght.'
'A, devyll!' he seyde, 'how soo.
To dethe that sche ys worthy to go?
Tell me, in what manere.'
'Syr,' they seyd, 'be Goddys ore,
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The yonge knyght Syr Antore,
That was hur kervere,
Be that lady he hath layne,
And therfore we have hym slayne;
We founde them in fere;
Sche ys in preson, verrament;
The lawe wyll that sche be brente,
Be God, that boght us dere.'
'Allas!' seyde the Emperoure,
'Hath sche done me thys dyshonoure?
And y lovyd hur so wele!
Y wende for all thys worldys gode
That sche wolde not have turned hur mode:
My joye begynnyth to kele.'
He hente a knyfe wyth all hys mayn;
Had not a knyght ben, he had hym slayn,
And that traytour have broght owt of heele.
For bale hys armes abrode he bredde
And fell in swowne upon hys bedde;
There myght men see grete dele.
On the morne be oo. assente,
On hur they sett a perlyament
Be all the comyn rede.
They myght not fynde in ther counsayle
Be no lawe, wythowt fayle,
To save hur fro the dede.
Then bespake an olde knyght,
'Y have wondur, be Goddys myght,
That Syr Antore thus was bestedde,
In chaumbyr thogh he naked were;
They let hym gyf none answere,
But slowe hym, be my hedde!
Ther was nevyr man, sekurly,
That be hur founde any velany,
Save they two, y dar wele say;
Be some hatered hyt may be;
Therfore doyth aftur me
For my love, y yow pray.
No mo wyll preve hyt but they twoo.
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Therfore we may not save hur fro woo.
For sothe, os y yow say,
In hyr quarell but we myght fynde
A man that were gode of kynde
That durste fyght agayn them tway.'
All they assentyd to the sawe:
They thoght he spake reson and lawe.
Then answeryd the Kyng wyth crowne,
'Fayre falle the for thyn avyse.'
He callyd knyghtys of nobyll pryce
And badde them be redy bowne
For to crye thorow all the londe,
Bothe be see and be sonde,
Yf they fynde mowne
A man that ys so moche of myght,
That for that lady dar take the fyght,
'He schall have hys warison.'
Messangerys, y undurstonde,
Cryed thorow all the londe
In many a ryche cyté,
Yf any man durste prove hys myght
In trewe quarell for to fyght,
Wele avaunsed schulde he bee.
The Erle of Tullous harde thys telle,
What anger the lady befell;
Thereof he thoght grete pyté.
Yf he wyste that sche had ryght,
He wolde aventure hys lyfe to fyght
For that lady free.
For hur he morned nyght and day,
And to hymselfe can he say
He wolde aventure hys lyfe:
'Yf y may wytt that sche be trewe,
They that have hur accused schull rewe,
But they stynte of ther stryfe.'
The Erle seyde, 'Be Seynte John,
Ynto Almayn wyll y goo.,
Where y have fomen ryfe;
I prey to God full of myght
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That y have trewe quarell to fyght,
Owt of wo to wynne that wyfe.'
He rode on huntyng on a day,
A marchand mett he be the way,
And asked hym of whens he was.
'Lorde,' he seyde, 'of Almayn.'
Anon the Erle can hym frayne
Of that ylke case:
'Wherefore ys yowre Emperes
Put in so grete dystresse?
Telle me, for Goddys grace.
Ys sche gylté, so mote thou the?'
'Nay, be Hym that dyed on tree,
That schope man aftur Hys face.'
Then seyde the Erle, wythowte lett,
'When ys the day sett
Brente that sche schulde bee?'
The marchande seyde sekyrlyke,
'Evyn thys day thre wyke,
And therfore wo ys mee.'
The Erle seyde, 'Y schall the telle:
Gode horsys y have to selle,
And stedys two or thre:
Certys, myght y selle them yare,
Thedur wyth the wolde y fare,
That syght for to see.'
The marchand seyd wordys hende:
'Into the londe yf ye wyll wende,
Hyt wolde be for yowre prowe,
There may ye selle them at your wylle.'
Anon the Erle seyde hym tylle,
'Syr, herkyn me nowe:
Thys jurney wylt thou wyth me dwelle
Twenty pownde y schall the telle
To mede, y make avowe!'
The marchand grauntyd anon;
The Erle seyde, 'Be Seynt John,
Thy wylle y alowe.'
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The Erle tolde hym in that tyde
Where he schulde hym abyde,
And homeward wente hee.
He busked hym, that no man wyste,
For mekyll on hym was hys tryste.
He seyde, 'Syr, go wyth mee!'
Wyth them they toke stedys sevyn Ther were no fayre undyr hevyn
That any man myght see.
Into Almayn they can ryde:
As a coresur of mekyll pryde
He semyd for to bee.
The marchand was a trewe gyde;
The Erle and he togedur can ryde,
Tyll they came to that place.
A myle besyde the castell
There the Emperoure can dwelle,
A ryche abbey ther was;
Of the abbot leve they gatt
To sojorne and make ther horsys fatt;
That was a nobyll case!
The abbot was the ladyes eme;
For hur he was in grete wandreme,
And moche mornyng he mase.
So hyt befell upon a day,
To churche the Erle toke the way,
A masse for to here.
He was a feyre man and an hye;
When the abbot hym sye,
He seyde, 'Syr, come nere:
Syr, when the masse ys done,
Y pray yow, ete wyth me at noo.e,
Yf yowre wylle were.'
The Erle grauntyd all wyth game;
Afore mete they wysche all same,
And to mete they wente in fere.
Aftur mete, as y yow say,
Into an orchard they toke the way,
The abbot and the knyght.
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The abbot seyde and syghed sare;
'Certys, Syr, y leve in care
For a lady bryght;
Sche ys accusyd - my herte ys woo. Therfore sche schall to dethe goo.
All agayne the ryght;
But sche have helpe, verrament,
In fyre sche schall be brente
Thys day sevenyght.'
The Erle seyde, 'So have y blysse,
Of hyr, methynkyth, grete rewthe hyt ys,
Trewe yf that sche bee!'
The abbot seyde, 'Be Seynte Poule,
For hur y dar ley my soule
That nevyr gylté was sche;
Soche werkys nevyr sche wroght
Neythyr in dede nor in thoght,
Save a rynge so free
To the Erle of Tullous sche gafe hyt wyth wynne,
Yn ese of hym and for no synne:
In schryfte thus tolde sche me.'
The Erle seyde, 'Syth hyt ys soo.
Cryste wreke hur of hur woo.
That boght hur wyth Hys bloo.e!
Wolde ye sekyr me, wythowt fayle,
For to holde trewe counsayle,
Hyt myght be for yowre gode.'
The abbot seyde be bokes fele
And be hys professyon, that he wolde hele,
And ellys he were wode.
'Y am he that sche gaf the rynge
For to be oure tokenynge.
Now heyle hyt, for the Rode!
Y am comyn, lefe syr,
To take the batyle for hyr,
There to stonde wyth ryght;
But fyrste myselfe y wole hur schryve,
And yf y fynde hur clene of lyve,
Then wyll my herte be lyght.
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Let dyght me in monkys wede
To that place that men schulde hyr lede,
To dethe to be dyght;
When y have schrevyn hyr, wythowt fayle,
For hur y wyll take batayle,
As y am trewe knyght!'
The abbot was nevyr so gladde;
Nere for joye he waxe madde;
The Erle can he kysse;
They made meré and slewe care.
All that sevenyght he dwellyd thare
Yn myrthe wythowt mysse.
That day that the lady schulde be brent,
The Erle wyth the abbot wente
In monkys wede, ywys;
To the Emperour he knelys blyve,
That he myght that lady schryve:
Anon resceyved he ys.
He examyned hur, wyttyrly,
As hyt seythe in the story;
Sche was wythowte gylte.
Sche seyde, 'Be Hym that dyed on tree,
Trespas was nevyr none in me
Wherefore y schulde be spylte;
Save oo.ys, wythowte lesynge,
To the Erle of Tollous y gafe a rynge:
Assoyle me yf thou wylte;
But thus my destanye ys comyn to ende,
That in thys fyre y muste be brende;
There Goddys wylle be fulfyllyt.'
The Erle assoyled hur wyth hys honde,
And sythen pertely he can up stonde
And seyde, 'Lordyngys, pese!
Ye that have accused thys lady gente,
Ye be worthy to be brente.'
That oo. knyght made a rees:
'Thou carle monke, wyth all thy gynne,
Thowe youre abbot be of hur kynne,
Hur sorowe schalt thou not cees;
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Ryght so thou woldyst sayne
Thowe all youre covent had be hyr layne;
So are ye lythyr and lees!'
The Erle answeryd, wyth wordys free,
'Syr, that oo. y trowe thou bee
Thys lady accused has.
Thowe we be men of relygyon,
Thou schalt do us but reson
For all the fare thou mas.
Y prove on hur thou sayst not ryght.
Lo, here my glove wyth the to fyght!
Y undyrtake thys case;
Os false men y schall yow kenne;
Yn redde fyre for to brenne;
Therto God gyf me grace!'
All that stoden in that place
Thankyd God of hys grace,
Wythowte any fayle.
The two knyghtys were full wrothe:
He schulde be dedde, they swere grete othe;
But hyt myght not avayle.
The Erle wente there besyde
And armyd hym wyth mekyll pryde,
Hys enemyes to assayle.
Manly when they togedur mett,
They hewe thorow helme and basenet
And martyrd many a mayle.
They redyn togedur, wythowt lakk,
That hys oo. spere on hym brakk;
That othyr faylyd thoo.
The Erle smote hym wyth hys spere;
Thorow the body he can hym bere:
To grounde can he goo.
That sawe that odyr, and faste can flee;
The Erle ovyrtoke hym undur a tre
And wroght hym mekyll woo.
There thys traytour can hym yylde
Os recreaunt yn the fylde;
He myght not fle hym froo.
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Before the Emperoure they wente
And there he made hym, verrament,
To telle for the noo.ys.
He seyde, 'We thoght hur to spylle,
For sche wolde not do oure wylle,
That worthy ys in wonnys.'
The Erle answeryd hym then,
'Therfore, traytours, ye schall brenne
Yn thys fyre, bothe at onys!'
The Erle anon them hente,
And in the fyre he them brente,
Flesche, felle, and boo.ys.
When they were brent bothe twoo.
The Erle prevely can goo.br> To that ryche abbaye.
Wyth joye and processyon
They fett the lady into the towne,
Wyth myrthe, os y telle may.
The Emperoure was full gladde:
'Fette me the monke!' anon he badde,
'Why wente he so awaye?
A byschoperyke y wyll hym geve,
My helpe, my love, whyll y leve,
Be God that owyth thys day!'
The abbot knelyd on hys knee
And seyde, 'Lorde, gone ys hee
To hys owne londe;
He dwellyth wyth the pope of Rome;
He wyll be glad of hys come,
Y do yow to undurstonde.'
'Syr abbot,' quod the Emperoure,
'To me hyt were a dyshonoure;
Soche wordes y rede thou wonde;
Anone yn haste that y hym see,
Or thou schalt nevyr have gode of me,
And therto here myn honde!'
'Lorde,' he seyde, 'sythe hyt ys soo.br> Aftur hym that y muste goo.
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Ye muste make me sewrté,
Yn case he have byn youre foo.
Ye schall not do hym no woo.
And then, also mote y thee,
Aftur hym y wyll wynde,
So that ye wyll be hys frende,
Yf youre wylle bee.'
'Yys,' seyd the Emperoure full fayne,
'All my kynne thogh he had slayne,
He ys welcome to mee.'
Then spake the abbot wordys free:
'Lorde, y tryste now on thee:
Ye wyll do os ye sey;
Hyt ys Syr Barnard of Tollous,
A nobyll knyght and a chyvalrous,
That hath done thys jurney.'
'Now certys,' seyde the Emperoure,
'To me hyt ys grete dyshonoure;
Anon, Syr, y the pray
Aftur hym that thou wende:
We schall kysse and be gode frende,
Be God, that owyth thys day!'
The abbot seyde, 'Y assente.'
Aftur the Erle anon he wente,
And seyde, 'Syr, go wyth mee:
My lorde and ye, be Seynt John,
Schull be made bothe at oo.,
Goo.e frendys for to bee.'
Therof the Erle was full fayne;
The Emperoure came hym agayne
And sayde, 'My frende so free,
My wrath here y the forgeve,
My helpe, my love, whyll y leve,
Be Hym that dyed on tree!'
Togedur lovely can they kysse;
Therof all men had grete blysse:
The romaunse tellyth soo.
He made hym steward of hys londe
And sesyd agayne into hys honde
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That he had rafte hym froo.
The Emperoure levyd but yerys thre;
Be alexion of the lordys free,
The Erle toke they thoo.
They made hym ther Emperoure,
For he was styffe yn stoure
To fyght agayne hys foo.
He weddyd that lady to hys wyfe;
Wyth joye and myrthe they ladde ther lyfe
Twenty yere and three.
Betwene them had they chyldyr fifteen,
Doghty knyghtys all bedene,
And semely on to see.
Yn Rome thys geste cronyculyd ywys;
A lay of Bretayne callyd hyt ys,
And evyr more schall bee.
Jhesu Cryste to hevyn us brynge,
There to have owre wonnyng!
Amen, amen, for charytee!
~ Anonymous,#NFDB
833:The Cremona Violin
Part First
Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the doo..
A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind
Swirled through the trees, and scattered leaves before
Her on the clean, flagged path. The sky behind
The distant town was black, and sharp defined
Against it shone the lines of roo.s and towers,
Superimposed and flat like cardboard flowers.
A pasted city on a purple ground,
Picked out with luminous paint, it seemed. The cloud
Split on an edge of lightning, and a sound
Of rivers full and rushing boo.ed through bowed,
Tossed, hissing branches. Thunder rumbled loud
Beyond the town fast swallowing into gloo..
Frau Altgelt closed the windows of each roo..
She bustled round to shake by constant moving
The strange, weird atmosphere. She stirred the fire,
She twitched the supper-cloth as though improving
Its careful setting, then her own attire
Came in for notice, tiptoeing higher and higher
She peered into the wall-glass, now adjusting
A straying lock, or else a ribbon thrusting
This way or that to suit her. At last sitting,
Or rather plumping down upon a chair,
She too. her work, the stocking she was knitting,
And watched the rain upon the window glare
In white, bright drops. Through the black glass a flare
Of lightning squirmed about her needles. 'Oh!'
She cried. 'What can be keeping Theodore so!'
A roll of thunder set the casements clapping.
Frau Altgelt flung her work aside and ran,
Pulled open the house doo., with kerchief flapping
She stoo. and gazed along the street. A man
Flung back the garden-gate and nearly ran
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Her down as she stoo. in the doo.. 'Why, Dear,
What in the name of patience brings you here?
Quick, Lotta, shut the doo., my violin
I fear is wetted. Now, Dear, bring a light.
This clasp is very much too.worn and thin.
I'll take the other fiddle out to-night
If it still rains. Tut! Tut! my child, you're quite
Clumsy. Here, help me, hold the case while I Give me the candle. No, the inside's dry.
Thank God for that! Well, Lotta, how are you?
A bad storm, but the house still stands, I see.
Is my pipe filled, my Dear? I'll have a few
Puffs and a snoo.e before I eat my tea.
What do you say? That you were feared for me?
Nonsense, my child. Yes, kiss me, now don't talk.
I need a rest, the theatre's a long walk.'
Her needles still, her hands upon her lap
Patiently laid, Charlotta Altgelt sat
And watched the rain-run window. In his nap
Her husband stirred and muttered. Seeing that,
Charlotta rose and softly, pit-a-pat,
Climbed up the stairs, and in her little roo.
Found sighing comfort with a moo. in bloo..
But even rainy windows, silver-lit
By a new-burst, storm-whetted moo., may give
But poo. content to loneliness, and it
Was hard for young Charlotta so to strive
And down her eagerness and learn to live
In placid quiet. While her husband slept,
Charlotta in her upper chamber wept.
Herr Concert-Meister Altgelt was a man
Gentle and unambitious, that alone
Had kept him back. He played as few men can,
Drawing out of his instrument a tone
So shimmering-sweet and palpitant, it shone
Like a bright thread of sound hung in the air,
Afloat and swinging upward, slim and fair.
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Above all things, above Charlotta his wife,
Herr Altgelt loved his violin, a fine
Cremona pattern, Stradivari's life
Was flowering out of early discipline
When this was fashioned. Of soft-cutting pine
The belly was. The back of broadly curled
Maple, the head made thick and sharply whirled.
The slanting, youthful sound-holes through
The belly of fine, vigorous pine
Mellowed each note and blew
It out again with a woo.y flavour
Tanged and fragrant as fir-trees are
When breezes in their needles jar.
The varnish was an orange-brown
Lustered like glass that's long laid down
Under a crumbling villa stone.
Purfled stoutly, with mitres which point
Straight up the corners. Each curve and joint
Clear, and bold, and thin.
Such was Herr Theodore's violin.
Seven o'clock, the Concert-Meister gone
With his best violin, the rain being stopped,
Frau Lotta in the kitchen sat alone
Watching the embers which the fire dropped.
The china shone upon the dresser, topped
By polished copper vessels which her skill
Kept brightly burnished. It was very still.
An air from `Orfeo' hummed in her head.
Herr Altgelt had been practising before
The night's performance. Charlotta had plead
With him to stay with her. Even at the doo.
She'd begged him not to go. 'I do implore
You for this evening, Theodore,' she had said.
'Leave them to-night, and stay with me instead.'
'A silly poppet!' Theodore pinched her ear.
'You'd like to have our goo. Elector turn
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Me out I think.' 'But, Theodore, something queer
Ails me. Oh, do but notice how they burn,
My cheeks! The thunder worried me. You're stern,
And cold, and only love your work, I know.
But Theodore, for this evening, do not go.'
But he had gone, hurriedly at the end,
For she had kept him talking. Now she sat
Alone again, always alone, the trend
Of all her thinking brought her back to that
She wished to banish. What would life be? What?
For she was young, and loved, while he was moved
Only by music. Each day that was proved.
Each day he rose and practised. While he played,
She stopped her work and listened, and her heart
Swelled painfully beneath her bodice. Swayed
And longing, she would hide from him her smart.
'Well, Lottchen, will that do?' Then what a start
She gave, and she would run to him and cry,
And he would gently chide her, 'Fie, Dear, fie.
I'm glad I played it well. But such a taking!
You'll hear the thing enough before I've done.'
And she would draw away from him, still shaking.
Had he but guessed she was another one,
Another violin. Her strings were aching,
Stretched to the touch of his bow hand, again
He played and she almost broke at the strain.
Where was the use of thinking of it now,
Sitting alone and listening to the clock!
She'd best make haste and knit another row.
Three hours at least must pass before his knock
Would startle her. It always was a shock.
She listened - listened - for so long before,
That when it came her hearing almost tore.
She caught herself just starting in to listen.
What nerves she had: rattling like brittle sticks!
She wandered to the window, for the glisten
Of a bright moo. was tempting. Snuffed the wicks
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Of her two candles. Still she could not fix
To anything. The moo. in a broad swath
Beckoned her out and down the garden-path.
Against the house, her hollyhocks stoo. high
And black, their shadows doubling them. The night
Was white and still with moo.light, and a sigh
Of blowing leaves was there, and the dim flight
Of insects, and the smell of aconite,
And stocks, and Marvel of Peru. She flitted
Along the path, where blocks of shadow pitted
The even flags. She let herself go dreaming
Of Theodore her husband, and the tune
From `Orfeo' swam through her mind, but seeming
Changed - shriller. Of a sudden, the clear moo.
Showed her a passer-by, inopportune
Indeed, but here he was, whistling and striding.
Lotta squeezed in between the currants, hiding.
'The best laid plans of mice and men,' alas!
The stranger came indeed, but did not pass.
Instead, he leant upon the garden-gate,
Folding his arms and whistling. Lotta's state,
Crouched in the prickly currants, on wet grass,
Was far from pleasant. Still the stranger stayed,
And Lotta in her currants watched, dismayed.
He seemed a proper fellow standing there
In the bright moo.shine. His cocked hat was laced
With silver, and he wore his own brown hair
Tied, but unpowdered. His whole bearing graced
A fine cloth coat, and ruffled shirt, and chased
Sword-hilt. Charlotta loo.ed, but her position
Was hardly easy. When would his volition
Suggest his walking on? And then that tune!
A half-a-dozen bars from `Orfeo'
Gone over and over, and murdered. What Fortune
Had brought him there to stare about him so?
'Ach, Gott im Himmel! Why will he not go!'
Thought Lotta, but the young man whistled on,
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And seemed in no great hurry to be gone.
Charlotta, crouched among the currant bushes,
Watched the moo. slowly dip from twig to twig.
If Theodore should chance to come, and blushes
Streamed over her. He would not care a fig,
He'd only laugh. She pushed aside a sprig
Of sharp-edged leaves and peered, then she uprose
Amid her bushes. 'Sir,' said she, 'pray whose
Garden do you suppose you're watching? Why
Do you stand there? I really must insist
Upon your leaving. 'Tis unmannerly
To stay so long.' The young man gave a twist
And turned about, and in the amethyst
Moo.light he saw her like a nymph half-risen
From the green bushes which had been her prison.
He swept his hat off in a hurried bow.
'Your pardon, Madam, I had no idea
I was not quite alone, and that is how
I came to stay. My trespass was not sheer
Impertinence. I thought no one was here,
And really gardens cry to be admired.
To-night especially it seemed required.
And may I beg to introduce myself?
Heinrich Marohl of Munich. And your name?'
Charlotta told him. And the artful elf
Promptly exclaimed about her husband's fame.
So Lotta, half-unwilling, slowly came
To conversation with him. When she went
Into the house, she found the evening spent.
Theodore arrived quite wearied out and teased,
With all excitement in him burned away.
It had gone well, he said, the audience pleased,
And he had played his very best to-day,
But afterwards he had been forced to stay
And practise with the stupid ones. His head
Ached furiously, and he must get to bed.
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Part Second
Herr Concert-Meister Altgelt played,
And the four strings of his violin
Were spinning like bees on a day in Spring.
The notes rose into the wide sun-mote
Which slanted through the window,
They lay like coloured beads a-row,
They knocked together and parted,
And started to dance,
Skipping, tripping, each one slipping
Under and over the others so
That the polychrome fire streamed like a lance
Or a comet's tail,
Behind them.
Then a wail arose - crescendo And dropped from off the end of the bow,
And the dancing stopped.
A scent of lilies filled the roo.,
Long and slow. Each large white bloo.
Breathed a sound which was holy perfume from a blessed censer,
And the hum of an organ tone,
And they waved like fans in a hall of stone
Over a bier standing there in the centre, alone.
Each lily bent slowly as it was blown.
Like smoke they rose from the violin Then faded as a swifter bowing
Jumbled the notes like wavelets flowing
In a splashing, pashing, rippling motion
Between broad meadows to an ocean
Wide as a day and blue as a flower,
Where every hour
Gulls dipped, and scattered, and squawked, and squealed,
And over the marshes the Angelus pealed,
And the prows of the fishing-boats were spattered
With spray.
And away a couple of frigates were starting
To race to Java with all sails set,
Topgallants, and royals, and stunsails, and jibs,
And wide moo.sails; and the shining rails
Were polished so bright they sparked in the sun.
All the sails went up with a run:
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'They call me Hanging Johnny,
Away-i-oh;
They call me Hanging Johnny,
So hang, boys, hang.'
And the sun had set and the high moo. whitened,
And the ship heeled over to the breeze.
He drew her into the shade of the sails,
And whispered tales
Of voyages in the China seas,
And his arm around her
Held and bound her.
She almost swoo.ed,
With the breeze and the moo.
And the slipping sea,
And he beside her,
Touching her, leaning The ship careening,
With the white moo. steadily shining over
Her and her lover,
Theodore, still her lover!
Then a quiver fell on the crowded notes,
And slowly floated
A single note which spread and spread
Till it filled the roo. with a shimmer like gold,
And noises shivered throughout its length,
And tried its strength.
They pulled it, and tore it,
And the stuff waned thinner, but still it bore it.
Then a wide rent
Split the arching tent,
And balls of fire spurted through,
Spitting yellow, and mauve, and blue.
One by one they were quenched as they fell,
Only the blue burned steadily.
Paler and paler it grew, and - faded - away.
Herr Altgelt stopped.
'Well, Lottachen, my Dear, what do you say?
I think I'm in goo. trim. Now let's have dinner.
What's this, my Love, you're very sweet to-day.
I wonder how it happens I'm the winner
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Of so much sweetness. But I think you're thinner;
You're like a bag of feathers on my knee.
Why, Lotta child, you're almost strangling me.
I'm glad you're going out this afternoo..
The days are getting short, and I'm so tied
At the Court Theatre my poo. little bride
Has not much junketing I fear, but soo.
I'll ask our manager to grant a boo..
To-night, perhaps, I'll get a pass for you,
And when I go, why Lotta can come too.
Now dinner, Love. I want some onion soup
To whip me up till that rehearsal's over.
You know it's odd how some women can stoo.!
Fraeulein Gebnitz has taken on a lover,
A Jew named Goldstein. No one can discover
If it's his money. But she lives alone
Practically. Gebnitz is a stone,
Pores over boo.s all day, and has no ear
For his wife's singing. Artists must have men;
They need appreciation. But it's queer
What messes people make of their lives, when
They should know more. If Gebnitz finds out, then
His wife will pack. Yes, shut the doo. at once.
I did not feel it cold, I am a dunce.'
Frau Altgelt tied her bonnet on and went
Into the streets. A bright, crisp Autumn wind
Flirted her skirts and hair. A turbulent,
Audacious wind it was, now close behind,
Pushing her bonnet forward till it twined
The strings across her face, then from in front
Slantingly swinging at her with a shunt,
Until she lay against it, struggling, pushing,
Dismayed to find her clothing tightly bound
Around her, every fold and wrinkle crushing
Itself upon her, so that she was wound
In draperies as clinging as those found
Sucking about a sea nymph on the frieze
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Of some old Grecian temple. In the breeze
The shops and houses had a quality
Of hard and dazzling colour; something sharp
And buoyant, like white, puffing sails at sea.
The city streets were twanging like a harp.
Charlotta caught the movement, skippingly
She blew along the pavement, hardly knowing
Toward what destination she was going.
She fetched up opposite a jeweller's shop,
Where filigreed tiaras shone like crowns,
And necklaces of emeralds seemed to drop
And then float up again with lightness. Browns
Of striped agates struck her like cold frowns
Amid the gaiety of topaz seals,
Carved though they were with heads, and arms, and wheels.
A row of pencils knobbed with quartz or sard
Delighted her. And rings of every size
Turned smartly round like hoo.s before her eyes,
Amethyst-flamed or ruby-girdled, jarred
To spokes and flashing triangles, and starred
Like rockets bursting on a festal day.
Charlotta could not tear herself away.
With eyes glued tightly on a golden box,
Whose rare enamel piqued her with its hue,
Changeable, iridescent, shuttlecocks
Of shades and lustres always darting through
Its level, superimposing sheet of blue,
Charlotta did not hear foo.steps approaching.
She started at the words: 'Am I encroaching?'
'Oh, Heinrich, how you frightened me! I thought
We were to meet at three, is it quite that?'
'No, it is not,' he answered, 'but I've caught
The trick of missing you. One thing is flat,
I cannot go on this way. Life is what
Might best be conjured up by the word: `Hell'.
Dearest, when will you come?' Lotta, to quell
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His effervescence, pointed to the gems
Within the window, asked him to admire
A bracelet or a buckle. But one stems
Uneasily the burning of a fire.
Heinrich was chafing, pricked by his desire.
Little by little she woo.d him to her moo.
Until at last he promised to be goo..
But here he started on another tack;
To buy a jewel, which one would Lotta choo.e.
She vainly urged against him all her lack
Of other trinkets. Should she dare to use
A ring or broo.h her husband might accuse
Her of extravagance, and ask to see
A strict accounting, or still worse might be.
But Heinrich would not be persuaded. Why
Should he not give her what he liked? And in
He went, determined certainly to buy
A thing so beautiful that it would win
Her wavering fancy. Altgelt's violin
He would outscore by such a handsome jewel
That Lotta could no longer be so cruel!
Pity Charlotta, torn in diverse ways.
If she went in with him, the shopman might
Recognize her, give her her name; in days
To come he could denounce her. In her fright
She almost fled. But Heinrich would be quite
Capable of pursuing. By and by
She pushed the doo. and entered hurriedly.
It too. some pains to keep him from bestowing
A pair of ruby earrings, carved like roses,
The setting twined to represent the growing
Tendrils and leaves, upon her. 'Who supposes
I could obtain such things! It simply closes
All comfort for me.' So he changed his mind
And bought as slight a gift as he could find.
A locket, frosted over with seed pearls,
Oblong and slim, for wearing at the neck,
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Or hidden in the bosom; their joined curls
Should lie in it. And further to bedeck
His love, Heinrich had picked a whiff, a fleck,
The merest puff of a thin, linked chain
To hang it from. Lotta could not refrain
From weeping as they sauntered down the street.
She did not want the locket, yet she did.
To have him love her she found very sweet,
But it is hard to keep love always hid.
Then there was something in her heart which chid
Her, told her she loved Theodore in him,
That all these meetings were a foo.ish whim.
She thought of Theodore and the life they led,
So near together, but so little mingled.
The great clouds bulged and bellied overhead,
And the fresh wind about her body tingled;
The crane of a large warehouse creaked and jingled;
Charlotta held her breath for very fear,
About her in the street she seemed to hear:
'They call me Hanging Johnny,
Away-i-oh;
They call me Hanging Johnny,
So hang, boys, hang.'
And it was Theodore, under the racing skies,
Who held her and who whispered in her ear.
She knew her heart was telling her no lies,
Beating and hammering. He was so dear,
The touch of him would send her in a queer
Swoo. that was half an ecstasy. And yearning
For Theodore, she wandered, slowly turning
Street after street as Heinrich wished it so.
He had some aim, she had forgotten what.
Their progress was confused and very slow,
But at the last they reached a lonely spot,
A garden far above the highest shot
Of soaring steeple. At their feet, the town
Spread open like a chequer-board laid down.
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Lotta was dimly conscious of the rest,
Vaguely remembered how he clasped the chain
About her neck. She treated it in jest,
And saw his face cloud over with sharp pain.
Then suddenly she felt as though a strain
Were put upon her, collared like a slave,
Leashed in the meshes of this thing he gave.
She seized the flimsy rings with both her hands
To snap it, but they held with odd persistence.
Her eyes were blinded by two wind-blown strands
Of hair which had been loo.ened. Her resistance
Melted within her, from remotest distance,
Misty, unreal, his face grew warm and near,
And giving way she knew him very dear.
For long he held her, and they both gazed down
At the wide city, and its blue, bridged river.
From woo.ng he jested with her, snipped the blown
Strands of her hair, and tied them with a sliver
Cut from his own head. But she gave a shiver
When, opening the locket, they were placed
Under the glass, commingled and enlaced.
'When will you have it so with us?' He sighed.
She shoo. her head. He pressed her further. 'No,
No, Heinrich, Theodore loves me,' and she tried
To free herself and rise. He held her so,
Clipped by his arms, she could not move nor go.
'But you love me,' he whispered, with his face
Burning against her through her kerchief's lace.
Frau Altgelt knew she toyed with fire, knew
That what her husband lit this other man
Fanned to hot flame. She told herself that few
Women were so discreet as she, who ran
No danger since she knew what things to ban.
She opened her house doo. at five o'clock,
A short half-hour before her husband's knock.
Part Third
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The `Residenz-Theater' sparked and hummed
With lights and people. Gebnitz was to sing,
That rare soprano. All the fiddles strummed
With tuning up; the woo.-winds made a ring
Of reedy bubbling noises, and the sting
Of sharp, red brass pierced every ear-drum; patting
From muffled tympani made a dark slatting
Across the silver shimmering of flutes;
A bassoo. grunted, and an oboe wailed;
The 'celli pizzicato-ed like great lutes,
And mutterings of double basses trailed
Away to silence, while loud harp-strings hailed
Their thin, bright colours down in such a scatter
They lost themselves amid the general clatter.
Frau Altgelt in the gallery, alone,
Felt lifted up into another world.
Before her eyes a thousand candles shone
In the great chandeliers. A maze of curled
And powdered periwigs past her eyes swirled.
She smelt the smoke of candles guttering,
And caught the glint of jewelled fans fluttering
All round her in the boxes. Red and gold,
The house, like rubies set in filigree,
Filliped the candlelight about, and bold
Young sparks with eye-glasses, unblushingly
Ogled fair beauties in the balcony.
An officer went by, his steel spurs jangling.
Behind Charlotta an old man was wrangling
About a play-bill he had bought and lost.
Three drunken soldiers had to be ejected.
Frau Altgelt's eyes stared at the vacant post
Of Concert-Meister, she at once detected
The stir which brought him. But she felt neglected
When with no glance about him or her way,
He lifted up his violin to play.
The curtain went up? Perhaps. If so,
Charlotta never saw it go.
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The famous Fraeulein Gebnitz' singing
Only came to her like the ringing
Of bells at a festa
Which swing in the air
And nobody realizes they are there.
They jingle and jangle,
And clang, and bang,
And never a soul could tell whether they rang,
For the plopping of guns and rockets
And the chinking of silver to spend, in one's pockets,
And the shuffling and clapping of feet,
And the loud flapping
Of flags, with the drums,
As the military comes.
It's a famous tune to walk to,
And I wonder where they're off to.
Step-step-stepping to the beating of the drums.
But the rhythm changes as though a mist
Were curling and twisting
Over the landscape.
For a moment a rhythmless, tuneless fog
Encompasses her. Then her senses jog
To the breath of a stately minuet.
Herr Altgelt's violin is set
In tune to the slow, sweeping bows, and retreats and advances,
To curtsies brushing the waxen floo. as the Court dances.
Long and peaceful like warm Summer nights
When stars shine in the quiet river. And against the lights
Blundering insects knock,
And the `Rathaus' clock
Boo.s twice, through the shrill sounds
Of flutes and horns in the lamplit grounds.
Pressed against him in the mazy wavering
Of a country dance, with her short breath quavering
She leans upon the beating, throbbing
Music. Laughing, sobbing,
Feet gliding after sliding feet;
His - hers The ballroo. blurs She feels the air
Lifting her hair,
And the lapping of water on the stone stair.
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He is there! He is there!
Twang harps, and squeal, you thin violins,
That the dancers may dance, and never discover
The old stone stair leading down to the river
With the chestnut-tree branches hanging over
Her and her lover.
Theodore, still her lover!
The evening passed like this, in a half faint,
Delirium with waking intervals
Which were the entr'acts. Under the restraint
Of a large company, the constant calls
For oranges or syrops from the stalls
Outside, the talk, the passing to and fro,
Lotta sat ill at ease, incognito.
She heard the Gebnitz praised, the tenor lauded,
The music vaunted as most excellent.
The scenery and the costumes were applauded,
The latter it was whispered had been sent
From Italy. The Herr Direktor spent
A fortune on them, so the gossips said.
Charlotta felt a lightness in her head.
When the next act began, her eyes were swimming,
Her prodded ears were aching and confused.
The first notes from the orchestra sent skimming
Her outward consciousness. Her brain was fused
Into the music, Theodore's music! Used
To hear him play, she caught his single tone.
For all she noticed they two were alone.
Part Fourth
Frau Altgelt waited in the chilly street,
Hustled by lackeys who ran up and down
Shouting their coachmen's names; forced to retreat
A pace or two by lurching chairmen; thrown
Rudely aside by linkboys; boldly shown
The ogling rapture in two bleary eyes
Thrust close to hers in most unpleasant wise.
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Escaping these, she hit a liveried arm,
Was sworn at by this glittering gentleman
And ordered off. However, no great harm
Came to her. But she loo.ed a trifle wan
When Theodore, her belated guardian,
Emerged. She snuggled up against him, trembling,
Half out of fear, half out of the assembling
Of all the thoughts and needs his playing had given.
Had she enjoyed herself, he wished to know.
'Oh! Theodore, can't you feel that it was Heaven!'
'Heaven! My Lottachen, and was it so?
Gebnitz was in goo. voice, but all the flow
Of her last aria was spoiled by Klops,
A wretched flutist, she was mad as hops.'
He was so simple, so matter-of-fact,
Charlotta Altgelt knew not what to say
To bring him to her dream. His lack of tact
Kept him explaining all the homeward way
How this thing had gone well, that badly. 'Stay,
Theodore!' she cried at last. 'You know to me
Nothing was real, it was an ecstasy.'
And he was heartily glad she had enjoyed
Herself so much, and said so. 'But it's goo.
To be got home again.' He was employed
In loo.ing at his violin, the woo.
Was old, and evening air did it no goo..
But when he drew up to the table for tea
Something about his wife's vivacity
Struck him as hectic, worried him in short.
He talked of this and that but watched her close.
Tea over, he endeavoured to extort
The cause of her excitement. She arose
And stoo. beside him, trying to compose
Herself, all whipt to quivering, curdled life,
And he, poo. foo., misunderstoo. his wife.
Suddenly, broken through her anxious grasp,
Her music-kindled love crashed on him there.
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Amazed, he felt her fling against him, clasp
Her arms about him, weighing down his chair,
Sobbing out all her hours of despair.
'Theodore, a woman needs to hear things proved.
Unless you tell me, I feel I'm not loved.'
Theodore went under in this tearing wave,
He yielded to it, and its headlong flow
Filled him with all the energy she gave.
He was a youth again, and this bright glow,
This living, vivid joy he had to show
Her what she was to him. Laughing and crying,
She asked assurances there's no denying.
Over and over again her questions, till
He quite convinced her, every now and then
She kissed him, shivering as though doubting still.
But later when they were composed and when
She dared relax her probings, 'Lottachen,'
He asked, 'how is it your love has withstoo.
My inadvertence? I was made of woo..'
She told him, and no doubt she meant it truly,
That he was sun, and grass, and wind, and sky
To her. And even if conscience were unruly
She salved it by neat sophistries, but why
Suppose her insincere, it was no lie
She said, for Heinrich was as much forgot
As though he'd never been within earshot.
But Theodore's hands in straying and caressing
Fumbled against the locket where it lay
Upon her neck. 'What is this thing I'm pressing?'
He asked. 'Let's bring it to the light of day.'
He lifted up the locket. 'It should stay
Outside, my Dear. Your mother has goo. taste.
To keep it hidden surely is a waste.'
Pity again Charlotta, straight aroused
Out of her happiness. The locket brought
A chilly jet of truth upon her, soused
Under its icy spurting she was caught,
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And choked, and frozen. Suddenly she sought
The clasp, but with such art was this contrived
Her fumbling fingers never once arrived
Upon it. Feeling, twisting, round and round,
She pulled the chain quite through the locket's ring
And still it held. Her neck, encompassed, bound,
Chafed at the sliding meshes. Such a thing
To hurl her out of joy! A gilded string
Binding her folly to her, and those curls
Which lay entwined beneath the clustered pearls!
Again she tried to break the cord. It stoo..
'Unclasp it, Theodore,' she begged. But he
Refused, and being in a happy moo.,
Twitted her with her inefficiency,
Then loo.ing at her very seriously:
'I think, Charlotta, it is well to have
Always about one what a mother gave.
As she has taken the great pains to send
This jewel to you from Dresden, it will be
Ingratitude if you do not intend
To carry it about you constantly.
With her fine taste you cannot disagree,
The locket is most beautifully designed.'
He opened it and there the curls were, twined.
Charlotta's heart dropped beats like knitting-stitches.
She burned a moment, flaming; then she froze.
Her face was jerked by little, nervous twitches,
She heard her husband asking: 'What are those?'
Put out her hand quickly to interpose,
But stopped, the gesture half-complete, astounded
At the calm way the question was propounded.
'A pretty fancy, Dear, I do declare.
Indeed I will not let you put it off.
A lovely thought: yours and your mother's hair!'
Charlotta hid a gasp under a cough.
'Never with my connivance shall you doff
This charming gift.' He kissed her on the cheek,
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And Lotta suffered him, quite crushed and meek.
When later in their roo. she lay awake,
Watching the moo.light slip along the floo.,
She felt the chain and wept for Theodore's sake.
She had loved Heinrich also, and the core
Of truth, unlovely, startled her. Wherefore
She vowed from now to break this double life
And see herself only as Theodore's wife.
Part Fifth
It was no easy matter to convince
Heinrich that it was finished. Hard to say
That though they could not meet (he saw her wince)
She still must keep the locket to allay
Suspicion in her husband. She would pay
Him from her savings bit by bit - the oath
He swore at that was startling to them both.
Her resolution taken, Frau Altgelt
Adhered to it, and suffered no regret.
She found her husband all that she had felt
His music to contain. Her days were set
In his as though she were an amulet
Cased in bright gold. She joyed in her confining;
Her eyes put out her loo.ing-glass with shining.
Charlotta was so gay that old, dull tasks
Were furbished up to seem like rituals.
She baked and brewed as one who only asks
The right to serve. Her daily manuals
Of prayer were duties, and her festivals
When Theodore praised some dish, or frankly said
She had a knack in making up a bed.
So Autumn went, and all the mountains round
The city glittered white with fallen snow,
For it was Winter. Over the hard ground
Herr Altgelt's foo.steps came, each one a blow.
On the swept flags behind the currant row
Charlotta stoo. to greet him. But his lip
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Only flicked hers. His Concert-Meistership
Was first again. This evening he had got
Important news. The opera ordered from
Young Mozart was arrived. That old despot,
The Bishop of Salzburg, had let him come
Himself to lead it, and the parts, still hot
From copying, had been tried over. Never
Had any music started such a fever.
The orchestra had cheered till they were hoarse,
The singers clapped and clapped. The town was made,
With such a great attraction through the course
Of Carnival time. In what utter shade
All other cities would be left! The trade
In music would all drift here naturally.
In his excitement he forgot his tea.
Lotta was forced to take his cup and put
It in his hand. But still he rattled on,
Sipping at intervals. The new catgut
Strings he was using gave out such a tone
The 'Maestro' had remarked it, and had gone
Out of his way to praise him. Lotta smiled,
He was as happy as a little child.
From that day on, Herr Altgelt, more and more,
Absorbed himself in work. Lotta at first
Was patient and well-wishing. But it wore
Upon her when two weeks had brought no burst
Of loving from him. Then she feared the worst;
That his short interest in her was a light
Flared up an instant only in the night.
`Idomeneo' was the opera's name,
A name that poo. Charlotta learnt to hate.
Herr Altgelt worked so hard he seldom came
Home for his tea, and it was very late,
Past midnight sometimes, when he knocked. His state
Was like a flabby orange whose crushed skin
Is thin with pulling, and all dented in.
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He practised every morning and her heart
Followed his bow. But often she would sit,
While he was playing, quite withdrawn apart,
Absently fingering and touching it,
The locket, which now seemed to her a bit
Of some gone youth. His music drew her tears,
And through the notes he played, her dreading ears
Heard Heinrich's voice, saying he had not changed;
Beer merchants had no ecstasies to take
Their minds off love. So far her thoughts had ranged
Away from her stern vow, she chanced to take
Her way, one morning, quite by a mistake,
Along the street where Heinrich had his shop.
What harm to pass it since she should not stop!
It matters nothing how one day she met
Him on a bridge, and blushed, and hurried by.
Nor how the following week he stoo. to let
Her pass, the pavement narrowing suddenly.
How once he too. her basket, and once he
Pulled back a rearing horse who might have struck
Her with his hoo.s. It seemed the oddest luck
How many times their business too. them each
Right to the other. Then at last he spoke,
But she would only nod, he got no speech
From her. Next time he treated it in joke,
And that so lightly that her vow she broke
And answered. So they drifted into seeing
Each other as before. There was no fleeing.
Christmas was over and the Carnival
Was very near, and tripping from each tongue
Was talk of the new opera. Each boo.-stall
Flaunted it out in bills, what airs were sung,
What singers hired. Pictures of the young
'Maestro' were for sale. The town was mad.
Only Charlotta felt depressed and sad.
Each day now brought a struggle 'twixt her will
And Heinrich's. 'Twixt her love for Theodore
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And him. Sometimes she wished to kill
Herself to solve her problem. For a score
Of reasons Heinrich tempted her. He bore
Her moo.s with patience, and so surely urged
Himself upon her, she was slowly merged
Into his way of thinking, and to fly
With him seemed easy. But next morning would
The Stradivarius undo her moo..
Then she would realize that she must cleave
Always to Theodore. And she would try
To convince Heinrich she should never leave,
And afterwards she would go home and grieve.
All thought in Munich centered on the part
Of January when there would be given
`Idomeneo' by Wolfgang Mozart.
The twenty-ninth was fixed. And all seats, even
Those almost at the ceiling, which were driven
Behind the highest gallery, were sold.
The inches of the theatre went for gold.
Herr Altgelt was a shadow worn so thin
With work, he hardly printed black behind
The candle. He and his old violin
Made up one person. He was not unkind,
But dazed outside his playing, and the rind,
The pine and maple of his fiddle, guarded
A part of him which he had quite discarded.
It woke in the silence of frost-bright nights,
In little lights,
Like will-o'-the-wisps flickering, fluttering,
Here - there Spurting, sputtering,
Fading and lighting,
Together, asunder Till Lotta sat up in bed with wonder,
And the faint grey patch of the window shone
Upon her sitting there, alone.
For Theodore slept.
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The twenty-eighth was last rehearsal day,
'Twas called for noo., so early morning meant
Herr Altgelt's only time in which to play
His part alone. Drawn like a monk who's spent
Himself in prayer and fasting, Theodore went
Into the kitchen, with a weary word
Of cheer to Lotta, careless if she heard.
Lotta heard more than his spoken word.
She heard the vibrating of strings and woo..
She was washing the dishes, her hands all suds,
When the sound began,
Long as the span
Of a white road snaking about a hill.
The orchards are filled
With cherry blossoms at butterfly poise.
Hawthorn buds are cracking,
And in the distance a shepherd is clacking
His shears, snip-snipping the woo. from his sheep.
The notes are asleep,
Lying adrift on the air
In level lines
Like sunlight hanging in pines and pines,
Strung and threaded,
All imbedded
In the blue-green of the hazy pines.
Lines - long, straight lines!
And stems,
Long, straight stems
Pushing up
To the cup of blue, blue sky.
Stems growing misty
With the many of them,
Red-green mist
Of the trees,
And these
Woo.-flavoured notes.
The back is maple and the belly is pine.
The rich notes twine
As though weaving in and out of leaves,
Broad leaves
Flapping slowly like elephants' ears,
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Waving and falling.
Another sound peers
Through little pine fingers,
And lingers, peeping.
Ping! Ping! pizzicato, something is cheeping.
There is a twittering up in the branches,
A chirp and a lilt,
And crimson atilt on a swaying twig.
Wings! Wings!
And a little ruffled-out throat which sings.
The forest bends, tumultuous
With song.
The woo.pecker knocks,
And the song-sparrow trills,
Every fir, and cedar, and yew
Has a nest or a bird,
It is quite absurd
To hear them cutting across each other:
Peewits, and thrushes, and larks, all at once,
And a loud cuckoo.is trying to smother
A woo.-pigeon perched on a birch,
'Roo.- coo.- oo.- oo.-'
'Cuckoo. Cuckoo. That's one for you!'
A blackbird whistles, how sharp, how shrill!
And the great trees toss
And leaves blow down,
You can almost hear them splash on the ground.
The whistle again:
It is double and loud!
The leaves are splashing,
And water is dashing
Over those creepers, for they are shrouds;
And men are running up them to furl the sails,
For there is a capful of wind to-day,
And we are already well under way.
The deck is aslant in the bubbling breeze.
'Theodore, please.
Oh, Dear, how you tease!'
And the boatswain's whistle sounds again,
And the men pull on the sheets:
'My name is Hanging Johnny,
Away-i-oh;
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They call me Hanging Johnny,
So hang, boys, hang.'
The trees of the forest are masts, tall masts;
They are swinging over
Her and her lover.
Almost swoo.ing
Under the balloo.ing canvas,
She lies
Loo.ing up in his eyes
As he bends farther over.
Theodore, still her lover!
The suds were dried upon Charlotta's hands,
She leant against the table for support,
Wholly forgotten. Theodore's eyes were brands
Burning upon his music. He stopped short.
Charlotta almost heard the sound of bands
Snapping. She put one hand up to her heart,
Her fingers touched the locket with a start.
Herr Altgelt put his violin away
Listlessly. 'Lotta, I must have some rest.
The strain will be a hideous one to-day.
Don't speak to me at all. It will be best
If I am quiet till I go.' And lest
She disobey, he left her. On the stairs
She heard his mounting steps. What use were prayers!
He could not hear, he was not there, for she
Was married to a mummy, a machine.
Her hand closed on the locket bitterly.
Before her, on a chair, lay the shagreen
Case of his violin. She saw the clean
Sun flash the open clasp. The locket's edge
Cut at her fingers like a pushing wedge.
A heavy cart went by, a distant bell
Chimed ten, the fire flickered in the grate.
She was alone. Her throat began to swell
With sobs. What kept her here, why should she wait?
The violin she had begun to hate
Lay in its case before her. Here she flung
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The cover open. With the fiddle swung
Over her head, the hanging clock's loud ticking
Caught on her ear. 'Twas slow, and as she paused
The little doo. in it came open, flicking
A woo.en cuckoo.out: 'Cuckoo.' It caused
The forest dream to come again. 'Cuckoo.'
Smashed on the grate, the violin broke in two.
'Cuckoo. Cuckoo.' the clock kept striking on;
But no one listened. Frau Altgelt had gone.
~ Amy Lowell,#NFDB
834:1052
The Tale Of Gamelyn
Fitt 1
Lithes and listneth and harkeneth aright,
And ye shul here of a doughty knyght;
Sire John of Boundes was his name,
He coude of norture and of mochel game.
Thre sones the knyght had and with his body he wan,
The eldest was a moche schrewe and sone bygan.
His brether loved wel her fader and of hym were agast,
The eldest deserved his faders curs and had it atte last.
The goo. knight his fadere lyved so yore,
That deth was comen hym to and handled hym ful sore.
The goo. knyght cared sore sik ther he lay,
How his children shuld lyven after his day.
He had bene wide where but non husbonde he was,
Al the londe that he had it was purchas.
Fayn he wold it were dressed amonge hem alle,
That eche of hem had his parte as it myght falle.
Thoo.sente he in to contrey after wise knyghtes
To helpen delen his londes and dressen hem to-rightes.
He sent hem word by letters thei shul hie blyve,
If thei wolle speke with hym whilst he was alyve.
Whan the knyghtes harden sik that he lay,
Had thei no rest neither nyght ne day,
Til thei come to hym ther he lay stille
On his dethes bedde to abide goddys wille.
Than seide the goo. knyght seke ther he lay,
'Lordes, I you warne for soth, without nay,
I may no lenger lyven here in this stounde;
For thorgh goddis wille deth droueth me to grounde.'
Ther nas noo. of hem alle that herd hym aright,
That thei ne had routh of that ilk knyght,
And seide, 'Sir, for goddes love dismay you nought;
God may don boo.e of bale that is now ywrought.'
Than speke the goo. knyght sik ther he lay,
'Boo.e of bale God may sende I wote it is no nay;
But I beseche you knyghtes for the love of me,
Goth and dresseth my londes amonge my sones thre.
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And for the love of God deleth not amyss,
And forgeteth not Gamelyne my yonge sone that is.
Taketh hede to that oo. as wel as to that other;
Seelde ye seen eny hier helpen his brother.'
Thoo.lete thei the knyght lyen that was not in hele,
And wenten into counselle his londes for to dele;
For to delen hem alle to on that was her thought.
And for Gamelyn was yongest he shuld have nought.
All the londe that ther was thei dalten it in two,
And lete Gamelyne the yonge without londe goo.
And eche of hem seide to other ful loude,
His bretheren myght yeve him londe whan he goo. cowde.
And whan thei had deled the londe at her wille,
They commen to the knyght ther he lay stille,
And tolde him anoo. how thei had wrought;
And the knight ther he lay liked it right nought.
Than seide the knyght, 'Be Seint Martyne,
For al that ye han done yit is the londe myne;
For Goddis love, neighbours stondeth alle stille,
And I wil delen my londe after myn owne wille.
John, myne eldest sone shal have plowes fyve,
That was my faders heritage whan he was alyve;
And my myddelest sone fyve plowes of londe,
That I halpe forto gete with my right honde;
And al myn other purchace of londes and ledes
That I biquethe Gamelyne and alle my goo. stedes.
And I biseche you, goo. men that lawe conne of londe,
For Gamelynes love that my quest stonde.'
Thus dalt the knyght his londe by his day,
Right on his deth bed sik ther he lay;
And sone afterward he lay stoo. stille,
And deide whan tyme come as it was Cristes wille.
Anoo. as he was dede and under gras grave,
Sone the elder brother giled the yonge knave;
He toke into his honde his londe and his lede,
And Gamelyne him selven to clothe and to fede.
He clothed him and fedde him evell and eke wroth,
And lete his londes forfare and his houses bothe,
His parkes and his wodes and did no thing welle;
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And sithen he it abought on his owne felle.
So longe was Gamelyne in his brothers halle,
For the strengest, of goo. will they douted hym alle;
Ther was noo. therinne neither yonge ne olde,
That wolde wroth Gamelyne were he never so bolde.
Gamelyne stoo. on a day in his brotheres yerde,
And byganne with his hond to handel his berde;
He thought on his landes that lay unsowe,
And his fare okes that doune were ydrawe;
His parkes were broken and his deer reved;
Of alle his goo. stedes noo. was hym byleved;
His hous were unhilled and ful evell dight;
Tho thought Gamelyne it went not aright.
Afterward come his brother walking thare,
And seide to Gamelyne, 'Is our mete yare?'
Tho wrathed him Gamelyne and swore by Goddys boke,
'Thow schalt go bake thi self I wil not be thi coke!'
'What? brother Gamelyne howe answerst thou nowe?
Thou spekest nevere such a worde as thou dost nowe.'
'By feithe,' seide Gamelyne 'now me thenketh nede;
Of al the harmes that I have I toke never yit hede.
My parkes bene broken and my dere reved,
Of myn armes ne my stedes nought is byleved;
Alle that my fader me byquathe al goth to shame,
And therfor have thou Goddes curs brother be thi name!'
Than spake his brother that rape was and rees,
'Stond stille, gadlynge and holde thi pees;
Thou shalt be fayn to have thi mete and thi wede;
What spekest thow, gadelinge of londe or of lede?'
Than seide Gamelyne the child so yinge,
'Cristes curs mote he have that me clepeth gadelinge!
I am no wors gadeling ne no wors wight,
But born of a lady and gete of a knyght.'
Ne dorst he not to Gamelyn never a foo. goo.
But cleped to hym his men and seide to hem thoo.
'Goth and beteth this boye and reveth hym his witte,
And lat him lerne another tyme to answere me bette.'
Than seide the childe yonge Gamelyne,
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'Cristes curs mote thou have brother art thou myne!
And if I shal algates be beten anoo.,
Cristes curs mote thou have but thou be that oo.!'
And anon his brother in that grete hete
Made his men to fette staves Gamelyn to bete.
Whan every of hem had a staf ynomen,
Gamelyn was werre whan he segh hem comen;
Whan Gamelyne segh hem comen he loked overall,
And was ware of a pestel stode under the wall;
Gamelyn was light and thider gan he lepe,
And droo. alle his brotheres men right sone on an hepe
And loked as a wilde lyon and leide on goo. wone;
And whan his brother segh that he byganne to gon;
He fley up into a loft and shette the doo. fast;
Thus Gamelyn with his pestel made hem al agast.
Some for Gamelyns love and some for eye,
Alle they droughen hem to halves whan he gan to pleye.
'What now!' seyde Gamelyne 'evel mot ye the!
Wil ye bygynne contecte and so sone flee?'
Gamelyn sought his brother whider he was flowe,
And seghe where he loked out a wyndowe.
'Brother,' sayde Gamelyne 'com a litel nere,
And I wil teche thee a play at the bokelere.'
His brother him answerde and seide by Seint Richere,
'The while that pestel is in thine honde I wil come no nere;
Brother, I will make thi pees I swer by Cristes oo.e;
Cast away the pestel and wrethe the no more.'
'I most nede,' seide Gamelyn, 'wreth me at onys,
For thou wold make thi men to breke my bonys,
Ne had I hadde mayn and myght in myn armes,
To han hem fro me thei wold have done me harmes.'
'Gamelyn,' seide his brother, 'be thou not wroth,
For to sene the han harme me were right loth;
I ne did it not, brother, but for a fondinge,
For to loken wher thou art stronge and art so yenge.'
'Come adoune than to me and graunt me my bone
Of oo. thing I wil the axe and we shal saught sone.'
Doune than come his brother that fikel was and felle,
And was swith sore afeerd of the pestelle.
He seide, 'Brother Gamelyn axe me thi bone,
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And loke thou me blame but I it graunte sone.'
Than seide Gamelyn 'Brother, iwys,
And we shul be at one thou most graunte me this:
Alle that my fader me byquath whilst he was alyve,
Thow most do me it have if we shul not strive.'
'That shalt thou have, Gamelyn I swere be Cristes oo.e!
Al that thi fadere the byquathe, though thou wolde have more;
Thy londe that lith ley wel it shal be sawe,
And thine houses reised up that bene leide ful lawe.'
Thus seide the knyght to Gamelyn with mouthe,
And thought on falsnes as he wel couthe.
The knyght thought on tresoun and Gamelyn on noo.,
And wente and kissed his brother and whan thei were at oo.
Alas, yonge Gamelyne no thinge he ne wist
With such false tresoun his brother him kist!
Fitt 2
Lytheneth, and listeneth, and holdeth your tonge,
And ye shul here talking of Gamelyn the yonge.
Ther was there bisiden cride a wrastelinge,
And therfore ther was sette a ramme and a ringe;
And Gamelyn was in wille to wende therto,
Forto preven his myght what he coude doo.
'Brothere,' seide Gamelyn, 'by Seint Richere,
Thow most lene me tonyght a litel coursere
That is fresshe for the spore on forto ride;
I moste on an erande a litel here beside.'
'By god!' seide his brothere 'of stedes in my stalle
Goo.and chese the the best spare noo. of hem alle
Of stedes and of coursers that stoden hem byside;
And telle me, goo. brother, whider thou wilt ride.'
'Here beside, brother is cried a wrastelinge,
And therfore shal be sette a ram and a ringe;
Moche worschip it were brother to us alle,
Might I the ram and the ringe bringe home to this halle.'
A stede ther was sadeled smertly and skete;
Gamelyn did a peire spores fast on his fete.
He sette his foo.e in the stirop the stede he bistrode,
And towardes the wrastelinge the yonge childe rode.
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Whan Gamelyn the yonge was riden out atte gate,
The fals knyght his brother loked yit after thate,
And bysought Jesu Crist that is hevene kinge,
He myghte breke his necke in the wrestelinge.
As sone as Gamelyn come ther the place was,
He lighte doune of his stede and stoo. on the gras,
And ther he herde a frankeleyn 'weiloway' singe,
And bygonne bitterly his hondes forto wringe.
'Goo. man,' seide Gamelyn, 'whi mast thou this fare?
Is ther no man that may you helpen out of care?'
'Allas!' seide this frankeleyn, 'that ever was I bore!
For twey stalworth sones I wene that I have lore;
A champion is in the place that hath wrought me sorowe,
For he hath sclayn my two sones but if God hem borowe.
I will yeve ten pound by Jesu Christ! and more,
With the nones I fonde a man wolde handel hym sore.'
'Goo. man,' seide Gamelyn, 'wilt thou wele doo.,
Holde my hors the whiles my man drowe of my shoo.,
And helpe my man to kepe my clothes and my stede,
And I wil to place gon to loke if I may spede.'
'By God!' seide the frankleyn, 'it shal be doo.;
I wil myself be thi man to drowe of thi shoo.,
And wende thou into place, Jesu Crist the spede,
And drede not of thi clothes ne of thi goo. stede.'
Barefoo. and ungirt Gamelyn inne came,
Alle that were in the place hede of him nam,
Howe he durst aventure him to doo. his myght
That was so doghty a champion in wrasteling and in fight.
Up stert the champioun rapely anon,
And toward yonge Gamelyn byganne to gon,
And seide, 'Who is thi fadere and who is thi sire?
For sothe thou art a grete foo. that thou come hire!'
Gamelyn answerde the champioun tho,
'Thowe knewe wel my fadere while he myght goo.
The whiles he was alyve, by seynt Martyn!
Sir John of Boundes was his name, and I am Gamelyne.'
'Felawe,' sayde the champion, 'so mot I thrive,
I knewe wel thi fadere the whiles he was alyve;
And thi silf, Gamelyn, I wil that thou it here,
While thou were a yonge boy a moche shrewe thou were.'
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Than seide Gamelyn and swore by Cristes ore,
'Now I am older wexe thou shalt finde me a more!'
'By God!' seide the champion 'welcome mote thou be!
Come thow onys in myn honde thou shalt nevere the.'
It was wel within the nyght and the mone shone,
Whan Gamelyn and the champioun togider gon gone.
The champion cast turnes to Gamelyne that was prest,
And Gamelyn stode and bad hym doo. his best.
Than seide Gamelyn to the champioun,
'Thowe art fast aboute to bringe me adoun;
Now I have proved mony tornes of thine,
Thow most,' he seide, 'oo. or two of myne.'
Gamelyn to the champioun yede smertely anoo.,
Of all the turnes that he couthe he shewed him but oo.,
And cast him on the lift side that thre ribbes to-brake,
And therto his owne arme that yaf a grete crake.
Than seide Gamelyn smertly anon,
'Shal it bi hold for a cast or ellis for non?'
'By God!' seide the champion, 'whedere it be,
He that cometh ones in thi honde shal he never the!'
Than seide the frankeleyn that had the sones there,
'Blessed be thou, Gamelyn, that ever thou bore were!'
The frankleyn seide to the champioun on hym stode hym noo. eye,
'This is yonge Gamelyne that taught the this pleye.'
Agein answerd the champioun that liketh no thing wel,
'He is alther maister and his pley is right felle;
Sithen I wrasteled first it is goo. yore,
But I was nevere in my lif handeled so sore.'
Gamelyn stode in the place anon without serk,
And seide, 'Yif ther be moo.lat hem come to werk;
The champion that pyned him to worch sore,
It semeth by his countenance that he wil no more.'
Gamelyn in the place stode stille as stone,
For to abide wrastelinge but ther come none;
Ther was noo. with Gamelyn that wold wrastel more,
For he handeled the champioun so wonderly sore.
Two gentile men that yemed the place,
Come to Gamelyn -- God yeve him goo.e grace! --
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And seide to him, 'Do on thi hosen and thi shoo.,
For soth at this tyme this fare is doo..'
And than seide Gamelyn, 'So mot I wel fare,
I have not yete halvendele sold my ware.'
Thoo.seide the champioun, 'So broke I my swere,
He is a foo. that therof bieth thou selleth it so dere.'
Tho seide the frankeleyne that was in moche care,
'Felawe,' he saide 'whi lackest thou this ware?
By seynt Jame of Gales that mony man hath sought,
Yit is it to goo. chepe that thou hast bought.'
Thoo.that wardeynes were of that wrastelinge
Come and brought Gamelyn the ramme and the rynge,
And Gamelyn bithought him it was a faire thinge,
And wente with moche joye home in the mornynge.
His brother see wher he came with the grete route,
And bad shitt the gate and holde hym withoute.
The porter of his lord was soo. agaast,
And stert anoo. to the gate and lokked it fast.
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Now lithenes and listneth both yonge and olde,
And ye schul here gamen of Gamelyn the bolde.
Gamelyn come to the gate forto have come inne,
And it was shette faste with a stronge pynne;
Than seide Gamelyn, 'Porter, undo the yate,
For goo. menys sones stonden ther ate.'
Than answerd the porter and swore by Goddys berd,
'Thow ne shalt, Gamelyne, come into this yerde.'
'Thow lixt,' seide Gamelyne 'so broke I my chyne!'
He smote the wikett with his foo.e and breke awaie the pyne.
The porter seie thoo.it myght no better be,
He sette foo.e on erth and bygan to flee.
'By my feye,' seide Gamelyn 'that travaile is ylore,
For I am of fote as light as thou if thou haddest it swore.' 1
Gamelyn overtoke the porter and his tene wrake,
And girt him in the nek that the boo. to-brake,
And toke hym by that oo. arme and threwe hym in a welle,
Seven fadme it was depe as I have herde telle.
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Whan Gamelyn the yonge thus had plaied his playe,
Alle that in the yerde were drowen hem awaye;
Thei dredden him ful sore for werk that he wrought,
And for the faire company that he thider brought.
Gamelyn yede to the gate and lete it up wide;
He lete inne alle that gone wolde or ride,
And seide, 'Ye be welcome without eny greve,
For we wil be maisters here and axe no man leve.
Yusterday I lefte,' seide yonge Gamelyne,
'In my brothers seler fyve tonne of wyne;
I wil not this company partyn atwynne,
And ye wil done after me while sope is therinne;
And if my brother gruche or make foule chere,
Either for spence of mete and drink that we spende here,
I am oure catour and bere oure alther purs,
He shal have for his grucchinge Seint Maries curs.
My brother is a nigon, I swere be Cristes oo.e,
And we wil spende largely that he hath spared yore;
And who that make grucchinge that we here dwelle,
He shal to the porter into the drowe-welle.'
Seven daies and seven nyghtes Gamelyn helde his feest,
With moche solace was ther noo. cheest;
In a litel torret his brother lay steke,
And see hem waast his goo. and dorst no worde speke.
Erly on a mornynge on the eight day,
The gestes come to Gamelyn and wolde gone her way.
'Lordes,' seide Gamelyn, 'will ye so hie?
Al the wyne is not yit dronke so brouke I myn ye.'
Gamelyn in his herte was ful woo.
Whan his gestes toke her leve fro hym for to go;
He wolde thei had dwelled lenger and thei seide nay,
But bytaught Gamelyn, 'God and goo. day.'
Thus made Gamelyn his feest and brought wel to ende,
And after his gestes toke leve to wende.
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Lithen and listen and holde your tunge,
And ye shal here game of Gamelyn the yonge;
Harkeneth, lordingges and listeneth aright,
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Whan alle gestis were goo. how Gamelyn was dight.
Alle the while that Gamelyn heeld his mangerye,
His brothere thought on hym be wroke with his trecherye.
Whan Gamylyns gestes were riden and goo.,
Gamelyn stoo. anon allone frend had he noo.;
Tho aftere felle sone within a litel stounde,
Gamelyn was taken and ful hard ybounde.
Forth come the fals knyght out of the solere,
To Gamelyn his brother he yede ful nere,
And saide to Gamelyn, 'Who made the so bold
For to stroien the stoo. of myn household?'
'Brother,' seide Gamelyn, 'wreth the right nought,
For it is many day gon sith it was bought;
For, brother, thou hast had by Seint Richere,
Of fiftene plowes of londe this sixtene yere,
And of alle the beestes thou hast forth bredde,
That my fader me byquath on his dethes bedde;
Of al this sixtene yere I yeve the the prowe,
For the mete and the drink that we han spended nowe.'
Than seide the fals knyght (evel mote he thee!)
'Harken, brothere Gamelyn what I wil yeve the;
For of my body, brother here geten have I none,
I wil make the myn here I swere by Seint John.'
'Par fay!' seide Gamelyn 'and if it so be,
And thou thenk as thou seist God yeelde it the!'
Nothinge wiste Gamelyn of his brother gile;
Therfore he hym bygiled in a litel while.
'Gamelyn,' seyde he, 'oo. thing I the telle;
Thoo.thou threwe my porter in the drowe-welle,
I swore in that wrethe and in that grete moo.e,
That thou shuldest be bounde bothe honde and fote;
This most be fulfilled my men to dote,
For to holden myn avowe as I the bihote.'
'Brother,' seide Gamelyn, 'as mote I thee!
Thou shalt not be forswore for the love of me.'
Tho maden thei Gamelyn to sitte and not stonde,
To thei had hym bounde both fote and honde.
The fals knyght his brother of Gamelyn was agast,
And sente efter fetters to fetter hym fast.
His brother made lesingges on him ther he stode,
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And tolde hem that commen inne that Gamelyn was wode.
Gamelyn stode to a post bounden in the halle,
Thoo.that commen inne loked on hym alle.
Ever stode Gamelyn even upright!
But mete and drink had he noo. neither day ne nyght.
Than seide Gamelyn, 'Brother, be myn hals,
Now have I aspied thou art a party fals;
Had I wist the tresoun that thou hast yfounde,
I wold have yeve strokes or I had be bounde!'
Gamelyn stode bounde stille as eny stone;
Two daies and two nyghtes mete had he none.
Than seide Gamelyn that stoo. ybounde stronge,
'Adam Spencere me thenketh I faste to longe;
Adam Spencere now I biseche the,
For the moche love my fadere loved the,
If thou may come to the keys lese me out of bonde,
And I wil part with the of my free londe.'
Than seide Adam that was the spencere,
'I have served thi brother this sixtene yere,
Yif I lete the gone out of his boure,
He wold saye afterwardes I were a traitour.'
'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'so brouke I myn hals!
Thow schalt finde my brother at the last fals;
Therfore brother Adam lose me out of bondes,
And I wil parte with the of my free londes.'
'Up such forward,' seide Adam, 'ywis,
I wil do therto al that in me is.'
'Adam,' seide Gamelyn 'as mote I the,
I wil holde the covenaunt and thou wil me.'
Anoo. as Adams lord to bed was goo.,
Adam toke the kayes and lete Gamelyn out anoo.;
He unlocked Gamelyn both hondes and fete,
In hope of avauncement that he hym byhete.
Than seide Gamelyn, 'Thonked be Goddis sonde!
Nowe I am lose both fote and honde;
Had I nowe eten and dronken aright,
Ther is noo. in this hous shuld bynde me this nyght.'
Adam toke Gamelyn as stille as eny stone,
And ladde him into the spence raply anon,
And sette him to sopere right in a privey styde,
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He bad him do gladly and so he dide.
Anoo. as Gamelyn had eten wel and fyne,
And therto y-dronken wel of the rede wyne,
'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'what is nowe thi rede?
Or I go to my brother and gerd of his heed?'
'Gamelyn,' seide Adam, 'it shal not be so.
I can teche the a rede that is worth the twoo.
I wote wel for soth that this is no nay,
We shul have a mangerye right on Sonday;
Abbotes and priours mony here shul be,
And other men of holy chirch as I telle the;
Thou shal stonde up by the post as thou were bounde fast,
And I shal leve hem unloke that away thou may hem cast.
Whan that thei han eten and wasshen her handes,
Thow shalt biseche hem alle to bringe the oute of bondes;
And if thei willen borowe the that were goo. game,
Than were thou out of prisoun and out of blame;
And if ecche of hem saye to us nay,
I shal do another I swere by this day!
Thow shalt have a goo. staf and I wil have another,
And Cristes curs haf that on that failleth that other!'
'Ye for God,' seide Gamelyn 'I say it for me,
If I faille on my side evel mot I thee!
If we shul algate assoile hem of her synne,
Warne me, brother Adam, whan we shul bygynne.'
'Gamelyn,' seid Adam, 'by Seinte Charité,
I wil warne the biforn whan it shal be;
Whan I winke on the loke for to gone,
And caste away thi fetters and come to me anone.'
'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'blessed be thi bonys!
That is a goo. counseill yeven for the nonys;
Yif thei warne the me to bringe out of bendes,
I wil sette goo. strokes right on her lendes.'
Whan the Sonday was comen and folk to the feest,
Faire thei were welcomed both leest and mest;
And ever as thei at the haldore come inne,
They casten her yen on yonge Gamelyn.
The fals knyght his brother ful of trecherye,
Al the gestes that ther were at the mangerye,
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Of Gamelyn his brother he tolde hem with mouthe
Al the harme and the shame that he telle couthe.
Whan they were yserved of messes two or thre,
Than seide Gamelyn, 'How serve ye me?
It is not wel served by God that alle made!
That I sitte fastinge and other men make glade.'
The fals knyght his brother ther as he stode,
Told to all the gestes that Gamelyn was wode;
And Gamelyn stode stille and answerde nought,
But Adames wordes he helde in his thought.
Thoo.Gamelyn gan speke doo.fully withalle
To the grete lordes that seton in the halle:
'Lordes,' he seide 'for Cristes passioun,
Helpe to bringe Gamelyn out of prisoun.'
Than seide an abbot, sorowe on his cheke,
'He shal have Cristes curs and Seinte Maries eke,
That the out of prison beggeth or borowe,
And ever worth him wel that doth the moche sorowe.'
After that abbot than speke another,
'I wold thine hede were of though thou were my brother!
Alle that the borowe foule mot hem falle!'
Thus thei seiden alle that were in the halle.
Than seide a priour, evel mote he threve!
'It is grete sorwe and care boy that thou art alyve.'
'Ow!' seide Gamelyn, 'so brouke I my bone!
Now have I spied that frendes have I none
Cursed mote he worth both flesshe and bloo.,
That ever doth priour or abbot eny goo.!'
Adam the spencere too. up the clothe,
And loked on Gamelyn and segh that he was wrothe;
Adam on the pantry litel he thought,
And two goo. staves to the halle doo. he brought,
Adam loked on Gamelyn and he was warre anoo.,
And cast away the fetters and bygan to goo.;
Whan he come to Adam he too. that on staf,
And bygan to worch and goo. strokes yaf.
Gamelyn come into the halle and the spencer bothe,
And loked hem aboute as thei hadden be wrothe;
Gamelyn spreyeth holy watere with an oken spire,
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That some that stode upright felle in the fire.
Ther was no lewe man that in the halle stode,
That wolde do Gamelyn enything but goo.e,
But stoden bisides and lete hem both wirche,
For thei had no rewthe of men of holy chirche;
Abbot or priour, monk or chanoun,
That Gamelyn overtoke anoo. they yeden doun
Ther was noo. of alle that with his staf mette,
That he ne made hem overthrowe to quyte hem his dette.
'Gamelyn,' seide Adam, 'for Seinte Charité,
Pay goo. lyveré for the love of me,
And I wil kepe the doo. so ever here I masse!
Er they bene assoilled ther shal non passe.'
'Doute the not,' seide Gamelyn 'whil we ben ifere,
Kepe thow wel the doo. and I wil wirche here;
Bystere the, goo. Adam, and lete none fle,
And we shul telle largely how mony that ther be.'
'Gamelyn,' seide Adam, 'do hem but goo.e;
Thei bene men of holy churche drowe of hem no blode
Save wel the crownes and do hem no harmes,
But breke both her legges and sithen her armes.'
Thus Gamelyn and Adam wroughte ryght faste,
And pleide with the monkes and made hem agaste.
Thidere thei come ridinge joly with swaynes,
And home ayein thei were ladde in cartes and waynes.
Tho thei hadden al ydo than seide a grey frere,
'Allas! sire abbot what did we nowe here?
Whan that we comen hidere it was a colde rede,
Us had be bet at home with water and breed.'
While Gamelyn made orders of monke and frere,
Evere stoo. his brother and made foule chere;
Gamelyn up with his staf that he wel knewe,
And girt him in the nek that he overthrewe;
A litel above the girdel the rigge-boo. he barst;
And sette him in the fetters theras he sat arst.
'Sitte ther, brother,' seide Gamelyn,
'For to colen thi body as I did myn.'
As swith as thei had wroken hem on her foo.,
Thei asked water and wasshen anon,
What some for her love and some for her awe,
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Alle the servantes served hem on the beste lawe.
The sherreve was thennes but fyve myle,
And alle was tolde him in a lytel while,
Howe Gamelyn and Adam had ydo a sorye rees,
Boundon and wounded men ayeinst the kingges pees;
Tho bygan sone strif for to wake,
And the shereff about Gamelyn forto take.
Fitt 5
Now lithen and listen so God geve you goo. fyne!
And ye shul here goo. game of yonge Gamelyne.
Four and twenty yonge men that helde hem ful bolde,
Come to the shiref and seide that thei wolde
Gamelyn and Adam fette by her fay;
The sheref gave hem leve soth for to say;
Thei hiden fast wold thei not lynne,
To thei come to the gate there Gamelyn was inne.
They knocked on the gate the porter was nyghe,
And loked out atte an hoo. as man that was scleghe.
The porter hadde bihold hem a litel while,
He loved wel Gamelyn and was dradde of gyle,
And lete the wikett stonde ful stille,
And asked hem without what was her wille.
For all the grete company speke but oo.,
'Undo the gate, porter and lat us in goo..'
Than seide the porter 'So brouke I my chyn,
Ye shul saie youre erand er ye come inne.'
'Sey to Gamelyn and Adam if theire wil be,
We wil speke with hem two wordes or thre.'
'Felawe,' seide the porter 'stonde ther stille,
And I wil wende to Gamelyn to wete his wille.'
Inne went the porter to Gamelyn anoo.,
And saide, 'Sir, I warne you here ben comen youre foo.;
The shireves men bene at the gate,
Forto take you both ye shul not scape.'
'Porter,' seide Gamelyn, 'so mote I the!
I wil alowe thi wordes whan I my tyme se.
Go ageyn to the gate and dwelle with hem a while,
And thou shalt se right sone porter, a gile.'
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'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'hast the to goo.;
We han foo.men mony and frendes never oo.;
It bene the shireves men that hider bene comen,
Thei ben swore togidere that we shal be nomen.'
'Gamelyn,' seide Adam, 'hye the right blyve,
And if I faile the this day evel mot I thrive!
And we shul so welcome the shyreves men,
That some of hem shal make her beddes in the fenne.'
At a postern gate Gamelyn out went,
And a goo. cartstaf in his hondes hent;
Adam hent sone another grete staff
For to helpen Gamelyne and goo. strokes yaf.
Adam felled tweyn and Gamelyn thre,
The other sette fete on erthe and bygan to flee.
'What' seide Adam, 'so evere here I masse!
I have right goo. wyne drynk er ye passe!'
'Nay, by God!' seide thei, 'thi drink is not goo.e,
It wolde make a mannys brayn to lyen on his hode.'
Gamelyn stode stille and loked hym aboute,
And seide 'The shyref cometh with a grete route.'
'Adam,' seyde Gamelyn 'what bene now thi redes?
Here cometh the sheref and wil have our hedes.'
Adam seide to Gamelyn 'My rede is now this,
Abide we no lenger lest we fare amys:
I rede we to wode gon er we be founde,
Better is ther louse than in the toune bounde.'
Adam toke by the honde yonge Gamelyn;
And every of hem dronk a draught of wyn,
And after token her cours and wenten her way;
Tho fonde the scherreve nyst but non aye.
The shirrive light doune and went into halle,
And fonde the lord fetred faste withalle.
The shirreve unfetred hym right sone anoo.,
And sente aftere a leche to hele his rigge boo..
Lat we now the fals knyght lye in hys care,
And talke we of Gamelyn and of his fare.
Gamelyn into the wode stalked stille,
And Adam Spensere liked right ille;
Adam swore to Gamelyn, 'By Seint Richere,
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Now I see it is mery to be a spencere,
Yit lever me were kayes to bere,
Than walken in this wilde wode my clothes to tere.'
'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'dismay the right nought;
Mony goo. mannys child in care is brought.'
As thei stode talkinge bothen in fere,
Adam herd talking of men and right nyghe hem thei were.
Tho Gamelyn under wode loked aright,
Sevene score of yonge men he seye wel ydight;
Alle satte at the mete compas aboute.
'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'now have I no doute,
Aftere bale cometh bote thorgh Goddis myght;
Me think of mete and drynk I have a sight.'
Adam loked thoo.under wode bough,
And whan he segh mete was glad ynogh;
For he hoped to God to have his dele,
And he was sore alonged after a mele.
As he seide that worde the mayster outlawe
Saugh Adam and Gamelyn under the wode shawe.
'Yonge men,' seide the maistere 'by the goo. Rode,
I am ware of gestes God send us goo.e;
Yond ben twoo.yonge men wel ydight,
And parenture ther ben mo whoso loked right.
Ariseth up, yonge men and fette hem to me;
It is goo. that we weten what men thei be.'
Up ther sterten sevene from the dynere,
And metten with Gamelyn and Adam Spencere.
Whan thei were nyghe hem than seide that oo.,
'Yeeldeth up, yonge men your bowes and your floo..'
Than seide Gamelyn that yong was of elde,
'Moche sorwe mote thei have that to you hem yelde!
I curs noo. other but right mysilve;
Thoo.ye fette to you fyve than be ye twelve!'
Whan they harde by his word that myght was in his arme,
Ther was noo. of hem that wolde do hym harme,
But seide to Gamelyn myldely and stille,
'Cometh afore our maister and seith to hym your wille.'
'Yong men,' seide Gamelyn, 'be your lewté,
What man is youre maister that ye with be?'
Alle thei answerd without lesing,
'Our maister is crowned of outlawe king.'
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'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'go we in Cristes name;
He may neither mete ne drink warne us for shame.
If that he be hende and come of gentil bloo.,
He wil yeve us mete and drink and do us som gode.'
'By Seint Jame!' seide Adam, 'what harme that I gete,
I wil aventure me that I had mete.'
Gamelyn and Adam went forth in fere,
And thei grette the maister that thei fond there.
Than seide the maister king of outlawes,
'What seche ye, yonge men, under the wode shawes?'
Gamelyn answerde the king with his croune,
'He most nedes walk in feeld that may not in toune.
Sire, we walk not here no harme to doo.
But yif we mete a deer to shete therto,
As men that bene hungry and mow no mete fynde,
And bene harde bystad under wode lynde.'
Of Gamelyns wordes the maister had reuthe,
And seide, 'Ye shul have ynow have God my trouth!'
He bad hem sitte doun for to take rest;
And bad hem ete and drink and that of the best.
As they eten and dronken wel and fyne,
Than seide on to another, 'This is Gamelyne.'
Tho was the maistere outlaw into counseile nome,
And tolde howe it was Gamelyn that thider was come.
Anon as he herd how it was byfalle,
He made him maister under hym over hem alle.
Withinne the thridde weke hym come tydinge,
To the maistere outlawe that was her kinge,
That he shuld come home his pees was made;
And of that goo. tydinge he was ful glade.
Thoo.seide he to his yonge men soth forto telle,
'Me bene comen tydinges I may no lenger dwelle.'
Tho was Gamelyn anoo. withoute taryinge,
Made maister outlawe and crowned her kinge.
Whan Gamelyn was crowned king of outlawes,
And walked had a while under the wode shawes,
The fals knyght his brother was sherif and sire,
And lete his brother endite for hate and for ire.
Thoo.were his boo.d men sory and no thing glade,
Whan Gamelyn her lord wolfeshede was made;
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And sente out of his men wher thei might hym fynde,
For to go seke Gamelyne under the wode lynde,
To telle hym tydinge the wynde was wente,
And al his goo. reved and al his men shente.
Whan thei had hym founden on knees thei hem setten,
And adoune with here hodes and her lord gretten;
'Sire, wreth you not for the goo. Rode,
For we han brought you tyddyngges but thei be not gode.
Now is thi brother sherreve and hath the bayly,
And hath endited the and wolfesheed doth the crye.'
'Allas!' seide Gamelyn, 'that ever I was so sclak
That I ne had broke his nek whan I his rigge brak!
Goth, greteth wel myn husbondes and wif,
I wil be at the nexte shyre have God my lif!'
Gamelyn come redy to the nexte shire,
And ther was his brother both lord and sire.
Gamelyn boldely come into the mote halle,
And putte adoun his hode amonge tho lordes alle;
'God save you, lordinggs that here be!
But broke bak sherreve evel mote thou thee!
Whi hast thou don me that shame and vilenye,
For to lat endite me and wolfeshede do me crye?'
Thoo.thoghte the fals knyght forto bene awreke,
And lette Gamelyn most he no thinge speke;
Might ther be no grace but Gamelyn atte last
Was cast in prison and fettred faste.
Gamelyn hath a brothere that highte Sir Ote,
Als goo. an knyght and hende as might gon on foo.e.
Anoo. yede a massager to that goo. knyght
And tolde him altogidere how Gamelyn was dight.
Anoo. whan Sire Ote herd howe Gamelyn was dight,
He was right sory and no thing light,
And lete sadel a stede and the way name,
And to his tweyne bretheren right sone he came.
'Sire,' seide Sire Ote to the sherreve thoo.
'We bene but three bretheren shul we never be mo;
And thou hast prisoned the best of us alle;
Such another brother evel mote hym byfalle!'
'Sire Ote,' seide the fals knyght, 'lat be thi cors;
By God, for thi wordes he shal fare the wors;
To the kingges prisoun he is ynome,
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And ther he shal abide to the justice come.'
'Par de!' seide Sir Ote, 'better it shal be;
I bid hym to maynprise that thou graunte me
To the next sitting of delyveraunce,
And lat than Gamelyn stonde to his chaunce.'
'Brother, in such a forward I take him to the;
And by thine fader soule that the bigate and me,
But he be redy whan the justice sitte,
Thou shalt bere the juggement for al thi grete witte.'
'I graunte wel,' seide Sir Ote, 'that it so be.
Lat delyver him anoo. and take hym to me.'
Tho was Gamelyn delyvered to Sire Ote, his brother;
And that nyght dwelled the oo. with the other.
On the morowe seide Gamelyn to Sire Ote the hende,
'Brother,' he seide, 'I mote forsoth from you wende
To loke howe my yonge men leden her liff,
Whedere thei lyven in joie or ellis in striff.'
'By God' seyde Sire Ote, 'that is a colde rede,
Nowe I se that alle the carke schal fal on my hede;
For whan the justice sitte and thou be not yfounde,
I shal anoo. be take and in thi stede ibounde.'
'Brother,' seide Gamelyn, 'dismay you nought,
For by saint Jame in Gales that mony men hath sought,
Yif that God almyghty holde my lif and witte,
I wil be redy whan the justice sitte.'
Than seide Sir Ote to Gamelyn, 'God shilde the fro shame;
Come whan thou seest tyme and bringe us out of blame.'
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Litheneth, and listeneth and holde you stille,
And ye shul here how Gamelyn had al his wille.
Gamelyn went under the wode-ris,
And fonde ther pleying yenge men of pris.
Tho was yonge Gamelyn right glad ynoughe,
Whan he fonde his men under wode boughe.
Gamelyn and his men talkeden in fere,
And thei hadde goo. game her maister to here;
His men tolde him of aventures that they had founde,
And Gamelyn tolde hem agein howe he was fast bounde.
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While Gamelyn was outlawe had he no cors;
There was no man that for him ferde the wors,
But abbots and priours, monk and chanoun;
On hem left he nought whan he myghte hem nome.
While Gamelyn and his men made merthes ryve,
The fals knyght his brother evel mot he thryve!
For he was fast aboute both day and other,
For to hiren the quest to hongen his brother.
Gamelyn stode on a day and byheeld
The wodes and the shawes and the wild feeld,
He thoughte on his brothere how he hym byhette
That he wolde be redy whan the justice sette;
He thought wel he wold without delay,
Come tofore the justice to kepen his day,
And saide to his yonge men, 'Dighteth you yare,
For whan the justice sitte we most be thare,
For I am under borowe til that I come,
And my brother for me to prison shal be nome.'
'By Seint Jame!' seide his yonge men, 'and thou rede therto,
Ordeyn how it shal be and it shal be do.'
While Gamelyn was comyng ther the justice satte,
The fals knyght his brother forgate he not that,
To hire the men of the quest to hangen his brother;
Thoughe thei had not that oo. thei wolde have that other
Tho come Gamelyn from under the wode-ris,
And brought with hym yonge men of pris
'I see wel,' seide Gamelyn, 'the justice is sette;
Go aforn, Adam, and loke how it spette.'
Adam went into the halle and loked al aboute,
He segh there stonde lordes grete and stoute,
And Sir Ote his brother fetred ful fast;
Thoo.went Adam out of halle as he were agast.
Adam seide to Gamelyn and to his felawes alle,
'Sir Ote stont fetered in the mote halle.'
'Yonge men,' seide Gamelyn, 'this ye heeren alle:
Sir Ote stont fetered in the mote halle.
If God geve us grace well forto doo.
He shal it abigge that it broughte therto.'
Than seide Adam that lockes had hore,
'Cristes curs mote he have that hym bonde so sore!
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And thou wilt, Gamelyn, do after my rede,
Ther is noo. in the halle shal bere awey his hede.'
'Adam,' seide Gamelyn, 'we wil not do soo.
We wil slee the giltif and lat the other go.
I wil into the halle and with the justice speke;
Of hem that bene giltif I wil ben awreke.
Lat no skape at the doo. take, yonge men, yeme;
For I wil be justice this day domes to deme.
God spede me this day at my newe werk!
Adam, com with me for thou shalt be my clerk.'
His men answereden hym and bad don his best,
'And if thou to us have nede thou shalt finde us prest;
We wil stonde with the while that we may dure;
And but we worchen manly pay us none hure.'
'Yonge men,' seid Gamelyn, 'so mot I wel the!
A trusty maister ye shal fynde me.'
Right there the justice satte in the halle,
Inne went Gamelyn amonges hem alle.
Gamelyn lete unfetter his brother out of bende.
Than seide Sire Ote his brother that was hende,
'Thow haddest almost, Gamelyn, dwelled to longe,
For the quest is out on me that I shulde honge.'
'Brother,' seide Gamelyn, 'so God yeve me goo. rest!
This day shul thei be honged that ben on the quest;
And the justice both that is the juge man,
And the sherreve also thorgh hym it bigan.
Than seide Gamelyn to the justise,
'Now is thi power don, the most nedes rise;
Thow hast yeven domes that bene evel dight,
I will sitten in thi sete and dressen hem aright.'
The justice satte stille and roo. not anon;
And Gamelyn cleved his chekebon;
Gamelyn toke him in his armes and no more spake,
But threwe hym over the barre and his arme brake.
Dorst noo. to Gamelyn seie but goo.e,
Forfeerd of the company that without stoo.e.
Gamelyn sette him doun in the justise sete,
And Sire Ote his brother by him and Adam at his fete.
Whan Gamelyn was sette in the justise stede,
Herken of a bourde that Gamelyn dede.
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He lete fetter the justise and his fals brother,
And did hem com to the barre that on with that other.
Whan Gamelyn had thus ydon had he no rest,
Til he had enquered who was on his quest
Forto demen his brother Sir Ote for to honge;
Er he wist what thei were hym thought ful longe.
But as sone as Gamelyn wist where thei were,
He did hem everechon fetter in fere,
And bringgen hem to the barre and setten in rewe;
'By my feith!' seide the justise, 'the sherrive is a shrewe!'
Than seide Gamelyn to the justise,
'Thou hast yove domes of the worst assise;
And the twelve sesoures that weren on the quest,
Thei shul be honged this day so have I goo. rest!'
Than seide the sheref to yonge Gamelyn,
'Lord, I crie thee mercie brother art thou myn.'
'Therfor,' seide Gamelyn, 'have thou Cristes curs,
For and thow were maister I shuld have wors.'
For to make shorte tale and not to longe,
He ordeyned hym a quest of his men stronge;
The justice and the shirreve both honged hie,
To weyven with the ropes and the winde drye;
And the twelve sisours (sorwe have that rekke!)
Alle thei were honged fast by the nekke.
Thus endeth the fals knyght with his trecherye,
That ever had lad his lif in falsenesse and folye.
He was honged by the nek and not by the purs,
That was the mede that he had for his faders curs.
Sire Ote was eldest and Gamelyn was yenge,
Wenten to her frendes and passed to the kinge;
Thei maden pees with the king of the best sise.
The king loved wel Sir Ote and made hym justise.
And after, the king made Gamelyn in est and in west,
The cheef justice of his free forest;
Alle his wight yonge men the king foryaf her gilt,
And sithen in goo. office the king hath hem pilt,
Thus wane Gamelyn his land and his lede,
And wreke him on his enemyes and quytte hem her mede;
And Sire Ote his brother made him his heire,
And sithen wedded Gamelyn a wif goo. and faire;
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They lyved togidere the while that Crist wolde,
And sithen was Gamelyn graven under molde.
And so shull we alle may ther no man fle:
God bring us to that joye that ever shal be!
~ Anonymous Olde English,#NFDB
835:There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men
With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen
Their baaing vanities, to browse away
The comfortable green and juicy hay
From human pastures; or, O torturing fact!
Who, through an idiot blink, will see unpack'd
Fire-branded foxes to sear up and singe
Our gold and ripe-ear'd hopes. With not one tinge
Of sanctuary splendour, not a sight
Able to face an owl's, they still are dight
By the blear-eyed nations in empurpled vests,
And crowns, and turbans. With unladen breasts,
Save of blown self-applause, they proudly mount
To their spirit's perch, their being's high account,
Their tiptop nothings, their dull skies, their thrones
Amid the fierce intoxicating tones
Of trumpets, shoutings, and belabour'd drums,
And sudden cannon. Ah! how all this hums,
In wakeful ears, like uproar past and gone
Like thunder clouds that spake to Babylon,
And set those old Chaldeans to their tasks.
Are then regalities all gilded masks?
No, there are throned seats unscalable
But by a patient wing, a constant spell,
Or by ethereal things that, unconfin'd,
Can make a ladder of the eternal wind,
And poise about in cloudy thunder-tents
To watch the abysm-birth of elements.
Aye, 'bove the withering of old-lipp'd Fate
A thousand Powers keep religious state,
In water, fiery realm, and airy bourne;
And, silent as a consecrated urn,
Hold sphery sessions for a season due.
Yet few of these far majesties, ah, few!
Have bared their operations to this globe
Few, who with gorgeous pageantry enrobe
Our piece of heavenwhose benevolence
Shakes hand with our own Ceres; every sense
Filling with spiritual sweets to plenitude,
As bees gorge full their cells. And, by the feud
'Twixt Nothing and Creation, I here swear,
Eterne Apollo! that thy Sister fair
Is of all these the gentlier-mightiest.
When thy gold breath is misting in the west,
She unobserved steals unto her throne,
And there she sits most meek and most alone;
As if she had not pomp subservient;
As if thine eye, high Poet! was not bent
Towards her with the Muses in thine heart;
As if the ministring stars kept not apart,
Waiting for silver-foo.ed messages.
O Moo.! the oldest shades 'mong oldest trees
Feel palpitations when thou loo.est in:
O Moo.! old boughs lisp forth a holier din
The while they feel thine airy fellowship.
Thou dost bless every where, with silver lip
Kissing dead things to life. The sleeping kine,
Couched in thy brightness, dream of fields divine:
Innumerable mountains rise, and rise,
Ambitious for the hallowing of thine eyes;
And yet thy benediction passeth not
One obscure hiding-place, one little spot
Where pleasure may be sent: the nested wren
Has thy fair face within its tranquil ken,
And from beneath a sheltering ivy leaf
Takes glimpses of thee; thou art a relief
To the poo. patient oyster, where it sleeps
Within its pearly house.The mighty deeps,
The monstrous sea is thinethe myriad sea!
O Moo.! far-spoo.ing Ocean bows to thee,
And Tellus feels his forehead's cumbrous load.
Cynthia! where art thou now? What far abode
Of green or silvery bower doth enshrine
Such utmost beauty? Alas, thou dost pine
For one as sorrowful: thy cheek is pale
For one whose cheek is pale: thou dost bewail
His tears, who weeps for thee. Where dost thou sigh?
Ah! surely that light peeps from Vesper's eye,
Or what a thing is love! 'Tis She, but lo!
How chang'd, how full of ache, how gone in woe!
She dies at the thinnest cloud; her loveliness
Is wan on Neptune's blue: yet there's a stress
Of love-spangles, just off yon cape of trees,
Dancing upon the waves, as if to please
The curly foam with amorous influence.
O, not so idle: for down-glancing thence
She fathoms eddies, and runs wild about
O'erwhelming water-courses; scaring out
The thorny sharks from hiding-holes, and fright'ning
Their savage eyes with unaccustomed lightning.
Where will the splendor be content to reach?
O love! how potent hast thou been to teach
Strange journeyings! Wherever beauty dwells,
In gulf or aerie, mountains or deep dells,
In light, in gloo., in star or blazing sun,
Thou pointest out the way, and straight 'tis won.
Amid his toil thou gav'st Leander breath;
Thou leddest Orpheus through the gleams of death;
Thou madest Pluto bear thin element;
And now, O winged Chieftain! thou hast sent
A moo.-beam to the deep, deep water-world,
To find Endymion.
On gold sand impearl'd
With lily shells, and pebbles milky white,
Poo. Cynthia greeted him, and soo.h'd her light
Against his pallid face: he felt the charm
To breathlessness, and suddenly a warm
Of his heart's bloo.: 'twas very sweet; he stay'd
His wandering steps, and half-entranced laid
His head upon a tuft of straggling weeds,
To taste the gentle moo., and freshening beads,
Lashed from the crystal roo. by fishes' tails.
And so he kept, until the rosy veils
Mantling the east, by Aurora's peering hand
Were lifted from the water's breast, and fann'd
Into sweet air; and sober'd morning came
Meekly through billows:when like taper-flame
Left sudden by a dallying breath of air,
He rose in silence, and once more 'gan fare
Along his fated way.
Far had he roam'd,
With nothing save the hollow vast, that foam'd
Above, around, and at his feet; save things
More dead than Morpheus' imaginings:
Old rusted anchors, helmets, breast-plates large
Of gone sea-warriors; brazen beaks and targe;
Rudders that for a hundred years had lost
The sway of human hand; gold vase emboss'd
With long-forgotten story, and wherein
No reveller had ever dipp'd a chin
But those of Saturn's vintage; mouldering scrolls,
Writ in the tongue of heaven, by those souls
Who first were on the earth; and sculptures rude
In ponderous stone, developing the moo.
Of ancient Nox;then skeletons of man,
Of beast, behemoth, and leviathan,
And elephant, and eagle, and huge jaw
Of nameless monster. A cold leaden awe
These secrets struck into him; and unless
Dian had chaced away that heaviness,
He might have died: but now, with cheered feel,
He onward kept; woo.ng these thoughts to steal
About the labyrinth in his soul of love.
"What is there in thee, Moo.! that thou shouldst move
My heart so potently? When yet a child
I oft have dried my tears when thou hast smil'd.
Thou seem'dst my sister: hand in hand we went
From eve to morn across the firmament.
No apples would I gather from the tree,
Till thou hadst coo.'d their cheeks deliciously:
No tumbling water ever spake romance,
But when my eyes with thine thereon could dance:
No woo.s were green enough, no bower divine,
Until thou liftedst up thine eyelids fine:
In sowing time ne'er would I dibble take,
Or drop a seed, till thou wast wide awake;
And, in the summer tide of blossoming,
No one but thee hath heard me blithly sing
And mesh my dewy flowers all the night.
No melody was like a passing spright
If it went not to solemnize thy reign.
Yes, in my boyhoo., every joy and pain
By thee were fashion'd to the self-same end;
And as I grew in years, still didst thou blend
With all my ardours: thou wast the deep glen;
Thou wast the mountain-topthe sage's pen
The poet's harpthe voice of friendsthe sun;
Thou wast the riverthou wast glory won;
Thou wast my clarion's blastthou wast my steed
My goblet full of winemy topmost deed:
Thou wast the charm of women, lovely Moo.!
O what a wild and harmonized tune
My spirit struck from all the beautiful!
On some bright essence could I lean, and lull
Myself to immortality: I prest
Nature's soft pillow in a wakeful rest.
But, gentle Orb! there came a nearer bliss
My strange love cameFelicity's abyss!
She came, and thou didst fade, and fade away
Yet not entirely; no, thy starry sway
Has been an under-passion to this hour.
Now I begin to feel thine orby power
Is coming fresh upon me: O be kind,
Keep back thine influence, and do not blind
My sovereign vision.Dearest love, forgive
That I can think away from thee and live!
Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize
One thought beyond thine argent luxuries!
How far beyond!" At this a surpris'd start
Frosted the springing verdure of his heart;
For as he lifted up his eyes to swear
How his own goddess was past all things fair,
He saw far in the concave green of the sea
An old man sitting calm and peacefully.
Upon a weeded rock this old man sat,
And his white hair was awful, and a mat
Of weeds were cold beneath his cold thin feet;
And, ample as the largest winding-sheet,
A cloak of blue wrapp'd up his aged bones,
O'erwrought with symbols by the deepest groans
Of ambitious magic: every ocean-form
Was woven in with black distinctness; storm,
And calm, and whispering, and hideous roar
Were emblem'd in the woo.; with every shape
That skims, or dives, or sleeps, 'twixt cape and cape.
The gulphing whale was like a dot in the spell,
Yet loo. upon it, and 'twould size and swell
To its huge self; and the minutest fish
Would pass the very hardest gazer's wish,
And show his little eye's anatomy.
Then there was pictur'd the regality
Of Neptune; and the sea nymphs round his state,
In beauteous vassalage, loo. up and wait.
Beside this old man lay a pearly wand,
And in his lap a boo., the which he conn'd
So stedfastly, that the new denizen
Had time to keep him in amazed ken,
To mark these shadowings, and stand in awe.
The old man rais'd his hoary head and saw
The wilder'd strangerseeming not to see,
His features were so lifeless. Suddenly
He woke as from a trance; his snow-white brows
Went arching up, and like two magic ploughs
Furrow'd deep wrinkles in his forehead large,
Which kept as fixedly as rocky marge,
Till round his wither'd lips had gone a smile.
Then up he rose, like one whose tedious toil
Had watch'd for years in forlorn hermitage,
Who had not from mid-life to utmost age
Eas'd in one accent his o'er-burden'd soul,
Even to the trees. He rose: he grasp'd his stole,
With convuls'd clenches waving it abroad,
And in a voice of solemn joy, that aw'd
Echo into oblivion, he said:
"Thou art the man! Now shall I lay my head
In peace upon my watery pillow: now
Sleep will come smoo.hly to my weary brow.
O Jove! I shall be young again, be young!
O shell-borne Neptune, I am pierc'd and stung
With new-born life! What shall I do? Where go,
When I have cast this serpent-skin of woe?
I'll swim to the syrens, and one moment listen
Their melodies, and see their long hair glisten;
Anon upon that giant's arm I'll be,
That writhes about the roo.s of Sicily:
To northern seas I'll in a twinkling sail,
And mount upon the snortings of a whale
To some black cloud; thence down I'll madly sweep
On forked lightning, to the deepest deep,
Where through some sucking poo. I will be hurl'd
With rapture to the other side of the world!
O, I am full of gladness! Sisters three,
I bow full hearted to your old decree!
Yes, every god be thank'd, and power benign,
For I no more shall wither, droo., and pine.
Thou art the man!" Endymion started back
Dismay'd; and, like a wretch from whom the rack
Tortures hot breath, and speech of agony,
Mutter'd: "What lonely death am I to die
In this cold region? Will he let me freeze,
And float my brittle limbs o'er polar seas?
Or will he touch me with his searing hand,
And leave a black memorial on the sand?
Or tear me piece-meal with a bony saw,
And keep me as a chosen foo. to draw
His magian fish through hated fire and flame?
O misery of hell! resistless, tame,
Am I to be burnt up? No, I will shout,
Until the gods through heaven's blue loo. out!
O Tartarus! but some few days agone
Her soft arms were entwining me, and on
Her voice I hung like fruit among green leaves:
Her lips were all my own, andah, ripe sheaves
Of happiness! ye on the stubble droo.,
But never may be garner'd. I must stoo.
My head, and kiss death's foo.. Love! love, farewel!
Is there no hope from thee? This horrid spell
Would melt at thy sweet breath.By Dian's hind
Feeding from her white fingers, on the wind
I see thy streaming hair! and now, by Pan,
I care not for this old mysterious man!"
He spake, and walking to that aged form,
Loo.'d high defiance. Lo! his heart 'gan warm
With pity, for the grey-hair'd creature wept.
Had he then wrong'd a heart where sorrow kept?
Had he, though blindly contumelious, brought
Rheum to kind eyes, a sting to human thought,
Convulsion to a mouth of many years?
He had in truth; and he was ripe for tears.
The penitent shower fell, as down he knelt
Before that care-worn sage, who trembling felt
About his large dark locks, and faultering spake:
"Arise, goo. youth, for sacred Phoebus' sake!
I know thine inmost bosom, and I feel
A very brother's yearning for thee steal
Into mine own: for why? thou openest
The prison gates that have so long opprest
My weary watching. Though thou know'st it not,
Thou art commission'd to this fated spot
For great enfranchisement. O weep no more;
I am a friend to love, to loves of yore:
Aye, hadst thou never lov'd an unknown power
I had been grieving at this joyous hour
But even now most miserable old,
I saw thee, and my bloo. no longer cold
Gave mighty pulses: in this tottering case
Grew a new heart, which at this moment plays
As dancingly as thine. Be not afraid,
For thou shalt hear this secret all display'd,
Now as we speed towards our joyous task."
So saying, this young soul in age's mask
Went forward with the Carian side by side:
Resuming quickly thus; while ocean's tide
Hung swollen at their backs, and jewel'd sands
Too. silently their foo.-prints. "My soul stands
Now past the midway from mortality,
And so I can prepare without a sigh
To tell thee briefly all my joy and pain.
I was a fisher once, upon this main,
And my boat danc'd in every creek and bay;
Rough billows were my home by night and day,
The sea-gulls not more constant; for I had
No housing from the storm and tempests mad,
But hollow rocks,and they were palaces
Of silent happiness, of slumberous ease:
Long years of misery have told me so.
Aye, thus it was one thousand years ago.
One thousand years!Is it then possible
To loo. so plainly through them? to dispel
A thousand years with backward glance sublime?
To breathe away as 'twere all scummy slime
From off a crystal poo., to see its deep,
And one's own image from the bottom peep?
Yes: now I am no longer wretched thrall,
My long captivity and moanings all
Are but a slime, a thin-pervading scum,
The which I breathe away, and thronging come
Like things of yesterday my youthful pleasures.
"I touch'd no lute, I sang not, trod no measures:
I was a lonely youth on desert shores.
My sports were lonely, 'mid continuous roars,
And craggy isles, and sea-mew's plaintive cry
Plaining discrepant between sea and sky.
Dolphins were still my playmates; shapes unseen
Would let me feel their scales of gold and green,
Nor be my desolation; and, full oft,
When a dread waterspout had rear'd aloft
Its hungry hugeness, seeming ready ripe
To burst with hoarsest thunderings, and wipe
My life away like a vast sponge of fate,
Some friendly monster, pitying my sad state,
Has dived to its foundations, gulph'd it down,
And left me tossing safely. But the crown
Of all my life was utmost quietude:
More did I love to lie in cavern rude,
Keeping in wait whole days for Neptune's voice,
And if it came at last, hark, and rejoice!
There blush'd no summer eve but I would steer
My skiff along green shelving coasts, to hear
The shepherd's pipe come clear from aery steep,
Mingled with ceaseless bleatings of his sheep:
And never was a day of summer shine,
But I beheld its birth upon the brine:
For I would watch all night to see unfold
Heaven's gates, and Aethon snort his morning gold
Wide o'er the swelling streams: and constantly
At brim of day-tide, on some grassy lea,
My nets would be spread out, and I at rest.
The poo. folk of the sea-country I blest
With daily boo. of fish most delicate:
They knew not whence this bounty, and elate
Would strew sweet flowers on a sterile beach.
"Why was I not contented? Wherefore reach
At things which, but for thee, O Latmian!
Had been my dreary death? Foo.! I began
To feel distemper'd longings: to desire
The utmost privilege that ocean's sire
Could grant in benediction: to be free
Of all his kingdom. Long in misery
I wasted, ere in one extremest fit
I plung'd for life or death. To interknit
One's senses with so dense a breathing stuff
Might seem a work of pain; so not enough
Can I admire how crystal-smoo.h it felt,
And buoyant round my limbs. At first I dwelt
Whole days and days in sheer astonishment;
Forgetful utterly of self-intent;
Moving but with the mighty ebb and flow.
Then, like a new fledg'd bird that first doth shew
His spreaded feathers to the morrow chill,
I tried in fear the pinions of my will.
'Twas freedom! and at once I visited
The ceaseless wonders of this ocean-bed.
No need to tell thee of them, for I see
That thou hast been a witnessit must be
For these I know thou canst not feel a drouth,
By the melancholy corners of that mouth.
So I will in my story straightway pass
To more immediate matter. Woe, alas!
That love should be my bane! Ah, Scylla fair!
Why did poo. Glaucus everever dare
To sue thee to his heart? Kind stranger-youth!
I lov'd her to the very white of truth,
And she would not conceive it. Timid thing!
She fled me swift as sea-bird on the wing,
Round every isle, and point, and promontory,
From where large Hercules wound up his story
Far as Egyptian Nile. My passion grew
The more, the more I saw her dainty hue
Gleam delicately through the azure clear:
Until 'twas too.fierce agony to bear;
And in that agony, across my grief
It flash'd, that Circe might find some relief
Cruel enchantress! So above the water
I rear'd my head, and loo.'d for Phoebus' daughter.
Aeaea's isle was wondering at the moo.:
It seem'd to whirl around me, and a swoo.
Left me dead-drifting to that fatal power.
"When I awoke, 'twas in a twilight bower;
Just when the light of morn, with hum of bees,
Stole through its verdurous matting of fresh trees.
How sweet, and sweeter! for I heard a lyre,
And over it a sighing voice expire.
It ceasedI caught light foo.steps; and anon
The fairest face that morn e'er loo.'d upon
Push'd through a screen of roses. Starry Jove!
With tears, and smiles, and honey-words she wove
A net whose thraldom was more bliss than all
The range of flower'd Elysium. Thus did fall
The dew of her rich speech: "Ah! Art awake?
O let me hear thee speak, for Cupid's sake!
I am so oppress'd with joy! Why, I have shed
An urn of tears, as though thou wert cold dead;
And now I find thee living, I will pour
From these devoted eyes their silver store,
Until exhausted of the latest drop,
So it will pleasure thee, and force thee stop
Here, that I too.may live: but if beyond
Such coo. and sorrowful offerings, thou art fond
Of soo.hing warmth, of dalliance supreme;
If thou art ripe to taste a long love dream;
If smiles, if dimples, tongues for ardour mute,
Hang in thy vision like a tempting fruit,
O let me pluck it for thee." Thus she link'd
Her charming syllables, till indistinct
Their music came to my o'er-sweeten'd soul;
And then she hover'd over me, and stole
So near, that if no nearer it had been
This furrow'd visage thou hadst never seen.
"Young man of Latmos! thus particular
Am I, that thou may'st plainly see how far
This fierce temptation went: and thou may'st not
Exclaim, How then, was Scylla quite forgot?
"Who could resist? Who in this universe?
She did so breathe ambrosia; so immerse
My fine existence in a golden clime.
She too. me like a child of suckling time,
And cradled me in roses. Thus condemn'd,
The current of my former life was stemm'd,
And to this arbitrary queen of sense
I bow'd a tranced vassal: nor would thence
Have mov'd, even though Amphion's harp had woo.d
Me back to Scylla o'er the billows rude.
For as Apollo each eve doth devise
A new appareling for western skies;
So every eve, nay every spendthrift hour
Shed balmy consciousness within that bower.
And I was free of haunts umbrageous;
Could wander in the mazy forest-house
Of squirrels, foxes shy, and antler'd deer,
And birds from coverts innermost and drear
Warbling for very joy mellifluous sorrow
To me new born delights!
"Now let me borrow,
For moments few, a temperament as stern
As Pluto's sceptre, that my words not burn
These uttering lips, while I in calm speech tell
How specious heaven was changed to real hell.
"One morn she left me sleeping: half awake
I sought for her smoo.h arms and lips, to slake
My greedy thirst with nectarous camel-draughts;
But she was gone. Whereat the barbed shafts
Of disappointment stuck in me so sore,
That out I ran and search'd the forest o'er.
Wandering about in pine and cedar gloo.
Damp awe assail'd me; for there 'gan to boo.
A sound of moan, an agony of sound,
Sepulchral from the distance all around.
Then came a conquering earth-thunder, and rumbled
That fierce complain to silence: while I stumbled
Down a precipitous path, as if impell'd.
I came to a dark valley.Groanings swell'd
Poisonous about my ears, and louder grew,
The nearer I approach'd a flame's gaunt blue,
That glar'd before me through a thorny brake.
This fire, like the eye of gordian snake,
Bewitch'd me towards; and I soo. was near
A sight too.fearful for the feel of fear:
In thicket hid I curs'd the haggard scene
The banquet of my arms, my arbour queen,
Seated upon an uptorn forest roo.;
And all around her shapes, wizard and brute,
Laughing, and wailing, groveling, serpenting,
Shewing too.h, tusk, and venom-bag, and sting!
O such deformities! Old Charon's self,
Should he give up awhile his penny pelf,
And take a dream 'mong rushes Stygian,
It could not be so phantasied. Fierce, wan,
And tyrannizing was the lady's loo.,
As over them a gnarled staff she shoo..
Oft-times upon the sudden she laugh'd out,
And from a basket emptied to the rout
Clusters of grapes, the which they raven'd quick
And roar'd for more; with many a hungry lick
About their shaggy jaws. Avenging, slow,
Anon she too. a branch of mistletoe,
And emptied on't a black dull-gurgling phial:
Groan'd one and all, as if some piercing trial
Was sharpening for their pitiable bones.
She lifted up the charm: appealing groans
From their poo. breasts went sueing to her ear
In vain; remorseless as an infant's bier
She whisk'd against their eyes the soo.y oil.
Whereat was heard a noise of painful toil,
Increasing gradual to a tempest rage,
Shrieks, yells, and groans of torture-pilgrimage;
Until their grieved bodies 'gan to bloat
And puff from the tail's end to stifled throat:
Then was appalling silence: then a sight
More wildering than all that hoarse affright;
For the whole herd, as by a whirlwind writhen,
Went through the dismal air like one huge Python
Antagonizing Boreas,and so vanish'd.
Yet there was not a breath of wind: she banish'd
These phantoms with a nod. Lo! from the dark
Came waggish fauns, and nymphs, and satyrs stark,
With dancing and loud revelry,and went
Swifter than centaurs after rapine bent.
Sighing an elephant appear'd and bow'd
Before the fierce witch, speaking thus aloud
In human accent: "Potent goddess! chief
Of pains resistless! make my being brief,
Or let me from this heavy prison fly:
Or give me to the air, or let me die!
I sue not for my happy crown again;
I sue not for my phalanx on the plain;
I sue not for my lone, my widow'd wife;
I sue not for my ruddy drops of life,
My children fair, my lovely girls and boys!
I will forget them; I will pass these joys;
Ask nought so heavenward, so too.oo.high:
Only I pray, as fairest boo., to die,
Or be deliver'd from this cumbrous flesh,
From this gross, detestable, filthy mesh,
And merely given to the cold bleak air.
Have mercy, Goddess! Circe, feel my prayer!"
That curst magician's name fell icy numb
Upon my wild conjecturing: truth had come
Naked and sabre-like against my heart.
I saw a fury whetting a death-dart;
And my slain spirit, overwrought with fright,
Fainted away in that dark lair of night.
Think, my deliverer, how desolate
My waking must have been! disgust, and hate,
And terrors manifold divided me
A spoil amongst them. I prepar'd to flee
Into the dungeon core of that wild woo.:
I fled three dayswhen lo! before me stoo.
Glaring the angry witch. O Dis, even now,
A clammy dew is beading on my brow,
At mere remembering her pale laugh, and curse.
"Ha! ha! Sir Dainty! there must be a nurse
Made of rose leaves and thistledown, express,
To cradle thee my sweet, and lull thee: yes,
I am too.flinty-hard for thy nice touch:
My tenderest squeeze is but a giant's clutch.
So, fairy-thing, it shall have lullabies
Unheard of yet; and it shall still its cries
Upon some breast more lily-feminine.
Oh, noit shall not pine, and pine, and pine
More than one pretty, trifling thousand years;
And then 'twere pity, but fate's gentle shears
Cut short its immortality. Sea-flirt!
Young dove of the waters! truly I'll not hurt
One hair of thine: see how I weep and sigh,
That our heart-broken parting is so nigh.
And must we part? Ah, yes, it must be so.
Yet ere thou leavest me in utter woe,
Let me sob over thee my last adieus,
And speak a blessing: Mark me! thou hast thews
Immortal, for thou art of heavenly race:
But such a love is mine, that here I chase
Eternally away from thee all bloo.
Of youth, and destine thee towards a tomb.
Hence shalt thou quickly to the watery vast;
And there, ere many days be overpast,
Disabled age shall seize thee; and even then
Thou shalt not go the way of aged men;
But live and wither, cripple and still breathe
Ten hundred years: which gone, I then bequeath
Thy fragile bones to unknown burial.
Adieu, sweet love, adieu!"As shot stars fall,
She fled ere I could groan for mercy. Stung
And poisoned was my spirit: despair sung
A war-song of defiance 'gainst all hell.
A hand was at my shoulder to compel
My sullen steps; another 'fore my eyes
Moved on with pointed finger. In this guise
Enforced, at the last by ocean's foam
I found me; by my fresh, my native home.
Its tempering coo.ness, to my life akin,
Came salutary as I waded in;
And, with a blind voluptuous rage, I gave
Battle to the swollen billow-ridge, and drave
Large froth before me, while there yet remain'd
Hale strength, nor from my bones all marrow drain'd.
"Young lover, I must weepsuch hellish spite
With dry cheek who can tell? While thus my might
Proving upon this element, dismay'd,
Upon a dead thing's face my hand I laid;
I loo.'d'twas Scylla! Cursed, cursed Circe!
O vulture-witch, hast never heard of mercy?
Could not thy harshest vengeance be content,
But thou must nip this tender innocent
Because I lov'd her?Cold, O cold indeed
Were her fair limbs, and like a common weed
The sea-swell too. her hair. Dead as she was
I clung about her waist, nor ceas'd to pass
Fleet as an arrow through unfathom'd brine,
Until there shone a fabric crystalline,
Ribb'd and inlaid with coral, pebble, and pearl.
Headlong I darted; at one eager swirl
Gain'd its bright portal, enter'd, and behold!
'Twas vast, and desolate, and icy-cold;
And all aroundBut wherefore this to thee
Who in few minutes more thyself shalt see?
I left poo. Scylla in a niche and fled.
My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread
Met palsy half way: soo. these limbs became
Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.
"Now let me pass a cruel, cruel space,
Without one hope, without one faintest trace
Of mitigation, or redeeming bubble
Of colour'd phantasy; for I fear 'twould trouble
Thy brain to loss of reason: and next tell
How a restoring chance came down to quell
One half of the witch in me. On a day,
Sitting upon a rock above the spray,
I saw grow up from the horizon's brink
A gallant vessel: soo. she seem'd to sink
Away from me again, as though her course
Had been resum'd in spite of hindering force
So vanish'd: and not long, before arose
Dark clouds, and muttering of winds morose.
Old Eolus would stifle his mad spleen,
But could not: therefore all the billows green
Toss'd up the silver spume against the clouds.
The tempest came: I saw that vessel's shrouds
In perilous bustle; while upon the deck
Stoo. trembling creatures. I beheld the wreck;
The final gulphing; the poo. struggling souls:
I heard their cries amid loud thunder-rolls.
O they had all been sav'd but crazed eld
Annull'd my vigorous cravings: and thus quell'd
And curb'd, think on't, O Latmian! did I sit
Writhing with pity, and a cursing fit
Against that hell-born Circe. The crew had gone,
By one and one, to pale oblivion;
And I was gazing on the surges prone,
With many a scalding tear and many a groan,
When at my feet emerg'd an old man's hand,
Grasping this scroll, and this same slender wand.
I knelt with painreached out my handhad grasp'd
These treasurestouch'd the knucklesthey unclasp'd
I caught a finger: but the downward weight
O'erpowered meit sank. Then 'gan abate
The storm, and through chill aguish gloo. outburst
The comfortable sun. I was athirst
To search the boo., and in the warming air
Parted its dripping leaves with eager care.
Strange matters did it treat of, and drew on
My soul page after page, till well-nigh won
Into forgetfulness; when, stupefied,
I read these words, and read again, and tried
My eyes against the heavens, and read again.
O what a load of misery and pain
Each Atlas-line bore off!a shine of hope
Came gold around me, cheering me to cope
Strenuous with hellish tyranny. Attend!
For thou hast brought their promise to an end.
"In the wide sea there lives a forlorn wretch,
Doo.'d with enfeebled carcase to outstretch
His loath'd existence through ten centuries,
And then to die alone. Who can devise
A total opposition? No one. So
One million times ocean must ebb and flow,
And he oppressed. Yet he shall not die,
These things accomplish'd:If he utterly
Scans all the depths of magic, and expounds
The meanings of all motions, shapes, and sounds;
If he explores all forms and substances
Straight homeward to their symbol-essences;
He shall not die. Moreover, and in chief,
He must pursue this task of joy and grief
Most piously;all lovers tempest-tost,
And in the savage overwhelming lost,
He shall deposit side by side, until
Time's creeping shall the dreary space fulfil:
Which done, and all these labours ripened,
A youth, by heavenly power lov'd and led,
Shall stand before him; whom he shall direct
How to consummate all. The youth elect
Must do the thing, or both will be destroy'd."
"Then," cried the young Endymion, overjoy'd,
"We are twin brothers in this destiny!
Say, I intreat thee, what achievement high
Is, in this restless world, for me reserv'd.
What! if from thee my wandering feet had swerv'd,
Had we both perish'd?""Loo.!" the sage replied,
"Dost thou not mark a gleaming through the tide,
Of divers brilliances? 'tis the edifice
I told thee of, where lovely Scylla lies;
And where I have enshrined piously
All lovers, whom fell storms have doo.'d to die
Throughout my bondage." Thus discoursing, on
They went till unobscur'd the porches shone;
Which hurryingly they gain'd, and enter'd straight.
Sure never since king Neptune held his state
Was seen such wonder underneath the stars.
Turn to some level plain where haughty Mars
Has legion'd all his battle; and behold
How every soldier, with firm foo., doth hold
His even breast: see, many steeled squares,
And rigid ranks of ironwhence who dares
One step? Imagine further, line by line,
These warrior thousands on the field supine:
So in that crystal place, in silent rows,
Poo. lovers lay at rest from joys and woes.
The stranger from the mountains, breathless, trac'd
Such thousands of shut eyes in order plac'd;
Such ranges of white feet, and patient lips
All ruddy,for here death no blossom nips.
He mark'd their brows and foreheads; saw their hair
Put sleekly on one side with nicest care;
And each one's gentle wrists, with reverence,
Put cross-wise to its heart.
"Let us commence,
Whisper'd the guide, stuttering with joy, even now."
He spake, and, trembling like an aspen-bough,
Began to tear his scroll in pieces small,
Uttering the while some mumblings funeral.
He tore it into pieces small as snow
That drifts unfeather'd when bleak northerns blow;
And having done it, too. his dark blue cloak
And bound it round Endymion: then struck
His wand against the empty air times nine.
"What more there is to do, young man, is thine:
But first a little patience; first undo
This tangled thread, and wind it to a clue.
Ah, gentle! 'tis as weak as spider's skein;
And shouldst thou break itWhat, is it done so clean?
A power overshadows thee! Oh, brave!
The spite of hell is tumbling to its grave.
Here is a shell; 'tis pearly blank to me,
Nor mark'd with any sign or charactery
Canst thou read aught? O read for pity's sake!
Olympus! we are safe! Now, Carian, break
This wand against yon lyre on the pedestal."
'Twas done: and straight with sudden swell and fall
Sweet music breath'd her soul away, and sigh'd
A lullaby to silence."Youth! now strew
These minced leaves on me, and passing through
Those files of dead, scatter the same around,
And thou wilt see the issue."'Mid the sound
Of flutes and viols, ravishing his heart,
Endymion from Glaucus stoo. apart,
And scatter'd in his face some fragments light.
How lightning-swift the change! a youthful wight
Smiling beneath a coral diadem,
Out-sparkling sudden like an upturn'd gem,
Appear'd, and, stepping to a beauteous corse,
Kneel'd down beside it, and with tenderest force
Press'd its cold hand, and weptand Scylla sigh'd!
Endymion, with quick hand, the charm applied
The nymph arose: he left them to their joy,
And onward went upon his high employ,
Showering those powerful fragments on the dead.
And, as he pass'd, each lifted up its head,
As doth a flower at Apollo's touch.
Death felt it to his inwards; 'twas too.much:
Death fell a weeping in his charnel-house.
The Latmian persever'd along, and thus
All were re-animated. There arose
A noise of harmony, pulses and throes
Of gladness in the airwhile many, who
Had died in mutual arms devout and true,
Sprang to each other madly; and the rest
Felt a high certainty of being blest.
They gaz'd upon Endymion. Enchantment
Grew drunken, and would have its head and bent.
Delicious symphonies, like airy flowers,
Budded, and swell'd, and, full-blown, shed full showers
Of light, soft, unseen leaves of sounds divine.
The two deliverers tasted a pure wine
Of happiness, from fairy-press oo.'d out.
Speechless they eyed each other, and about
The fair assembly wander'd to and fro,
Distracted with the richest overflow
Of joy that ever pour'd from heaven.
"Away!"
Shouted the new-born god; "Follow, and pay
Our piety to Neptunus supreme!"
Then Scylla, blushing sweetly from her dream,
They led on first, bent to her meek surprise,
Through portal columns of a giant size,
Into the vaulted, boundless emerald.
Joyous all follow'd, as the leader call'd,
Down marble steps; pouring as easily
As hour-glass sandand fast, as you might see
Swallows obeying the south summer's call,
Or swans upon a gentle waterfall.
Thus went that beautiful multitude, nor far,
Ere from among some rocks of glittering spar,
Just within ken, they saw descending thick
Another multitude. Whereat more quick
Moved either host. On a wide sand they met,
And of those numbers every eye was wet;
For each their old love found. A murmuring rose,
Like what was never heard in all the throes
Of wind and waters: 'tis past human wit
To tell; 'tis dizziness to think of it.
This mighty consummation made, the host
Mov'd on for many a league; and gain'd, and lost
Huge sea-marks; vanward swelling in array,
And from the rear diminishing away,
Till a faint dawn surpris'd them. Glaucus cried,
"Behold! behold, the palace of his pride!
God Neptune's palaces!" With noise increas'd,
They shoulder'd on towards that brightening east.
At every onward step proud domes arose
In prospect,diamond gleams, and golden glows
Of amber 'gainst their faces levelling.
Joyous, and many as the leaves in spring,
Still onward; still the splendour gradual swell'd.
Rich opal domes were seen, on high upheld
By jasper pillars, letting through their shafts
A blush of coral. Copious wonder-draughts
Each gazer drank; and deeper drank more near:
For what poo. mortals fragment up, as mere
As marble was there lavish, to the vast
Of one fair palace, that far far surpass'd,
Even for common bulk, those olden three,
Memphis, and Babylon, and Nineveh.
As large, as bright, as colour'd as the bow
Of Iris, when unfading it doth shew
Beyond a silvery shower, was the arch
Through which this Paphian army too. its march,
Into the outer courts of Neptune's state:
Whence could be seen, direct, a golden gate,
To which the leaders sped; but not half raught
Ere it burst open swift as fairy thought,
And made those dazzled thousands veil their eyes
Like callow eagles at the first sunrise.
Soo. with an eagle nativeness their gaze
Ripe from hue-golden swoo.s too. all the blaze,
And then, behold! large Neptune on his throne
Of emerald deep: yet not exalt alone;
At his right hand stoo. winged Love, and on
His left sat smiling Beauty's paragon.
Far as the mariner on highest mast
Can see all round upon the calmed vast,
So wide was Neptune's hall: and as the blue
Doth vault the waters, so the waters drew
Their doming curtains, high, magnificent,
Aw'd from the throne aloo.;and when storm-rent
Disclos'd the thunder-gloo.ings in Jove's air;
But soo.h'd as now, flash'd sudden everywhere,
Noiseless, sub-marine cloudlets, glittering
Death to a human eye: for there did spring
From natural west, and east, and south, and north,
A light as of four sunsets, blazing forth
A gold-green zenith 'bove the Sea-God's head.
Of lucid depth the floo., and far outspread
As breezeless lake, on which the slim canoe
Of feather'd Indian darts about, as through
The delicatest air: air verily,
But for the portraiture of clouds and sky:
This palace floo. breath-air,but for the amaze
Of deep-seen wonders motionless,and blaze
Of the dome pomp, reflected in extremes,
Globing a golden sphere.
They stoo. in dreams
Till Triton blew his horn. The palace rang;
The Nereids danc'd; the Syrens faintly sang;
And the great Sea-King bow'd his dripping head.
Then Love too. wing, and from his pinions shed
On all the multitude a nectarous dew.
The oo.e-born Goddess beckoned and drew
Fair Scylla and her guides to conference;
And when they reach'd the throned eminence
She kist the sea-nymph's cheek,who sat her down
A toying with the doves. Then,"Mighty crown
And sceptre of this kingdom!" Venus said,
"Thy vows were on a time to Nais paid:
Behold!"Two copious tear-drops instant fell
From the God's large eyes; he smil'd delectable,
And over Glaucus held his blessing hands.
"Endymion! Ah! still wandering in the bands
Of love? Now this is cruel. Since the hour
I met thee in earth's bosom, all my power
Have I put forth to serve thee. What, not yet
Escap'd from dull mortality's harsh net?
A little patience, youth! 'twill not be long,
Or I am skilless quite: an idle tongue,
A humid eye, and steps luxurious,
Where these are new and strange, are ominous.
Aye, I have seen these signs in one of heaven,
When others were all blind; and were I given
To utter secrets, haply I might say
Some pleasant words:but Love will have his day.
So wait awhile expectant. Pr'ythee soo.,
Even in the passing of thine honey-moo.,
Visit my Cytherea: thou wilt find
Cupid well-natured, my Adonis kind;
And pray persuade with theeAh, I have done,
All blisses be upon thee, my sweet son!"
Thus the fair goddess: while Endymion
Knelt to receive those accents halcyon.
Meantime a glorious revelry began
Before the Water-Monarch. Nectar ran
In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd;
And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd
New growth about each shell and pendent lyre;
The which, in disentangling for their fire,
Pull'd down fresh foliage and coverture
For dainty toying. Cupid, empire-sure,
Flutter'd and laugh'd, and oft-times through the throng
Made a delighted way. Then dance, and song,
And garlanding grew wild; and pleasure reign'd.
In harmless tendril they each other chain'd,
And strove who should be smother'd deepest in
Fresh crush of leaves.
O 'tis a very sin
For one so weak to venture his poo. verse
In such a place as this. O do not curse,
High Muses! let him hurry to the ending.
All suddenly were silent. A soft blending
Of dulcet instruments came charmingly;
And then a hymn.
"KING of the stormy sea!
Brother of Jove, and co-inheritor
Of elements! Eternally before
Thee the waves awful bow. Fast, stubborn rock,
At thy fear'd trident shrinking, doth unlock
Its deep foundations, hissing into foam.
All mountain-rivers lost, in the wide home
Of thy capacious bosom ever flow.
Thou frownest, and old Eolus thy foe
Skulks to his cavern, 'mid the gruff complaint
Of all his rebel tempests. Dark clouds faint
When, from thy diadem, a silver gleam
Slants over blue dominion. Thy bright team
Gulphs in the morning light, and scuds along
To bring thee nearer to that golden song
Apollo singeth, while his chariot
Waits at the doo.s of heaven. Thou art not
For scenes like this: an empire stern hast thou;
And it hath furrow'd that large front: yet now,
As newly come of heaven, dost thou sit
To blend and interknit
Subdued majesty with this glad time.
O shell-borne King sublime!
We lay our hearts before thee evermore
We sing, and we adore!
"Breathe softly, flutes;
Be tender of your strings, ye soo.hing lutes;
Nor be the trumpet heard! O vain, O vain;
Not flowers budding in an April rain,
Nor breath of sleeping dove, nor river's flow,
No, nor the Eolian twang of Love's own bow,
Can mingle music fit for the soft ear
Of goddess Cytherea!
Yet deign, white Queen of Beauty, thy fair eyes
On our souls' sacrifice.
"Bright-winged Child!
Who has another care when thou hast smil'd?
Unfortunates on earth, we see at last
All death-shadows, and gloo.s that overcast
Our spirits, fann'd away by thy light pinions.
O sweetest essence! sweetest of all minions!
God of warm pulses, and dishevell'd hair,
And panting bosoms bare!
Dear unseen light in darkness! eclipser
Of light in light! delicious poisoner!
Thy venom'd goblet will we quaff until
We fillwe fill!
And by thy Mother's lips"
Was heard no more
For clamour, when the golden palace doo.
Opened again, and from without, in shone
A new magnificence. On oo.y throne
Smoo.h-moving came Oceanus the old,
To take a latest glimpse at his sheep-fold,
Before he went into his quiet cave
To muse for everThen a lucid wave,
Scoo.'d from its trembling sisters of mid-sea,
Afloat, and pillowing up the majesty
Of Doris, and the Egean seer, her spouse
Next, on a dolphin, clad in laurel boughs,
Theban Amphion leaning on his lute:
His fingers went across itAll were mute
To gaze on Amphitrite, queen of pearls,
And Thetis pearly too.
The palace whirls
Around giddy Endymion; seeing he
Was there far strayed from mortality.
He could not bear itshut his eyes in vain;
Imagination gave a dizzier pain.
"O I shall die! sweet Venus, be my stay!
Where is my lovely mistress? Well-away!
I dieI hear her voiceI feel my wing"
At Neptune's feet he sank. A sudden ring
Of Nereids were about him, in kind strife
To usher back his spirit into life:
But still he slept. At last they interwove
Their cradling arms, and purpos'd to convey
Towards a crystal bower far away.
Lo! while slow carried through the pitying crowd,
To his inward senses these words spake aloud;
Written in star-light on the dark above:
Dearest Endymion! my entire love!
How have I dwelt in fear of fate: 'tis done
Immortal bliss for me too.hast thou won.
Arise then! for the hen-dove shall not hatch
Her ready eggs, before I'll kissing snatch
Thee into endless heaven. Awake! awake!
The youth at once arose: a placid lake
Came quiet to his eyes; and forest green,
Coo.er than all the wonders he had seen,
Lull'd with its simple song his fluttering breast.
How happy once again in grassy nest!
(line 1): Woo.house notes that "Keats said, with much simplicity, 'It will be easily seen what I think of the present ministers, by the beginning of the third Boo..'"
(line 407): Whether the reference is to the Pillars of Hercules, the confluence of the Mediterranean and Atlantic, or to the scene of the Death of Hercules, is not very clear; but probably "wound up his story" refers rather to his last labour than to his death on Mount ta.
(lines 863-65): This simile must surely be a reminiscence of Perrin's Fables Amusantes or some similar boo. used in Mr. Clarke's Schoo.. I remember the Fable of the old eagle and her young stoo. first in the boo. I used at schoo.. The draft gives line 860 thus -- 'But soo. like eagles natively their gaze...'
At the end of this Boo. Keats wrote in the draft, "Oxf: Sept. 26."
~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895. by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
~ John Keats, Endymion - Boo. III
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836:O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm!
All records, saving thine, come coo., and calm,
And shadowy, through the mist of passed years:
For others, goo. or bad, hatred and tears
Have become indolent; but touching thine,
One sigh doth echo, one poo. sob doth pine,
One kiss brings honey-dew from buried days.
The woes of Troy, towers smothering o'er their blaze,
Stiff-holden shields, far-piercing spears, keen blades,
Struggling, and bloo., and shrieks--all dimly fades
Into some backward corner of the brain;
Yet, in our very souls, we feel amain
The close of Troilus and Cressid sweet.
Hence, pageant history! hence, gilded cheat!
Swart planet in the universe of deeds!
Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds
Along the pebbled shore of memory!
Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be
Upon thy vaporous bosom, magnified
To goo.ly vessels; many a sail of pride,
And golden keel'd, is left unlaunch'd and dry.
But wherefore this? What care, though owl did fly
About the great Athenian admiral's mast?
What care, though striding Alexander past
The Indus with his Macedonian numbers?
Though old Ulysses tortured from his slumbers
The glutted Cyclops, what care?--Juliet leaning
Amid her window-flowers,--sighing,weaning
Tenderly her fancy from its maiden snow,
Doth more avail than these: the silver flow
Of Hero's tears, the swoo. of Imogen,
Fair Pastorella in the bandit's den,
Are things to broo. on with more ardency
Than the death-day of empires. Fearfully
Must such conviction come upon his head,
Who, thus far, discontent, has dared to tread,
Without one muse's smile, or kind behest,
The path of love and poesy. But rest,
In chaffing restlessness, is yet more drear
Than to be crush'd, in striving to uprear
Love's standard on the battlements of song.
So once more days and nights aid me along,
Like legion'd soldiers.
Brain-sick shepherd-prince,
What promise hast thou faithful guarded since
The day of sacrifice? Or, have new sorrows
Come with the constant dawn upon thy morrows?
Alas! 'tis his old grief. For many days,
Has he been wandering in uncertain ways:
Through wilderness, and woo.s of mossed oaks;
Counting his woe-worn minutes, by the strokes
Of the lone woo.cutter; and listening still,
Hour after hour, to each lush-leav'd rill.
Now he is sitting by a shady spring,
And elbow-deep with feverous fingering
Stems the upbursting cold: a wild rose tree
Pavilions him in bloo., and he doth see
A bud which snares his fancy: lo! but now
He plucks it, dips its stalk in the water: how!
It swells, it buds, it flowers beneath his sight;
And, in the middle, there is softly pight
A golden butterfly; upon whose wings
There must be surely character'd strange things,
For with wide eye he wonders, and smiles oft.
Lightly this little herald flew aloft,
Follow'd by glad Endymion's clasped hands:
Onward it flies. From languor's sullen bands
His limbs are loo.'d, and eager, on he hies
Dazzled to trace it in the sunny skies.
It seem'd he flew, the way so easy was;
And like a new-born spirit did he pass
Through the green evening quiet in the sun,
O'er many a heath, through many a woo.land dun,
Through buried paths, where sleepy twilight dreams
The summer time away. One track unseams
A woo.ed cleft, and, far away, the blue
Of ocean fades upon him; then, anew,
He sinks adown a solitary glen,
Where there was never sound of mortal men,
Saving, perhaps, some snow-light cadences
Melting to silence, when upon the breeze
Some holy bark let forth an anthem sweet,
To cheer itself to Delphi. Still his feet
Went swift beneath the merry-winged guide,
Until it reached a splashing fountain's side
That, near a cavern's mouth, for ever pour'd
Unto the temperate air: then high it soar'd,
And, downward, suddenly began to dip,
As if, athirst with so much toil, 'twould sip
The crystal spout-head: so it did, with touch
Most delicate, as though afraid to smutch
Even with mealy gold the waters clear.
But, at that very touch, to disappear
So fairy-quick, was strange! Bewildered,
Endymion sought around, and shoo. each bed
Of covert flowers in vain; and then he flung
Himself along the grass. What gentle tongue,
What whisperer disturb'd his gloo.y rest?
It was a nymph uprisen to the breast
In the fountain's pebbly margin, and she stoo.
'Mong lilies, like the youngest of the broo..
To him her dripping hand she softly kist,
And anxiously began to plait and twist
Her ringlets round her fingers, saying: "Youth!
Too.long, alas, hast thou starv'd on the ruth,
The bitterness of love: too.long indeed,
Seeing thou art so gentle. Could I weed
Thy soul of care, by heavens, I would offer
All the bright riches of my crystal coffer
To Amphitrite; all my clear-eyed fish,
Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish,
Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze;
Yea, or my veined pebble-floo., that draws
A virgin light to the deep; my grotto-sands
Tawny and gold, oo.'d slowly from far lands
By my diligent springs; my level lilies, shells,
My charming rod, my potent river spells;
Yes, every thing, even to the pearly cup
Meander gave me,for I bubbled up
To fainting creatures in a desert wild.
But woe is me, I am but as a child
To gladden thee; and all I dare to say,
Is, that I pity thee; that on this day
I've been thy guide; that thou must wander far
In other regions, past the scanty bar
To mortal steps, before thou cans't be ta'en
From every wasting sigh, from every pain,
Into the gentle bosom of thy love.
Why it is thus, one knows in heaven above:
But, a poo. Naiad, I guess not. Farewel!
I have a ditty for my hollow cell."
Hereat, she vanished from Endymion's gaze,
Who broo.ed o'er the water in amaze:
The dashing fount pour'd on, and where its poo.
Lay, half asleep, in grass and rushes coo.,
Quick waterflies and gnats were sporting still,
And fish were dimpling, as if goo. nor ill
Had fallen out that hour. The wanderer,
Holding his forehead, to keep off the burr
Of smothering fancies, patiently sat down;
And, while beneath the evening's sleepy frown
Glow-worms began to trim their starry lamps,
Thus breath'd he to himself: "Whoso encamps
To take a fancied city of delight,
O what a wretch is he! and when 'tis his,
After long toil and travelling, to miss
The kernel of his hopes, how more than vile:
Yet, for him there's refreshment even in toil;
Another city doth he set about,
Free from the smallest pebble-bead of doubt
That he will seize on trickling honey-combs:
Alas, he finds them dry; and then he foams,
And onward to another city speeds.
But this is human life: the war, the deeds,
The disappointment, the anxiety,
Imagination's struggles, far and nigh,
All human; bearing in themselves this goo.,
That they are sill the air, the subtle foo.,
To make us feel existence, and to shew
How quiet death is. Where soil is men grow,
Whether to weeds or flowers; but for me,
There is no depth to strike in: I can see
Nought earthly worth my compassing; so stand
Upon a misty, jutting head of land
Alone? No, no; and by the Orphean lute,
When mad Eurydice is listening to 't;
I'd rather stand upon this misty peak,
With not a thing to sigh for, or to seek,
But the soft shadow of my thrice-seen love,
Than beI care not what. O meekest dove
Of heaven! O Cynthia, ten-times bright and fair!
From thy blue throne, now filling all the air,
Glance but one little beam of temper'd light
Into my bosom, that the dreadful might
And tyranny of love be somewhat scar'd!
Yet do not so, sweet queen; one torment spar'd,
Would give a pang to jealous misery,
Worse than the torment's self: but rather tie
Large wings upon my shoulders, and point out
My love's far dwelling. Though the playful rout
Of Cupids shun thee, too.divine art thou,
Too.keen in beauty, for thy silver prow
Not to have dipp'd in love's most gentle stream.
O be propitious, nor severely deem
My madness impious; for, by all the stars
That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars
That kept my spirit in are burstthat I
Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky!
How beautiful thou art! The world how deep!
How tremulous-dazzlingly the wheels sweep
Around their axle! Then these gleaming reins,
How lithe! When this thy chariot attains
Is airy goal, haply some bower veils
Those twilight eyes? Those eyes!my spirit fails
Dear goddess, help! or the wide-gaping air
Will gulph mehelp!"At this with madden'd stare,
And lifted hands, and trembling lips he stoo.;
Like old Deucalion mountain'd o'er the floo.,
Or blind Orion hungry for the morn.
And, but from the deep cavern there was borne
A voice, he had been froze to senseless stone;
Nor sigh of his, nor plaint, nor passion'd moan
Had more been heard. Thus swell'd it forth: "Descend,
Young mountaineer! descend where alleys bend
Into the sparry hollows of the world!
Oft hast thou seen bolts of the thunder hurl'd
As from thy threshold, day by day hast been
A little lower than the chilly sheen
Of icy pinnacles, and dipp'dst thine arms
Into the deadening ether that still charms
Their marble being: now, as deep profound
As those are high, descend! He ne'er is crown'd
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead: so through the hollow,
The silent mysteries of earth, descend!"
He heard but the last words, nor could contend
One moment in reflection: for he fled
Into the fearful deep, to hide his head
From the clear moo., the trees, and coming madness.
'Twas far too.strange, and wonderful for sadness;
Sharpening, by degrees, his appetite
To dive into the deepest. Dark, nor light,
The region; nor bright, nor sombre wholly,
But mingled up; a gleaming melancholy;
A dusky empire and its diadems;
One faint eternal eventide of gems.
Aye, millions sparkled on a vein of gold,
Along whose track the prince quick foo.steps told,
With all its lines abrupt and angular:
Out-shoo.ing sometimes, like a meteor-star,
Through a vast antre; then the metal woo.,
Like Vulcan's rainbow, with some monstrous roo.
Curves hugely: now, far in the deep abyss,
It seems an angry lightning, and doth hiss
Fancy into belief: anon it leads
Through winding passages, where sameness breeds
Vexing conceptions of some sudden change;
Whether to silver grots, or giant range
Of sapphire columns, or fantastic bridge
Athwart a floo. of crystal. On a ridge
Now fareth he, that o'er the vast beneath
Towers like an ocean-cliff, and whence he seeth
A hundred waterfalls, whose voices come
But as the murmuring surge. Chilly and numb
His bosom grew, when first he, far away,
Descried an orbed diamond, set to fray
Old darkness from his throne: 'twas like the sun
Uprisen o'er chaos: and with such a stun
Came the amazement, that, absorb'd in it,
He saw not fiercer wonderspast the wit
Of any spirit to tell, but one of those
Who, when this planet's sphering time doth close,
Will be its high remembrancers: who they?
The mighty ones who have made eternal day
For Greece and England. While astonishment
With deep-drawn sighs was quieting, he went
Into a marble gallery, passing through
A mimic temple, so complete and true
In sacred custom, that he well nigh fear'd
To search it inwards, whence far off appear'd,
Through a long pillar'd vista, a fair shrine,
And, just beyond, on light tiptoe divine,
A quiver'd Dian. Stepping awfully,
The youth approach'd; oft turning his veil'd eye
Down sidelong aisles, and into niches old.
And when, more near against the marble cold
He had touch'd his forehead, he began to thread
All courts and passages, where silence dead
Rous'd by his whispering foo.steps murmured faint:
And long he travers'd to and fro, to acquaint
Himself with every mystery, and awe;
Till, weary, he sat down before the maw
Of a wide outlet, fathomless and dim
To wild uncertainty and shadows grim.
There, when new wonders ceas'd to float before,
And thoughts of self came on, how crude and sore
The journey homeward to habitual self!
A mad-pursuing of the fog-born elf,
Whose flitting lantern, through rude nettle-briar,
Cheats us into a swamp, into a fire,
Into the bosom of a hated thing.
What misery most drowningly doth sing
In lone Endymion's ear, now he has caught
The goal of consciousness? Ah, 'tis the thought,
The deadly feel of solitude: for lo!
He cannot see the heavens, nor the flow
Of rivers, nor hill-flowers running wild
In pink and purple chequer, nor, up-pil'd,
The cloudy rack slow journeying in the west,
Like herded elephants; nor felt, nor prest
Coo. grass, nor tasted the fresh slumberous air;
But far from such companionship to wear
An unknown time, surcharg'd with grief, away,
Was now his lot. And must he patient stay,
Tracing fantastic figures with his spear?
"No!" exclaimed he, "why should I tarry here?"
No! loudly echoed times innumerable.
At which he straightway started, and 'gan tell
His paces back into the temple's chief;
Warming and glowing strong in the belief
Of help from Dian: so that when again
He caught her airy form, thus did he plain,
Moving more near the while. "O Haunter chaste
Of river sides, and woo.s, and heathy waste,
Where with thy silver bow and arrows keen
Art thou now forested? O woo.land Queen,
What smoo.hest air thy smoo.her forehead woo.?
Where dost thou listen to the wide halloo.
Of thy disparted nymphs? Through what dark tree
Glimmers thy crescent? Wheresoe'er it be,
'Tis in the breath of heaven: thou dost taste
Freedom as none can taste it, nor dost waste
Thy loveliness in dismal elements;
But, finding in our green earth sweet contents,
There livest blissfully. Ah, if to thee
It feels Elysian, how rich to me,
An exil'd mortal, sounds its pleasant name!
Within my breast there lives a choking flame
O let me coo. it among the zephyr-boughs!
A homeward fever parches up my tongue
O let me slake it at the running springs!
Upon my ear a noisy nothing rings
O let me once more hear the linnet's note!
Before mine eyes thick films and shadows float
O let me 'noint them with the heaven's light!
Dost thou now lave thy feet and ankles white?
O think how sweet to me the freshening sluice!
Dost thou now please thy thirst with berry-juice?
O think how this dry palate would rejoice!
If in soft slumber thou dost hear my voice,
Oh think how I should love a bed of flowers!
Young goddess! let me see my native bowers!
Deliver me from this rapacious deep!"
Thus ending loudly, as he would o'erleap
His destiny, alert he stoo.: but when
Obstinate silence came heavily again,
Feeling about for its old couch of space
And airy cradle, lowly bow'd his face
Desponding, o'er the marble floo.'s cold thrill.
But 'twas not long; for, sweeter than the rill
To its old channel, or a swollen tide
To margin sallows, were the leaves he spied,
And flowers, and wreaths, and ready myrtle crowns
Up heaping through the slab: refreshment drowns
Itself, and strives its own delights to hide
Nor in one spot alone; the floral pride
In a long whispering birth enchanted grew
Before his foo.steps; as when heav'd anew
Old ocean rolls a lengthened wave to the shore,
Down whose green back the short-liv'd foam, all hoar,
Bursts gradual, with a wayward indolence.
Increasing still in heart, and pleasant sense,
Upon his fairy journey on he hastes;
So anxious for the end, he scarcely wastes
One moment with his hand among the sweets:
Onward he goeshe stopshis bosom beats
As plainly in his ear, as the faint charm
Of which the throbs were born. This still alarm,
This sleepy music, forc'd him walk tiptoe:
For it came more softly than the east could blow
Arion's magic to the Atlantic isles;
Or than the west, made jealous by the smiles
Of thron'd Apollo, could breathe back the lyre
To seas Ionian and Tyrian.
O did he ever live, that lonely man,
Who lov'dand music slew not? 'Tis the pest
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest;
That things of delicate and tenderest worth
Are swallow'd all, and made a seared dearth,
By one consuming flame: it doth immerse
And suffocate true blessings in a curse.
Half-happy, by comparison of bliss,
Is miserable. 'Twas even so with this
Dew-dropping melody, in the Carian's ear;
First heaven, then hell, and then forgotten clear,
Vanish'd in elemental passion.
And down some swart abysm he had gone,
Had not a heavenly guide benignant led
To where thick myrtle branches, 'gainst his head
Brushing, awakened: then the sounds again
Went noiseless as a passing noo.tide rain
Over a bower, where little space he stoo.;
For as the sunset peeps into a woo.
So saw he panting light, and towards it went
Through winding alleys; and lo, wonderment!
Upon soft verdure saw, one here, one there,
Cupids a slumbering on their pinions fair.
After a thousand mazes overgone,
At last, with sudden step, he came upon
A chamber, myrtle wall'd, embowered high,
Full of light, incense, tender minstrelsy,
And more of beautiful and strange beside:
For on a silken couch of rosy pride,
In midst of all, there lay a sleeping youth
Of fondest beauty; fonder, in fair soo.h,
Than sighs could fathom, or contentment reach:
And coverlids gold-tinted like the peach,
Or ripe October's faded marigolds,
Fell sleek about him in a thousand folds
Not hiding up an Apollonian curve
Of neck and shoulder, nor the tenting swerve
Of knee from knee, nor ankles pointing light;
But rather, giving them to the filled sight
Officiously. Sideway his face repos'd
On one white arm, and tenderly unclos'd,
By tenderest pressure, a faint damask mouth
To slumbery pout; just as the morning south
Disparts a dew-lipp'd rose. Above his head,
Four lily stalks did their white honours wed
To make a coronal; and round him grew
All tendrils green, of every bloo. and hue,
Together intertwin'd and trammel'd fresh:
The vine of glossy sprout; the ivy mesh,
Shading its Ethiop berries; and woo.bine,
Of velvet leaves and bugle-bloo.s divine;
Convolvulus in streaked vases flush;
The creeper, mellowing for an autumn blush;
And virgin's bower, trailing airily;
With others of the sisterhoo.. Hard by,
Stoo. serene Cupids watching silently.
One, kneeling to a lyre, touch'd the strings,
Muffling to death the pathos with his wings;
And, ever and anon, uprose to loo.
At the youth's slumber; while another too.
A willow-bough, distilling odorous dew,
And shoo. it on his hair; another flew
In through the woven roo., and fluttering-wise
Rain'd violets upon his sleeping eyes.
At these enchantments, and yet many more,
The breathless Latmian wonder'd o'er and o'er;
Until, impatient in embarrassment,
He forthright pass'd, and lightly treading went
To that same feather'd lyrist, who straightway,
Smiling, thus whisper'd: "Though from upper day
Thou art a wanderer, and thy presence here
Might seem unholy, be of happy cheer!
For 'tis the nicest touch of human honour,
When some ethereal and high-favouring donor
Presents immortal bowers to mortal sense;
As now 'tis done to thee, Endymion. Hence
Was I in no wise startled. So recline
Upon these living flowers. Here is wine,
Alive with sparklesnever, I aver,
Since Ariadne was a vintager,
So coo. a purple: taste these juicy pears,
Sent me by sad Vertumnus, when his fears
Were high about Pomona: here is cream,
Deepening to richness from a snowy gleam;
Sweeter than that nurse Amalthea skimm'd
For the boy Jupiter: and here, undimm'd
By any touch, a bunch of bloo.ing plums
Ready to melt between an infant's gums:
And here is manna pick'd from Syrian trees,
In starlight, by the three Hesperides.
Feast on, and meanwhile I will let thee know
Of all these things around us." He did so,
Still broo.ing o'er the cadence of his lyre;
And thus: "I need not any hearing tire
By telling how the sea-born goddess pin'd
For a mortal youth, and how she strove to bind
Him all in all unto her doting self.
Who would not be so prison'd? but, fond elf,
He was content to let her amorous plea
Faint through his careless arms; content to see
An unseiz'd heaven dying at his feet;
Content, O foo.! to make a cold retreat,
When on the pleasant grass such love, lovelorn,
Lay sorrowing; when every tear was born
Of diverse passion; when her lips and eyes
Were clos'd in sullen moisture, and quick sighs
Came vex'd and pettish through her nostrils small.
Hush! no exclaimyet, justly mightst thou call
Curses upon his head.I was half glad,
But my poo. mistress went distract and mad,
When the boar tusk'd him: so away she flew
To Jove's high throne, and by her plainings drew
Immortal tear-drops down the thunderer's beard;
Whereon, it was decreed he should be rear'd
Each summer time to life. Lo! this is he,
That same Adonis, safe in the privacy
Of this still region all his winter-sleep.
Aye, sleep; for when our love-sick queen did weep
Over his waned corse, the tremulous shower
Heal'd up the wound, and, with a balmy power,
Medicined death to a lengthened drowsiness:
The which she fills with visions, and doth dress
In all this quiet luxury; and hath set
Us young immortals, without any let,
To watch his slumber through. 'Tis well nigh pass'd,
Even to a moment's filling up, and fast
She scuds with summer breezes, to pant through
The first long kiss, warm firstling, to renew
Embower'd sports in Cytherea's isle.
Loo.! how those winged listeners all this while
Stand anxious: see! behold!"This clamant word
Broke through the careful silence; for they heard
A rustling noise of leaves, and out there flutter'd
Pigeons and doves: Adonis something mutter'd,
The while one hand, that erst upon his thigh
Lay dormant, mov'd convuls'd and gradually
Up to his forehead. Then there was a hum
Of sudden voices, echoing, "Come! come!
Arise! awake! Clear summer has forth walk'd
Unto the clover-sward, and she has talk'd
Full soo.hingly to every nested finch:
Rise, Cupids! or we'll give the blue-bell pinch
To your dimpled arms. Once more sweet life begin!"
At this, from every side they hurried in,
Rubbing their sleepy eyes with lazy wrists,
And doubling overhead their little fists
In backward yawns. But all were soo. alive:
For as delicious wine doth, sparkling, dive
In nectar'd clouds and curls through water fair,
So from the arbour roo. down swell'd an air
Odorous and enlivening; making all
To laugh, and play, and sing, and loudly call
For their sweet queen: when lo! the wreathed green
Disparted, and far upward could be seen
Blue heaven, and a silver car, air-borne,
Whose silent wheels, fresh wet from clouds of morn,
Spun off a drizzling dew,which falling chill
On soft Adonis' shoulders, made him still
Nestle and turn uneasily about.
Soo. were the white doves plain, with necks stretch'd out,
And silken traces lighten'd in descent;
And soo., returning from love's banishment,
Queen Venus leaning downward open arm'd:
Her shadow fell upon his breast, and charm'd
A tumult to his heart, and a new life
Into his eyes. Ah, miserable strife,
But for her comforting! unhappy sight,
But meeting her blue orbs! Who, who can write
Of these first minutes? The unchariest muse
To embracements warm as theirs makes coy excuse.
O it has ruffled every spirit there,
Saving love's self, who stands superb to share
The general gladness: awfully he stands;
A sovereign quell is in his waving hands;
No sight can bear the lightning of his bow;
His quiver is mysterious, none can know
What themselves think of it; from forth his eyes
There darts strange light of varied hues and dyes:
A scowl is sometimes on his brow, but who
Loo. full upon it feel anon the blue
Of his fair eyes run liquid through their souls.
Endymion feels it, and no more controls
The burning prayer within him; so, bent low,
He had begun a plaining of his woe.
But Venus, bending forward, said: "My child,
Favour this gentle youth; his days are wild
With lovehebut alas! too.well I see
Thou know'st the deepness of his misery.
Ah, smile not so, my son: I tell thee true,
That when through heavy hours I used to rue
The endless sleep of this new-born Adon',
This stranger ay I pitied. For upon
A dreary morning once I fled away
Into the breezy clouds, to weep and pray
For this my love: for vexing Mars had teaz'd
Me even to tears: thence, when a little eas'd,
Down-loo.ing, vacant, through a hazy woo.,
I saw this youth as he despairing stoo.:
Those same dark curls blown vagrant in the wind:
Those same full fringed lids a constant blind
Over his sullen eyes: I saw him throw
Himself on wither'd leaves, even as though
Death had come sudden; for no jot he mov'd,
Yet mutter'd wildly. I could hear he lov'd
Some fair immortal, and that his embrace
Had zoned her through the night. There is no trace
Of this in heaven: I have mark'd each cheek,
And find it is the vainest thing to seek;
And that of all things 'tis kept secretest.
Endymion! one day thou wilt be blest:
So still obey the guiding hand that fends
Thee safely through these wonders for sweet ends.
'Tis a concealment needful in extreme;
And if I guess'd not so, the sunny beam
Thou shouldst mount up to with me. Now adieu!
Here must we leave thee."At these words up flew
The impatient doves, up rose the floating car,
Up went the hum celestial. High afar
The Latmian saw them minish into nought;
And, when all were clear vanish'd, still he caught
A vivid lightning from that dreadful bow.
When all was darkened, with Etnean throe
The earth clos'dgave a solitary moan
And left him once again in twilight lone.
He did not rave, he did not stare aghast,
For all those visions were o'ergone, and past,
And he in loneliness: he felt assur'd
Of happy times, when all he had endur'd
Would seem a feather to the mighty prize.
So, with unusual gladness, on he hies
Through caves, and palaces of mottled ore,
Gold dome, and crystal wall, and turquois floo.,
Black polish'd porticos of awful shade,
And, at the last, a diamond balustrade,
Leading afar past wild magnificence,
Spiral through ruggedest loo.holes, and thence
Stretching across a void, then guiding o'er
Enormous chasms, where, all foam and roar,
Streams subterranean tease their granite beds;
Then heighten'd just above the silvery heads
Of a thousand fountains, so that he could dash
The waters with his spear; but at the splash,
Done heedlessly, those spouting columns rose
Sudden a poplar's height, and 'gan to enclose
His diamond path with fretwork, streaming round
Alive, and dazzling coo., and with a sound,
Haply, like dolphin tumults, when sweet shells
Welcome the float of Thetis. Long he dwells
On this delight; for, every minute's space,
The streams with changed magic interlace:
Sometimes like delicatest lattices,
Cover'd with crystal vines; then weeping trees,
Moving about as in a gentle wind,
Which, in a wink, to watery gauze refin'd,
Pour'd into shapes of curtain'd canopies,
Spangled, and rich with liquid broideries
Of flowers, peacocks, swans, and naiads fair.
Swifter than lightning went these wonders rare;
And then the water, into stubborn streams
Collecting, mimick'd the wrought oaken beams,
Pillars, and frieze, and high fantastic roo.,
Of those dusk places in times far aloo.
Cathedrals call'd. He bade a loth farewel
To these founts Protean, passing gulph, and dell,
And torrent, and ten thousand jutting shapes,
Half seen through deepest gloo., and griesly gapes,
Blackening on every side, and overhead
A vaulted dome like Heaven's, far bespread
With starlight gems: aye, all so huge and strange,
The solitary felt a hurried change
Working within him into something dreary,
Vex'd like a morning eagle, lost, and weary,
And purblind amid foggy, midnight wolds.
But he revives at once: for who beholds
New sudden things, nor casts his mental slough?
Forth from a rugged arch, in the dusk below,
Came mother Cybele! alonealone
In sombre chariot; dark foldings thrown
About her majesty, and front death-pale,
With turrets crown'd. Four maned lions hale
The sluggish wheels; solemn their too.hed maws,
Their surly eyes brow-hidden, heavy paws
Uplifted drowsily, and nervy tails
Cowering their tawny brushes. Silent sails
This shadowy queen athwart, and faints away
In another gloo.y arch.
Wherefore delay,
Young traveller, in such a mournful place?
Art thou wayworn, or canst not further trace
The diamond path? And does it indeed end
Abrupt in middle air? Yet earthward bend
Thy forehead, and to Jupiter cloud-borne
Call ardently! He was indeed wayworn;
Abrupt, in middle air, his way was lost;
To cloud-borne Jove he bowed, and there crost
Towards him a large eagle, 'twixt whose wings,
Without one impious word, himself he flings,
Committed to the darkness and the gloo.:
Down, down, uncertain to what pleasant doo.,
Swift as a fathoming plummet down he fell
Through unknown things; till exhaled asphodel,
And rose, with spicy fannings interbreath'd,
Came swelling forth where little caves were wreath'd
So thick with leaves and mosses, that they seem'd
Large honey-combs of green, and freshly teem'd
With airs delicious. In the greenest noo.
The eagle landed him, and farewel too..
It was a jasmine bower, all bestrown
With golden moss. His every sense had grown
Ethereal for pleasure; 'bove his head
Flew a delight half-graspable; his tread
Was Hesperan; to his capable ears
Silence was music from the holy spheres;
A dewy luxury was in his eyes;
The little flowers felt his pleasant sighs
And stirr'd them faintly. Verdant cave and cell
He wander'd through, oft wondering at such swell
Of sudden exaltation: but, "Alas!
Said he, "will all this gush of feeling pass
Away in solitude? And must they wane,
Like melodies upon a sandy plain,
Without an echo? Then shall I be left
So sad, so melancholy, so bereft!
Yet still I feel immortal! O my love,
My breath of life, where art thou? High above,
Dancing before the morning gates of heaven?
Or keeping watch among those starry seven,
Old Atlas' children? Art a maid of the waters,
One of shell-winding Triton's bright-hair'd daughters?
Or art, impossible! a nymph of Dian's,
Weaving a coronal of tender scions
For very idleness? Where'er thou art,
Methinks it now is at my will to start
Into thine arms; to scare Aurora's train,
And snatch thee from the morning; o'er the main
To scud like a wild bird, and take thee off
From thy sea-foamy cradle; or to doff
Thy shepherd vest, and woo.thee mid fresh leaves.
No, no, too.eagerly my soul deceives
Its powerless self: I know this cannot be.
O let me then by some sweet dreaming flee
To her entrancements: hither sleep awhile!
Hither most gentle sleep! and soo.hing foil
For some few hours the coming solitude."
Thus spake he, and that moment felt endued
With power to dream deliciously; so wound
Through a dim passage, searching till he found
The smoo.hest mossy bed and deepest, where
He threw himself, and just into the air
Stretching his indolent arms, he too., O bliss!
A naked waist: "Fair Cupid, whence is this?"
A well-known voice sigh'd, "Sweetest, here am I!"
At which soft ravishment, with doating cry
They trembled to each other.Helicon!
O fountain'd hill! Old Homer's Helicon!
That thou wouldst spout a little streamlet o'er
These sorry pages; then the verse would soar
And sing above this gentle pair, like lark
Over his nested young: but all is dark
Around thine aged top, and thy clear fount
Exhales in mists to heaven. Aye, the count
Of mighty Poets is made up; the scroll
Is folded by the Muses; the bright roll
Is in Apollo's hand: our dazed eyes
Have seen a new tinge in the western skies:
The world has done its duty. Yet, oh yet,
Although the sun of poesy is set,
These lovers did embrace, and we must weep
That there is no old power left to steep
A quill immortal in their joyous tears.
Long time in silence did their anxious fears
Question that thus it was; long time they lay
Fondling and kissing every doubt away;
Long time ere soft caressing sobs began
To mellow into words, and then there ran
Two bubbling springs of talk from their sweet lips.
"O known Unknown! from whom my being sips
Such darling essence, wherefore may I not
Be ever in these arms? in this sweet spot
Pillow my chin for ever? ever press
These toying hands and kiss their smoo.h excess?
Why not for ever and for ever feel
That breath about my eyes? Ah, thou wilt steal
Away from me again, indeed, indeed
Thou wilt be gone away, and wilt not heed
My lonely madness. Speak, my kindest fair!
Isis it to be so? No! Who will dare
To pluck thee from me? And, of thine own will,
Full well I feel thou wouldst not leave me. Still
Let me entwine thee surer, surernow
How can we part? Elysium! who art thou?
Who, that thou canst not be for ever here,
Or lift me with thee to some starry sphere?
Enchantress! tell me by this soft embrace,
By the most soft completion of thy face,
Those lips, O slippery blisses, twinkling eyes,
And by these tenderest, milky sovereignties
These tenderest, and by the nectar-wine,
The passion""O lov'd Ida the divine!
Endymion! dearest! Ah, unhappy me!
His soul will 'scape usO felicity!
How he does love me! His poo. temples beat
To the very tune of lovehow sweet, sweet, sweet.
Revive, dear youth, or I shall faint and die;
Revive, or these soft hours will hurry by
In tranced dulness; speak, and let that spell
Affright this lethargy! I cannot quell
Its heavy pressure, and will press at least
My lips to thine, that they may richly feast
Until we taste the life of love again.
What! dost thou move? dost kiss? O bliss! O pain!
I love thee, youth, more than I can conceive;
And so long absence from thee doth bereave
My soul of any rest: yet must I hence:
Yet, can I not to starry eminence
Uplift thee; nor for very shame can own
Myself to thee. Ah, dearest, do not groan
Or thou wilt force me from this secrecy,
And I must blush in heaven. O that I
Had done it already; that the dreadful smiles
At my lost brightness, my impassion'd wiles,
Had waned from Olympus' solemn height,
And from all serious Gods; that our delight
Was quite forgotten, save of us alone!
And wherefore so ashamed? 'Tis but to atone
For endless pleasure, by some coward blushes:
Yet must I be a coward!Horror rushes
Too.palpable before methe sad loo.
Of JoveMinerva's startno bosom shoo.
With awe of purityno Cupid pinion
In reverence veiledmy crystaline dominion
Half lost, and all old hymns made nullity!
But what is this to love? O I could fly
With thee into the ken of heavenly powers,
So thou wouldst thus, for many sequent hours,
Press me so sweetly. Now I swear at once
That I am wise, that Pallas is a dunce
Perhaps her love like mine is but unknown
O I do think that I have been alone
In chastity: yes, Pallas has been sighing,
While every eve saw me my hair uptying
With fingers coo. as aspen leaves. Sweet love,
I was as vague as solitary dove,
Nor knew that nests were built. Now a soft kiss
Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss,
An immortality of passion's thine:
Ere long I will exalt thee to the shine
Of heaven ambrosial; and we will shade
Ourselves whole summers by a river glade;
And I will tell thee stories of the sky,
And breathe thee whispers of its minstrelsy.
My happy love will overwing all bounds!
O let me melt into thee; let the sounds
Of our close voices marry at their birth;
Let us entwine hoveringlyO dearth
Of human words! roughness of mortal speech!
Lispings empyrean will I sometime teach
Thine honied tonguelute-breathings, which I gasp
To have thee understand, now while I clasp
Thee thus, and weep for fondnessI am pain'd,
Endymion: woe! woe! is grief contain'd
In the very deeps of pleasure, my sole life?"
Hereat, with many sobs, her gentle strife
Melted into a languor. He return'd
Entranced vows and tears.
Ye who have yearn'd
With too.much passion, will here stay and pity,
For the mere sake of truth; as 'tis a ditty
Not of these days, but long ago 'twas told
By a cavern wind unto a forest old;
And then the forest told it in a dream
To a sleeping lake, whose coo. and level gleam
A poet caught as he was journeying
To Phoebus' shrine; and in it he did fling
His weary limbs, bathing an hour's space,
And after, straight in that inspired place
He sang the story up into the air,
Giving it universal freedom. There
Has it been ever sounding for those ears
Whose tips are glowing hot. The legend cheers
Yon centinel stars; and he who listens to it
Must surely be self-doo.ed or he will rue it:
For quenchless burnings come upon the heart,
Made fiercer by a fear lest any part
Should be engulphed in the eddying wind.
As much as here is penn'd doth always find
A resting place, thus much comes clear and plain;
Anon the strange voice is upon the wane
And 'tis but echo'd from departing sound,
That the fair visitant at last unwound
Her gentle limbs, and left the youth asleep.
Thus the tradition of the gusty deep.
Now turn we to our former chroniclers.
Endymion awoke, that grief of hers
Sweet paining on his ear: he sickly guess'd
How lone he was once more, and sadly press'd
His empty arms together, hung his head,
And most forlorn upon that widow'd bed
Sat silently. Love's madness he had known:
Often with more than tortured lion's groan
Moanings had burst from him; but now that rage
Had pass'd away: no longer did he wage
A rough-voic'd war against the doo.ing stars.
No, he had felt too.much for such harsh jars:
The lyre of his soul Eolian tun'd
Forgot all violence, and but commun'd
With melancholy thought: O he had swoo.'d
Drunken from pleasure's nipple; and his love
Henceforth was dove-like.Loth was he to move
From the imprinted couch, and when he did,
'Twas with slow, languid paces, and face hid
In muffling hands. So temper'd, out he stray'd
Half seeing visions that might have dismay'd
Alecto's serpents; ravishments more keen
Than Hermes' pipe, when anxious he did lean
Over eclipsing eyes: and at the last
It was a sounding grotto, vaulted, vast,
O'er studded with a thousand, thousand pearls,
And crimson mouthed shells with stubborn curls,
Of every shape and size, even to the bulk
In which whales arbour close, to broo. and sulk
Against an endless storm. Moreover too.
Fish-semblances, of green and azure hue,
Ready to snort their streams. In this coo. wonder
Endymion sat down, and 'gan to ponder
On all his life: his youth, up to the day
When 'mid acclaim, and feasts, and garlands gay,
He stept upon his shepherd throne: the loo.
Of his white palace in wild forest noo.,
And all the revels he had lorded there:
Each tender maiden whom he once thought fair,
With every friend and fellow-woo.lander
Pass'd like a dream before him. Then the spur
Of the old bards to mighty deeds: his plans
To nurse the golden age 'mong shepherd clans:
That wondrous night: the great Pan-festival:
His sister's sorrow; and his wanderings all,
Until into the earth's deep maw he rush'd:
Then all its buried magic, till it flush'd
High with excessive love. "And now," thought he,
"How long must I remain in jeopardy
Of blank amazements that amaze no more?
Now I have tasted her sweet soul to the core
All other depths are shallow: essences,
Once spiritual, are like muddy lees,
Meant but to fertilize my earthly roo.,
And make my branches lift a golden fruit
Into the bloo. of heaven: other light,
Though it be quick and sharp enough to blight
The Olympian eagle's vision, is dark,
Dark as the parentage of chaos. Hark!
My silent thoughts are echoing from these shells;
Or they are but the ghosts, the dying swells
Of noises far away?list!"Hereupon
He kept an anxious ear. The humming tone
Came louder, and behold, there as he lay,
On either side outgush'd, with misty spray,
A copious spring; and both together dash'd
Swift, mad, fantastic round the rocks, and lash'd
Among the conchs and shells of the lofty grot,
Leaving a trickling dew. At last they shot
Down from the ceiling's height, pouring a noise
As of some breathless racers whose hopes poize
Upon the last few steps, and with spent force
Along the ground they too. a winding course.
Endymion follow'dfor it seem'd that one
Ever pursued, the other strove to shun
Follow'd their languid mazes, till well nigh
He had left thinking of the mystery,
And was now rapt in tender hoverings
Over the vanish'd bliss. Ah! what is it sings
His dream away? What melodies are these?
They sound as through the whispering of trees,
Not native in such barren vaults. Give ear!
"O Arethusa, peerless nymph! why fear
Such tenderness as mine? Great Dian, why,
Why didst thou hear her prayer? O that I
Were rippling round her dainty fairness now,
Circling about her waist, and striving how
To entice her to a dive! then stealing in
Between her luscious lips and eyelids thin.
O that her shining hair was in the sun,
And I distilling from it thence to run
In amorous rillets down her shrinking form!
To linger on her lily shoulders, warm
Between her kissing breasts, and every charm
Touch raptur'd!See how painfully I flow:
Fair maid, be pitiful to my great woe.
Stay, stay thy weary course, and let me lead,
A happy woo.r, to the flowery mead
Where all that beauty snar'd me.""Cruel god,
Desist! or my offended mistress' nod
Will stagnate all thy fountains:tease me not
With syren wordsAh, have I really got
Such power to madden thee? And is it true
Away, away, or I shall dearly rue
My very thoughts: in mercy then away,
Kindest Alpheus for should I obey
My own dear will, 'twould be a deadly bane."
"O, Oread-Queen! would that thou hadst a pain
Like this of mine, then would I fearless turn
And be a criminal.""Alas, I burn,
I shuddergentle river, get thee hence.
Alpheus! thou enchanter! every sense
Of mine was once made perfect in these woo.s.
Fresh breezes, bowery lawns, and innocent floo.s,
Ripe fruits, and lonely couch, contentment gave;
But ever since I heedlessly did lave
In thy deceitful stream, a panting glow
Grew strong within me: wherefore serve me so,
And call it love? Alas, 'twas cruelty.
Not once more did I close my happy eyes
Amid the thrush's song. Away! Avaunt!
O 'twas a cruel thing.""Now thou dost taunt
So softly, Arethusa, that I think
If thou wast playing on my shady brink,
Thou wouldst bathe once again. Innocent maid!
Stifle thine heart no more;nor be afraid
Of angry powers: there are deities
Will shade us with their wings. Those fitful sighs
'Tis almost death to hear: O let me pour
A dewy balm upon them!fear no more,
Sweet Arethusa! Dian's self must feel
Sometimes these very pangs. Dear maiden, steal
Blushing into my soul, and let us fly
These dreary caverns for the open sky.
I will delight thee all my winding course,
From the green sea up to my hidden source
About Arcadian forests; and will shew
The channels where my coo.est waters flow
Through mossy rocks; where, 'mid exuberant green,
I roam in pleasant darkness, more unseen
Than Saturn in his exile; where I brim
Round flowery islands, and take thence a skim
Of mealy sweets, which myriads of bees
Buzz from their honied wings: and thou shouldst please
Thyself to choo.e the richest, where we might
Be incense-pillow'd every summer night.
Doff all sad fears, thou white deliciousness,
And let us be thus comforted; unless
Thou couldst rejoice to see my hopeless stream
Hurry distracted from Sol's temperate beam,
And pour to death along some hungry sands."
"What can I do, Alpheus? Dian stands
Severe before me: persecuting fate!
Unhappy Arethusa! thou wast late
A huntress free in"At this, sudden fell
Those two sad streams adown a fearful dell.
The Latmian listen'd, but he heard no more,
Save echo, faint repeating o'er and o'er
The name of Arethusa. On the verge
Of that dark gulph he wept, and said: "I urge
Thee, gentle Goddess of my pilgrimage,
By our eternal hopes, to soo.he, to assuage,
If thou art powerful, these lovers pains;
And make them happy in some happy plains.
He turn'dthere was a whelming soundhe stept,
There was a coo.er light; and so he kept
Towards it by a sandy path, and lo!
More suddenly than doth a moment go,
The visions of the earth were gone and fled
He saw the giant sea above his head.
(line 31): The reference is of course not to the story of Hero and Leander but to the tears of Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, shed when she was falsely accused; and Imogen must, equally of course, be Shakespeare's heroine in Cymbeline, though she is not the only Imogen of fiction who has swoo.ed. For Pastorella see Faerie Queene, Boo. VI, Canto II, stanza I. et seq.
(line 168): For the three occasions which Endymion had seen Diana, refer to the account given to Peona; beginning with line 540, Boo. I, -- to the passage about the well, line 896, Boo. I, -- and to the passage in which he hurried into the grotto, line 971, Boo. I.
(line 430): In the draft, Endymion was described as The mortal Latmian.
(line 434): It was a peculiarly happy piece of poetic realism to translate Ariadne's relations with Bacchus into her becoming a vintager; and I presume this was Keats's own thought, as well as the idea immediately following, that the God of Orchards conciliated Love with a gift of pears when paying his addresses to Pomona.
(line 676) Hesperan, I presume, not Hesprean as invariably accented by Milton. The precise value of 'capable' as used here is of course regulated by past and not by present custom. In this case it simply stands for receptive, able to receive, as in Hamlet (Act III, Scene IV).
(lines 689-92) Endymion conjectures whether his unknown love is one of the Hours, or one of the nymph Pleione's daughters by Atlas, transferred to heaven as the Pleiades.
~ Poetical Works of John Keats, ed. H. Buxton Forman, Crowell publ. 1895. by owner. provided at no charge for educational purposes
~ John Keats, Endymion - Boo. II
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837:The Court Of Love
With timerous hert and trembling hand of drede,
Of cunning naked, bare of eloquence,
Unto the flour of port in womanhede
I write, as he that non intelligence
Of metres hath, ne floures of sentence;
Sauf that me list my writing to convey,
In that I can to please her hygh nobley.
The blosmes fresshe of Tullius garden soo.e
Present thaim not, my mater for to borne:
Poemes of Virgil taken here no rote,
Ne crafte of Galfrid may not here sojorne:
Why nam I cunning? O well may I morne,
For lak of science that I can-not write
Unto the princes of my life a-right
No termes digne unto her excellence,
So is she sprong of noble stirpe and high:
A world of honour and of reverence
There is in her, this wil I testifie.
Calliope, thou sister wise and sly,
And thou, Minerva, guyde me with thy grace,
That langage rude my mater not deface.
Thy suger-dropes swete of Elicon
Distill in me, thou gentle Muse, I pray;
And thee, Melpomene, I calle anon,
Of ignoraunce the mist to chace away;
And give me grace so for to write and sey,
That she, my lady, of her worthinesse,
Accepte in gree this litel short tretesse,
That is entitled thus, 'The Court of Love.'
And ye that ben metriciens me excuse,
I you besech, for Venus sake above;
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For what I mene in this ye need not muse:
And if so be my lady it refuse
For lak of ornat speche, I wold be wo,
That I presume to her to writen so.
But myn entent and all my besy cure
Is for to write this tretesse, as I can,
Unto my lady, stable, true, and sure,
Feithfull and kind, sith first that she began
Me to accept in service as her man:
To her be all the plesure of this boke,
That, whan her like, she may it rede and loke.
When I was yong, at eighteen yere of age,
Lusty and light, desirous of pleasaunce,
Approching on full sadde and ripe corage,
Love arted me to do myn observaunce
To his astate, and doo. him obeysaunce,
Commaunding me the Court of Love to see,
A lite beside the mount of Citharee,
There Citherea goddesse was and quene
Honoured highly for her majestee;
And eke her sone, the mighty god, I wene,
Cupid the blind, that for his dignitee
A thousand lovers worship on their knee;
There was I bid, on pain of death, t'apere,
By Mercury, the winged messengere.
So than I went by straunge and fer contrees,
Enquiring ay what costes to it drew,
The Court of Love: and thiderward, as bees,
At last I sey the peple gan pursue:
Anon, me thought, som wight was there that knew
Where that the court was holden, ferre or ny,
And after thaim ful fast I gan me hy.
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Anone as I theim overtoo., I said,
'Hail, frendes! whider purpose ye to wend?'
'Forsoo.h,' quod oo. that answered lich a maid,
'To Loves Court now go we, gentill frend.'
'Where is that place,' quod I, 'my felowe hend?'
'At Citheron, sir,' seid he, 'without dowte,
The King of Love, and all his noble rowte,
Dwelling within a castell ryally.'
So than apace I jorned forth among,
And as he seid, so fond I there truly.
For I beheld the towres high and strong,
And high pinácles, large of hight and long,
With plate of gold bespred on every side,
And presious stones, the stone-werk for to hide.
No saphir ind, no rubè riche of price,
There lakked than, nor emeraud so grene,
Baleis Turkeis, ne thing to my devise,
That may the castell maken for to shene:
All was as bright as sterres in winter been;
And Phebus shoo., to make his pees agayn,
For trespas doo. to high estates tweyn,
Venus and Mars, the god and goddesse clere,
Whan he theim found in armes cheined fast:
Venus was then full sad of herte and chere.
But Phebus bemes, streight as is the mast,
Upon the castell ginneth he to cast,
To plese the lady, princesse of that place,
In signe he loketh aftir Loves grace.
For there nis god in heven or helle, y-wis,
But he hath ben right soget unto Love:
Jove, Pluto, or what-so-ever he is,
Ne creature in erth, or yet above;
Of thise the révers may no wight approve.
But furthermore, the castell to descry,
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Yet saw I never non so large and high.
For unto heven it streccheth, I suppose,
Within and out depeynted wonderly,
With many a thousand daisy, rede as rose,
And white also, this saw I verily:
But what tho daises might do signify,
Can I not tell, sauf that the quenes flour
Alceste it was that kept there her sojour;
Which under Venus lady was and quene,
And Admete king and soverain of that place,
To whom obeyed the ladies gode ninetene,
With many a thowsand other, bright of face.
And yong men fele came forth with lusty pace,
And aged eke, their homage to dispose;
But what thay were, I could not well disclose.
Yet ner and ner furth in I gan me dresse
Into an halle of noble apparaile,
With arras spred and cloth of gold, I gesse,
And other silk of esier availe:
Under the cloth of their estate, saunz faile,
The king and quene ther sat, as I beheld:
It passed joye of Helisee the feld.
There saintes have their comming and resort,
To seen the king so ryally beseyn,
In purple clad, and eke the quene in sort:
And on their hedes saw I crownes tweyn,
With stones fret, so that it was no payn,
Withouten mete and drink, to stand and see
The kinges honour and the ryaltee.
And for to trete of states with the king,
That been of councell chief, and with the quene,
The king had Daunger ner to him standing,
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The Quene of Love, Disdain, and that was seen:
For by the feith I shall to god, I wene,
Was never straunger [non] in her degree
Than was the quene in casting of her ee.
And as I stoo. perceiving her apart,
And eke the bemes shyning of her yen,
Me thought thay were shapen lich a dart,
Sherp and persing, smale, and streight as lyne.
And all her here, it shoo. as gold so fyne,
Dishevel, crisp, down hinging at her bak
A yarde in length: and soo.hly than I spak:—
'O bright Regina, who made thee so fair?
Who made thy colour vermelet and white?
Where woneth that god? how fer above the eyr?
Greet was his craft, and greet was his delyt.
Now marvel I nothing that ye do hight
The Quene of Love, and occupy the place
Of Citharee: now, sweet lady, thy grace.'
In mewet spak I, so that nought astert,
By no condicion, word that might be herd;
B[ut] in myn inward thought I gan advert,
And oft I seid, 'My wit is dulle and hard:'
For with her bewtee, thus, god wot, I ferd
As doth the man y-ravisshed with sight,
When I beheld her cristall yen so bright,
No respect having what was best to doo.;
Till right anon, beholding here and there,
I spied a frend of myne, and that full soo.,
A gentilwoman, was the chamberer
Unto the quene, that hote, as ye shall here,
Philobone, that lovëd all her life:
Whan she me sey, she led me furth as blyfe;
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And me demaunded how and in what wise
I thider com, and what myne erand was?
'To seen the court,' quod I, 'and all the guyse;
And eke to sue for pardon and for grace,
And mercy ask for all my greet trespace,
That I non erst com to the Court of Love:
Foryeve me this, ye goddes all above!'
'That is well seid,' quod Philobone, 'in-dede:
But were ye not assomoned to apere
By Mercury? For that is all my drede.'
'Yes, gentil fair,' quod I, 'now am I here;
Ye, yit what tho, though that be true, my dere?'
'Of your free will ye shuld have come unsent:
For ye did not, I deme ye will be shent.
For ye that reign in youth and lustinesse,
Pampired with ese, and jolif in your age,
Your dewtee is, as fer as I can gesse,
To Loves Court to dressen your viage,
As sone as Nature maketh you so sage,
That ye may know a woman from a swan,
Or whan your foo. is growen half a span.
But sith that ye, by wilful necligence,
This eighteen yere have kept yourself at large,
The gretter is your trespace and offence,
And in your nek ye moo. bere all the charge:
For better were ye ben withouten barge,
Amiddë see, in tempest and in rain,
Than byden here, receiving woo.and pain,
That ordeined is for such as thaim absent
Fro Loves Court by yeres long and fele.
I ley my lyf ye shall full soo. repent;
For Love will reyve your colour, lust, and hele:
Eke ye must bait on many an hevy mele:
No force, y-wis, I stired you long agoo.
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To draw to court,' quod litell Philobon.
'Ye shall well see how rough and angry face
The King of Love will shew, when ye him see;
By myn advyse kneel down and ask him grace,
Eschewing perell and adversitee;
For well I wot it wol non other be,
Comfort is non, ne counsel to your ese;
Why will ye than the King of Love displese?'
'O mercy, god,' quod ich, 'I me repent,
Caitif and wrecche in hert, in wille, and thought!
And aftir this shall be myne hole entent
To serve and plese, how dere that love be bought:
Yit, sith I have myn own penaunce y-sought,
With humble spirit shall I it receive,
Though that the King of Love my life bereyve.
And though that fervent loves qualitè
In me did never worch truly, yit I
With all obeisaunce and humilitè,
And benign hert, shall serve him til I dye:
And he that Lord of might is, grete and highe,
Right as him list me chastice and correct,
And punish me, with trespace thus enfect.'
Thise wordes seid, she caught me by the lap,
And led me furth intill a temple round,
Large and wyde: and, as my blessed hap
And goo. avénture was, right sone I found
A tabernacle reised from the ground,
Where Venus sat, and Cupid by her syde;
Yet half for drede I gan my visage hyde.
And eft again I loked and beheld,
Seeing full sundry peple in the place,
And mister folk, and som that might not weld
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Their limmes well, me thought a wonder cas;
The temple shoo. with windows all of glas,
Bright as the day, with many a fair image;
And there I sey the fresh quene of Cartage,
Dido, that brent her bewtee for the love
Of fals Eneas; and the weymenting
Of hir, Anelida, true as turtill-dove,
To Arcite fals: and there was in peinting
Of many a prince, and many a doughty king,
Whose marterdom was shewed about the walles;
And how that fele for love had suffered falles.
But sore I was abasshed and astonied
Of all tho folk that there were in that tyde;
And than I asked where thay had [y-]woned:
'In dyvers courtes,' quod she, 'here besyde.'
In sondry clothing, mantil-wyse full wyde,
They were arrayed, and did their sacrifice
Unto the god and goddesse in their guyse.
'Lo! yonder folk,' quod she, 'that knele in blew,
They were the colour ay, and ever shall,
In sign they were, and ever will be trew
Withouten chaunge: and sothly, yonder all
That ben in blak, with morning cry and call
Unto the goddes, for their loves been
Som fer, som dede, som all to sherpe and kene.'
'Ye, than,' quod I, 'what doo. thise prestes here,
Nonnes and hermits, freres, and all thoo.br> That sit in white, in russet, and in grene?'
'For-soth,' quod she, 'they wailen of their wo.'
'O mercy, lord! may thay so come and go
Freely to court, and have such libertee?'
'Ye, men of ech condicion and degree,
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And women eke: for truly, there is non
Excepcion mad, ne never was ne may:
This court is ope and free for everichon,
The King of Love he will nat say thaim nay:
He taketh all, in poo.e or riche array,
That meekly sewe unto his excellence
With all their herte and all their reverence.'
And, walking thus about with Philobone,
I sey where cam a messenger in hy
Streight from the king, which let commaund anon,
Through-out the court to make an ho and cry:
'A! new-come folk, abyde! and wot ye why?
The kinges lust is for to seen you soo.:
Com ner, let see! his will mot need be doo..'
Than gan I me present to-fore the king,
Trembling for fere, with visage pale of hew,
And many a lover with me was kneling,
Abasshed sore, till unto tyme thay knew
The sentence yeve of his entent full trew:
And at the last the king hath me behold
With stern visage, and seid, 'What doth this old,
Thus fer y-stope in yeres, come so late
Unto the court?' 'For-soth, my liege,' quod I,
'An hundred tyme I have ben at the gate
Afore this tyme, yit coud I never espy
Of myn acqueyntaunce any with mine y;
And shamefastnes away me gan to chace;
But now I me submit unto your grace.'
'Well! all is perdoned, with condicion
That thou be trew from hensforth to thy might,
And serven Love in thyn entencion:
Swere this, and than, as fer as it is right,
Thou shalt have grace here in my quenes sight.'
'Yis, by the feith I ow your crown, I swere,
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Though Deth therfore me thirlith with his spere!'
And whan the king had seen us everichoo.,
He let commaunde an officer in hy
To take our feith, and shew us, oo. by oo.,
The statuts of the court full besily.
Anon the boo. was leid before their y,
To rede and see what thing we must observe
In Loves Court, till that we dye and sterve.
And, for that I was lettred, there I red
The statuts hole of Loves Court and hall:
The first statut that on the boke was spred,
Was, To be true in thought and dedes all
Unto the King of Love, the Lord ryall;
And to the Quene, as feithful and as kind,
As I coud think with herte, and will and mind.
The secund statut, Secretly to kepe
Councell of love, nat blowing every-where
All that I know, and let it sink or flete;
It may not sown in every wightes ere:
Exyling slaunder ay for dred and fere,
And to my lady, which I love and serve,
Be true and kind, her grace for to deserve.
The thrid statut was clerely write also,
Withouten chaunge to live and dye the same,
Non other love to take, for wele ne wo,
For brind delyt, for ernest nor for game:
Without repent, for laughing or for grame,
To byden still in full perseveraunce:
Al this was hole the kinges ordinaunce.
The fourth statut, To purchace ever to here,
And stiren folk to love, and beten fyr
On Venus awter, here about and there,
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And preche to thaim of love and hot desyr,
And tell how love will quyten well their hire:
This must be kept; and loth me to displese:
If love be wroth, passe forby is an ese.
The fifth statut, Not to be daungerous,
If that a thought wold reyve me of my slepe:
Nor of a sight to be over squeymous;
And so, verily, this statut was to kepe,
To turne and walowe in my bed and wepe,
When that my lady, of her crueltè,
Wold from her herte exylen all pitè.
The sixt statut, it was for me to use,
Alone to wander, voide of company,
And on my ladys bewtee for to muse,
And to think [it] no force to live or dye;
And eft again to think the remedy,
How to her grace I might anon attain,
And tell my wo unto my souverain.
The seventh statut was, To be pacient,
Whether my lady joyfull were or wroth;
For wordes glad or hevy, diligent,
Wheder that she me helden lefe or loth:
And hereupon I put was to myn oth,
Her for to serve, and lowly to obey,
Shewing my chere, ye, twenty sith a-day.
The eighth statut, to my rememb[e]raunce,
Was, To speke, and pray my lady dere,
With hourly labour and gret attendaunce,
Me for to love with all her herte entere,
And me desyre, and make me joyfull chere,
Right as she is, surmounting every faire,
Of bewtie well, and gentill debonaire.
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The ninth statut, with lettres writ of gold,
This was the sentence, How that I and all
Shuld ever dred to be to over-bold
Her to displese; and truly, so I shall;
But ben content for thing[es] that may falle,
And meekly take her chastisement and yerd,
And to offende her ever ben aferd.
The tenth statut was, Egally discern
By-twene thy lady and thyn abilitee,
And think, thy-self art never like to yern,
By right, her mercy, nor of equitee,
But of her grace and womanly pitee:
For though thy-self be noble in thy strene,
A thowsand-fold more nobill is thy quene,
Thy lyves lady, and thy souverayn,
That hath thyn herte all hole in governaunce.
Thou mayst no wyse hit taken to disdayn,
To put thee humbly at her ordinaunce,
And give her free the rein of her plesaunce;
For libertee is thing that women loke,
And truly, els the mater is a-croke.
The eleventh statut, Thy signes for to con
With y and finger, and with smyles soft,
And low to cough, and alway for to shon,
For dred of spyes, for to winken oft:
But secretly to bring a sigh a-loft,
And eke beware of over-moch resort;
For that, paraventure, spilleth al thy sport.
The twelfth statut remember to observe:
For al the pain thow hast for love and wo,
All is to lite her mercy to deserve,
Thow must then think, where-ever thou ryde or go;
And mortall woundes suffer thow also,
All for her sake, and thinke it well beset
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Upon thy love, for it may be no bet.
The thirteenth statut, Whylom is to thinke,
What thing may best thy lady lyke and plese,
And in thyn hertes botom let it sinke:
Som thing devise, and take [it] for thyn ese,
And send it her, that may her herte apese:
Some hert, or ring, or lettre, or device,
Or precious stone; but spare not for no price.
The fourteenth statut eke thou shalt assay
Fermly to kepe the most part of thy lyfe:
Wish that thy lady in thyne armes lay,
And nightly dreme, thow hast thy hertes wyfe
Swetely in armes, straining her as blyfe:
And whan thou seest it is but fantasy,
See that thow sing not over merily,
For to moche joye hath oft a wofull end.
It longith eke, this statut for to hold,
To deme thy lady evermore thy frend,
And think thyself in no wyse a cocold.
In every thing she doth but as she shold:
Construe the best, beleve no tales newe,
For many a lie is told, that semeth full trewe.
But think that she, so bounteous and fair,
Coud not be fals: imagine this algate;
And think that tonges wikke wold her appair,
Slaundering her name and worshipfull estat,
And lovers true to setten at debat:
And though thow seest a faut right at thyne y,
Excuse it blyve, and glose it pretily.
The fifteenth statut, Use to swere and stare,
And counterfet a lesing hardely,
To save thy ladys honour every-where,
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And put thyself to fight [for her] boldly:
Sey she is goo., virtuous, and gostly,
Clere of entent, and herte, and thought and wille;
And argue not, for reson ne for skille,
Agayn thy ladys plesir ne entent,
For love wil not be countrepleted, indede:
Sey as she seith, than shalt thou not be shent,
The crow is whyte; ye, truly, so I rede:
And ay what thing that she thee will forbede,
Eschew all that, and give her sovereintee,
Her appetyt folow in all degree.
The sixteenth statut, kepe it if thow may:—
Seven sith at night thy lady for to plese,
And seven at midnight, seven at morow-day;
And drink a cawdell erly for thyn ese.
Do this, and kepe thyn hede from all disese,
And win the garland here of lovers all,
That ever come in court, or ever shall.
Ful few, think I, this statut hold and kepe;
But truly, this my reson giveth me fele,
That som lovers shuld rather fall aslepe,
Than take on hand to plese so oft and wele.
There lay non oth to this statut a-dele,
But kepe who might, as gave him his corage:
Now get this garland, lusty folk of age.
Now win who may, ye lusty folk of youth,
This garland fresh, of floures rede and whyte,
Purpill and blewe, and colours ful uncouth,
And I shal croune him king of all delyt!
In al the court there was not, to my sight,
A lover trew, that he ne was adred,
When he expresse hath herd the statut red.
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The seventeenth statut, Whan age approchith on,
And lust is leid, and all the fire is queint,
As freshly than thou shalt begin to fon,
And dote in love, and all her image paint
In rémembraunce, til thou begin to faint,
As in the first seson thyn hert began:
And her desire, though thou ne may ne can
Perform thy living actuell, and lust;
Regester this in thy rememb[e]raunce:
Eke when thou mayst not kepe thy thing from rust,
Yit speke and talk of plesaunt daliaunce;
For that shall make thyn hert rejoise and daunce.
And when thou mayst no more the game assay,
The statut bit thee pray for hem that may.
The eighteenth statut, hoo.ly to commend,
To plese thy lady, is, That thou eschewe
With sluttishness thy-self for to offend;
Be jolif, fresh, and fete, with thinges newe,
Courtly with maner, this is all thy due,
Gentill of port, and loving clenlinesse;
This is the thing that lyketh thy maistresse.
And not to wander lich a dulled ass,
Ragged and torn, disgysed in array,
Ribaud in speche, or out of mesure pass,
Thy bound exceding; think on this alway:
For women been of tender hertes ay,
And lightly set their plesire in a place;
Whan they misthink, they lightly let it passe.
The nineteenth statut, Mete and drink forgete:
Ech other day, see that thou fast for love,
For in the court they live withouten mete,
Sauf such as cometh from Venus all above;
They take non heed, in pain of greet reprove,
Of mete and drink, for that is all in vain;
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Only they live by sight of their soverain.
The twentieth statut, last of everichoo.,
Enroll it in thyn hertes privitee;
To wring and wail, to turn, and sigh and grone,
When that thy lady absent is from thee;
And eke renew the wordes [all] that she
Bitween you twain hath seid, and all the chere
That thee hath mad thy lyves lady dere.
And see thyn herte in quiet ne in rest
Sojorn, to tyme thou seen thy lady eft;
But wher she won by south, or est, or west,
With all thy force, now see it be not left:
Be diligent, till tyme thy lyfe be reft,
In that thou mayst, thy lady for to see;
This statut was of old antiquitee.
An officer of high auctoritee,
Cleped Rigour, made us swere anon:
He nas corrupt with parcialitee,
Favour, prayer, ne gold that cherely shoo.;
'Ye shall,' quod he, 'now sweren here echoo.,
Yong and old, to kepe, in that ye may,
The statuts truly, all, aftir this day.'
O god, thought I, hard is to make this oth!
But to my pouer shall I thaim observe;
In all this world nas mater half so loth,
To swere for all; for though my body sterve,
I have no might the hole for to reserve.
But herkin now the cace how it befell:
After my oth was mad, the trouth to tell,
I turned leves, loking on this boke,
Where other statuts were of women shene;
And right furthwith Rigour on me gan loke
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Full angrily, and seid unto the quene
I traitour was, and charged me let been:
'There may no man,' quod he, 'the statut[s] know,
That long to woman, hy degree ne low.
In secret wyse thay kepten been full close,
They sowne echon to libertie, my frend;
Plesaunt thay be, and to their own purpose;
There wot no wight of thaim, but god and fend,
Ne naught shall wit, unto the worldes end.
The quene hath yeve me charge, in pain to dye,
Never to rede ne seen thaim with myn ye.
For men shall not so nere of councell ben,
With womanhode, ne knowen of her gyse,
Ne what they think, ne of their wit th'engyn;
I me report to Salamon the wyse,
And mighty Sampson, which begyled thryes
With Dalida was: he wot that, in a throw,
There may no man statut of women knowe.
For it paravénture may right so befall,
That they be bound by nature to disceive,
And spinne, and wepe, and sugre strewe on gall,
The hert of man to ravissh and to reyve,
And whet their tong as sharp as swerd or gleyve:
It may betyde, this is their ordinaunce;
So must they lowly doo. the observaunce,
And kepe the statut yeven thaim of kind,
Or such as love hath yeve hem in their lyfe.
Men may not wete why turneth every wind,
Nor waxen wyse, nor ben inquisityf
To know secret of maid, widow, or wyfe;
For they their statutes have to thaim reserved,
And never man to know thaim hath deserved.
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Now dress you furth, the god of Love you gyde!'
Quod Rigour than, 'and seek the temple bright
Of Cither[e]a, goddess here besyde;
Beseche her, by [the] influence and might
Of al her vertue, you to teche a-right,
How for to serve your ladies, and to plese,
Ye that ben sped, and set your hert in ese.
And ye that ben unpurveyed, pray her eke
Comfort you soo. with grace and destinee,
That ye may set your hert there ye may lyke,
In suche a place, that it to love may be
Honour and worship, and felicitee
To you for ay. Now goth, by one assent.'
'Graunt mercy, sir!' quod we, and furth we went
Devoutly, soft and esy pace, to see
Venus the goddes image, all of gold:
And there we founde a thousand on their knee,
Sum freshe and feire, som dedely to behold,
In sondry mantils new, and som were old,
Som painted were with flames rede as fire,
Outward to shew their inward hoo. desire:
With dolefull chere, full fele in their complaint
Cried 'Lady Venus, rewe upon our sore!
Receive our billes, with teres all bedreint;
We may not wepe, there is no more in store;
But wo and pain us frettith more and more:
Thou blisful planet, lovers sterre so shene,
Have rowth on us, that sigh and carefull been;
And ponish, Lady, grevously, we pray,
The false untrew with counterfet plesaunce,
That made their oth, be trew to live or dey,
With chere assured, and with countenaunce;
And falsly now thay foten loves daunce,
Barein of rewth, untrue of that they seid,
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Now that their lust and plesire is alleyd.'
Yet eft again, a thousand milion,
Rejoysing, love, leding their life in blis:
They seid:—'Venus, redresse of all division,
Goddes eterne, thy name y-heried is!
By loves bond is knit all thing, y-wis,
Best unto best, the erth to water wan,
Bird unto bird, and woman unto man;
This is the lyfe of joye that we ben in,
Resembling lyfe of hevenly paradyse;
Love is exyler ay of vice and sin;
Love maketh hertes lusty to devyse;
Honour and grace have thay, in every wyse,
That been to loves law obedient;
Love makith folk benigne and diligent;
Ay stering theim to drede[n] vice and shame:
In their degree it maketh thaim honorable;
And swete it is of love [to] bere the name,
So that his love be feithfull, true, and stable:
Love prunith him, to semen amiable;
Love hath no faut, there it is exercysed,
But sole with theim that have all love dispised.
Honour to thee, celestiall and clere
Goddes of love, and to thy celsitude,
That yevest us light so fer down from thy spere,
Persing our hertes with thy pulcritude!
Comparison non of similitude
May to thy grace be mad in no degree,
That hast us set with love in unitee.
Gret cause have we to praise thy name and thee,
For [that] through thee we live in joye and blisse.
Blessed be thou, most souverain to see!
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Thy holy court of gladness may not misse:
A thousand sith we may rejoise in this,
That we ben thyn with harte and all y-fere,
Enflamed with thy grace, and hevinly fere.'
Musing of tho that spakin in this wyse,
I me bethought in my rememb[e]raunce
Myne orison right goo.ly to devyse,
And plesauntly, with hartes obeisaunce,
Beseech the goddes voiden my grevaunce;
For I loved eke, sauf that I wist nat where;
Yet down I set, and seid as ye shall here.
'Fairest of all that ever were or be!
Lucerne and light to pensif crëature!
Myn hole affiaunce, and my lady free,
My goddes bright, my fortune and my ure,
I yeve and yeld my hart to thee full sure,
Humbly beseching, lady, of thy grace
Me to bestowe into som blessed place.
And here I vow me feithfull, true, and kind,
Without offence of mutabilitee,
Humbly to serve, whyl I have wit and mind,
Myn hole affiaunce, and my lady free!
In thilkë place, there ye me sign to be:
And, sith this thing of newe is yeve me, ay
To love and serve, needly must I obey.
Be merciable with thy fire of grace,
And fix myne hert there bewtie is and routh,
For hote I love, determine in no place,
Sauf only this, by god and by my trouth,
Trowbled I was with slomber, slepe, and slouth
This other night, and in a visioun
I sey a woman romen up and down,
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Of mene stature, and seemly to behold,
Lusty and fresh, demure of countynaunce,
Yong and wel shap, with here [that] shoo. as gold,
With yen as cristall, farced with plesaunce;
And she gan stir myne harte a lite to daunce;
But sodenly she vanissh gan right there:
Thus I may sey, I love and wot not where.
For what she is, ne her dwelling I not,
And yet I fele that love distraineth me:
Might ich her know, that wold I fain, god wot,
Serve and obey with all benignitee.
And if that other be my destinee,
So that no wyse I shall her never see,
Than graunt me her that best may lyken me,
With glad rejoyse to live in parfit hele,
Devoide of wrath, repent, or variaunce;
And able me to do that may be wele
Unto my lady, with hertes hy plesaunce:
And, mighty goddes! through thy purviaunce
My wit, my thought, my lust and love so gyde,
That to thyne honour I may me provyde
To set myne herte in place there I may lyke,
And gladly serve with all affeccioun.
Gret is the pain which at myn hert doth stik,
Till I be sped by thyn eleccioun:
Help, lady goddes! that possessioun
I might of her have, that in all my lyfe
I clepen shall my quene and hertes wife.
And in the Court of Love to dwell for ay
My wille it is, and don thee sacrifice:
Daily with Diane eke to fight and fray,
And holden werre, as might well me suffice:
That goddes chaste I kepen in no wyse
To serve; a fig for all her chastitee!
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Her lawe is for religiositee.'
And thus gan finish preyer, lawde, and preise,
Which that I yove to Venus on my knee,
And in myne hert to ponder and to peise,
I gave anon hir image fressh bewtie;
'Heil to that figure sweet! and heil to thee,
Cupide,' quod I, and rose and yede my way;
And in the temple as I yede I sey
A shryne sormownting all in stones riche,
Of which the force was plesaunce to myn y,
With diamant or saphire; never liche
I have non seyn, ne wrought so wonderly.
So whan I met with Philobone, in hy
I gan demaund, 'Who[s] is this sepulture?'
'Forsoth,' quod she, 'a tender creature
Is shryned there, and Pitè is her name.
She saw an egle wreke him on a fly,
And pluk his wing, and eke him, in his game,
And tender herte of that hath made her dy:
Eke she wold wepe, and morn right pitously
To seen a lover suffre gret destresse.
In all the court nas non that, as I gesse,
That coude a lover half so well availe,
Ne of his wo the torment or the rage
Aslaken, for he was sure, withouten faile,
That of his grief she coud the hete aswage.
In sted of Pitè, spedeth hot corage
The maters all of court, now she is dede;
I me report in this to womanhede.
For weile and wepe, and crye, and speke, and pray,—
Women wold not have pitè on thy plaint;
Ne by that mene to ese thyn hart convey,
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But thee receiven for their own talent:
And sey, that Pitè causith thee, in consent
Of rewth, to take thy service and thy pain
In that thow mayst, to plese thy souverain.
But this is councell, keep it secretly;'
Quod she, 'I nold, for all the world abowt,
The Quene of Love it wist; and wit ye why?
For if by me this matter springen out,
In court no lenger shuld I, owt of dowt,
Dwellen, but shame in all my life endry:
Now kepe it close,' quod she, 'this hardely.
Well, all is well! Now shall ye seen,' she seid,
'The feirest lady under son that is:
Come on with me, demene you liche a maid,
With shamefast dred, for ye shall spede, y-wis,
With her that is the mir[th] and joy and blis:
But sumwhat straunge and sad of her demene
She is, be ware your countenaunce be sene,
Nor over light, ne recheless, ne to bold,
Ne malapert, ne rinning with your tong;
For she will you abeisen and behold,
And you demaund, why ye were hens so long
Out of this court, without resort among:
And Rosiall her name is hote aright,
Whose harte as yet [is] yeven to no wight.
And ye also ben, as I understond,
With love but light avaunced, by your word;
Might ye, by hap, your fredom maken bond,
And fall in grace with her, and wele accord,
Well might ye thank the god of Love and lord;
For she that ye sawe in your dreme appere,
To love suche one, what are ye than the nere?
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Yit wot ye what? as my rememb[e]raunce
Me yevith now, ye fayn, where that ye sey
That ye with love had never acqueintaunce,
Sauf in your dreme right late this other day:
Why, yis, parde! my life, that durst I lay,
That ye were caught upon an heth, when I
Saw you complain, and sigh full pitously;
Within an erber, and a garden fair
With floures growe, and herbes vertuous,
Of which the savour swete was and the eyr,
There were your-self full hoo. and amorous:
Y-wis, ye ben to nice and daungerous;
A! wold ye now repent, and love som new?'—
'Nay, by my trouth,' I seid, 'I never knew
The goo.ly wight, whos I shall be for ay:
Guyde me the lord that love hath made and me.'
But furth we went in-till a chambre gay,
There was Rosiall, womanly to see,
Whose stremes sotell-persing of her ee
Myn hart gan thrill for bewtie in the stound:
'Alas,' quod I, 'who hath me yeve this wound?'
And than I dred to speke, till at the last
I gret the lady reverently and wele,
Whan that my sigh was gon and over-past;
And down on knees full humbly gan I knele,
Beseching her my fervent wo to kele,
For there I too. full purpose in my mind,
Unto her grace my painfull hart to bind.
For if I shall all fully her discryve,
Her hede was round, by compace of nature,
Her here as gold,—she passed all on-lyve,—
And lily forhede had this crëature,
With lovelich browes, flawe, of colour pure,
Bytwene the which was mene disseveraunce
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From every brow, to shewe[n] a distaunce.
Her nose directed streight, and even as lyne,
With fourm and shap therto convenient,
In which the goddes milk-whyt path doth shine;
And eke her yen ben bright and orient
As is the smaragde, unto my juggement,
Or yet thise sterres hevenly, smale and bright;
Her visage is of lovely rede and whyte.
Her mouth is short, and shit in litell space,
Flaming somdele, not over-rede, I mene,
With pregnant lippes, and thik to kiss, percas;
(For lippes thin, not fat, but ever lene,
They serve of naught, they be not worth a bene;
For if the basse ben full, there is delyt,
Maximian truly thus doth he wryte.)
But to my purpose:—I sey, whyte as snow
Ben all her teeth, and in order thay stond
Of oo. stature; and eke hir breth, I trow,
Surmounteth alle odours that ever I fond
In sweetnes; and her body, face, and hond
Ben sharply slender, so that from the hede
Unto the fote, all is but womanhede.
I hold my pees of other thinges hid:—
Here shall my soul, and not my tong, bewray:—
But how she was arrayed, if ye me bid,
That shall I well discover you and say:
A bend of gold and silk, full fressh and gay;
With here in tresse[s], browdered full well,
Right smothly kept, and shyning every-del.
About her nek a flour of fressh devyse
With rubies set, that lusty were to sene;
And she in gown was, light and somer-wyse,
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Shapen full wele, the colour was of grene,
With aureat seint about her sydes clene,
With dyvers stones, precious and riche:—
Thus was she rayed, yet saugh I never her liche.
For if that Jove had [but] this lady seyn,
Tho Calixto ne [yet] Alcmenia,
Thay never hadden in his armes leyn;
Ne he had loved the faire Europa;
Ye, ne yet Dane ne Antiopa!
For al their bewtie stoo. in Rosiall;
She semed lich a thing celestiall
In bowntè, favor, port, and semliness,
Plesaunt of figure, mirrour of delyt,
Gracious to sene, and rote of gentilness,
With angel visage, lusty rede and white:
There was not lak, sauf daunger had a lite
This goo.ly fressh in rule and governaunce;
And somdel straunge she was, for her plesaunce.
And truly sone I too. my leve and went,
Whan she had me enquyred what I was;
For more and more impressen gan the dent
Of Loves dart, whyl I beheld her face;
And eft again I com to seken grace,
And up I put my bill, with sentence clere
That folwith aftir; rede and ye shall here.
'O ye [the] fressh, of [all] bewtie the rote,
That nature hath fourmed so wele and made
Princesse and Quene! and ye that may do bote
Of all my langour with your wordes glad!
Ye wounded me, ye made me wo-bestad;
Of grace redress my mortall grief, as ye
Of all myne harm the verrey causer be.
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Now am I caught, and unwar sodenly,
With persant stremes of your yën clere,
Subject to ben, and serven you meekly,
And all your man, y-wis, my lady dere,
Abiding grace, of which I you requere,
That merciles ye cause me not to sterve;
But guerdon me, liche as I may deserve.
For, by my troth, the dayes of my breth
I am and will be youre in wille and hert,
Pacient and meek, for you to suffre deth
If it require; now rewe upon my smert;
And this I swere, I never shall out-stert
From Loves Court for none adversitee,
So ye wold rewe on my distresse and me.
My destinee, my fate, and ure I bliss,
That have me set to ben obedient
Only to you, the flour of all, y-wis:
I trust to Venus never to repent;
For ever redy, glad, and diligent
Ye shall me finde in service to your grace,
Till deth my lyfe out of my body race.
Humble unto your excellence so digne,
Enforcing ay my wittes and delyt
To serve and plese with glad herte and benigne,
And ben as Troilus, [old] Troyes knight,
Or Antony for Cleopatre bright,
And never you me thinkes to reney:
This shall I kepe unto myne ending-day.
Enprent my speche in your memorial
Sadly, my princess, salve of all my sore!
And think that, for I wold becomen thrall,
And ben your own, as I have seyd before,
Ye must of pity cherissh more and more
Your man, and tender aftir his desert,
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And yive him corage for to ben expert.
For where that oo. hath set his herte on fire,
And findeth nether refut ne plesaunce,
Ne word of comfort, deth will quyte his hire.
Allas! that there is none allegeaunce
Of all their wo! allas, the gret grevaunce
To love unloved! But ye, my Lady dere,
In other wyse may govern this matere.'
'Truly, gramercy, frend, of your goo. will,
And of your profer in your humble wyse!
But for your service, take and kepe it still.
And where ye say, I ought you well cheryse,
And of your gref the remedy devyse,
I know not why: I nam acqueinted well
With you, ne wot not sothly where ye dwell.'
'In art of love I wryte, and songes make,
That may be song in honour of the King
And Quene of Love; and than I undertake,
He that is sad shall than full mery sing.
And daunger[o]us not ben in every thing
Beseche I you, but seen my will and rede,
And let your aunswer put me out of drede.'
'What is your name? reherse it here, I pray,
Of whens and where, of what condicion
That ye ben of? Let see, com of and say!
Fain wold I know your disposicion:—
Ye have put on your old entencion;
But what ye mene to servë me I noo.,
Sauf that ye say ye love me wonder hoo..'
'My name? alas, my hert, why [make it straunge?]
Philogenet I cald am fer and nere,
Of Cambrige clerk, that never think to chaunge
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Fro you that with your hevenly stremes clere
Ravissh myne herte and gost and all in-fere:
This is the first, I write my bill for grace,
Me think, I see som mercy in your face.
And what I mene, by god that al hath wrought,
My bill, that maketh finall mencion,
That ye ben, lady, in myne inward thought
Of all myne hert without offencion,
That I best love, and have, sith I begon
To draw to court. Lo, than! what might I say?
I yeld me here, [lo!] unto your nobley.
And if that I offend, or wilfully
By pompe of hart your precept disobey,
Or doo. again your will unskillfully,
Or greven you, for ernest or for play,
Correct ye me right sharply than, I pray,
As it is sene unto your womanhede,
And rewe on me, or ellis I nam but dede.'
'Nay, god forbede to feffe you so with grace,
And for a worde of sugred eloquence,
To have compassion in so litell space!
Than were it tyme that som of us were hens!
Ye shall not find in me suche insolence.
Ay? what is this? may ye not suffer sight?
How may ye loke upon the candill-light,
That clere[r] is and hotter than myn y?
And yet ye seid, the bemes perse and frete:—
How shall ye than the candel-[l]ight endry?
For wel wot ye, that hath the sharper hete.
And there ye bid me you correct and bete,
If ye offend,—nay, that may not be doo.:
There come but few that speden here so soo..
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Withdraw your y, withdraw from presens eke:
Hurt not yourself, through foly, with a loke;
I wold be sory so to make you seke:
A woman shuld be ware eke whom she toke:
Ye beth a clark:—go serchen [in] my boke,
If any women ben so light to win:
Nay, byde a whyl, though ye were all my kin.
So soo. ye may not win myne harte, in trouth
The gyse of court will seen your stedfastness,
And as ye don, to have upon you rewth.
Your own desert, and lowly gentilness,
That will reward you joy for heviness;
And though ye waxen pale, and grene and dede,
Ye must it use a while, withouten drede,
And it accept, and grucchen in no wyse;
But where as ye me hastily desyre
To been to love, me think, ye be not wyse.
Cese of your language! cese, I you requyre!
For he that hath this twenty yere ben here
May not obtayn; than marveile I that ye
Be now so bold, of love to trete with me.'
'Ah! mercy, hart, my lady and my love,
My rightwyse princesse and my lyves guyde!
Now may I playn to Venus all above,
That rewthles ye me give these woundes wyde!
What have I don? why may it not betyde,
That for my trouth I may received be?
Alas! your daunger and your crueltè!
In wofull hour I got was, welaway!
In wofull hour [y-]fostred and y-fed,
In wofull hour y-born, that I ne may
My supplicacion swetely have y-sped!
The frosty grave and cold must be my bedde,
Without ye list your grace and mercy shewe,
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Deth with his axe so faste on me doth hewe.
So greet disese and in so litell whyle,
So litell joy, that felte I never yet;
And at my wo Fortune ginneth to smyle,
That never erst I felt so harde a fit:
Confounded ben my spirits and my wit,
Till that my lady take me to her cure,
Which I love best of erthely crëature.
But that I lyke, that may I not com by;
Of that I playn, that have I habondaunce;
Sorrow and thought, thay sit me wounder ny;
Me is withhold that might be my plesaunce:
Yet turne again, my worldly suffisaunce!
O lady bright! and save your feithfull true,
And, er I die, yet on[e]s upon me rewe.'
With that I fell in sounde, and dede as stone,
With colour slain, and wan as assh[es] pale;
And by the hand she caught me up anon,
'Aryse,' quod she, 'what? have ye dronken dwale?
Why slepen ye? it is no nightertale.'
'Now mercy, swete,' quod I, y-wis affrayed:
'What thing,' quod she, 'hath mad you so dismayed?
Now wot I well that ye a lover be,
Your hewe is witnesse in this thing,' she seid:
'If ye were secret, [ye] might know,' quod she,
'Curteise and kind, all this shuld be allayed:
And now, myn herte! all that I have misseid,
I shall amend, and set your harte in ese.'
'That word it is,' quod I, 'that doth me plese.'
'But this I charge, that ye the statuts kepe,
And breke thaim not for sloth nor ignoraunce.'
With that she gan to smyle and laughen depe.
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'Y-wis,' quod I, 'I will do your plesaunce;
The sixteenth statut doth me grete grevaunce,
But ye must that relesse or modifie.'
'I graunt,' quod she, 'and so I will truly.'
And softly than her colour gan appeare,
As rose so rede, through-out her visage all,
Wherefore me think it is according here,
That she of right be cleped Rosiall.
Thus have I won, with wordes grete and small,
Some goo.ly word of hir that I love best,
And trust she shall yit set myne harte in rest.
'Goth on,' she seid to Philobone, 'and take
This man with you, and lede him all abowt
Within the court, and shew him, for my sake,
What lovers dwell withinne, and all the rowte
Of officers; for he is, out of dowte,
A straunger yit:'—'Come on,' quod Philobone,
'Philogenet, with me now must ye gon.'
And stalking soft with esy pace, I saw
About the king [ther] stonden environ,
Attendaunce, Diligence, and their felaw
Fortherer, Esperaunce, and many oo.;
Dred-to-offend there stoo., and not aloo.;
For there was eke the cruell adversair,
The lovers fo, that cleped is Dispair,
Which unto me spak angrely and fell,
And said, my lady me deceiven shall:
'Trowest thow,' quod she, 'that all that she did tell,
Is true? Nay, nay, but under hony gall!
Thy birth and hers, [they] be nothing egall:
Cast of thyn hart, for all her wordes whyte,
For in goo. faith she lovith thee but a lyte.
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And eek remember, thyn habilite
May not compare with hir, this well thow wot.'
Ye, than cam Hope and said, 'My frend, let be!
Beleve him not: Dispair, he ginneth dote.'
'Alas,' quod I, 'here is both cold and hot:
The tone me biddeth love, the toder nay;
Thus wot I not what me is best to say.
But well wot I, my lady graunted me,
Truly to be my woundes remedy;
Her gentilness may not infected be
With dobleness, thus trust I till I dy.'
So cast I void Dispaires company,
And taken Hope to councell and to frend.
'Ye, kepe that wele,' quod Philobone, 'in mind.'
And there besyde, within a bay-window,
Stoo. oo. in grene, full large of brede and length,
His berd as blak as fethers of the crow;
His name was Lust, of wounder might and strength;
And with Delyt to argue there he thenkth,
For this was all his [hoo.] opinion,
That love was sin! and so he hath begon
To reson fast, and legge auctoritè:
'Nay,' quod Delyt, 'love is a vertue clere,
And from the soule his progress holdeth he:
Blind appetyt of lust doth often stere,
And that is sin: for reson lakketh there,
For thow [dost] think thy neigbours wyfe to win:
Yit think it well that love may not be sin;
For god and seint, they love right verely,
Void of all sin and vice: this knowe I wele,
Affeccion of flessh is sin, truly;
But verray love is vertue, as I fele,
For love may not thy freil desire akele:
For [verray] love is love withouten sin.'
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'Now stint,' quoth Lust, 'thow spekest not worth a pin.'
And there I left thaim in their arguing,
Roming ferther in the castell wyde,
And in a corner Lier stoo. talking
Of lesings fast, with Flatery there besyde;
He seid that women were attire of pryde,
And men were founde of nature variaunt,
And coud be false, and shewen beau semblaunt.
Than Flatery bespake and seid, y-wis:
'See, so she goth on patens faire and fete,
Hit doth right wele: what prety man is this
That rometh here? Now truly, drink ne mete
Nede I not have; myne hart for joye doth bete
Him to behold, so is he goo.ly fressh:
It semeth for love his harte is tender nessh.'
This is the court of lusty folk and glad,
And wel becometh their habit and array:
O why be som so sorry and so sad,
Complaining thus in blak and whyte and gray?
Freres they ben, and monkes, in goo. fay:
Alas, for rewth! greet dole it is to seen,
To see thaim thus bewaile and sory been.
See how they cry and wring their handes whyte,
For they so sone went to religion!
And eke the nonnes, with vaile and wimple plight,
There thought that they ben in confusion:
'Alas,' thay sayn, 'we fayn perfeccion,
In clothes wide, and lak our libertè;
But all the sin mote on our frendes be.
For, Venus wot, we wold as fayn as ye,
That ben attired here and wel besene,
Desiren man, and love in our degree,
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Ferme and feithfull, right as wold the quene:
Our frendes wikke, in tender youth and grene,
Ayenst our will made us religious;
That is the cause we morne and wailen thus.'
Than seid the monks and freres in the tyde,
'Wel may we curse our abbeys and our place,
Our statuts sharp, to sing in copes wyde,
Chastly to kepe us out of loves grace,
And never to fele comfort ne solace;
Yet suffre we the hete of loves fire,
And after than other haply we desire.
O Fortune cursed, why now and wherefore
Hast thow,' they seid, 'beraft us libertè,
Sith nature yave us instrument in store,
And appetyt to love and lovers be?
Why mot we suffer suche adversitè,
Diane to serve, and Venus to refuse?
Ful often sith this matier doth us muse.
We serve and honour, sore ayenst our will,
Of chastitè the goddes and the quene;
Us leffer were with Venus byden still,
And have reward for love, and soget been
Unto thise women courtly, fressh, and shene.
Fortune, we curse thy whele of variaunce!
There we were wele, thou revest our plesaunce.'
Thus leve I thaim, with voice of pleint and care,
In raging wo crying ful pitously;
And as I yede, full naked and full bare
Some I behold, loo.ing dispitously,
On povertè that dedely cast their y;
And 'Welaway!' they cried, and were not fain,
For they ne might their glad desire attain.
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For lak of richesse worldely and of gode,
They banne and curse, and wepe, and sein, 'Alas,
That poverte hath us hent that whylom stode
At hartis ese, and free and in goo. case!
But now we dar not shew our-self in place,
Ne us embolde to duelle in company,
There-as our hart wold love right faithfully.'
And yet againward shryked every nonne,
The prang of love so straineth thaim to cry:
'Now wo the tyme,' quod thay, 'that we be boun!
This hateful ordre nyse will don us dy!
We sigh and sobbe, and bleden inwardly,
Freting our-self with thought and hard complaint,
That ney for love we waxen wode and faint.'
And as I stoo. beholding here and there,
I was war of a sort full languisshing,
Savage and wild of loking and of chere,
Their mantels and their clothës ay tering;
And oft thay were of nature complaining,
For they their members lakked, fote and hand,
With visage wry and blind, I understand.
They lakked shap, and beautie to preferre
Theim-self in love: and seid, that god and kind
Hath forged thaim to worshippen the sterre,
Venus the bright, and leften all behind
His other werkes clene and out of mind:
'For other have their full shape and bewtee,
And we,' quod they, 'ben in deformitè.'
And nye to thaim there was a company,
That have the susters waried and misseid;
I mene, the three of fatall destinè,
That be our werdes; and sone, in a brayd,
Out gan they cry as they had been affrayd,
'We curse,' quod thay, 'that ever hath nature
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Y-formed us, this wofull lyfe t'endure!'
And there he was contrite, and gan repent,
Confessing hole the wound that Citherè
Hath with the dart of hot desire him sent,
And how that he to love must subjet be:
Than held he all his skornes vanitè,
And seid, that lovers lede a blisful lyfe,
Yong men and old, and widow, maid and wyfe.
'Bereve me, goddesse,' quod he, '[of] thy might,
My skornes all and skoffes, that I have
No power forth, to mokken any wight,
That in thy service dwell: for I did rave:
This know I well right now, so god me save,
And I shal be the chief post of thy feith,
And love uphold, the révers who-so seith.'
Dissemble stoo. not fer from him in trouth,
With party mantill, party hoo. and hose;
And said, he had upon his lady rowth,
And thus he wound him in, and gan to glose
Of his entent full doble, I suppose:
And al the world, he seid, he loved it wele;
But ay, me thoughte, he loved her nere a dele.
Eek Shamefastness was there, as I too. hede,
That blusshed rede, and durst nat ben a-knowe
She lover was, for thereof had she drede;
She stoo. and hing her visage down alowe;
But suche a sight it was to sene, I trow,
As of these roses rody on their stalk:
There cowd no wight her spy to speke or talk
In loves art, so gan she to abasshe,
Ne durst not utter all her privitè:
Many a stripe and many a grevous lasshe
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She gave to thaim that wolden loveres be,
And hindered sore the simpill comonaltè,
That in no wyse durst grace and mercy crave;
For were not she, they need but ask and have;
Where if they now approchin for to speke,
Than Shamefastness returnith thaim again:
Thay think, if we our secret councell breke,
Our ladies will have scorn on us, certain,
And [per]aventure thinken greet disdain:
Thus Shamefastness may bringin in Dispeir,
Whan she is dede, the toder will be heir.
Com forth, Avaunter! now I ring thy bell!
I spyed him sone; to god I make a-vowe,
He loked blak as fendes doth in hell:—
'The first,' quod he, 'that ever [I] did wowe,
Within a word she com, I wot not how,
So that in armes was my lady free;
And so hath ben a thousand mo than she.
In Englond, Bretain, Spain, and Pycardie,
Arteys, and Fraunce, and up in hy Holand,
In Burgoyne, Naples, and [in] Italy,
Naverne, and Grece, and up in hethen land,
Was never woman yit that wold withstand
To ben at myn commaundement, whan I wold:
I lakked neither silver, coin, ne gold.
And there I met with this estate and that;
And here I broched her, and here, I trow:
Lo! there goth oo. of myne; and wot ye what?
Yon fressh attired have I leyd full low;
And such oo. yonder eke right well I know:
I kept the statut whan we lay y-fere;
And yet yon same hath made me right goo. chere.'
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Thus hath Avaunter blowen every-where
Al that he knowith, and more, a thousand-fold;
His auncetrye of kin was to Lière,
For firste he makith promise for to hold
His ladies councell, and it not unfold;
Wherfore, the secret when he doth unshit,
Than lyeth he, that all the world may wit.
For falsing so his promise and behest,
I wounder sore he hath such fantasie;
He lakketh wit, I trowe, or is a best,
That can no bet him-self with reson gy.
By myn advice, Love shal be contrarie
To his availe, and him eke dishonoure,
So that in court he shall no more sojoure.
'Take hede,' quod she, this litell Philobone,
'Where Envy rokketh in the corner yond,
And sitteth dirk; and ye shall see anone
His lenë bodie, fading face and hond;
Him-self he fretteth, as I understond;
Witnesse of Ovid Methamorphosose;
The lovers fo he is, I wil not glose.
For where a lover thinketh him promote,
Envy will grucch, repyning at his wele;
Hit swelleth sore about his hartes rote,
That in no wyse he can not live in hele;
And if the feithfull to his lady stele,
Envy will noise and ring it round aboute,
And sey moche worse than don is, out of dowte.'
And Prevy Thought, rejoysing of him-self,
Stoo. not fer thens in habit mervelous;
'Yon is,' thought [I], 'som spirit or some elf,
His sotill image is so curious:
How is,' quod I, 'that he is shaded thus
With yonder cloth, I not of what colour?'
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And nere I went, and gan to lere and pore,
And frayned him [a] question full hard.
'What is,' quod I, 'the thing thou lovest best?
Or what is boo. unto thy paines hard?
Me think, thow livest here in grete unrest;
Thow wandrest ay from south to est and west,
And est to north; as fer as I can see,
There is no place in court may holden thee.
Whom folowest thow? where is thy harte y-set?
But my demaunde asoile, I thee require.'
'Me thought,' quod he, 'no crëature may let
Me to ben here, and where-as I desire:
For where-as absence hath don out the fire,
My mery thought it kindleth yet again,
That bodily, me think, with my souverain
I stand and speke, and laugh, and kisse, and halse,
So that my thought comforteth me full oft:
I think, god wot, though all the world be false,
I will be trewe; I think also how soft
My lady is in speche, and this on-loft
Bringeth myn hart to joye and [greet] gladnesse;
This prevey thought alayeth myne hevinesse.
And what I thinke, or where to be, no man
In all this erth can tell, y-wis, but I:
And eke there nis no swallow swift, ne swan
So wight of wing, ne half [so] yern can fly;
For I can been, and that right sodenly,
In heven, in helle, in paradise, and here,
And with my lady, whan I will desire.
I am of councell ferre and wyde, I wot,
With lord and lady, and their previtè
I wot it all; but be it cold or hot,
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They shall not speke without licence of me,
I mene, in suche as sesonable be;
For first the thing is thought within the hert,
Ere any word out from the mouth astert.'
And with that word Thought bad farewell and yede:
Eke furth went I to seen the courtes gyse:
And at the dore cam in, so god me spede,
Twey courteours of age and of assyse
Liche high, and brode, and, as I me advyse,
The Golden Love, and Leden Love thay hight:
The ton was sad, the toder glad and light.
...
'Yis! draw your hart, with all your force and might,
To lustiness, and been as ye have seid;
And think that I no drop of favour hight,
Ne never had to your desire obeyd,
Till sodenly, me thought, me was affrayed,
To seen you wax so dede of countenaunce;
And Pitè bad me don you some plasaunce.
Out of her shryne she roo. from deth to lyve,
And in myne ere full prevely she spak,
'Doth not your servaunt hens away to dryve,
Rosiall,' quod she; and than myn harte [it] brak,
For tender reuth: and where I found moch lak
In your persoune, than I my-self bethought;
And seid, 'This is the man myne harte hath sought.''
'Gramercy, Pitè! might I but suffice
To yeve the lawde unto thy shryne of gold,
God wot, I wold; for sith that thou did rise
From deth to lyve for me, I am behold
To thanken you a thousand tymes told,
And eke my lady Rosiall the shene,
Which hath in comfort set myn harte, I wene.
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And here I make myn protestacion,
And depely swere, as [to] myn power, to been
Feithfull, devoid of variacion,
And her forbere in anger or in tene,
And serviceable to my worldes quene,
With al my reson and intelligence,
To don her honour high and reverence.'
I had not spoke so sone the word, but she,
My souverain, did thank me hartily,
And seid, 'Abyde, ye shall dwell still with me
Till seson come of May; for than, truly,
The King of Love and all his company
Shall hold his fest full ryally and well:'
And there I bode till that the seson fell.
On May-day, whan the lark began to ryse,
To matens went the lusty nightingale
Within a temple shapen hawthorn-wise;
He might not slepe in all the nightertale,
But 'Domine labia,' gan he crye and gale,
'My lippes open, Lord of Love, I crye,
And let my mouth thy preising now bewrye.'
The eagle sang 'Venite, bodies all,
And let us joye to love that is our helth.'
And to the deske anon they gan to fall,
And who come late, he pressed in by stelth:
Than seid the fawcon, our own hartis welth,
'Domine, Dominus noster, I wot,
Ye be the god that don us bren thus hot.'
'Celi enarrant,' said the popingay,
'Your might is told in heven and firmament.'
And than came in the goldfinch fresh and gay,
And said this psalm with hertly glad intent,
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'Domini est terra; this Laten intent,
The god of Love hath erth in governaunce:'
And than the wren gan skippen and to daunce.
'Jube, Domine, Lord of Love, I pray
Commaund me well this lesson for to rede;
This legend is of all that wolden dey
Marters for love; god yive the sowles spede!
And to thee, Venus, sing we, out of drede,
By influence of all thy vertue grete,
Beseching thee to kepe us in our hete.'
The second lesson robin redebrest sang,
'Hail to the god and goddess of our lay!'
And to the lectorn amorously he sprang:—
'Hail,' quod [he] eke, 'O fresh seson of May,
Our moneth glad that singen on the spray!
Hail to the floures, rede, and whyte, and blewe,
Which by their vertue make our lustes newe!'
The thrid lesson the turtill-dove too. up,
And therat lough the mavis [as] in scorn:
He said, 'O god, as mot I dyne or sup,
This folissh dove will give us all an horn!
There been right here a thousand better born,
To rede this lesson, which, as well as he,
And eke as hot, can love in all degree.'
The turtill-dove said, 'Welcom, welcom, May,
Gladsom and light to loveres that ben trewe!
I thank thee, Lord of Love, that doth purvey
For me to rede this lesson all of dewe;
For, in gode soo.h, of corage I pursue
To serve my make till deth us must depart:'
And than 'Tu autem' sang he all apart.
'Te deum amoris,' sang the thrustell-cok:
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Tuball him-self, the first musician,
With key of armony coude not unlok
So swete [a] tewne as that the thrustill can:
'The Lord of Love we praisen,' quod he than,
'And so don all the fowles, grete and lyte;
Honour we May, in fals lovers dispyte.'
'Dominus regnavit,' seid the pecok there,
'The Lord of Love, that mighty prince, y-wis,
He hath received her[e] and every-where:
Now Jubilate sing:'—'What meneth this?'
Seid than the linet; 'welcom, Lord of blisse!'
Out-stert the owl with 'Benedicite,'
What meneth al this mery fare?' quod he.
'Laudate,' sang the lark with voice full shrill;
And eke the kite, 'O admirabile;
This quere will throgh myne eris pers and thrill;
But what? welcom this May seson,' quod he;
'And honour to the Lord of Love mot be,
That hath this feest so solemn and so high:'
'Amen,' seid all; and so seid eke the pye.
And furth the cokkow gan procede anon,
With 'Benedictus' thanking god in hast,
That in this May wold visite thaim echon,
And gladden thaim all whyl the fest shall last:
And therewithall a-loughter out he brast,
'I thank it god that I shuld end the song,
And all the service which hath been so long.'
Thus sang thay all the service of the fest,
And that was don right erly, to my dome;
And furth goth all the Court, both most and lest,
To feche the floures fressh, and braunche and blome;
And namly, hawthorn brought both page and grome.
With fressh garlandës, partie blewe and whyte,
And thaim rejoysen in their greet delyt.
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Eke eche at other threw the floures bright,
The prymerose, the violet, the gold;
So than, as I beheld the ryall sight,
My lady gan me sodenly behold,
And with a trew-love, plited many-fold,
She smoo. me through the [very] hert as blyve;
And Venus yet I thanke I am alyve.
~ Anonymous Olde English,#NFDB
838:Cleanness
Clannesse who so kyndly cowþe comende
& rekken vp alle þe resounz þat ho by ri3t askez,
Fayre formez my3t he fynde in for[þ]ering his speche
& in þe contrare kark & combraunce huge.
For wonder wroth is þe Wy3þat wro3t alle þinges
Wyth þe freke þat in fylþe fol3es Hym after,
As renkez of relygioun þat reden & syngen
& aprochen to hys presens & prestez arn called;
Thay teen vnto his temmple & temen to hym seluen,
Reken with reuerence þay rychen His auter;
Þay hondel þer his aune body & vsen hit boþe.
If þay in clannes be clos þay cleche gret mede;
Bot if þay conterfete crafte & cortaysye wont,
As be honest vtwyth & inwith alle fylþez,
Þen ar þay synful hemself & sulped altogeder
Boþe God & His gere, & hym to greme cachen.
He is so clene in His courte, þe Kyng þat al weldez,
& honeste in His housholde & hagherlych serued
With angelez enourled in alle þat is clene,
Boþ withine & withouten in wedez ful bry3t;
Nif he nere scoymus & skyg & non scaþe louied,
Hit were a meruayl to much, hit mo3t not falle.
Kryst kydde hit Hymself in a carp onez,
Þeras He heuened a3t happez & hy3t hem her medez.
Me mynez on one amonge oþer, as Maþew recordez,
Þat þus clanness vnclosez a ful cler speche:
Þe haþel clene of his hert hapenez ful fayre,
For he schal loke on oure Lorde with a bone chere';
As so saytz, to þat sy3t seche schal he neuer
Þat any vnclannesse hatz on, auwhere abowte;
For He þat flemus vch fylþe fer fro His hert
May not byde þat burre þat hit His body ne3en.
Forþy hy3not to heuen in haterez totorne,
Ne in þe harlatez hod, & handez vnwaschen.
For what vrþly haþel þat hy3honour haldez
Wolde lyke if a ladde com lyþerly attyred,
When he were sette solempnely in a sete ryche,
Abof dukez on dece, with dayntys serued?
Þen þe harlot with haste helded to þe table,
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With rent cokrez at þe kne & his clutte traschez,
& his tabarde totorne, & his totez oute,
Oþer ani on of alle þyse, he schulde be halden vtter,
With mony blame ful bygge, a boffet peraunter,
Hurled to þe halle dore & harde þeroute schowued,
& be forboden þat bor3e to bowe þider neuer,
On payne of enprysonment & puttyng in stokkez;
& þus schal he be schent for his schrowde feble,
Þa3neuer in talle ne in tuch he trespas more.
& if vnwelcum he were to a worþlych prynce,
3et hym is þe hy3e Kyng harder in her euen;
As Maþew melez in his masse of þat man ryche,
Þat made þe mukel mangerye to marie his here dere,
& sende his sonde þen to say þat þay samne schulde,
& in comly quoyntis to com to his feste:
'For my boles & my borez arn bayted & slayne,
& my fedde foulez fatted with scla3t,
My polyle þat is penne-fed & partrykez boþe,
Wyth scheldez of wylde swyn, swanez & cronez,
Al is roþeled & rosted ry3t to þe sete;
Comez cof to my corte, er hit colde worþe.'
When þay knewen his cal þat þider com schulde,
Alle excused hem by þe skyly he scape by mo3t.
On hade bo3t hym a bor3, he sayde, by hys trawþe:
'Now turne I þeder als tyd þe toun to byholde.'
Anoþer nayed also & nurned þis cawse:
'I haf 3erned & 3at 3okkez of oxen,
& for my hy3ez hem bo3t; to bowe haf I mester,
To see hem pulle in þe plow aproche me byhouez.'
'& I haf wedded a wyf,' so wer hym þe þryd;
'Excuse me at þe court, I may not com þere.'
Þus þay dro3hem adre3with daunger vchone,
Þat non passed to þe plate þa3he prayed were.
Thenne þe ludych lorde lyked ful ille,
& hade dedayn of þat dede; ful dry3ly he carpez.
He saytz: 'Now for her owne sor3e þay forsaken habbez;
More to wyte is her wrange þen any wylle gentyl.
Þenne gotz forth, my gomez, þe grete streetez,
& forsettz on vche a syde þe cete aboute;
Þe wayferande frekez, on fote & on hors,
Boþe burnez & burdez, þe better & þe wers,
Laþez hem alle luflyly to lenge at my fest,
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& bryngez hem blyþly to bor3e as barounez þay were,
So þat my palays plat ful be py3t al aboute;
Þise oþer wrechez iwysse worþy no3t wern.'
Þen þay cayred & com þat þe cost waked,
Bro3ten bachlerez hem wyth þat þay by bonkez metten,
Swyerez þat swyftly swyed on blonkez,
& als fele vpon fote, of fre & of bonde.
When þay com to þe courte keppte weren þay fayre,
Sty3tled with þe stewarde, stad in þe halle,
Ful manerly with marchal mad for to sitte,
As he watz dere of degre dressed his seete.
Þenne seggez to þe souerayn sayden þerafter:
'Lo! Lorde, with your leue, at your lege heste
& at þi banne we haf bro3t, as þou beden habbez,
Mony renischsche renkez, & 3et is roum more.'
Sayde þe lorde to þo ledez, 'Laytez 3et ferre,
Ferre out in þe felde, & fechez mo gestez;
Waytez gorstez & greuez, if ani gomez lyggez;
Whatkyn folk so þer fare, fechez hem hider;
Be þay fers, be þay feble, forlotez none,
Be þay hol, be þay halt, be þay ony3ed,
& þa3þay ben boþe blynde & balterande cruppelez,
Þat my hous may holly by halkez by fylled.
For, certez, þyse ilk renkez þat me renayed habbe,
& denounced me no3t now at þis tyme,
Schul neuer sitte in my sale my soper to fele,
Ne suppe on sope of my seve, þa3þa3þay swelt schulde.'
Thenne þe sergauntez, at þat sawe, swengen þeroute,
& diden þe dede þat [watz] demed, as he deuised hade,
& with peple of alle plytez þe palays þay fyllen;
Hit weren not alle on wyuez sunez, wonen with on fader.
Wheþer þay wern worþy oþer wers, wel wern
þay stowed,
Ay þe best byfore & bry3test atyred,
Þe derrest at þe hy3e dese, þat dubbed wer fayrest,
& syþen on lenþe biloo.he ledez inogh.
& ay a[s] segge[s] [serly] semed by her wedez,
So with marschal at her mete mensked þay were.
Clene men in compaynye forknowen wern lyte,
& 3et þe symplest in þat sale watz serued to þe fulle,
Boþe with menske & with mete & mynstrasy noble,
& alle þe laykez þat a lorde a3t in londe schewe.
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& þay bigonne to be glad þat god drink haden.
& vch mon with his mach made hym at ese.
Now inmyddez þe mete þe mayster hym biþo3t
Þat he wolde se þe semble þat samned was þere,
& rehayte rekenly þe riche & þe pou[eren],
& cherisch hem alle with his cher, & chaufen her joye.
Þen he bowez fro his bour into þe brode halle
& to þe best on þe bench, & bede hym be myry,
Solased hem with semblaunt & syled fyrre,
Tron fro table to table & talkede ay myrþe.
Bot as he ferked ouer þe flor, he fande with his y3e,
Hit watz not for a halyday honestly arayed,
A þral þry3t in þe þrong vnþryuandely
cloþed,
Ne no festiual frok, bot fyled with werkkez;
Þe gome watz vngarnyst with god men to dele.
& gremed þerwith þe grete lorde, & greue hym he þo3t.
'Say me, frende,' quoþ þe freke with a felle chere,
'Hov wan þou into þis won in wedez so fowle?
Þe abyt þat þou hatz vpon, no halyday hit menskez;
Þou, burne, for no brydale art busked in wedez.
How watz þou hardy þis hous for þyn vnhap [to] ne3e
In on so ratted a robe & rent at þe sydez?
Þow art a gome vngoderly in þat goun febele;
Þou praysed me & my place ful pouer & ful [g]nede,
Þat watz so prest to aproche my presens hereinne.
Hopez þou I be a harlot þi erigaut to prayse?'
Þat oper burne watz abayst of his broþe wordez,
& hurkelez doun with his hede, þe vrþe he biholdez;
He watz so scoumfit of his scylle, lest he skaþe hent,
Þat he ne wyst on worde what he warp schulde.
Þen þe lorde wonder loude laled & cryed,
& talkez to his tormenttourez: 'Takez hym,' he biddez,
'Byndez byhynde, at his bak, boþe two his handez,
& felle fetterez to his fete festenez bylyue;
Stik hym stifly in stokez, & stekez hym þerafter
Depe in my doungoun þer doel euer dwellez,
Greuing & gretyng & gryspyng harde
Of teþe tenfully togeder, to teche hym be quoynt.'
Thus comparisunez Kryst þe kyndom of heuen
To þis frelych feste þat fele arn to called;
For alle arn laþed luflyly, þe luþer & þe better,
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Þat euer wern ful3ed in font, þat fest to haue.
Bot war þe wel, if þou wylt, þy wedez ben clene
& honest for þe halyday, lest þou harme lache,
For aproch þou to þat Prynce of parage noble,
He hates helle no more þen hem þat ar sowle.
Wich arn þenne þy wedez þou wrappez þe inne,
Þat schal schewe hem so schene schrowde of þe best?
Hit arn þy werkez, wyterly, þat þou wro3t hauez,
& lyued with þe lykyng þat ly3e in þyn hert;
Þat þo be frely & fresch fonde in þy lyue,
& fetyse of a fayr forme to fote & to honde,
& syþen alle þyn oþer lymez lapped ful clene;
Þenne may þou se þy Sauior & His sete ryche.
For fele[r] fautez may a freke forfete his blysse,
Þat he þe Souerayn ne se, þen for slauþe one;
As for bobaunce & bost & bolnande priyde
Þroly into þe deuelez þrote man þryngez bylyue.
For couetyse & colwarde & croked dedez,
For monsworne & menscla3t & to much drynk,
For þefte & for þrepyng, vnþonk may mon haue;
For roborrye & riboudrye & resounez vntrwe,
& dsyheriete & depryue dowrie of wydoez,
For marryng of maryagez & mayntnaunce of schrewez,
For traysoun & trichcherye & tyrauntyre boþe,
& for fals famacions & fayned lawez;
Man may mysse þe myrþe þat much is to prayse
For such vnþewez as þise, & þole much payne,
& in þe Creatores cort com neuermore,
Ne neuer see Hym with sy3t for such sour tournez.
Bot I haue herkned & herde of mony hy3e clerkez,
& als in resounez of ry3t red hit myseluen,
Þat þat ilk proper Prynce þat paradys weldez
Is displesed at vch a poynt þat plyes to scaþe;
Bot neuer 3et in no boke breued I herde
Þat euer He wrek so wyþerly on werk þat He made,
Ne venged for no vilte of vice ne synne,
Ne so hastyfly watz hot for hatel of His wylle,
Ne neuer so sodenly so3t vnsoundely to weng,
As for fylþe of þe flesch þat foles han vsed;
For, as I fynde, þer He for3et alle His fre þewez,
& wex wod to þe wrache for wrath at His hert.
For þe fyrste felonye þe falce fende wro3t
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Whyl he watz hy3e in þe heuen houen vpon lofte,
Of alle þyse aþel aungelez attled þe fayrest:
& he vnkyndely, as a karle, kydde a reward.
He se3no3t bot hymself how semly he were,
Bot his Souerayn he forsoke & sade þyse wordez:
`I schal telde vp my trone in þe tramountayne,
& by lyke to þat Lorde þat þe lyft made.'
With þis worde þat he warp, þe wrake on hym ly3t:
Dry3tyn with His dere dom hym drof to þe abyme,
In þe mesure of His mode, His metz neuer þe lasse.
Bot þer He tynt þe tyþe doo. of His tour ryche:
Þa3þe feloun were so fers for his fayre wedez
& his glorious glem þat glent so bry3t,
As sone as Dry3tynez dome drof to hymseluen,
Þikke þowsandez þro þrwen þeroute,
Fellen fro þe frymament fendez ful blake,
Sweued at þe fryst swap as þe snaw þikke,
Hurled into helle-hole as þe hyue swarmez.
Fylter fenden folk forty dayez lencþe,
Er þat styngande storme stynt ne my3t;
Bot as smylt mele vnder smal siue smokez forþikke.
So fro heuen to helle þat hatel schor laste,
On vche syde of þe worlde aywhere ilyche.
3is, hit watz a brem brest & a byge wrache,
& 3et wrathed not þe Wy3; ne þe wrech sa3tled,
Ne neuer wolde, for wyl[fulnes], his worþy God knawe,
Ne pray Hym for no pite, so proud watz his wylle.
Forþy þa3þe rape were rank, þe rawþe watz
lytt[el];
Þa3he be kest into kare, he kepes no better.
Bot þat oper wrake þat wex, on wy3ez hit ly3t
Þur3þe faut of a freke þat fayled in trawþe,
Adam inobedyent, ordaynt to blysse.
Þer pryuely in paradys his place watz devised,
To lyue þer in lykyng þe lenþe of a terme,
& þenne enherite þat home þat aungelez forgart;
Bot þur3þe eggyng of Eue he ete of an apple
Þat enpoysened alle peplez þat parted fro hem boþe,
For a defence þat watz dy3t of Dry3tyn Seluen,
& a payne þeron put & pertly halden.
Þe defence watz þe fryt þat þe freke towched,
& þe dom is þe deþe þat drepez vus alle;
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Al in mesure & meþe watz mad þe vengiaunce,
& efte amended with a mayden þat make had neuer.
Bot in þe þryd watz forþrast al þat þryue schuld:
Þer watz malys mercyles & mawgre much scheued,
Þat watz for fylþe vpon folde þat þe folk vsed,
Þat þen wonyed in þe worlde withouten any maysterz.
Hit wern þe fayrest of forme & of face als,
Þe most & þe myriest þat maked wern euer,
Þe styfest, þe stalworþest þat stod euer on fete,
& lengest lyf in hem lent of ledez alle oþer.
For hit was þe forme foster þat þe folde bred,
Þe aþel aunceterez sunez pat Adam watz called,
To wham God hade geuen alle þat gayn were,
Alle þe blysse boute blame þat bodi my3t haue;
& þose lykkest to þe lede, þat lyued next after;
Forþy so semly to see syþen wern none.
Þer watz no law to hem layd bot loke to kynde,
& kepe to hit, & alle hit cors clanly fulfylle.
& þenne founden þay fylþe in fleschlych dedez,
& controeued agayn kynde contrare werkez,
& vsed hem vnþryftyly vchon on oþer,
& als with oþer, wylsfully, upon a wrange wyse:
So ferly fowled her flesch þat þe fende loked
How þe de3ter of þe douþe wern derelych fayre,
& fallen in fela3schyp with hem on folken wyse,
& engendered on hem jeauntez with her japez ille.
Þose wern men meþelez & ma3ty on vrþe,
Þat for her lodlych laykez alosed þay were;
He watz famed for fre þat fe3t loued best,
& ay þe bigest in bale þe best watz halden.
& þenne euelez on erþe ernestly grewen
& multyplyed monyfolde inmongez mankynde,
For þat þe ma3ty on molde so marre þise oþer
Þat þe Wy3e þat al wro3t ful wroþly bygynnez.
When He knew vche contre coruppte in hitseluen,
& vch freke forloyned fro þe ry3t wayez,
Felle temptande tene towched His hert.
As wy3e wo hym withinne, werp to Hymseluen:
'Me forþynkez ful much þat euer I mon made,
Bot I schal delyuer & do away þat doten on þis molde,
& fleme out of þe folde al þat flesch werez,
Fro þe burne to þe best, fro bryddez to fyschez;
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Al schal doun & be ded & dryuen out of erþe
Þat euer I sette saule inne; & sore hit Me rwez
Þat euer I made hem Myself; bot if I may herafter,
I schal wayte to be war her wrenchez to kepe.'
Þenne in worlde watz a wy3e wonyande on lyue,
Ful redy & ful ry3twys, & rewled hym fayre,
In þe drede of Dry3tyn his dayez he vsez,
& ay glydande wyth his God, his grace watz þe more.
Hym watz þe nome Noe, as is innoghe knawen.
He had þre þryuen sunez, & þay þre wyuez:
Sem soþly þat on, þat oþer hy3t Cam,
& þe jolef Japheth watz gendered þe þryd.
Now God in nwy to Noe con speke
Wylde wrakful wordez, in His wylle greued:
'Þe ende of alle kynez flesch þat on vrþe meuez
Is fallen forþwyth My face, & forþer hit I þenk.
With her vnworþelych werk Me wlatez withinne;
Þe gore þerof Me hatz greued & þe glette nwyed.
I schal strenkle My distresse, & strye al togeder,
Boþe ledez & londe & alle þat lyf habbez.
Bot make to þe a mancioun, & þat is My wylle,
A cofer closed of tres, clanlych planed.
Wyrk wonez þerinne for wylde & for tame,
& þenne cleme hit with clay comly within[n]e,
& alle þe endentur dryuen daube withouten.
& þus of lenþe & of large þat lome þou make:
Þre hundred of cupydez þou holde to þe lenþe,
Of fyfty fayre ouerþwert forme þe brede;
& loke euen þat þyn ark haue of he3þe þrette,
& a wyndow wyd vpon[ande] wro3t vpon lo[f]te,
In þe compas of a cubit kyndely sware;
A wel dutande dor, don on þe syde;
Haf hallez þerinne & halkez ful mony,
Boþe boske[n]z & bourez & wel bounden penez.
For I schal waken vp a water to wasch alle þe worlde,
& quelle alle þat is quik with quauende flodez,
Alle þat glydez & gotz & gost of lyf habbez;
I schal wast with My wrath þat wons vpon vrþe.
Bot My forwarde with þe I festen on þis wyse,
For þou in reysoun hatz rengned & ry3twys ben euer:
Þou schal enter þis ark with þyn aþel barnez
& þy wedded wyf; with þe þou take
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Þe makez of þy myry sunez; þis meyny of a3te
I schal saue of monnez saulez, & swelt þose oþer.
Of vche best þat berez lyf busk þe a cupple,
Of vche clene comly kynde enclose seuen makez,
Of vche horwed in ark halde bot a payre,
For to saue Me þe sede of alle ser kyndez.
& ay þou meng with þe malez þe mete ho-bestez,
Vche payre by payre to plese ayþer oþer;
With alle þe fode þat may be founde frette þy cofer,
For sustnaunce to yowself & also þose oþer.'
Ful grayþely gotz þis god man & dos Godez hestes,
In dry3dred & daunger þat durst do non oþer.
Wen hit watz fettled & forged & to þe fulle grayþed,
Þenn con Dry3ttyn hym dele dry3ly þyse wordez.
'Now Noe,' quoþ oure Lorde, 'art þou al redy?
Hatz þou closed þy kyst with clay alle aboute?'
'3e, Lorde, with þy leue,' sayde þe lede þenne,
Al is wro3t at Þi worde, as Þou me wyt lantez.'
'Enter in, þenn,' quoþ He, & haf þi wyf with þe,
Þy þre sunez, withouten þrep, & her þre wyuez;
Bestez, as I bedene haue, bosk þerinne als,
& when 3e arn staued, styfly stekez yow þerinne.
Fro seuen dayez ben seyed I sende out bylyue
Such a rowtande ryge þat rayne schal swyþe
Þat schal wasch alle þe worlde of werkez of fylþe;
Schal no flesch vpon folde by fonden onlyue,
Outtaken yow a3t in þis ark staued
& sed þat I wyl saue of þyse ser bestez.'
Now Noe neuer sty[n]tez, þat niy3[t] he bygynnez,
Er al wer stawed & stoken as þe steuen wolde.
Thenne sone com þe seuenþe day, when samned wern alle,
& alle woned in þe whichche, þe wylde & þe tame.
Þen bolned þe abyme, & bonkez con ryse,
Waltes out vch walle-heued in ful wode stremez;
Watz no brymme þat abod vnbrosten bylyue;
Þe mukel lauande loghe to þe lyfte rered.
Mony clustered clowde clef alle in clowtez;
Torent vch a rayn-ryfte & rusched to þe vrþe,
Fon neuer in forty dayez. & þen þe flod ryses,
Ouerwaltez vche a wod & þe wyde feldez.
For when þe water of þe welkyn with þe worlde mette,
Alle þat deth mo3t dry3e drowned þerinne.
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Þer watz moo. for to make when meschef was cnowen,
Þat no3t dowed bot þe deth in þe depe stremez;
Water wylger ay wax, wonez þat stryede,
Hurled into vch hous, hent þat þer dowelled.
Fryst feng to þe fly3t alle þat fle my3t;
Vuche burde with her barne þe byggyng þay leuez
& bowed to þe hy3bonk þer brentest hit wern,
& heterly to þe hy3e hyllez þay [h]aled on faste.
Bot al watz nedlez her note, for neuer cowþe stynt
Þe ro3e raynande ryg, þe raykande wawez,
Er vch boþom watz brurdful to þe bonkez eggez,
& vche a dale so depe þat demmed at þe brynkez.
Þe moste mountaynez on mor þenne watz no more dry3e,
& þeron flokked þe folke, for ferde of þe wrake.
Syþen þe wylde of þe wode on þe water flette;
Summe swymmed þeron þat saue hemself trawed,
Summe sty3e to a stud & stared to þe heuen,
Rwly wyth a loud rurd rored for drede.
Harez, herttez also, to þe hy3e runnen;
Bukkez, bausenez, & bulez to þe bonkkez hy3ed;
& alle cryed for care to þe Kyng of heuen,
Recouerer of þe Creator þay cryed vchone,
Þat amounted þe masse, þe mase His mercy watz passed,
& alle His pyte departed fro peple þat He hated.
Bi þat þe flod to her fete flo3ed & waxed,
Þen vche a segge se3wel þat synk hym byhoued.
Frendez fellen in fere & faþmed togeder,
To dry3her delful deystyne & dy3en alle samen;
Luf lokez to luf & his leue takez,
For to ende alle at onez & for euer twynne.
By forty dayez wern faren, on folde no flesch styryed
Þat þe flod nade al freten with fe3tande wa3ez;
For hit clam vche a clyffe, cubites fyftene
Ouer þe hy3est hylle þat hurkled on erþe.
Þenne mourkne in þe mudde most ful nede
Alle þat spyrakle inspranc, no sprawlyng awayled,
Saue þe haþel vnder hach & his here straunge,
Noe þat ofte neuened þe name of oure Lorde,
Hym a3tsum in þat ark, as aþel God lyked,
Þer alle ledez in lome lenged druye.
Þe arc houen watz on hy3e with hurlande gotez,
Kest to kythez vncouþe þe clowdez ful nere.
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Hit waltered on þe wylde flod, went as hit lyste,
Drof vpon þe depe dam, in daunger hit semed,
Withouten mast, oþer myke, oþer myry bawelyne,
Kable, oþer capstan to clyppe to her ankrez,
Hurrok, oþer hande-helme hasped on roþer,
Oþer any sweande sayl to seche after hauen,
Bot flote forthe with þe flyt of þe felle wyndez.
Whederwarde so þe water wafte, hit rebounde;
Ofte hit roled on rounde & rered on ende;
Nyf oure Lorde hade ben her lodezmon hem had lumpen harde.
Of þe lenþe of Noe lyf to lay a lel date,
Þe sex hundreth of his age & none odde 3erez,
Of secounde monyth þe seuen[ten]þe day ry3tez,
Towalten alle þyse welle-hedez & þe water flowed;
& þryez fyfty þe flod of folwande dayez;
Vche hille watz þer hidde with y[þ]ez ful graye.
Al watz wasted þat þer wonyed þe worlde withinne,
Þ[at] euer flote, oþer flwe, oþer on fote 3ede,
That ro3ly watz þe remnaunt þat þe rac dryuez
Þat alle gendrez so joyst wern joyned wythinne
Bot quen þe Lorde of þe lyfte lyked Hymseluen
For to mynne on His mon His meth þat abydez,
Þen He wakened a wynde on watterez to blowe;
Þenne lasned þe llak þat large watz are.
Þen He stac vp þe stangez, stoped þe wellez,
Bed blynne of þe rayn: hit batede as faste;
Þenne lasned þe lo3lowkande togeder.
After harde dayez wern out an hundreth & fyfte,
As þat lyftande lome luged aboute.
Where þe wynde & þe weder warpen hit wolde,
Hit sa3tled on a softe day, synkande to grounde;
On a rasse of a rok hit rest at þe laste,
On þe mounte of Mararach of Armene hilles.
Þat oþerwayez on Ebrv hit hat þe Thanes.
Bot þa3þe kyste in þe cragez wern closed to byde,
3et fyned not þe flod ne fel to þe boþemez,
Bot þe hy3est of þe eggez vnhuled weren a lyttel,
Þat þe burne bynne borde byhelde þe bare erþe.
Þenne wafte he vpon his wyndowe, & wysed þeroute
A message fro þat meyny hem moldez to seche:
Þat watz þe rauen so ronk, þat rebel watz euer;
He watz colored as þe cole, corbyal vntrwe.
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& he fongez to þe fly3t & fannez on þe wyndez,
Halez hy3e vpon hy3t to herken tyþyngez.
He croukez for comfort when carayne he fyndez
Kast vp on a clyffe þer costese lay drye;
He hade þe smelle of þe smach & smoltes þeder sone,
Fallez on þe foule flesch & fyllez his wombe,
& sone 3ederly for3ete 3isterday steuen,
How þe cheuetayn hym charged þat þe kyst 3emed.
Þe rauen raykez hym forth, þat reches ful lyttel
How alle fodez þer fare, ellez he fynde mete;
Bot þe burne bynne borde þat bod to hys come
Banned hym ful bytterly with bestes alle samen.
He sechez anoþer sondezmon, & settez on þe dou[u]e,
Bryngez þat bry3t vpon borde, blessed, & sayde:
'Wende, worþelych wy3t, vus wonez to seche;
Dryf ouer þis dymme water; if þou druye fyndez
Bryng bodworde to bot blysse to vus alle.
Þa3þat fowle be false, fre be þou euer.'
Ho wyrle out on þe weder on wyngez ful scharpe,
Dre3ly alle alonge day þat dorst neuer ly3t;
& when ho fyndez no folde her fote on to pyche,
Ho vmbekestez þe coste & þe kyst sechez.
Ho hittez on þe euentyde & on þe ark sittez;
Noe nymmes hir anon & naytly hir stauez.
Noe on anoþer day nymmez efte þe doveue,
& byddez hir bowe ouer þe borne efte bonkez to seche;
& ho skyrmez vnder skwe & skowtez aboute,
Tyl hit watz ny3e at þe na3t, & Noe þen sechez.
On ark on an euentyde houez þe dowue;
On stamyn ho stod & stylle hym abydez.
What! ho bro3t in hir beke a bronch of olyue,
Gracyously vmbegrouen al with grene leuez;
Þat watz þe syngne of sauyte þat sende hem oure Lorde,
& þe sa3tlyng of Hymself with þo sely bestez.
Þen watz þer joy on þat gyn where jumpred er dry3ed,
& much comfort in þat cofer þat watz clay-daubed.
Myryly on a fayr morn, monyth þe fyrst,
Þat fallez formast in þe 3er, & þe fyrst day,
Ledez lo3en in þat lome & loked þeroute,
How þat watterez wern woned & þe worlde dryed.
Vchon loued oure Lorde, bot lenged ay stylle
Tyl þay had tyþyng fro þe Tolke þat tyned hem
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þerinne.
Þen Godez glam to hem glod þat gladed hem alle,
Bede hem drawe to þe dor: delyuer hem He wolde.
Þen went þay to þe wykket, hit walt vpon sone;
Boþe þe burne & his barnez bowed þeroute,
Her wyuez walkez hem wyth & þe wylde after,
Þroly þrublande in þronge, þrowen ful þykke.
Bot Noe of vche honest kynde nem out an odde,
& heuened vp an auter & hal3ed hit fayre,
& sette a sakerfyse þeron of vch a ser kynde
Þat watz comly & clene: God kepez non oþer.
When bremly brened þose bestez, & þe breþe rysed,
Þe sauour of his sacrafyse so3t to Hym euen
Þat al spedez & spyllez; He spekes with þat ilke
In comly comfort ful clos & cortays wordez:
'Now, Noe, no more nel I neuer wary
Alle þe mukel mayny [on] molde for no mannez synnez,
For I se wel þat hit is sothe þat alle mannez wyttez
To vnþryfte arn alle þrawen with þo3t of her herttez,
& ay hatz ben, & wyl be 3et; fro her barnage
Al is þe mynde of þe man to malyce enclyned.
Forþy schal I neuer schende so schortly at ones
As dysstrye al for manez synne, dayez of þis erþe.
Bot waxez now & wendez forth & worþez to monye,
Multyplyez on þis molde, & menske yow bytyde.
Sesounez schal yow neuer sese of sede ne of heruest,
Ne hete, ne no harde forst, vmbre ne dro3þe,
Ne þe swetnesse of somer, ne þe sadde wynter,
Ne þe ny3t, ne þe day, ne þe newe 3erez,
Bot euer renne restlez: rengnez 3e þerinne.'
Þerwyth He blessez vch a best, & byta3t hem þis erþe.
Þen watz a skylly skyualde, quen scaped alle þe wylde,
Vche fowle to þe fly3t þat fyþerez my3t serue,
Vche fysch to þe flod þat fynne couþe nayte.
Vche beste to þe bent þat þat bytes on erbez;
Wylde wormez to her won wryþez in þe erþe,
Þe fox & þe folmarde to þe fryth wyndez,
Herttes to hy3e heþe, harez to gorstez,
& lyounez & lebardez to þe lake-ryftes:
Hernez & hauekez to þe hy3e rochez,
Þe hole-foted fowle to þe flod hy3ez,
& vche best at a brayde þer hym best lykez;
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Þe fowre frekez of þe folde fongez þe empyre.
Lo! suche a wrakful wo for wlatsum dedez
Parformed þe hy3e Fader on folke þat He made;
Þat He chysly hade cherisched He chastysed ful hardee,
In devoydynge þe vylanye þat venkquyst His þewez.
Forþy war þe now, wy3e þat worschyp desyres
In His comlych courte þat Kyng is of blysse,
In þe fylþe of þe flesch þat þou be founden
neuer,
Tyl any water in þe worlde to wasche þe fayly.
For is no segge vnder sunne so seme of his craftez,
If he be sulped in synne, þat syttez vnclene;
On spec of spote may spede to mysse
Of þe sy3te of þe Souerayn þat syttez so hy3e;
For þat schewe me schale in þo schyre howsez,
As þe beryl bornyst byhouez be clene.
Þat is sounde on vche a syde & no sem habes,
Withouten maskle oþer mote, as margerye-perle.
Syþen þe Souerayn in sete so sore forþo3t
Þat euer He man vpon molde merked to lyuy,
For he in fylþe watz fallen, felly He uenged,
Quen fourferde alle þe flesch þat He formed hade.
Hym rwed þat He hem vprerde & ra3t hem lyflode;
& efte þat He hem vndyd, hard hit Hym þo3t.
For quen þe swemande sor3e so3t to His hert,
He knyt a couenaunde cortaysly with monkynde þere,
In þe mesure of His mode & meþe of His wylle,
Þat He schulde neuer for no syt smyte al at onez,
As to quelle alle quykez for qued þat my3t falle,
Whyl of þe lenþe of þe londe lastez þe terme.
Þat ilke skyl for no scaþe ascaped Hym neuer.
Wheder wonderly He wrak on wykked men after,
Ful felly for þat ilk faute forferde a kyth ryche,
In þe anger of His ire, þat ar3ed mony;
& al watz for þis ilk euel, þat vnhappen glette,
Þe venym & þe vylanye & þe vycios fylþe
Þat bysulpez mannez saule in vnsounde hert,
Þat he his Saueour ne see with sy3t of his y3en.
Alle illez He hates as helle þat alle stynkkez;
Bot non nuyez Hym on na3t ne neuer vpon dayez
As harlottrye vnhonest, heþyng of seluen:
Þat schamez for no schrewedschyp, schent mot he worþe.
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Bot sauyour, mon, in þyself, þa3þou a sotte lyuie,
Þa3þou bere þyself babel, byþenk þe sumtyme
Wheþer He þat stykked vche a stare in vche steppe y3e,
3if Hymsel[f] be bore blynde hit is a brod wonder;
& He þat fetly in face fettled alle eres,
If he hatz losed þe lysten hit lyftez meruayle:
Trave þou neuer þat tale, vntrwe þou hit fyndez.
Þer is no dede so derne þat dittez His y3en;
Þer is no wy3e in his werk so war ne so stylle
Þat hit ne þrawez to Hym þr[o] er he hit þo3t haue.
For He is þe gropande God, þe grounde of alle dedez,
Rypande of vche a ring þe reynyez & hert.
& þere He fyndez al fayre a freke wythinne,
Þat hert honest & hol, þat haþel He honourez,
Sendez hym a sad sy3t: to se His auen face,
& harde honysez þise oþer, & of His erde flemez.
Bot of þe dome of þe douþe for dedez of schame,
He is so skoymos of þat skaþe, He scarrez bylyue;
He may not dry3e to draw allyt, bot drepez in hast:
& þat watz schewed schortly by a scaþe onez.
Olde Abraham in erde onez he syttez
Euen byfore his hous-dore, vnder an oke grene;
Bry3t blykked þe bem of þe brode heuen;
In þe hy3e hete þerof Abraham bidez:
He watz schunt to þe schadow vnder schyre leuez.
Þenne watz he war on þe waye of wlonk Wy3ez þrynne;
If þay wer farande & fre & fayre to beholde
Hit is eþe to leue by þe last ende.
For þe lede þat þer laye þe leuez anvnder,
When he hade of Hem sy3t he hy3ez bylyue,
& as to God þe goo.mon gos Hem agaynez
& haylsed Hem in onhede, & sayde: 'Hende Lorde,
3if euer Þy mon vpon molde merit disserued,
Lenge a lyttel with Þy lede, I lo3ly biseche;
Passe neuer fro Þi pouere, 3if I hit pray durst,
Er Þou haf biden with Þi burne & vnder bo3e restted,
& I schal wynne Yow wy3t of water a lyttel,
& fast aboute schal I fare Your fette wer waschene.
Resttez here on þis rote & I schal rachche after
& brynge a morsel of bred to banne Your hertte.'
'Fare forthe,' quoþ þe Frekez, '& fech as þou seggez;
By bole of þis brode tre We byde þe here.'
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Þenne orppedly into his hous he hy3ed to Sare,
Commaunded hir to be cof & quyk at þis onez:
'Þre mettez of mele menge & ma kakez;
Vnder askez ful hote happe hem byliue;
Quyl I fete sumquat fat, þou þe fyr bete,
Prestly at þis ilke poynte sum polment to make.'
He cached to his covhous & a calf bryngez,
Þat watz tender & not to3e, bed tyrue of þe hyde,
& sayde to his seruaunt þat hit seþe faste;
& he deruely at his dome dy3t hit bylyue.
Þe burne to be bare-heued buskez hym þenne,
Clechez to a clene cloþe & kestez on þe grene,
Þrwe þryftyly þeron þo þre þerue kakez,
& bryngez butter wythal & by þe bred settez;
Mete messez of mylke he merkkez bytwene,
Syþen potage & polment in plater honest.
As sewer in a god assyse he serued Hem fayre,
Wyth sadde semblaunt & swete of such as he hade;
& God as a glad gest mad god chere
Þat watz fayn of his frende, & his fest praysed.
Abraham, al hodlez, with armez vp-folden,
Mynystred mete byfore þo Men þat my3tes al weldez.
Þenne Þay sayden as Þay sete samen alle
þrynne,
When þe mete watz remued & Þay of mensk speken,
'I schal efte hereaway, Abram,' Þay sayden,
'3et er þy lyuez ly3t leþe vpon erþe,
& þenne schal Sare consayue & a sun bere,
Þat schal be Abrahamez ayre & after hym wynne
With wele & wyth worschyp þe worþely peple
Þat schal halde in heritage þat I haf men 3ark[ed].'
Þenne þe burde byhynde þe dor for busmar la3ed;
& sayde sothly to hirself Sare þe madde:
'May þou traw for tykle þat þou tonne mo3tez,
& I so hy3e out of age, & also my lorde?'
For soþely, as says þe wryt, he wern of sadde elde,
Boþe þe wy3e & his wyf, such werk watz hem fayled
Fro mony a brod day byfore; ho barayn ay byene,
Þat selue Sare, withouten sede into þat same tyme.
Þenne sayde oure Syre þer He sete: 'Se! so Sare la3es,
Not trawande þe tale þat I þe to schewed.
Hopez ho o3t may be harde My hondez to work?
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& 3et I avow verayly þe avaunt þat I made;
I schal 3eply a3ayn & 3elde þat I hy3t,
& sothely send to Sare a soun & an hayre.'
Þenne swenged forth Sare & swer by hir trawþe
Þat for lot þat Þay laused ho la3ed neuer.
'Now innoghe: hit is not so,' þenne nurned þe Dry3tyn,
'For þou la3ed alo3, bot let we hit one.'
With þat Þay ros vp radly, as Þay rayke schulde,
& setten toward Sodamas Her sy3t alle at onez;
For þat cite þerbysyde watz sette in a vale,
No mylez fro Mambre mo þen tweyne,
Whereso wonyed þis ilke wy3, þat wendez with oure Lorde
For to tent Hym with tale & teche Hym þe gate.
Þen glydez forth God; þe godmon Hym fol3ez;
Abraham heldez Hem wyth, Hem to conueye
In towarde þe cety of Sodamas þat synned had þenne
In þe faute of þis fylþe. Þe Fader hem þretes,
& sayde þus to þe segg þat sued Hym after:
'How my3t I hyde Myn hert fro Habraham þe trwe,
Þat I ne dyscouered to his corse My counsayl so dere,
Syþen he is chosen to be chef chyldryn fader,
Þat so folk schal falle fro to flete alle þe worlde,
& vche blod in þat burne blessed schal worþe?
Me bos telle to þat tolk þe tene of My wylle,
& alle Myn atlyng to Abraham vnhaspe bilyue.
The grete soun of Sodamas synkkez in Myn erez,
& þe gult of Gomorre garez Me to wrath.
I schal ly3t into þat led & loke Myseluen
[If] þay haf don as þe dyne dryuez on lofte.
Þay han lerned a lyst þat lykez me ille,
Þat þay han founden in her flesch of fautez þe werst:
Vch male matz his mach a man as hymseluen,
& fylter folyly in fere on femmalez wyse.
I compast hem a kynde crafte & kende hit hem derne,
& amed hit in Myn ordenaunce oddely dere,
& dy3t drwry þerinne, doo.e alþer-swettest,
& þe play of paramorez I portrayed Myseluen,
& made þerto a maner myriest of oþer:
When two true togeder had ty3ed hemseluen,
Bytwene a male & his make such merþe schulde conne,
Welny3e pure paradys mo3t preue no better;
Ellez þay mo3t honestly ayþer oþer welde,
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At a stylle stollen steuen, vnstered wyth sy3t,
Luf-lowe hem bytwene lasched so hote
Þat alle þe meschefez on mold mo3t hit not sleke.
Now haf þay skyfted My skyl & scorned natwre,
& henttez hem in heþyng an vsage vnclene.
Hem to smyte for þat smod smartly I þenk,
Þat wy3ez schal be by hem war, worlde withouten ende.'
Þenne ar3ed Abraham & alle his mod chaunge[d],
For hope of þe harde hate þat hy3t hatz oure Lorde.
Al sykande he sayde: 'Sir, with Yor leue,
Schal synful & saklez suffer al on payne?
Weþer euer hit lyke my Lorde to lyfte such domez
Þat þe wykked & þe worþy schal on wrake suffer,
& weye vpon þe worre half þat wrathed Þe neuer?
Þat watz neuer Þy won þat wro3tez vus alle.
Now fyfty fyn frendez wer founde in 3onde toune,
In þe cety of Sodamas & also Gomorre,
Þat neuer lakked Þy laue, bot loued ay trauþe,
& re3tful wern & resounable & redy Þe to serue,
Schal þay falle in þe faute þat oþer frekez wro3t,
& joyne to her juggement, her juise to haue?
Þat nas neuer Þyn note, vnneuened hit worþe,
Þat art so gaynly a God & of goste mylde.'
'Nay, for fyfty,' quoþ þe Fader, '& þy fayre speche,
& þay be founden in þat folk of her fylþe clene,
I schal forgyue alle þe gylt þur3My grace one,
& let hem smolt al unsmyten smoþely at onez.'
'Aa! blessed be Þow,' quoþ þe burne, 'so boner &
þewed,
& al haldez in Þy honde, þe heuen & þe erþe;
Bot, for I haf þis talke tatz to non ille
3if I mele a lyttel more þat mul am & askez.
What if fyue faylen of fyfty þe noumbre,
& þe remnaunt be reken, how restes Þy wylle?'
'And fyue wont of fyfty,' quoþ God, 'I schal for3ete alle
& wythhalde My honde for hortyng on lede.'
'& quat if faurty be fre & fauty þyse oþer:
Schalt Þow schortly al schende & schape non oþer?'
'Nay, þa3faurty forfete, 3et fryst I a whyle,
& voyde away My vengaunce, þa3Me vyl þynk.'
Þen Abraham obeched Hym & lo3ly Him þonkkez:
'Now sayned be Þou, Sauiour, so symple in Þy wrath!
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I am bot erþe ful euel & vsle so blake,
For to mele wyth such a Mayster as my3tez hatz alle.
Bot I haue bygonnen wyth my God, & He hit gayn þynkez;
3if I forloyne as a fol Þy fraunchyse may serue.
What if þretty þryuande be þrad in 3on tounez,
What schal I leue of my Lorde, [i]f He hem leþe wolde?'
Þenne þe godlych God gef hym onsware:
'3et for þretty in þrong I schal My þro steke,
& spare spakly of spyt in space of My þewez,
& My rankor refrayne four þy reken wordez.'
'What for twenty,' quoþ þe tolke, 'vntwynez Þou hem
þenne?'
'Nay, 3if þou 3ernez hit 3et, 3ark I hem grace;
If þat twenty be trwe, I tene hem no more,
Bot relece alle þat regioun of her ronk werkkez.'
'Now, aþel Lorde,' quoþ Abraham, 'onez a speche,
& I schal schape no more þo schalkkez to helpe.
If ten trysty in toune be tan in Þi werkkez,
Wylt Þou mese Þy mode & menddyng abyde?'
'I graunt,' quoþ þe grete God, 'Graunt mercy,' þat
oþer;
& þenne arest þe renk & ra3t no fyrre.
& Godde glydez His gate by þose grene wayez,
& he conueyen Hym con with cast of his y3e;
& als he loked along þereas oure Lorde passed,
3et he cryed Hym after with careful steuen:
'Meke Mayster, on Þy mon to mynne if Þe lyked,
Loth lengez in 3on leede þat is my lef broþer;
He syttez þer in Sodomis, þy seruaunt so pouere,
Among þo mansed men þat han Þe much greued.
3if Þou tynez þat toun, tempre Þyn yre,
As Þy mersy may malte, Þy meke to spare.'
Þen he wendez, wendez his way, wepande for care,
Towarde þe mere of Mambre, wepande for sorewe;
& þere in longyng al ny3t he lengez in wones,
Whyl þe Souerayn to Sodamas sende to spye.
His sondes into Sodamas watz sende in þat tyme,
In þat ilk euentyde, by aungels tweyne,
Meuand meuande mekely togeder as myry men 3onge,
As Loo. in a loge dor lened hym alone,
In a porche of þat place py3t to þe 3ates,
Þat watz ryal & ryche so watz þe renkes seluen.
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As he stared into þe strete þer stout men played,
He sy3e þer swey in asent swete men tweyne;
Bolde burnez wer þay boþe with berdles chynnez,
Ryol rollande fax to raw sylk lyke,
Of ble as þe brere-flour whereso þe bare scheweed.
Ful clene watz þe countenaunce of her cler y3en;
Wlonk whit watz her wede & wel hit hem semed.
Of alle feturez ful fyn & fautlez boþe;
Watz non autly in ouþer, for aungels hit wern,
& þat þe 3ep vnder3ede þat in þe 3ate syttez;
He ros vp ful radly & ran hem to mete,
& lo3e he loutez hem to, Loth, to þe grounde,
& syþen soberly: 'Syrez, I yow byseche
Þat 3e wolde ly3t at my loge & lenge þerinne.
Comez to your knaues kote, I craue at þis onez;
I schal fette yow a fatte your fette for to wasche;
I norne yow bot for on ny3t ne3e me to lenge,
& in þe myry mornyng 3e may your waye take.'
& þay nay þat þay nolde ne3no howsez,
Bot stylly þer in þe strete as þay stadde wern
Þay wolde lenge þe long na3t & logge þeroute:
Hit watz hous inno3e to hem þe heuen vpon lofte.
Loth laþed so longe wyth luflych wordez
Þat þay hym graunted to go & gru3t no lenger.
Þe bolde to his byggyng bryngez hem bylyue,
Þat [watz] ryally arayed, for he watz ryche euer.
Þe wy3ez wern welcom as þe wyf couþe;
His two dere do3terez deuoutly hem haylsed,
Þat wer maydenez ful meke, maryed not 3et,
& þay wer semly & swete, & swyþe wel arayed.
Loth þenne ful ly3tly lokez hym aboute,
& his men amonestes mete for to dy3t:
'Bot þenkkez on hit be þrefte what þynk so 3e make,
For wyth no sour no no salt seruez hym neuer.'
Bot 3et I wene þat þe wyf hit wroth to dyspyt,
& sayde softely to hirself: 'Þis vn[s]auere hyne
Louez no salt in her sauce; 3et hit no skyl were
Þat oþer burne be boute, þa3boþe be nyse.'
Þenne ho sauerez with salt her seuez vchone,
Agayne þe bone of þe burne þat hit forboden hade,
& als ho scelt hem in scorne þat wel her skyl knewen.
Why watz ho, wrech, so wod? Ho wrathed oure Lorde.
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Þenne seten þay at þe soper, wern serued bylyue,
Þe gestes gay & ful glad, of glam debonere,
Welawynnely wlonk, tyl þay waschen hade,
Þe trestes tylt to þe wo3e & þe table boþe.
Fro þe seggez haden souped & seten bot a whyle,
Er euer þay bosked to bedde, þe bor3watz al vp,
Alle þat weppen my3t welde, þe wakker & þe stronger,
To vmbely3e Lothez hous þe ledez to take.
In grete flokkez of folk þay fallen to his 3atez;
As a scowte-wach scarred so þe asscry rysed;
With kene clobbez of þat clos þay clatz on þe wowez,
& wyth a schrylle scarp schout þay schewe þyse worde[z]:
'If þou louyez þy lyf, Loth, in þyse wones,
3ete vus out þose 3ong men þat 3ore-whyle here entred,
Þat we may lere hym of lof, as oure lyst biddez,
As is þe asyse of Sodomas to seggez þat passen.'
Whatt! þay sputen & speken of so spitous fylþe,
What! þay 3e3ed & 3olped of 3estande sor3e,
Þat 3et þe wynd & þe weder & þe worlde stynkes
Of þe brych þat vpbraydez þose broþelych wordez.
Þe godman glyfte with þat glam & gloped for noyse;
So scharpe schame to hym schot, he schrank at þe hert.
For he knew þe costoum þat kyþed þose wrechez,
He doted neuer for no doel so depe in his mynde.
'Allas!' sayd hym þenne Loth, & ly3tly he rysez,
& bowez forth fro þe bench into þe brode 3ates.
What! he wonded no woþe of wekked knauez,
Þat he ne passed þe port þe p[er]il to abide.
He went forthe at þe wyket & waft hit hym after,
Þat a clyket hit cle3t clos hym byhynde.
Þenne he meled to þo men mesurable wordez,
For harlotez with his hendelayk he hoped to chast:
'Oo, my frendez so fre, your fare is to strange;
Dotz away your derf dyn & derez neuer my gestes.
Avoy! hit is your vylaynye, 3e vylen yourseluen;
& 3e are jolyf gentylmen, your japez ar ille
Bot I schal kenne yow by kynde a crafte þat is better:
I haf a tresor in my telde of tow my fayre de3ter,
Þat ar maydenez vnmard for alle men 3ette;
In Sodamas, þa3I hit say, non semloker burdes;
Hit arn ronk, hit arn rype, & redy to manne;
To samen wyth þo semly þe solace is better.
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I schal biteche yow þo two þat tayt arn & quoynt,
& laykez wyth hem as yow lyst, & letez my gestes one.'
Þenne þe rebaudez so ronk rerd such a noyse
Þat a3ly hurled in his erez her harlotez speche:
'Wost þou not wel þat þou wonez here a wy3e strange,
An outcomlyng, a carle? We kylle of þyn heued!
Who joyned þe be jostyse oure japez to blame,
Þat com a boy to þis bor3, þa3þou be burne ryche?'
Þus þay þrobled & þrong & þrwe vmbe his
erez,
& distresed hym wonder strayt with strenkþe in þe prece,
Bot þat þe 3onge men, so 3epe, 3ornen þeroute,
Wapped vpon þe wyket & wonnen hem tylle,
& by þe hondez hym hent & horyed hym withinne,
& steken þe 3ates ston-harde wyth stalworth barrez.
Þay blwe a boffet inblande þat banned peple,
Þat þay blustered, as blynde as Bayard watz euer;
Þay lest of Lotez logging any lysoun to fynde,
Bot nyteled þer alle þe ny3t for no3t at þe last.
Þenne vch tolke ty3t hem, þat hade of tayt fayled,
& vchon roþeled to þe rest þat he reche mo3t;
Bot þay wern wakned al wrank þat þer in won lenged,
Of on þe vglokest vnhap þat euer on erd suffred.
Ruddon of þe day-rawe ros vpon v3ten,
When merk of þe mydny3t mo3t no more last.
Ful erly þose aungelez þis haþel þay ruþen,
& glopnedly on Godez halue gart hym vpryse;
Fast þe freke ferkez vp ful ferd at his hert;
Þay comaunded hym cof to cach þat he hade,
'Wyth þy wyf & þy wy3ez & þy wlonc de3tters,
For we laþe þe, sir Loth, þat þou þy lyf haue.
Cayre tid of þis kythe er combred þou worþe,
With alle þi here vpon haste, tyl þou a hil fynde;
Foundez faste on your fete; bifore your face lokes,
Bot bes neuer so bolde to blusch yow bihynde,
& loke 3e stemme no stepe, bot strechez on faste;
Til 3e reche to a reset, rest 3e neuer.
For we schal tyne þis toun & trayþely disstrye,
Wyth alle þise wy3ez so wykke wy3tly devoyde,
& alle þe londe with þise ledez we losen at onez;
Sodomas schal ful sodenly synk into grounde,
& þe grounde of Gomorre gorde into helle,
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& vche a koste of þis kythe clater vpon hepes.'
Þen laled Loth: 'Lorde, what is best?
If I me fele vpon fote þat I fle mo3t,
Hov schulde I huyde me fro H[y]m þat hatz His hate kynned
In þe brath of His breth þat brennez alle þinkez?
To crepe fro my Creatour & know not wheder,
Ne wheþer His foo.chip me fol3ez bifore oþer bihynde.'
Þe freke sayde: 'No foschip oure Fader hatz þe schewed,
Bot hi3ly heuened þi hele fro hem þat arn combred.
Nov wale þe a wonnyng þat þe warisch my3t,
& He schal saue hit for þy sake þat hatz vus sende hider,
For þou art oddely þyn one out of þis fylþe,
& als Abraham þyn eme hit at Himself asked.'
'Lorde, loued He worþe,' quoþ Loth, 'vpon erþe!
Þen is a cite herbisyde þat Segor hit hatte,
Here vtter on a rounde hil hit houez hit one.
I wolde, if His wylle wore, to þat won scape.'
'Þenn fare forth,' quoþ þat fre, '& fyne þou neuer,
With þose ilk þat þow wylt þat þrenge þe
after,
& ay goande on your gate, wythouten agayn-tote,
For alle þis londe schal be lorne longe er þe sonne rise.'
Þe wy3e wakened his wyf & his wlonk de3teres,
& oþer two myri men þo maydenez schulde wedde;
& þay token hit as tyt & tented hit lyttel;
Þa3fast laþed hem Loth, þay le3en ful stylle.
Þe aungelez hasted þise oþer & a3ly hem þratten,
& enforsed alle fawre forth at þe 3atez:
Þo wern Loth & his lef, his luflyche de3ter;
Þer so3t no mo to sauement of cities aþel fyue.
Þise aungelez hade hem by hande out at þe 3atez,
Prechande hem þe perile, & beden hem passe fast:
'Lest 3e be taken in þe teche of tyrauntez here,
Loke 3e bowe now bi bot; bowez fast hence!'
& þay kayre ne con, & kenely flowen.
Erly, er any heuen-glem, þay to a hil comen.
Þe grete God in His greme bygynnez on lofte
To wakan wederez so wylde; þe wyndez He callez,
& þay wroþely vpwafte & wrastled togeder,
Fro fawre half of þe folde flytande loude.
Clowdez clustered bytwene kesten vp torres,
Þat þe þik þunder-þrast þirled hem ofte.
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Þe rayn rueled adoun, ridlande þikke
Of felle flaunkes of fyr & flakes of soufre,
Al in smolderande smoke smachande ful ille,
Swe aboute Sodamas & hit sydez alle,
Gorde to Gomorra, þat þe grounde laused,
Abdama & Syboym, þise ceteis alle faure
Al birolled wyth þe rayn, rostted & brenned,
& ferly flayed þat folk þat in þose fees lenged.
For when þat þe Helle herde þe houndez of heuen,
He watz ferlyly fayn, vnfolded bylyue;
Þe grete barrez of þe abyme he barst vp at onez,
Þat alle þe regioun torof in riftes ful grete,
& clouen alle in lyttel cloutes þe clyffez aywhere,
As lauce leuez of þe boke þat lepes in twynne.
Þe brethe of þe brynston bi þat hit blende were,
Al þo citees & her sydes sunkken to helle.
Rydelles wern þo grete rowtes of renkkes withinne,
When þay wern war of þe wrake þat no wy3e achaped;
Such a 3omerly 3arm of 3ellyng þer rysed,
Þerof clatered þe cloudes, þat Kryst my3t haf rawþe.
Þe segge herde þat soun to Segor þat 3ede,
& þe wenches hym wyth þat by þe way fol3ed;
Ferly ferde watz her flesch þat flowen ay ilyche,
Trynande ay a hy3e trot, þat torne neuer dorsten.
Loth & þo luly-whit, his lefly two de3ter,
Ay fol3ed here face, bifore her boþe y3en;
Bot þe balleful burde, þat neuer bode keped,
Blusched byhynden her bak þat bale for to herkken.
Hit watz lusty Lothes wyf þat ouer he[r] lyfte schulder
Ones ho bluschet to þe bur3e, bot bod ho no lenger
Þat ho nas stadde a stiffe ston, a stalworth image,
Al so salt as ani se, & so ho 3et standez.
Þay slypped bi & sy3e hir not þat wern hir samen-feres,
Tyl þay in Segor wern sette, & sayned our Lorde;
Wyth ly3t louez vplyfte þay loued Hym swyþe,
Þat so His seruauntes wolde see & saue of such woþe.
Al watz dampped & don & drowned by þenne;
Þe ledez of þat lyttel toun wern lopen out for drede
Into þat malscrande mere, marred bylyue,
Þat no3t saued watz bot Segor, þat sat on a lawe.
Þe þre ledez þerin, Loth & his de3ter;
For his make watz myst, þat on þe mount lenged
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In a stonen statue þat salt sauor habbes,
For two fautes þat þe fol watz founde in mistrauþe:
On, ho serued at þe soper salt bifore Dry3tyn,
& syþen, ho blusched hir bihynde, þa3hir forboden were;
For on ho standes a ston, & salt for þat oþer,
& alle lyst on hir lik þat arn on launde bestes.
Abraham ful erly watz vp on þe morne,
Þat alle na3t much niye hade no mon in his hert,
Al in longing for Loth leyen in a wache;
Þer he lafte hade oure Lorde he is on lofte wonnen;
He sende toward Sodomas þe sy3t of his y3en,
Þat euer hade ben an erde of erþe þe swettest,
As aparaunt to paradis, þat plantted þe Dry3tyn;
Nov is hit plunged in a pit like of pich fylled.
Suche a roþun of a reche ros fro þe blake,
Askez vpe in þe arye & vsellez þer flowen,
As a fornes ful of flot þat vpon fyr boyles
When bry3t brennande brondez ar bet þeranvnder.
Þis watz a uengaunce violent þat voyded þise places,
Þat foundered hatz so fayr a folk & þe folde sonkken.
Þer þe fyue citees wern set nov is a see called,
Þat ay is drouy & dym, & ded in hit kynde,
Blo, blubrande, & blak, vnblyþe to ne3e;
As a stynkande stanc þat stryed synne,
Þat euer of synne & of smach smart is to fele.
Forþy þe derk Dede See hit is demed euermore,
For hit dedez of deþe duren þere 3et;
For hit is brod & boþemlez, & bitter as þe galle,
& no3t may lenge in þat lake þat any lyf berez,
& alle þe costez of kynde hit combrez vchone.
For lay þeron a lump of led, & hit on loft fletez,
& folde þeron a ly3t fyþer, & hit to founs synkkez;
& þer water may walter to wete any erþe
Schal neuer grene þeron growe, gresse ne wod nawþer.
If any schalke to be schent wer schowued þerinne,
Þa3he bode in þat boþem broþely a monyth,
He most ay lyue in þat lo3e in losyng euermore,
& neuer dry3e no dethe to dayes of ende.
& as hit is corsed of kynde & hit coo.tez als,
Þe clay þat clenges þerby arn corsyes strong,
As alum & alkaran, þat angre arn boþe,
Soufre sour & saundyuer, & oþer such mony;
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& þer waltez of þat water in waxlokes grete
Þe spuniande aspaltoun þat spyserez sellen;
& suche is alle þe soyle by þat se halues,
Þat fel fretes þe flesch & festred bones.
& þer ar tres by þat terne of traytoures,
& þay borgounez & beres blomez ful fayre,
& þe fayrest fryt þat may on folde growe,
As orenge & oþer fryt & apple-garnade,
Also red & so ripe & rychely hwed
As any dom my3t deuice of dayntyez oute;
Bot quen hit is brused oþer broken, oþer byten in twynne,
No worldez goud hit wythinne, bot wyndowande askes.
Alle þyse ar teches & tokenes to trow vpon 3et,
& wittnesse of þat wykked werk, & þe wrake after
Þat oure Fader forferde for fylþe of þose ledes.
Þenne vch wy3e may wel wyt þat He þe wlonk louies;
& if He louyes clene layk þat is oure Lorde ryche,
& to be couþe in His courte þou coueytes þenne,
To se þat Semly in sete & His swete face,
Clerrer counseyl, counseyl con I non, bot þat þou clene
worþe.
For Clopyngnel in þe compas of his clene Rose,
Þer he expounez a speche to hym þat spede wolde
Of a lady to be loued: 'Loke to hir sone
Of wich beryng þat ho be, & wych ho best louyes,
& be ry3t such in vch a bor3e of body & of dedes,
& fol3þe fet of þat fere þat þou fre haldes;
& if þou wyrkkes on þis wyse, þa3ho wyk were,
Hir schal lyke þat layk þat lyknes hir tylle.'
If þou wyl dele drwrye wyth Dry3tyn þenne,
& lelly louy þy Lorde & His leef worþe,
Þenne confourme þe to Kryst, & þe clene make,
Þat euer is polyced als playn as þe perle seluen.
For, loke, fro fyrst þat He ly3t withinne þe lel mayden,
By how comly a kest He watz clos þere,
When venkkyst watz no vergynyte, ne vyolence maked,
Bot much clener watz hir corse, God kynned þerinne.
& efte when He borne watz in Beþelen þe ryche,
In wych puryte þay departed; þa3þay pouer were,
Watz neuer so blysful a bour as watz a bos þenne,
Ne no schroude hous so schene as a schepon þare,
Ne non so glad vnder God as ho þat grone schulde.
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For þer watz seknesse al sounde þat sarrest is halden,
& þer watz rose reflayr where rote hatz ben euer,
& þer watz solace & songe wher sor3hatz ay cryed;
For aungelles with instrumentes of organes & pypes,
& rial ryngande rotes & þe reken fyþel,
& alle hende þat honestly mo3t an hert glade,
Aboutte my lady watz lent quen ho delyuer were.
Þenne watz her blyþe Barne burnyst so clene
Þat boþe þe ox & þe asse Hym hered at ones;
Þay knewe Hym by His clannes for Kyng of nature,
For non so clene of such a clos com neuer er þenne.
& 3if clanly He þenne com, ful cortays þerafter,
Þat alle þat longed to luþer ful lodly He hated,
By nobleye of His norture He nolde neuer towche
O3t þat watz vngoderly oþer ordure watz inne.
3et comen lodly to þat Lede, as lazares monye,
Summe lepre, summe lome, & lomerande blynde,
Poysened, & parlatyk, & pyned in fyres,
Drye folk & ydropike, & dede at þe laste,
Alle called on þat Cortayse & claymed His grace.
He heled hem wyth hynde speche of þat þay ask after,
For whatso He towched also tyd tourned to hele,
Wel clanner þen any crafte cowþe devyse.
So clene watz His hondelyng vche ordure hit schonied,
& þe gropyng so goud of God & Man boþe,
Þat for fetys of His fyngeres fonded He neuer
Nauþer to cout ne to kerue with knyf ne wyth egge;
Forþy brek He þe bred blades wythouten,
For hit ferde freloker in fete in His fayre honde,
Displayed more pryuyly when He hit part schulde,
Þenne alle þe toles of Tolowse mo3t ty3t hit to kerue.
Þus is He kyryous & clene þat þou His cort askes:
Hov schulde þou com to His kyth bot if þou clene were?
Nov ar we sore & synful & sovly vchone;
How schulde we se, þen may we say, þat Syre vpon throne?
3is, þat Mayster is mercyable, þa3þou be man fenny,
& al tomarred in myre whyle þou on molde lyuyes;
Þou may schyne þur3schryfte, þa3þou haf
schome serued,
& pure þe with penaunce tyl þou a perle worþe.
Perle praysed is prys þer perre is schewed,
Þa3hym not derrest be demed to dele for penies.
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Quat may þe cause be called bot for hir clene hwes,
Þat wynnes worschyp abof alle whyte stones?
For ho schynes so schyr þat is of schap rounde,
Wythouten faut oþer fylþe 3if ho fyn were,
& wax euer in þe worlde in weryng so olde,
3et þe perle payres not whyle ho in pyese lasttes;
& if hit cheue þe chaunce vncheryst ho worþe,
Þat ho blyndes of ble in bour þer ho lygges,
Nobot wasch hir wyth wourchyp in wyn as ho askes,
Ho by kynde schal becom clerer þen are.
So if folk be defowled by vnfre chaunce,
Þat he be sulped in sawle, seche to schryfte,
& he may polyce hym at þe prest, by penaunce taken,
Wel bry3ter þen þe beryl oþer browden perles.
Bot war þe wel, if þou be waschen wyth water of schryfte,
& polysed als playn as parchmen schauen,
Sulp no more þenne in synne þy saule þerafter,
For þenne þou Dry3tyn dyspleses with dedes ful sore,
& entyses Hym to tene more trayþly þen euer,
& wel hatter to hate þen hade þou no waschen.
For when a sawele is sa3tled & sakred to Dry3tyn,
He holly haldes hit His & haue hit He wolde;
Þenne efte lastes hit likkes, He loses hit ille,
As hit were rafte wyth vnry3t & robbed wyth þewes.
War þe þenne for þe wrake: His wrath is achaufed
For þat þat ones watz His schulde efte be vnclene,
Þa3hit be bot a bassyn, a bolle oþer a scole,
A dysche oþer a dobler, þat Dry3tyn onez serued.
To defowle hit euer vpon folde fast He forbedes,
So is He scoymus of scaþe þat scylful is euer.
& þat watz bared in Babyloyn in Baltazar tyme,
Hov harde vnhap þer hym hent & hastyly sone,
For he þe vesselles avyled þat vayled in þe temple
In seruyse of þe Souerayn sumtyme byfore.
3if 3e wolde ty3t me a tom telle hit I wolde,
Hov charged more watz his chaunce þat hem cherych nolde
Þen his fader forloyne þat feched hem wyth strenþe,
& robbed þe relygioun of relykes alle.
Danyel in his dialokez devysed sumtyme,
As 3et is proued expresse in his profecies,
Hov þe gentryse of Juise & Jherusalem þe ryche
Watz disstryed wyth distres, & drawen to þe erþe.
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For þat folke in her fayth watz founden vntrwe,
Þat haden hy3t þe hy3e God to halde of Hym euer;
& He hem hal3ed for His & help at her nede
In mukel meschefes mony, þat meruayl [is] to here.
& þay forloyne her fayth & fol3ed oþer goddes,
& þat wakned His wrath & wrast hit so hy3e
Þat He fylsened þe faythful in þe falce lawe
To forfare þe falce in þe faythe trwe.
Hit watz sen in þat syþe þat Zedethyas rengned
In Juda, þat justised þe Juyne kynges.
He sete on Salamones solie on solemne wyse,
Bot of leaute he watz lat to his Lorde hende:
He vsed abominaciones of idolatrye,
& lette ly3t bi þe lawe þat he watz lege tylle.
Forþi oure Fader vpon folde a foman hym wakned:
Nabigodenozar nuyed hym swyþe.
He pursued into Palastyn with proude men mony,
& þer he wast wyth with werre þe wones of þorpes;
He her3ed vp alle Israel & hent of þe beste,
& þe gentylest of Judee in Jerusalem biseged,
Vmbewalt alle þe walles wyth wy3es ful stronge,
At vche a dor a do3ty duk, & dutte hem wythinne;
For þe bor3watz so bygge baytayled alofte,
& stoffed wythinne with stout men to stalle hem þeroute.
Þenne watz þe sege sette þe cete aboute,
Skete skarmoch skelt, much skaþe lached;
At vch brugge a berfray on basteles wyse
Þat seuen syþe vch a day asayled þe 3ates;
Trwe tulkkes in toures teueled wythinne,
In bigge brutage of borde bulde on þe walles;
Þay fe3t & þay fende of, & fylter togeder
Til two 3er ouertorned, 3et tok þay hit neuer.
At þe laste, vpon longe, þo ledes wythinne,
Faste fayled hem þe fode, enfannined monie;
Þe hote hunger wythinne hert hem wel sarre
Þen any dunt of þat douthe þat dowelled þeroute.
Þenne wern þo rowtes redles in þo ryche wones;
Fro þat mete watz myst, megre þay wexen,
& þay stoken so strayt þat þay ne stray my3t
A fote fro þat forselet to forray no goudes.
Þenne þe kyng of þe kyth a counsayl hym takes
Wyth þe best of his burnes, a blench for to make;
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Þay stel out on a stylle ny3t er any steuen rysed,
& harde hurles þur3þe oste er enmies hit wyste.
Bot er þay atwappe ne mo3t þe wach wythoute
Hi3e skelt watz þe askry þe skewes anvnder.
Loude alarom vpon launde lulted watz þenne;
Ryche, ruþed of her rest, ran to here wedes,
Hard hattes þay hent & on hors lepes;
Cler claryoun crak cryed on lofte.
By þat watz alle on a hepe hurlande swyþee,
Fol3ande þat oþer flote, & fonde hem bilyue,
Ouertok hem as tyd, tult hem of sadeles,
Tyl vche prynce hade his per put to þe grounde.
& þer watz þe kyng ka3t wyth Calde prynces,
& alle hise gentyle forjusted on Jerico playnes,
& presented wern as presoneres to þe prynce rychest,
Nabigodenozar, noble in his chayer;
& he þe faynest freke þat he his fo hade,
& speke spitously hem to, & spylt þerafter.
Þe kynges sunnes in his sy3t he slow euervch one,
& holkked out his auen y3en heterly boþe,
& bede þe burne to be bro3t to Babyloyn þe ryche,
& þere in dongoun be don to dre3e þer his wyrdes.
Now se, so þe Soueray[n] set hatz His wrake:
Nas hit not for Nabugo ne his noble nauþer
Þat oþer depryued watz of pryde with paynes stronge,
Bot for his beryng so badde agayn his blyþe Lorde;
For hade þe Fader ben his frende, þat hym bifore keped,
Ne neuer trespast to Him in teche of mysseleue,
To colde wer alle Calde & kythes of Ynde,
3et take Torkye hem wyth, her tene hade ben little.
3et nolde neuer Nabugo þis ilke note leue
Er he hade tuyred þis toun & torne hit to grounde.
He joyned vnto Jerusalem a gentyle duc þenne,
His name watz Nabuzardan, to noye þe Jues;
He watz mayster of his men & my3ty himseluen,
Þe chef of his cheualrye his chekkes to make;
He brek þe bareres as bylyue, & þe bur3after,
& enteres in ful ernestly, in yre of his hert.
What! þe maysterry watz mene: þe men wern away,
Þe best bo3ed wyth þe burne þat þe bor33emed,
& þo þat byden wer [s]o biten with þe bale hunger
Þat on wyf hade ben worþe þe welgest fourre.
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Nabizardan no3t forþy nolde not spare,
Bot bede al to þe bronde vnder bare egge;
Þay slowen of swettest semlych burdes,
Baþed barnes in blod & her brayn spylled;
Prestes & prelates þay presed to deþe,
Wyues & wenches her wombes tocoruen,
Þat her boweles outborst aboute þe diches,
& al watz carfully kylde þat þay cach my3t.
And alle swypped, vnswol3ed of þe sworde kene,
Þay wer cagged & ka3t on capeles al bare,
Festned fettres to her fete vnder fole wombes,
& broþely bro3t to Babyloyn þer bale to suffer,
To sytte in seruage & syte, þat sumtyme wer gentyle.
Now ar chaunged to chorles & charged wyth werkkes,
Boþe to cayre at þe kart & þe kuy mylke,
Þat sumtyme sete in her sale syres & burdes.
& 3et Nabuzardan nyl neuer stynt
Er he to þe tempple tee wyth his tulkkes alle;
Betes on þe barers, brestes vp þe 3ates,
Slouen alle at a slyp þat serued þerinne,
Pulden prestes bi þe polle & plat of her hedes,
Di3ten dekenes to deþe, dungen doun clerkkes,
& alle þe maydenes of þe munster ma3tyly hokyllen
Wyth þe swayf of þe sworde þat swol3ed hem alle.
Þenne ran þay to þe relykes as robbors wylde,
& pyled alle þe apparement þat pented to þe kyrke,
Þe pure pyleres of bras pourtrayd in golde,
& þe chef chaundeler charged with þe ly3t,
Þat ber þe lamp vpon lofte þat lemed euermore
Bifore þ[e] sancta sanctorumþer
selcouth watz ofte.
Þay ca3t away þat condelstik, & þe crowne als
Þat þe auter hade vpon, of aþel golde ryche,
Þe gredirne & þe goblotes garnyst of syluer,
Þe bases of þe bry3t postes & bassynes so schyre,
Dere disches of golde & dubleres fayre,
Þe vyoles & þe vesselment of vertuous stones.
Now hatz Nabuzardan nomen alle þyse noble þynges,
& pyled þat precious place & pakked þose godes;
Þe golde of þe gazafylace to swyþe gret noumbre,
Wyth alle þe vrnmentes of þat hous, he hamppred togeder;
Alle he spoyled spitously in a sped whyle
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Þat Salomon so mony a sadde 3er so3t to make.
Wyth alle þe coyntyse þat he cowþe clene to wyrke,
Deuised he þe vesselment, þe vestures clene;
Wyth sly3t of his ciences, his Souerayn to loue,
Þe hous & þe anournementes he hy3tled togedere.
Now hatz Nabuzardan numnend hit al samen,
& syþen bet doun þe bur3& brend hit in askes.
Þenne wyth legiounes of ledes ouer londes he rydes,
Her3ez of Israel þe hyrne aboute;
Wyth charged chariotes þe cheftayn he fynde,
Bikennes þe catel to þe kyng, þat he ca3t hade;
Presented him þe prisoneres in pray þat þay token,
Moni a worþly wy3e whil her worlde laste,
Moni semly syre soun, & swyþe rych maydenes,
Þe pruddest of þe prouince, & prophetes childer,
As Ananie & Azarie & als Mizael,
& dere Daniel also, þat watz deuine noble,
With moni a modey moder-chylde mo þen innoghe.
& Nabugo_de_nozar makes much joye,
Nov he þe kyng hatz conquest & þe kyth wunnen,
& dreped alle þe do3tyest & derrest in armes,
& þe lederes of her lawe layd to þe grounde,
& þe pryce of þe profetie prisoners maked.
Bot þe joy of þe juelrye so gentyle & ryche,
When hit watz schewed hym so schene, scharp watz his wonder;
Of such vessel auayed, þat vayled so huge,
Neuer 3et nas Nabugo_de_nozar er þenne.
He sesed hem with solemnete, þe Souerayn he praysed
Þat watz aþel ouer alle, Israel Dry3tyn:
Such god, such gomes, such gay vesselles,
Comen neuer out of kyth to Caldee reames.
He trussed hem in his tresorye in a tryed place,
Rekenly, wyth reuerens, as he ry3t hade;
& þer he wro3t as þe wyse, as 3e may wyt hereafter,
For hade he let of hem ly3t, hym mo3t haf lumpen worse.
Þat ryche in gret rialte rengned his lyue,
As conquerour of vche a cost he cayser watz hatte,
Emperour of alle þe erþe & also þe saudan,
& als þe god of þe grounde watz grauen his name.
& al þur3dome of Daniel, fro he deuised hade
Þat alle goudes com of God, & gef hit hym bi samples,
Þat he ful clanly bicnv his carp bi þe laste,
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& ofte hit mekned his mynde, his maysterful werkkes.
Bot al drawes to dy3e with doel vp[o]n ende:
Bi a haþel neuer so hy3e, he heldes to grounde.
& so Nabugo_de_nozar, as he nedes moste,
For alle his empire so hi3e in erþe is he grauen.
Bot þenn þe bolde Baltazar, þat watz his barn aldest,
He watz stalled in his stud, & stabled þe rengne
In þe bur3of Babiloyne, þe biggest he trawed,
Þat nauþer in heuen ne [on] erþe hade no pere;
For he bigan in alle þe glori þat hym þe gome lafte,
Nabugo_de_nozar, þat watz his noble fader.
So kene a kyng in Caldee com neu[er] er þenne;
Bot honoured he not Hym þat in heuen wonies.
Bot fals fantummes of fendes, formed with handes,
Wyth too. out of harde tre, & telded on lofte,
& of stokkes & stones, he stoute goddes callz,
When þay ar gilde al with golde & gered wyth syluer;
& þere he kneles & callez & clepes after help.
& þay reden him ry3t rewarde he hem hetes,
& if þay gruchen him his grace, to gremen his hert,
He cleches to a gret klubbe & knokkes hem to peces.
Þus in pryde & olipraunce his empyre he haldes,
In lust & in lecherye & loþelych werkkes,
& hade a wyf for to welde, a worþelych quene,
& mony a lemman, neuer þe later, þat ladis wer called.
In þe clernes of his concubines & curious wedez,
In notyng of nwe metes & of nice gettes,
Al watz þe mynde of þat man on misschapen þinges,
Til þe Lorde of þe lyfte liste hit abate.
Thenne þis bolde Baltazar biþenkkes hym ones
To vouche on avayment of his vayne g[l]orie;
Hit is not innoghe to þe nice al no3ty þink vse
Bot if alle þe worlde wyt his wykked dedes.
Baltazar þur3Babiloyn his banne gart crye,
& þur3þe cuntre of Caldee his callyng con spryng,
Þat alle þe grete vpon grounde schulde geder hem samen
& assemble at a set day at þe saudans fest.
Such a mangerie to make þe man watz auised,
Þat vche a kythyn kyng schuld com þider,
Vche duk wyth his duthe, & oþer dere lordes,
Schulde com to his court to kyþe hym for lege,
& to reche hym reuerens, & his reuel herkken,
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To loke on his lemanes & ladis hem calle.
To rose hym in his rialty rych men so3tten,
& mony a baroun ful bolde, to Babyloyn þe noble.
Þer bowed toward Babiloyn burnes so mony,
Kynges, cayseres ful kene, to þe court wonnen,
Mony ludisch lordes þat ladies bro3ten,
Þat to neuen þe noumbre to much nye were.
For þe bour3watz so brod & so bigge alce,
Stalled in þe fayrest stud þe sterrez anvnder,
Prudly on a plat playn, plek alþer-fayrest,
Vmbesweyed on vch a syde with seuen grete wateres,
With a wonder wro3t walle wruxeled ful hi3e,
With koynt carneles aboue, coruen ful clene,
Troched toures bitwene, twenty spere lenþe,
& þiker þrowen vmbeþour with ouerþwert palle.
Þe place þat plyed þe pursaunt wythinne
Watz longe & ful large & euer ilych sware,
& vch a syde vpon soyle helde seuen myle,
& þe saudans sete sette in þe myddes.
Þat watz a palayce of pryde passande alle oþer,
Boþe of werk & of wunder, & walle[d] al aboute;
He3e houses withinne, þe halle to hit med,
So brod bilde in a bay þat blonkkes my3t renne.
When þe terme of þe tyde watz towched of þe feste,
Dere dro3en þerto & vpon des metten,
& Baltazar vpon bench was busked to sete,
Stepe stayred stones of his stoute throne.
Þenne watz alle þe halle flor hiled with kny3tes,
& barounes at þe sidebordes bounet aywhere,
For non watz dressed vpon dece bot þe dere seluen,
& his clere concubynes in cloþes ful bry3t.
When alle segges were þet set þen seruyse bygynnes,
Sturnen trumpen strake steuen in halle,
Aywhere by þe wowes wrasten krakkes,
& brode baneres þerbi blusnande of gold,
Burnes berande þe bredes vpon brode skeles
Þat were of sylueren sy3t, & served þerwyth,
Lyfte logges þerouer & on lofte coruen,
Pared out of paper & poynted of golde,
Broþe baboynes abof, besttes anvnder,
Foles in foler flakerande bitwene,
& al in asure & ynde enaumayld ryche;
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& al on blonkken bak bere hit on honde.
& ay þe nakeryn noyse, notes of pipes,
Tymbres & tabornes, tulket among,
Symbales & sonetez sware þe noyse,
& bougounz busch batered so þikke.
So watz serued fele syþe þe sale alle aboute,
With solace at þe sere course, bifore þe self lorde,
Þer þe lede & alle his loue lenged at þe table:
So faste þay we3ed to him wyne hit warmed his hert
& breyþed vppe into his brayn & blemyst his mynde,
& al waykned his wyt, & welne3e he foles;
For he waytez on wyde, his wenches he byholdes,
& his bolde baronage aboute bi þe wo3es.
Þenne a dotage ful depe drof to his hert,
& a caytif counsayl he ca3t bi hymseluen;
Maynly his marschal þe mayster vpon calles,
& comaundes hym cofly coferes to lauce,
& fech forþ þe vessel þat his fader bro3t,
Nabugo_de_nozar, noble in his strenþe,
Conquered with his kny3tes & of kyrk rafte
In Jude, in Jerusalem, in gentyle wyse:
'Bryng hem now to my borde, of beuerage hem fylles,
Let þise ladyes of hem lape, I luf hem in hert;
Þat schal I cortaysly kyþe, & þay schin knawe sone,
Þer is no bounte in burne lyk Baltazar þewes.'
Þenne towched to þe tresour þis tale watz sone,
& he with keyes vncloses kystes ful mony;
Mony burþen ful bry3t watz bro3t into halle,
& couered mony a cupborde with cloþes ful quite.
Þe jueles out of Jerusalem with gemmes ful bry3t
Bi þe syde of þe sale were semely arayed;
Þe aþel auter of brasse watz hade into place,
Þe gay coroun of golde gered on lofte.
Þat hade ben blessed bifore wyth bischopes hondes
& wyth besten blod busily anoynted,
In þe solempne sacrefyce þat goud sauor hade
Bifore þe Lorde of þe lyfte in louyng Hymseluen,
Now is sette, for to serue Satanas þe blake,
Bifore þe bolde Baltazar wyth bost & wyth pryde;
Houen vpon þis auter watz aþel vessel
Þat wyth [s]o curious a crafte coruen watz wyly.
Salamon sete him s[eue]n 3ere & a syþe more,
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With alle þe syence þat hym sende þe souerayn Lorde,
For to compas & kest to haf hem clene wro3t.
For þer wer bassynes ful bry3t of brende golde clere,
Enaumaylde with azer, & eweres of sute,
Couered cowpes foul clene, as casteles arayed,
Enbaned vnder batelment with bantelles quoynt,
& fyled out of fygures of ferlyle schappes.
Þe coperounes of þe canacles þat on þe cuppe reres
Wer fetysely formed out in fylyoles longe;
Pinacles py3t þer apert þat profert bitwene,
& al bolled abof with braunches & leues,
Pyes & papejayes purtrayed withinne,
As þay prudly hade piked of pomgarnades;
For alle þe blomes of þe bo3es wer blyknande perles,
& alle þe fruyt in þo formes of flaumbeande gemmes,
Ande safyres, & sardiners, & semely topace,
Alabaundarynes, & amaraunz, & amaffised stones,
Casydoynes, & crysolytes, & clere rubies,
Penitotes, & pynkardines, ay perles bitwene;
So trayled & tryfled atrauerce wer alle,
Bi vche bekyrande þe bolde, þe brurdes al vmbe;
Þe gobelotes of golde grauen aboute,
& fyoles fretted with flores & fleez of golde;
Vpon þat avter watz al aliche dresset.
Þe candelstik bi a cost watz cayred þider sone,
Vpon þe pyleres apyked, þat praysed hit mony,
Vpon hit basez of brasse þat ber vp þe werkes,
Þe bo3es bry3t þerabof, brayden of golde,
Braunches bredande þeron, & bryddes þer seten
Of mony kyndes, of fele kyn hues,
As þay with wynge vpon wynde hade waged her fyþeres.
Inmong þe leues of þe lampes wer grayþed,
& oþer louflych ly3t þat lemed ful fayre,
As mony morteres of wax merkked withoute
With mony a borlych best al of brende golde.
Hit watz not wonte in þat wone to wast no serges,
Bot in temple of þe trauþe trwly to stonde
Bifore þe sancta sanctorum, soþefast Dry3tyn
Expouned His speche spiritually to special prophetes.
Leue þou wel þat þe Lorde þat þe lyfte 3emes
Displesed much at þat play in þat plyt stronge,
Þat His jueles so gent wyth jaueles wer fouled,
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Þat presyous in His presens wer proued sumwhyle.
Soberly in His sacrafyce summe wer anoynted,
Þur3þe somones of Himselfe þat syttes so hy3e;
Now a boster on benche bibbes þerof
Tyl he be dronkken as þe deuel, & dotes þer he syttes.
So þe Worcher of þis worlde wlates þerwyth
Þat in þe poynt of her play He poruayes a mynde;
Bot er harme hem He wolde in haste of His yre,
He wayned hem a warnyng þat wonder hem þo3t.
Nov is alle þis guere geten glotounes to serue,
Stad in a ryche stal, & stared ful bry3t[e];
Baltazar in a brayd: 'Bede vus þerof!
We3e wyn in þis won! Wassayl!' he cryes.
Swyfte swaynes ful swyþe swepen þertylle,
Kyppe kowpes in honde kyngez to serue;
In bry3t bollez ful bayn birlen þise oþer,
& vche mon for his mayster machches alone.
Þer watz rynging, on ry3t, of ryche metalles,
Quen renkkes in þat ryche rok rennen hit to cache;
Clatering of couaclez þat kesten þo burdes
As sonet out of sau[t]eray songe als myry.
Þen þe dotel on dece drank þat he my3t;
& þenne arn dressed dukez & prynces,
Concubines & kny3tes, bi cause of þat merthe;
As vchon hade hym inhelde he haled of þe cuppe.
So long likked þise lordes þise lykores swete,
& gloryed on her falce goddes, & her grace calles,
Þat were of stokkes & stones, stille euermore,
Neuer steuen hem astel, so stoken [is] hor tonge.
Alle þe goude golden goddes þe gaulez 3et neuenen,
Belfagor & Belyal, & Belssabub als,
Heyred hem as hy3ly as heuen wer þayres,
Bot Hym þat alle goudes giues, þat God þay for3eten.
For þer a ferly bifel þat fele folk se3en;
Fryst knew hit þe kyng & alle þe cort after:
In þe palays pryncipale, vpon þe playn wowe,
In contrary of þe candelstik, þat clerest hit schyned,
Þer apered a paume, with poyntel in fyngres,
Þat watz grysly & gret, & grymly he wrytes;
Non oþer forme bot a fust faylande þe wryste
Pared on þe parget, purtrayed lettres.
When þat bolde Baltazar blusched to þat neue,
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Such a dasande drede dusched to his hert
Þat al falewed his face & fayled þe chere;
Þe stronge strok of þe stonde strayned his joyntes,
His cnes cachches toclose, & cluchches his hommes,
& he with plattyng his paumes displayes his ler[e]s,
& romyes as a rad ryth þat rorez for drede,
Ay biholdand þe honde til hit hade al grauen
& rasped on þe ro3wo3e runisch sauez.
When hit þe scrypture hade scraped wyth a strof penne,
As a coltour in clay cerues þo for3es,
Þenne hit vanist verayly & voyded of sy3t,
Bt þe lettres bileued ful large vpon plaster.
Sone so þe kynge for his care carping my3t wynne,
He bede his burnes bo3to þat were bok-lered,
To wayte þe wryt þat hit wolde, & wyter hym to say,
'For al hit frayes my flesche, þe fyngres so grymme.'
Scoleres skelten þeratte þe skyl for to fynde,
Bot þer watz neuer on so wyse couþe on worde rede,
Ne what ledisch lore ne langage nauþer,
What tyþyng ne tale tokened þo dra3tes.
Þenne þe bolde Baltazar bred ner wode,
& ede þe cete to seche segges þur3out
Þat wer wyse of wychecrafte, & warla3es oþer
Þat con dele wyth demerlayk & deuine lettres.
'Calle hem alle to my cort, þo Calde clerkkes,
Vnfolde hem alle þis ferly þat is bifallen here,
& calle wyth a hi3e cry: "He þat þe kyng wysses,
In expounyng of speche þat spredes in þise lettres,
& make þe mater to malt my mynde wythinne,
Þat I may wyterly wyt what þat wryt menes,
He schal be gered ful gaye in gounes of porpre,
& a coler of cler golde clos vmbe his þrote;
He schal be prymate & prynce of pure clergye,
& of my þreuenest lordez þe þrydde he schal,
& of my reme þe rychest to ryde wyth myseluen,
Outtaken bare two, & þenne he þe þrydde."'
Þis cry watz vpcaste, & þer comen mony
Clerkes out of Caldye þat kennest wer knauen,
As þe sage sathrapas þat sorsory couþe,
Wychez & walkyries wonnen to þat sale,
Deuinores of demorlaykes þat dremes cowþe rede,
Sorsers & exorsismus & fele such clerkes;
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& alle þat loked on þat letter as lewed þay were
As þay had loked in þe leþer of my lyft bote.
Þenne cryes þe kyng & kerues his wedes.
What! he corsed his clerkes & calde hem chorles;
To henge þe harlotes he he3ed ful ofte:
So watz þe wy3e wytles he wed wel ner.
Ho herde hym chyde to þe chambre þat watz þe chef quene.
When ho watz wytered bi wy3es what watz þe cause,
Suche a chaungande chaunce in þe chef halle,
Þe lady, to lauce þat los þat þe lorde hade,
Glydes doun by þe grece & gos to þe kyng.
Ho kneles on þe colde erþe & carpes to hymseluen
Wordes of worchyp wyth a wys speche.
'Kene kyng,' quoþ þe quene, 'kayser of vrþe,
Euer laste þy lyf in lenþe of dayes!
Why hatz þou rended þy robe for redles hereinne,
Þa3þose ledes ben lewed lettres to rede,
& hatz a haþel in þy holde, as I haf herde ofte,
Þat hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes?
His sawle is ful of syence, sa3es to schawe,
To open vch a hide þyng of aunteres vncowþe.
Þat is he þat ful ofte hatz heuened þy fader
Of mony anger ful hote with his holy speche.
When Nabugo_de_nozar watz nyed in stoundes,
He devysed his dremes to þe dere trawþe;
He keuered hym with his counsayl of caytyf wyrdes;
Alle þat he spured hym, in space he expowned clene,
Þur3þe sped of þe spyryt, þat sprad hym withinne,
Of þe godelest goddez þat gaynes aywhere.
For his depe diuinite & his dere sawes,
Þy bolde fader Baltazar bede by his name,
Þat now is demed Danyel, of derne coninges,
Þat ca3t watz in þe captyuide in cuntre of Jues;
Nabuzardan hym nome, & now is he here,
A prophete of þat prouince & pryce of þe worlde.
Sende into þe cete to seche hym bylyue,
& wynne hym with þe worchyp to wayne þe bote;
& þa3þe mater be merk þat merked is 3ender,
He schal declar hit also as hit on clay stande.'
Þat gode counseyl at þe quene watz cached as swyþe;
Þe burne byfore Baltazar watz bro3t in a whyle.
When he com bifore þe kyng & clanly had halsed,
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Baltazar vmbebrayde hym, & 'Leue sir,' he sayde,
'Hit is tolde me bi tulkes þat þou trwe were
Profete of þat prouynce þat prayed my fader,
Ande þat þou hatz in þy hert holy connyng,
Of sapyence þi sawle ful, soþes to schawe;
Goddes gost is þe geuen þat gyes alle þynges,
& þou vnhyles vch hidde þat Heuen-Kyng myntes.
& here is a ferly byfallen, & I fayn wolde
Wyt þe wytte of þe wryt þat on þe wowe clyues,
For alle Calde clerkes han cowwardely fayled.
If þou with quayntyse con quere hit, I quyte þe þy mede:
For if þou redes hit by ry3t & hit to resoun brynges,
Fyrst telle me þe tyxte of þe tede lettres,
& syþen þe mater of þe mode mene me þerafter,
& I schal halde þe þe hest þat I þe hy3t haue,
Apyke þe in porpre cloþe, palle alþer-fynest,
& þe by3e of bry3t golde abowte þyn nekke,
& þe þryd þryuenest þat þrynges me after,
Þou schal be baroun vpon benche, bede I þe no lasse.'
Derfly þenne Danyel deles þyse wordes:
'Ryche kyng of þis rengne, rede þe oure Lorde!
Hit is surely soth þe Souerayn of heuen
Fylsened euer þy fader & vpon folde cheryched,
Gart hym grattest to be of gouernores alle,
& alle þe worlde in his wylle welde as hym lykes.
Whoso wolde wel do, wel hym bityde,
& quos deth so he dezyre, he dreped als fast;
Whoso hym lyked to lyft, on lofte watz he sone,
& quoso hym lyked to lay watz lo3ed bylyue.
So watz noted þe note of Nabugo_de_nozar,
Styfly stabled þe rengne bi þe stronge Dry3tyn,
For of þe Hy3est he hade a hope in his hert,
Þat vche pouer past out of þat Prynce euen.
& whyle þat watz cle3t clos in his hert
Þere watz no mon vpon molde of my3t as hymseluen;
Til hit bitide on a tyme towched hym pryde
For his lordeschyp so large & his lyf ryche;
He hade so huge an insy3t to his aune dedes
Þat þe power of þe hy3e Prynce he purely for3etes.
Þenne blynnes he not of blasfemy on to blame þe Dry3tyn;
His my3t mete to Goddes he made with his wordes:
"I am god of þe grounde, to gye as me lykes.
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As He þat hy3e is in heuen, His aungeles þat weldes.
If He hatz formed þe folde & folk þervpone,
I haf bigged Babiloyne, bur3alþer-rychest,
Stabled þerinne vche a ston in strenkþe of myn armes;
Mo3t neuer my3t bot myn make such anoþer."
Watz not þis ilke worde wonnen of his mowþe one
Er þenne þe Souerayn sa3e souned in his eres:
"Now Nabugo_de_nozar inno3e hatz spoken,
Now is alle þy pryncipalte past at ones,
& þou, remued fro monnes sunes, on mor most abide
& in wasturne walk & wyth þe wylde dowelle,
As best, byte on þe bent of braken & erbes,
With wroþe wolfes to won & wyth wylde asses."
Inmydde þe poynt of his pryde departed he þere
Fro þe soly of his solempnete; his solace he leues,
& carfully is outkast to contre vnknawen,
Fer into a fyr fryth þere frekes neuer comen.
His hert heldet vnhole; he hoped non oþer
Bot a best þat he be, a bol oþer an oxe.
He fares forth on alle faure, fogge watz his mete,
& ete ay as a horce when erbes were fallen;
Þus he countes hym a kow þat watz a kyng ryche,
Quyle seuen syþez were ouerseyed, someres I trawe.
By þat mony þik thy3e þry3t vmbe his lyre,
Þat alle watz dubbed & dy3t in þe dew of heuen;
Faxe, fyltered & felt, flosed hym vmbe,
Þat schad fro his schulderes to his schyre wykes,
& twenty-folde twynande hit to his tos ra3t,
Þer mony clyuy as clyde hit cly3t togeder.
His berde ibrad alle his brest to þe bare vrþe,
His browes bresed as breres aboute his brode chekes;
Hol3e were his y3en & vnder campe hores,
& al watz gray as þe glede, with ful grymme clawres
Þat were croked & kene as þe kyte paune;
Erne-hwed he watz & al ouerbrawden,
Til he wyst ful wel who wro3t alle my3tes,
& cowþe vche kyndam tokerue & keuer when Hym lyked.
Þenne He wayned hym his wyt, þat hade wo soffered,
Þat he com to knawlach & kenned hymseluen;
Þenne he loued þat Lorde & leued in trawþe
Hit watz non oþer þen He þat hade al in honde.
Þenne sone watz he sende agayn, his sete restored;
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His barounes bo3ed hym to, blyþe of his come,
Ha3erly in his aune hwe his heued watz couered,
& so 3eply watz 3arked & 3olden his state.
Bot þou, Baltazar, his barne & his bolde ayre,
Se3þese syngnes with sy3t & set hem at lyttel,
Bot ay hatz hofen þy hert agaynes þe hy3e Dry3t[y]n,
With bobaunce & with blasfamye bost at Hym kest,
& now His vessayles avyled in vanyte vnclene,
Þat in His hows Hym to honour were heuened of fyrst;
Bifore þe barounz hatz hom bro3t, & byrled þerinne
Wale wyne to þy wenches in waryed stoundes;
Bifore þy borde hatz þou bro3t beuerage in þede,
Þat blyþely were fyrst blest with bischopes hondes,
Louande þeron lese goddez þat lyf haden neuer,
Made of stokkes & stonez þat neuer styry mo3t.
& for þat froþande fylþe, þe Fader of heuen
Hatz sende into þis sale þise sy3tes vncowþe,
Þe fyste with þe fyngeres þat flayed þi hert,
Þat rasped renyschly þe wo3e with þe ro3penne.
Þise ar þe wordes here wryten, withoute werk more,
By vch fygure, as I fynde, as oure Fader lykes:
Mane, Techal, Phares: merked in þrynne,
Þat þretes þe of þyn vnþryfte vpon þre
wyse.
Now expowne þe þis speche spedly I þenk:
Manemenes als much as "Maynful Gode
Hatz counted þy kyndam bi a clene noumbre,
& fulfylled hit in fayth to þe fyrre ende".
To teche þe of Techal, þat terme þus menes:
"þy wale rengne is walt in we3tes to heng,
& is funde ful fewe of hit fayth-dedes."
& Pharesfol3es for þose fawtes, to frayst þe trawþe;
In Phares fyndeI forsoþe þise felle sa3es:
"Departed is þy pryncipalte, depryued þou worpes,
Þy rengne rafte is þe fro, & ra3t is þe Perses;
Þe Medes schal be maysteres here, & þou of menske schowued."'
Þe kyng comaunded anon to cleþe þat wyse
In frokkes of fyn cloþ, as forward hit asked;
Þenne sone watz Danyel dubbed in ful dere porpor,
& a coler of cler golde kest vmbe his swyre.
Þen watz demed a decre bi þe duk seluen:
Bolde Baltazar bed þat hym bowe schulde
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Þe comynes al of Calde þat to þe kyng longed,
As to þe prynce pryuyest preued þe þrydde,
He3est of alle oþer saf onelych tweyne,
To bo3after Baltazar in bor3e & in felde.
Þys watz cryed & knawen in cort als fast,
& alle þe folk þerof fayn þat fol3ed hym tylle.
Bot howso Danyel watz dy3t, þat day ouer3ede;
Ny3t ne3ed ry3t now with nyes fol mony,
For da3ed neuer anoþer day, þat ilk derk after,
Er dalt were þat ilk dome þat Danyel deuysed.
Þe solace of þe solempnete in þat sale dured
Of þat farand fest, tyl fayled þe sunne;
Þenne blykned þe ble of þe bry3t skwes,
Mourkenes þe mery weder, & þe myst dryues
Þor3þe lyst of þe lyfte, bi þe lo3medoes.
Vche haþel to his home hy3es ful fast,
Seten at her soper & songen þerafter;
Þen foundez vch a fela3schyp fyrre at forþ na3tes.
Baltazar to his bedd with blysse watz caryed;
Reche þe rest as hym lyst: he ros neuer þerafter.
For his foes in þe felde in flokkes ful grete,
Þat longe hade layted þat lede his londes to strye,
Now ar þay sodenly assembled at þe self tyme.
Of hem wyst no wy3e þat in þat won dowelled.
Hit watz þe dere Daryus, þe duk of þise Medes,
Þe prowde prynce of Perce, & Porros of Ynde,
With mony a legioun ful large, with ledes of armes,
Þat now hatz spyed a space to spoyle Caldeez.
Þay þrongen þeder in þe þester on
þrawen hepes,
Asscaped ouer þe skyre watteres & scaþed þe walles,
Lyfte laddres ful longe & vpon lofte wonen,
Stelen stylly þe toun er any steuen rysed.
Withinne an oure of þe niy3t an entre þay hade,
3et afrayed þay no freke. Fyrre þay passen,
& to þe palays pryncipal þay aproched ful stylle,
Þenne ran þay in on a res on rowtes ful grete;
Blastes out of bry3t brasse brestes so hy3e,
Ascry scarred on þe scue, þat scomfyted mony.
Segges slepande were slayne er þay slyppe my3t;
Vche hous heyred watz withinne a hondewhyle.
Baltazar in his bed watz beten to deþe,
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Þat boþe his blod & his brayn blende on þe cloþes;
The kyng in his cortyn watz ka3t bi þe heles,
Feryed out bi þe fete & fowle dispysed.
Þat watz so do3ty þat day & drank of þe vessayl
Now is a dogge also dere þat in a dych lygges.
For þe mayster of þyse Medes on þe morne ryses,
Dere Daryous þat day dy3t vpon trone,
Þat cete seses ful sounde, & sa3tlyng makes
Wyth alle þe barounz þeraboute, þat bowed hym after.
& þus watz þat londe lost for þe lordes synne,
& þe fylþe of þe freke þat defowled hade
Þe ornementes of Goddez hous þat holy were maked.
He watz corsed for his vnclannes, & cached þerinne,
Done doun of his dyngnete for dedez vnfayre,
& of þyse worldes worchyp wrast out for euer,
& 3et of lykynges on lofte letted, I trowe:
To loke on oure lofly Lorde late bitydes.
Þus vpon þrynne wyses I haf yow þro schewed
Þat vnclannes tocleues in corage dere
Of þat wynnelych Lorde þat wonyes in heuen,
Entyses Hym to be tene, telled vp His wrake;
Ande clannes is His comfort, & coyntyse He louyes,
& þose þat seme arn & swete schyn se His face.
Þat we gon gay in oure gere þat grace He vus sende,
Þat we may serue in His sy3t, þer solace neuer blynnez.
Amen.
~ Anonymous Americas,#NFDB
839:Knyghthode And Bataile
A XVth Century Verse Paraphrase of Flavius Vegetius Renatus' Treatise 'DE RE
MILITARI'
Proemium.
Salue, festa dies
i martis,
Mauortis! auete
Kalende. Qua Deus
ad celum subleuat
ire Dauid.
Hail, halyday deuout! Alhail Kalende
Of Marche, wheryn Dauid the Confessour
Commaunded is his kyngis court ascende;
Emanuel, Jhesus the Conquerour,
This same day as a Tryumphatour,
Sette in a Chaire & Throne of Maiestee,
To London is comyn. O Saviour,
Welcome a thousand fold to thi Citee!
And she, thi modir Blessed mot she be
That cometh eke, and angelys an ende,
Wel wynged and wel horsed, hidir fle,
Thousendys on this goo.e approche attende;
And ordir aftir ordir thei commende,
As Seraphin, as Cherubyn, as Throne,
As Domynaunce, and Princys hidir sende;
And, at o woo.d, right welcom euerychone!
But Kyng Herry the Sexte, as Goddes Sone
Or themperour or kyng Emanuel,
To London, welcomer be noo.persone;
O souuerayn Lord, welcom! Now wel, Now wel!
Te Deum to be songen, wil do wel,
And Benedicta Sancta Trinitas!
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Now prosperaunce and peax perpetuel
Shal growe,-and why? ffor here is Vnitas.
Therof to the Vnitee 'Deo gracias'
In Trinitee! The Clergys and Knyghthode
And Comynaltee better accorded nas
Neuer then now; Now nys ther noo. abode,
But out on hem that fordoo. Goddes forbode,
Periurous ar, Rebellovs and atteynte,
So forfaytinge her lyif and lyvelode,
Although Ypocrisie her faytys peynte.
Now, person of Caleys, pray euery Seynte
In hevenys & in erth of help Thavaile.
It is, That in this werk nothing ne feynte,
But that beforn goo. wynde it go ful sayle;
And that not oo.ly prayer But travaile
Heron be sette, Enserche & faste inquere.
Thi litil boo. of knyghthode & bataile,
What Chiualer is best, on it bewere.
Whil Te Deum Laudamus vp goth there
At Paulis, vp to Westmynster go thee;
The Kyng comyng, Honor, Virtus the Quene,
So glad goth vp that blisse it is to see.
Thi bille vnto the Kyng is red, and He
Content withal, and wil it not foryete.
What seith my lord Beaumont? 'Preste, vnto me
Welcom.' (here is tassay, entre to gete).
'Of knyghthode & Bataile, my lord, as trete
The boo.ys olde, a werk is made now late,
And if it please you, it may be gete.'
'What werk is it?' 'Vegetius translate
Into Balade.' 'O preste, I pray the, late
Me se that werk.' 'Therto wil I you wise.
Lo, here it is!' Anon he gan therate
To rede, thus: 'Sumtyme it was the gise'-
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And red therof a part. 'For my seruyse
Heer wil I rede (he seith) as o psaultier.'
'It pleaseth you right wel; wil your aduyse
Suppose that the kyng heryn pleasier
May haue?' 'I wil considir the matier;
I fynde it is right goo. and pertynente
Vnto the kyng; his Celsitude is hier;
I halde it wel doo., hym therwith presente.
Almyghti Maker of the firmament,
O mervailous in euery creature,
So singuler in this most excellent
Persone, our Souuerayn Lord! Of what stature
Is he, what visagynge, how fair feture,
How myghti mad, and how strong in travaile!
In oo.ly God & hym it is tassure
As in a might, that noo.wight dar assaile.
Lo, Souuerayn Lord, of Knyghthode & bataile
This litil werk your humble oratour,
Ye, therwithal your Chiualers, travaile,
Inwith your hert to Crist the Conquerour
Offreth for ye. Ther, yeueth him thonour;
His true thought, accepte it, he besecheth,
Accepte; it is to this Tryumphatour,
That myghti werre exemplifying techeth.
He redeth, and fro poynt to poynt he secheth,
How hath be doo., and what is now to done;
His prouidence on aftirward he strecheth,
By see & lond; he wil provide sone
To chace his aduersaryes euerychone;
Thei hem by lond, thei hem by see asseyle;The Kyng his Oratoure, God graunt his bone,
Ay to prevaile in knyghthode & bataile.
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Amen.
I.
Sumtyme it was the gise among the wise
To rede and write goo.e and myghti thingis,
And have therof the dede in exercise;
Pleasaunce heryn hadde Emperour and Kingis.
O Jesse flour, whos swete odour our Kinge is,
Do me to write of knyghthode and bataile
To thin honour and Chiualers tavaile.
Mankyndys lyfe is mylitatioun,
And she, thi wife, is named Militaunce,
Ecclesia; Jhesu, Saluatioun,
My poo.e witte in thi richesse avaunce,
Cast out therof the cloude of ignoraunce,
Sette vp theryn thi self, the verrey light,
Therby to se thi Militaunce aright.
O Lady myn, Maria, Lode sterre,
Condite it out of myst & nyght, that dark is,
To write of al by see & lond the werre.
Help, Angelys, of knyghthode ye Ierarkys
In heven & here; o puissaunt Patriarkys,
Your valiaunce and werre in see & londe
Remembering, to this werk putte your honde.
Apostolys, ye, with thalmyghti swoo.de
Of Goddis woo.d, that were Conquerourys
Of al the world, and with the same woo.de
Ye Martirys that putte of sharpe shourys,
Ye Virgynys pleasaunt and Confessourys
That with the same sworde haue had victory,
Help heer to make of werre a goo. memory.
And euery werreour wil I beseche,
Impropurly where of myn ignoraunce
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Of werre I write, as putte in propre speche
And mende me, prayinge herof pleasaunce
To God be first, by Harry Kyng of Fraunce
And Englond, and thenne ereither londe,
Peasibilly that God putte in his honde.
Thus seide an humble Inuocatioun
To Criste, his Modir, and his Sayntis alle,
With confidence of illustratioun,
Criste me to spede, and prayer me to walle,
Myn inwit on this werk wil I let falle,
And sey what is kynyghthode, and in bataile,
By lond & see, what feat may best prevaile.
Knyghthode an ordir is, the premynent;
Obeysaunt in God, and rather deye
Then disobeye; and as magnificent
As can be thought; exiled al envye;
As confident the right to magnifie
As wil the lawe of Goddis mandement,
And as perseueraunt and patient.
The premynent is first thalmyghti Lord,
Emanuel, that euery lord is vndir
And goo. lyver; but bataile and discord
With him hath Sathanas; thei are asondir
As day & nyght, and as fier wasteth tundir,
So Sathanas his flok; and Cristis oste
In gemmy gold goth ardent, euery coo.te.
Themanuel, this Lord of Sabaoth,
Hath ostis angelik that multitude,
That noo. of hem, nor persone erthly, woo.e
Their numbir or vertue or pulcritude;
Our chiualers of hem similitude
Take as thei may, but truely ? fer is,
As gemmys are ymagyned to sterrys.
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Folk angelik, knyghthode archangelike,
And the terrible tourmys pryncipaunt,
The Potestates myght, ho may be like,The vigoroux vertue so valyaunt,
The Regalye of thordir domynaunt,
The Thronys celsitude of Cherubyn?
Who hath the light or flamme of Seraphyn?
Yit true it is, Man shal ben angelike;
Forthi their hosteyinye the Lord hath shewed
Ofte vnto man, the crafte therof to pike,
In knyghthode aftir hem man to be thewed:
By Lucyfer falling, rebate and fewed
Her numbir was, and it is Goddis wille,
That myghti men her numbir shal fulfille.
Of myghty men first is thelectioun
To make, & hem to lerne, & exercise
An oo.te of hem for his perfectioun,
Be numbred thenne; and aftir se the gise
Of strong bataile, fighting in dyuers wise;
In craft to bilde, and art to make engyne
For see & lond, this tretys I wil fyne.
Thelectioun of werreours is goo.
In euery londe; and southward ay the more,
The more wit thei haue & lesse bloo.,
Forthi to blede thei drede it, and therfore
Reserue theim to labour & to lore,
And northeward hath more bloo. and lesse
Wit, and to fight & blede an hardinesse.
But werreours to worthe wise & bolde,
Is goo. to take in mene atwix hem twayne,
Where is not ouer hote nor ouer colde;
And to travaile & swete in snow & rayne,
In colde & hete, in wode & feeldys playne,
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With rude fode & short, thei that beth vsed,
To chere it is the Citesens seclused.
And of necessitee, if thei be take
To that honour as to be werreourys,
In grete travaile her sleuth is of to shake,
And tolleraunce of sonne & dust & shourys,
To bere & drawe, & dayes delve and hourys
First vse thei, and reste hem in a cave,
And throute among, and fode a smal to haue.
In soden case emergent hem elonge
Fro their Cite, streyt out of that pleasaunce;
So shal thei worthe, ye, bothe bolde & stronge;
But feithfully the feld may most avaunce
A myghti oo.te; of deth is his doubtaunce
Ful smal, that hath had smal felicite.
To lyve, and lande-men such lyuers be.
Of yonge folk is best electioun,
In puberte thing lightlier is lerned,
Of tendre age vp goth perfectioun
Of chiualers, as it is wel gouerned;
Alacrite to lepe & renne vnwerned,
Not oo.ly be, but therto sette hem stronge
And chere theim therwith, whil thei beth yonge.
For better is ?ge men compleyne
On yerys yet commyng and nat fulfilled,
Then olde men dolorouxly disdeyne,
That thei here yougthe in negligence haspilde.
The yonge may seen alle his daies filde
In disciplyne of were and exercise,
That age may not haue in eny wise.
Not litil is the discipline of werre,
O fote, on hors, with sword or shild or spere,
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The place & poo.t to kepe and not to erre,
Ne truble make, and his shot wel bewere,
To dike and voyde a dike, and entir there,
As is to do; lerned this gouernaunce,
No fere is it to fight, but pleasaunce.
The semelyest, sixe foo.e or litil lesse,
The first arayes of the legyoun,
Or wyngys horsyd, it is in to dresse;
Yet is it founde in euery regioun,
That smale men have had myght & renoun:
Lo, Tideus, as telleth swete Homere,
That litil man in vigour had no pere.
And him, that is to chese, it is to se
The loo., the visagynge, the lymys stronge,
That thei be sette to force & firmytee;
For bellatours, men, horsis, hondis yonge,
As thei be wel fetured, is to fonge,
As in his boo. seith of the bee Virgile,
Too.kyndis are, a gentil and a vile.
The gentil is smal, rutilaunt, glad-chered,
That other horribil, elenge and sloggy,
Drawinge his wombe abrede, and vgly-hered,
To grete the bolk, and tremulent and droggy,
The lymes hery, scabious & ruggy;
That be wil litil do, but slepe & ete,
And al deuoure, as gentil bees gete.
So for bataile adolescentys yonge
Of grym visage and loo. pervigilaunt,
Vpright-necked, brod-brested, boned stronge.
Brawny, bigge armes, fyngeres elongaunt,
Kne deep, smal wombe, and leggys valiaunt,
To renne & lepe: of these and suche signys
Thelectioun to make ascribed digne is.
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For better is, of myghti werryourys
To haue ynogh, then ouer mych of grete.What crafty men tabide on werrys shourys,
It is to se; fisshers, foulers, forlete
Hem alle, and pigmentaryes be foryete,
And alle they that are of idil craftys,
Their insolence & feet to be forlafte is.
The ferrour and the smyth, the carpenter,
The huntere of the hert & of the boo.,
The bocher & his man, bed hem com nere,
For alle tho may do and kepe stoo..
An old prouerbe is it: Stoo. is not soo.,
And commyn wele it is, a werreour
To have aswel goo. crafte as grete vigour.
The reaumys myght, the famys fundament,
Stont in the first examynatioun
Or choys, wheryn is goo. be diligent.
Of the provynce that is defensioun;
A wysdom and a just intensioun
Is him to have, an ost that is to chese,
Wheryn is al to wynne or al to lese.
If chiualers, a land that shal defende,
Be noble born, and have lond & fee,
With thewys goo.e, as can noman amende,
Thei wil remembir ay their honeste,
And shame wil refreyne hem not to fle;
Laude & honour, hem sporynge on victory,
To make fame eternal in memory.
What helpeth it, if ignobilitee
Have exercise in werre and wagys large;
A traitour or a coward if he be,
Thenne his abode is a disceypt & charge;
If cowardise hym bere away by barge
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Or ship or hors, alway he wil entende
To marre tho that wolde make or mende.
Ciuilians or officers to make
Of hem that have habilite to werre,
Is not the worship of a lond tawake,
Sumtyme also lest noughti shuld com nerre,
Thei sette hym to bataile, & theryn erre;
Therfore it is by goo. discretioun
And grete men to make electioun.
And not anoo. to knyghthode is to lyft
A bacheler elect; let first appare
And preve it wel that he be stronge & swift
And wil the discipline of werrys lere,
With confidence in conflict as he were.
Ful oftyn he that is right personabil,
Is aftir pref reported right vnabil.
He putte apart, putte in his place an other;
Conflicte is not so sure in multitude,
As in the myght. Thus proved oo. & other
Of werre an entre or similitude,
In hem to shewe. But this crafte dissuetude
Hath take away; here is noo. exercise
Of disciplyne, as whilom was the gise.
How may I lerne of hym that is vnlerned,
How may a thing informal fourme me?
Thus I suppose is best to be gouerned:
Rede vp thistories of auctoritee,
And how thei faught, in theym it is to se,
Or better thus: Celsus Cornelius
Be red, or Caton, or Vegetius.
Vegetius it is, that I entende
Aftir to goo. in lore of exercise,
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Besechinge hem that fynde a faut, amende
It to the best, or me tamende it wise;
As redy wil I be with my seruyce
Tamende that, as ferther to procede.
Now wel to go, the goo. angel vs lede.
First is to lerne a chiualerys pace,
That is to serue in journey & bataile;
Gret peril is, if they theryn difface,
That seyn: our enemye wil our oste assaile
And jumpe light; to goo. is gret availe,
And pace in howrys fyve
Wel may they goo., and not goo. ouer blyve.
And wightly may thei go moo.
But faster and they passe, it is to renne;
In rennyng exercise is goo. also,
To smyte first in fight, and also whenne
To take a place our foo.en wil, forrenne,
And take it erst; also to serche or sture,
Lightly to come & go, rennynge is sure.
Rennynge is also right goo. at the chace,
And forto lepe a dike, is also goo.,
To renne & lepe and ley vppon the face,
That it suppose a myghti man go woo.
And lose his hert withoute sheding bloo.;
For myghtily what man may renne & lepe,
May wel devicte and saf his party kepe.
To swymme is eek to lerne in somer season;
Men fynde not a brigge as ofte as floo.,
Swymmyng to voide and chace an oste wil eson;
Eeke aftir rayn the ryueres goth woo.;
That euery man in thoo.t can swymme, is goo..
Knyght, squyer, foo.man, coo. & cosynere
And grome & page in swymmyng is to lere.
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Of fight the disciplyne and exercise
Was this: to haue a pale or pile vpright
Of mannys hight, thus writeth olde wyse;
Therwith a bacheler or a yong knyght
Shal first be taught to stonde & lerne fight;
A fanne of doubil wight tak him his shelde,
Of doubil wight a mace of tre to welde.
This fanne & mace, which either doubil wight is
Of shelde & sword in conflicte or bataile,
Shal exercise as wel swordmen as knyghtys,
And noo.man (as thei seyn) is seyn prevaile
In felde or in gravel though he assaile,
That with the pile nath first gret exercise;
Thus writeth werreourys olde & wise.
Have vche his pile or pale vpfixed faste,
And, as in werre vppon his mortal foo.
With wightynesse & wepon most he caste
To fighte stronge, that he ne shape him fro,On him with shild & sword avised so,
That thou be cloo., and prest thi foo.to smyte,
Lest of thin owne deth thou be to wite.
Empeche his hed, his face, have at his gorge,
Bere at the breste, or serue him on the side
With myghti knyghtly poo.t, eue as Seynt George,
Lepe o thi foo. loke if he dar abide;
Wil he nat fle, wounde him; mak woundis wide,
Hew of his honde, his legge, his thegh, his armys;
It is the Turk: though he be sleyn, noo. harm is.
And forto foyne is better then to smyte;
The smyter is deluded mony oo.ys,
The sword may nat throgh steel & bonys bite,
Thentrailys ar couert in steel & bonys,
But with a foyn anoo. thi foo.fordoo. is;
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Tweyne vnchys entirfoyned hurteth more
Then kerf or ege, although it wounde sore.
Eek in the kerf, thi right arm is disclosed,
Also thi side; and in the foyn, couert
Is side & arm, and er thou be supposed
Redy to fight, the foyn is at his hert
Or ellys where, a foyn is euer smert;
Thus better is to foyne then to kerve;
In tyme & place ereither is tobserue.
This fanne & mace ar ay of doubil wight,
That when the Bacheler hath exercise
Of hevy gere, and aftir taketh light
Herneys, as sheeld & sword of just assise,
His hert avaunceth, hardynes tarise.
My borthon is delyuered, thinketh he,
And on he goth, as glad as he may be.
And ouer this al, exercise in armys
The doctour is to teche and discipline,
For double wage a wurthi man of armys
Was wont to take, if he wer proved digne
Aforn his prince, ye, tymes VIII or IX;
And whete he had, and barly had the knyght
That couthe nat as he in armys fight.
Res publica right commendabil is,
If chiualers and armys there abounde,
For, they present, may nothing fare amys,
And ther thei are absent, al goth to grounde;
In gemme, in gold, in silk be thei fecounde,
It fereth not; but myghti men in armys,
They fereth with the drede of deth & harmys.
Caton the Wise seith: where as men erre
In other thinge, it may be wel amended;
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But emendatioun is noo. in werre;
The cryme doo., forthwith the grace is spended,
Or slayn anoo. is he that there offended,
Or putte to flight, and euer aftir he
Is lesse worth then they that made him fle.
But turne ageyn, Inwit, to thi preceptys!
With sword & sheld the lerned chiualer
At pale or pile, in artilaunce excepte is;
A dart of more wight then is mester,
Tak him in honde, and teche hym it to ster,
And caste it at that pile, as at his foo.
So that it route, and right vppon hym go.
Of armys is the doctour heer tattende,
That myghtily this dart be take & shake,
And shot as myghtily, forthright on ende,
And smyte sore, or nygh, this pile or stake;
Herof vigour in tharmys wil awake
And craft to caste & smyte shal encrece;
The werreours thus taught, shal make peax.
But bachilers, the thridde or firthe part,
Applied ar to shote in bowes longe
With arowys; heryn is doctryne & art,
The stringys vp to breke in bowes stronge,
And swift and craftily the taclis fonge,
Starkly the lifte arm holde with the bowe,
Drawe with the right, and smyte, and ouerthrowe.
Set hert & eye vppon that pile or pale,
Shoo. nygh or on, and if so be thou ride
On hors, is eek the bowys bigge vp hale;
Smyte in the face or breste or bak or side,
Compelle fle, or falle, if that he bide.
Cotidian be mad this exercise,
On fote & hors, as writeth olde wise.
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That archery is grete vtilitee,
It nedeth not to telle eny that here is;
Caton, therof in boo.ys writeth he,
Among the discipline of chiualerys,
And Claudius, that werred mony yeres,
Wel seide, and Affricanus Scipio
With archerys confounded ofte his foo.
Vse eek the cast of stoo. with slynge or honde;
It falleth ofte, if other shot ther noo. is,
Men herneysed in steel may not withstonde
The multitude & myghti caste of stonys;
It breketh ofte & breseth flesh & bonys,
And stonys in effecte are euerywhere,
And slyngys ar not noyous forto bere.
And otherwhile in stony stede is fight,
A mountayn otherwhile is to defende,
An hil, a toun, a tour, and euery knyght
And other wight may caste stoo. on ende.
The stonys axe, if other shot be spende,
Or ellys thus: save other shot with stonys,
Or vse hem, as requireth, both atonys.
The barbulys that named ar plumbatys,
Set in the sheld is goo. to take fyve,
That vsed hem of old, wer grete estatys;
As archerys, they wolde shote and dryve
Her foo.to flight, or leve him not alyve;
This shot commended Dioclisian
And his Coemperour Maxymyan.
The Chiualers and werreourys alle,
Quicly to lepe on hors, and so descende
Vppon the right or lyft side, if it falle,
That exercise is forto kepe an ende;
Vnarmed first, and armed thenne ascende,
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And aftir with a spere or sword & shelde,
This feet is goo., when troubled is the felde.
And LX pounde of weght it hade to bere
And go therwith a chiualerys pace,
Vitaile & herneysing and sword & spere,
Frely to bere; al this is but solace;
Thinge exercised ofte in tyme & space,
Hard if it be, with vse it wil ben eased,
The yonge men herwith beth best appesed.
And exercise him vche in his armure,
As is the gise adayes now to were,
And se that euery peece herneys be sure,
Go quycly in, and quyk out of the gere,
And kepe it cler, as gold or gemme it were;
Corraged is that hath his herneys bright,
And he that is wel armed, dar wel fight.
To warde & wacche an oste it is to lerne
Both holsom is that fvlly and necessary,
Withinne a pale an oste is to gouerne,
That day & nyght saftly theryn they tary
And take reste, and neuer oo. myscary;
For faute of wacch, ha worthi not myscheved
Now late, and al to rathe? Is this nat preved?
To make a fortresse, if the foo. be nygh,
Assure a grounde, and se that ther be fode
For man & beest, and watir deep mydthigh,
Not fer; and se there wode or grovys goo.e.
Now signe it, lyne it out by yerde or rode,
An hil if ther be nygh, wherby the foo.br> May hurte, anoo. set of the ground therfro.
Ther floo. is wont the felde to ouer flete,
Mak ther noo.strength; and as is necessary
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Vnto thyn oste, as mych is out to mete,
And cariage also theryn most tary;
Men dissipat, here enemy may myscary,
And combred is an oste that is compressed;
Tak eue ynough, and hoo. have vch man dressed.
Trianguler, or square, or dymyrounde
The strength it is to make of hosteyinge;
Thavis therof is taken at the grounde;And estward, or vppon thi foo.comynge,
The yatys principal have vssuynge,
To welcom him; and if an ost journey,
The yatis ar to sette vppon his wey.
The centenaryes thervppon shal picche
Her pavilons, and dragonys and signys
Shal vp be set, and Gorgona the wicche
Vpsette they; to juste batail condigne is
Vch helply thing; another yate & signe is,
Ther trespassers shal go to their juesse,
That oponeth north, or westward, as I gesse.
In maneer a strengthe is to be walled,
If ther oppresse noo.necessitee:
Delve vp the torf, have it togedir malled,
Therof the wal be mad high foo.ys
Above grounde; the dike withouten be
IX foo.e brode, and deep dounright;
Thus dike & wal is wel fote in hight.
This werk they calle a dike tumultuary;
To stynte a rore, and if the foo.be kene,
Legytymat dykinge is necessary;
XII foo.e brod that dike is to demene,
And nyne deep; his sidys to sustene,
And hege it as is best on either side,
That diked erth vpheged stonde & bide.
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Above grounde arise it foure foo.e;
Thus hath the dike in brede foo.ys XII,
And XIII is it high fro crop to roo.e,
That stake of pith which euery man him selve
Hath born, on oneward is it forto delve.
And this to do, pikens, mattok and spade
And tole ynough ther most be redy made.
But and the foo.lene on forwith to fight,
The hors men alle, and half the folk ofoo.e
Embataile hem, to showve away their myght,
That other half, to dike foo. by foo.e,
Be sette, and an heraude expert by roo.e,
The Centrions other the Centenaryis
In ordre forth hem calle, as necessary is.
And ay among the centrions enserch,
The werk, if it be wrought, kept the mesure,
In brede & deep & high, perch aftir perch,
And chastise him, that hath nat doo. his cure.
An hoste thus exercised may ensure
In prevalence, whos debellatioun
Shal not be straught by perturbatioun.
Wel knowen is, nothinge is more in fight
Then exercise and daily frequentaunce;
Vch werreour therfore do his myght
To knowe it wel and kepe his ordynaunce;
An oo.te to thicke, I sette, is encombraunce,
And also perilous is ouer thynne,
Thei sone fle that be to fer atwynne.
We werreours, forthi go we to feelde;
And as our name in ordir in the rolle is,
Our ordynaunt, so sette vs, dart & sheelde
And bowe & axe, and calle vs first by pollys;
Triangulys, quadrangulys, and rollys,
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We may be made; and thus vs embataile,
Gouerned, vndir grate to prevaile.
A sengil ege is first to strecch in longe,
Withoute bosomynge or curuature,
With dowbeling forwith let make it stronge,
That also fele assiste, in like mesure,
And with a woo.d turne hem to quadrature,
And efte trianguler, and then hem rounde,
And raunge hem efte, and keep euerych his grounde.
This ordynaunce of right is to prevaile;
Doctryne hem eek, whenne it is best to square,
And when a triangul may more availe,
And orbys, how they necessary are;
How may be to condense, and how to rare;
The werreours that ha this exercise,
Be preste with hardynesse, & stronge & wise.
And ouer this, an olde vsage it was
To make walk thryes in euery mone,
And tho they wente a chiualerys paas
X myle outward, the men of armys, none
Vnharneysed; the foo.men euerychone
Bowed, tacled, darted, jacked, saladed;
Vitaile eke born withal, her hertis gladed.
In hom comynge, among thei wente faste
And ranne among. Eek tourmys of ryderys
Sumtyme journeyed on foo.e in haste,
Shelded & herneysed with myghti sperys;
Not oo.ly in the playn, but also where is
A mountayn or a clif or streyt passagys.
Thus hadde thei both exercise and wagys.
Ereithre ege in this wise exercised
Was by & by, so that no chaunce of newe
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Nas to be thought, that thei nere of avised,
And hadde way the daungerys teschewe
Vndaungered; and this wisdom thei knewe
By discipline of their doctour of armys,
To wynne honour withouten hate or harmys.
Thelectioun and exercise anended,
An oo.te is now to numbre & dyvide,
And seen vch officer his part commended,
And how to sette a feeld to fight & bide.
Goo.e Angelys and Sayntys, ye me gide
And lighte me, o Lady Saynte Mary!
To write wel this werk & not to tary.-
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Electrix ita Milicie pars prima recedit,
Et pars partitrix ecce secunda subit.
The firste parte of IIII is here at ende;
Now to the part secounde! er we procede
To knowe this, His grace God vs sende!
Myn auctour ofte aduiseth vs to rede
And to the sense of it to taken hede;
To rede a thinge withoute intelligence,
As seith Cato the Wise, is negligence.
But this I leve vnto the sapience
Of chiualers, and to my werk retorne,
Theryn to do my feithful diligence
For their pleasaunce, out of this prosis storne
The resonaunce of metris wolde I borne.
As myghti herte in ryngynge herneysinge,
So gentil wit wil in goo. metris springe.
And for thonour of theuerlastyng kynge,
Our saviour Jhesus and his Ierarkys,
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His Angelys, and for that swete thinge,
His Modre, patronesse of al my warkys,
For His prophetys love and patriarkys,
And for thapostolis that made our Crede,
As do me fauour, ye that wil me rede.
Virgile seith (an high poete is he)
That werre in armys stont and mannys myght,
The man on hors, o fote, or on the see;
Riders be wyngis clept, for swift & light,
On either half of thege eke ar thei dight;
But now that ege is called the banere
Or banerye, hauyng his banereer.
Also ther are riders legyonaryis;
Thei are annexed to the legioun.
In too.maner of shippes men to cary is,
Their namys ar couth in this regioun;
Orthwart go they the floo., and vp & doun;
Riders in playn, foo.men goth euery where,
By theyme the commyn wele is to conquere;
Riders a fewe, and haue o foo.e fele,
Thei spende smal, and horsmen spende fre.
Foo.men o tweyne is to dyuide & dele:
Or legiaunt or aydaunt for to be.
Confederat men aydaunt is to se,
That is to say, by trewce or toleraunce,
As Frensh ar suffred here, and we in Fraunce.
Aydaunt be they, but in the legioun
Lith thordinaunce in werre to prevaile.
A legioun out of electioun
Hath take his name, as elect to bataile.
Her diligence and feith is not to faile;
Thi legyaunt forthi to multiplie
Is right, but aydauntys a fewe applie.
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Thousant werreours was a phalange
In dayis olde, and of men
Was a caterve, but this diagalange
Is, as to this, not worth a pulled hen.
The legioun, departed into X,
Is vs to lerne, and legions how fele
It is to haue, and how asondir dele.
The consules legiounys ladden,
Al aldermeest; but thei hadde exercise,
Wherof the felde victoriously thei hadden;
To chose a legioun, this was the gise,
In boo.ys as they seyn, these olde wise:
Wyis, hardy, strong, doctryned, high statured,
In feet of werre ofte vsed & wel vred.
That was the man, he was mad mylitaunt,
When al the world to the Romayn Empire
Was made obey, by knyghthod valiaunt;A sacramental oth doth it requyre,
To write pleyn this matere I desire,
By God & Criste and Holy Goo.t swar he,
And by that Emperourys maiestee.
Next God is hym to drede and hym to honour is;
Right as to God ther bodily present,
To themperour, when he mad Emperour is,
Devotioun; vch loyal ympendent
Is to be vigilaunt, his seruyent;
God serueth he, both knyght & comynere,
That loueth him, to God that regneth here.
God, Criste Jhesus, and Holy Goste; was sworn
By theim, and themperourys maiestee,
That his commaundementys shuld be born
And strenuously be doo., be what thei be;
Fro mylitaunce that thei shal neuer fle
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Ner voyde deth, but rather deth desire
For themperour, and wele of his Empire.
Thus sworn, vch knyght is of the legioun.
The legioun stont in cohortys;
Cohors the Latyn is, this regioun
Tenglish it fore, help vs, goo. Lord! Amen.
The dignite and number of the men
Hath in the firste cohors an excellence
Of noble bloo., manhode and sapience.
This feleshepe, most worshipful, most digne,
Bar thegil and thymage of themperour;
As God present was holden either signe,
Thei hadde both attendaunce & honour;
Of chiualers heryn was doo. the flour,
A an and foo.men,
And of wight horsmen.
The military cohors, or the choo.s,
Thus named it the wise, and the secounde
Cohors, like as the bonet to his coo.s
Is set, thei sette it foo.men stronge & sounde,
And an half, and abounde
In hit, with sixe & sixti hors, and it
The Quyngentary called men of wit.
As fele & myghty choys putte in the thridde is,
For in their honde espeyre is al to thryve;
Her place in ordynaunce is in the myddys,
And for the firth choo.s is to discrive
Foo.men and an half,
With sixe & sixti hors, and eue as fele,
With better hors, vnto the fifthe dele.
For as the first cohors is the right horn,
So in the lift horn is the fifthe choo.s;
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For V choo.s stonde in the frounte aforn,
Or the vawarde; of termys is noo.foo.s,
So the conceyt be had. The sixt cohors
Hath, as the fifthe, yet lusty men & yonge;
To thegil next to stonde it is to fonge,
That is the right horn; in the myddil warde
The nexte choo.s hath eue as mony as she,
The nexte as fele, and therto is tawarde
The myghti men, amyddis forto be;
The nynth is of the same quantitie,
The tenth is eue as is the choo.s beforn,
But make it strong, for it is the lift horn.
The legioun in ten is thus cohorted,
And an see men on foo.e,
Hors, and therty therto soo.ted,
Of fewer hors is not to speke or moo.e
In eny legioun; yet, crop & roo.e
To seyn, of hors ther may be take moo.
Commaundement if ther be so to do.
Exployed heer thusage and ordynaunce
Of legyoun, vnto the principal
Of chiualers retourne our remembraunce;
The dignitie and name in special
Of euery prince enrolled, and who shal
Do what, and whenne, and where, it is to write;
Goo. angel, help vs al this werk tendite.
The grete Trybune is mad by Themperour,
And by patent, and send by jugement;
Thundir Trybune is hent of his labour.An Ordyner for fighters forth present
Is forto sette; eek Themperour content
Is ofte to sende and make secoundaryis;
What name is heer for hem? Coo.dinaryis.
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An Egiller bar thegil, and thymage
Of themperour bar an Ymaginary;
And moo.then oo. ther were of those in wage;
A Banereer, tho clept a Draconary,
A Kyng Heralde, tho clept a Tesserary,The baner he, he bar commaundement,
Al thoo.t tobeye her princys hole entent.
Campigeners made exercise in feeldys,
Campymeters mesured out the grounde,
To picche pavilons, tentys and teeldys,
The forteresse triangeler or rounde
Or square to be made or dymyrounde,
His part hit was; and he that was Library,
Thaccomptys wrot, that rekenyng ne vary.
The Clarioner, Trompet, and Hornycler,
With horn, & trompe of bras, and clarioun,
In terribil batailis bloweth cleer,
That hors & man reioyceth at the soun;
The firmament therto making resoun
Or resonaunce; thus joyneth thei bataile;
God stonde with the right, that it prevaile!
A Mesurer, that is our Herbagere,
For paviloun & tent assigneth he
The grounde, and seith: 'Be ye ther, be ye here!'
Vch hostel eek, in castel and citee,
Assigneth he, vch aftir his degre.
A wreth o golde is signe of grete estate;
That wered it, was called a Torquate.
Sengil ther were of these, and duplicate
And triplicate, and so to for and fiv,
That hadde wage, vche aftir his estate.
Tho namys goo., such personys alyve,
It may be thought, therof wil I not scryve.
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Ther were eek worthymen clept Candidate,
And last, the souldeours, vch othrys mate.
The principal prince of the legioun,
Sumtyme it was, and yet is a like gise,
To make a Primypile, a centurioun;
A Lieutenaunt men calle him in our wise;
And him beforn is Thegil forto arise;
Four hudred knyghtis eek of valiaunce
This prymypile hadde in his gouernaunce.
He in the frounte of al the legioun
Was as a vicaptayn, a gouernour,
And too. availe at vch partitioun.
The First Spere was next, a lusty flour;
Two hundred to gouerne is his honour,
Wherof thei named him a Ducennary,
The name fro the numbir not to vary.
The Prince an hundred and an half gouerned,
Eek he gouerned al the legioun
In ordynaunce; oueral he went vnwerned.
The nexte spere, of name and of renoun,
As mony hadde in his directioun;
The First Triari hadde an hundred men;
A Chevetayn was eke of euery ten
Thus hath the first cohors fyve Ordinayris,
And euery ten an hed, a Cheveteyne,
To rewle theim; and so it necessayr is,
An hundred and fyve on this choo.s to reigne:
Four Ordinayris and the cheef Captayne,
That is their Ordinary General,
And seyde is ofte of him: He rewleth al.
So high honour, so gret vtilitee
Hath euerych estate of this renoun
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Prouided hem by sage Antiquitee,
That euery persone in the legioun
With al labour, with al deuotioun
To that honour attended to ascende,
And that avail to wynne, her bodyis bende.
The nexte choo.s, named the Quyngentary,
Hath Centurions or Centenerys fyve;
Thridde choo.s as fele hath necessary;
The firthe fyve, and, forto spede vs blyve,
In euery choo.s the Centyners oo.fyve
In numbir make, and so the legioun
Of hem hath fyvty-fyve vp & doun.
Not fyvty-fyve Whi? For fyve thordinayrys
In their Estate and stede of fyve stonde;
To graunte this, me semeth, noo.contrary is;
Though in my boo. so wryton I ne fonde,
Of LV, wel I vndirstonde
And fynde cleer, so that it most appere,
That vndir Ordynayrys V were.
The consulys, for themperour Legatys
Sende vnto the oste; to thaim obtemperaunt
Was al the legioun, and al the statys;
They were of al the werres ordynaunt;
To theim obeyed euerych aydaunt;
In stede of whom illustres Lordes, Peerys,
Be substitute, Maistrys of Chiualerys;
By whom not oo.ly legiounys twayn,
But grete numbrys hadde gouernaunce.
The propre juge is the Provost, certayn,
With worthinesse of the first ordynaunce;
The vilegate is he by mynystraunce
Of his power, to hym the Centeners
Obey, and the Trybune and Chiualers.
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Of him the rolle of wacch and of progresse
Thei crave and haue, and if a knyght offende,
At his precepte he was put to juesse
By the trybune, in payne or deth tanende.
Hors, herneys, wage & cloth, vitail to spende,
His cure it was tordeyn, and disciplyne
Vnto euery man, seuerous or benygne.
His justising, with sobre diligence,
And pite doo. vppon his legioun,
Assured hem to longh obedience
And reuerence, and high deuotioun;
Goo. gouernaunce at his promotioun
Kept euery man; and his honour, him thoughte
It was, when euery man dede as him oughte.
The Maister or Provost of Ordynaunce,
Although he were of lower dignitie,
His estimatioun & gouernaunce,
The bastilys, dich, & pale is to se;
And wher the tabernaculys shal be
And tent & teelde & case & paviloun
And cariage of al the legioun.
For seeke men the leche and medycyne
Procureth he, for larderye and too.ys;
Of euery werk cartyng he most assigne,
For bastile or engyne or myne. And fole is
He noo., that is expert in these scolys;
This was a wise, appreved chiualere,
That, as he dede himself, couth other lere.
And ouer this, the ferrour & the smyth,
The tymbre men, hewer & carpenter,
The peyntour, and vch other craft goth with,
To make a frame or engyne euerywhere,
Hem to defense and her foo.en to fere;
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Tormentys olde and carrys to repare
And make newe, as they to broken are.
Foregys and artelryis, armeryis,
To make tole, horshoo., shot & armurre;
And euery thing that nede myght aspie, is
In thoo.te; and eek mynours that can go sure
Vndir the dich, and al the wal demure
Or brynge in thoo.t; herof the Maister Smyth
Had al the rule, and euer went he with.
The legioun is seide haue choo.sis X.
The military first, or miliary,
The best and gentilest and wisest men
And myghtiest, therto be necessary;
Eek letterure is goo. & light to cary.
Her gouernour was a Trybune of Armys,
Wise & honest, that body strong & arm is.
The choo.sys aftir that, Trybunys cured
Or Maysterys, as it the prince pleased;
Vch chiualeer in exercise assured
So was, that God & man therwith was pleased;
And first to se the prince do, mych eased
The hertys alle. Fresh herneys, armur bright,
Wit, hardinesse & myght had euery knyght.
The firste signe of al the legioun
An Egil is, born by an Egeler,
And thenne in euery Choo.s is a Dragoun,
Born by a Draconair or Banereer;
A baner eek had euery Centener
Other a signe, inscrived so by rowe,
His Chevetayn that euery man may knowe.
The Centeners had also werreourys,
Hardy, wel harneysed, in their salet
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That had a creste of fetherys or lik flourys,
That noo. errour were in the batail set,
To his Cristate and to his Baneret
And to his Decanair euerych his sight
May caste, and in his place anoo. be pight.
Right as the foo.men haue a Centurion,
That hath in rewle an C men & X,
So haue the riders a Decurion,
That hath in rewle XXXII horsmen.
By his banere him knoweth alle his men,
And ouer that, right as it is to chese
A myghti man for thaym, so is for these.
For theim a stronge & wel fetured man,
That can a spere, a dart, a sword wel caste,
And also fight, and rounde a sheld wel can,
And spende his wepon wel withoute waste,
Redier to fight then flite, and ner agaste,
That can be sobre, sadde, & quyk & quyver,
And with his foo.com of and him delyuer;
Obeyssaunt his premynentys wille,
And rather do the feat then of it crake,
Impatient that day or tyme spille
In armys exercise and art to wake,
And of himself a sampeler to make
Among his men, wel shod, honestly dight,
And make hem fourbe her armure euer bright.
Right so it is, for these men to chese
A Decurioun, thorugh lik to him in fourme,
Impatient that thei the tyme lese,
Wel herneysed, and euerych of hys tourme
In euery poynt of armys wil enfourme,
And armed wil his hors so sone ascende,
That mervaile is, and course hym stronge anende,
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And vse wel a dart, a shaft, a spere,
And teche chiualers vndir his cure,
Right as himself to torne hem in her gere,
The brigandyn, helmet, and al procure,
It oftyn wipe clene,-and knowe sure,
With herneysing and myghti poo.t affrayed
Is ofte a foo. and forto fight dismayed.
Is it to sey: 'he is a werrely knyght,'
Whos herneys is horribil & beduste,
Not onys vsed in a fourte nyght,
And al that iron is or steel, beruste;
Vnkept his hors, how may he fight or juste?
The knyghtis and her horsys in his tourme
This Capitayn shal procure & refourme.
III.
Tercia bellatrix pars est et pacificatrix,
In qua quosque bonos concomitatur honos.
Comprised is in smal this part secounde,
An oo.te to numbir, and a legioun;
In foylis is it fewe, in fruyt fecounde;
The saluature of al religioun
Is founde heryn for euery regioun.
Wel to digeste this God graunte vs grace,
And by the werre his reste to purchace.
O gracious our Kyng! Thei fleth his face.
Where ar they now? Summe are in Irelonde,
In Walys other are, in myghti place,
And other han Caleys with hem to stonde,
Thei robbeth & they reveth see & londe;
The kyng, or his ligeaunce or amytee,
Thei robbe anende, and sle withoute pitee.
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The golden Eagle and his briddys III,
Her bellys ha they broke, and jessys lorne;
The siluer Bere his lynkys al to fle,
And bare is he behinde & eke beforne;
The lily whit lyoun, alas! forsworne
Is his colour & myght; and yet detrude
Entende thei the lond, and it conclude.
Of bestialite, lo, ye so rude,
The Noblis alle attende on the Antilope;
Your self & youris, ye yourself exclude,
And lose soule & lyif. Aftir your coo.e
Axe humble grace, and sette yourself in hope,
For and ye wiste, hou hard lyif is in helle,
No lenger wolde ye with the murthre melle.
Ye se at eye, it nedeth not you telle,
Hou that the beestis and the foulys alle,
That gentil are, ar sworn your wrong to quelle;
Ypocrisie of oo.his wil not walle
You fro the sword, but rather make it falle
On your auarous evel gouernaunce,
That may be called pride & arrogaunce.
This yeve I theim to kepe in remembraunce;
Goo.e Antilop, that eny bloo. shal spille,
Is not thi wille; exiled is vengeaunce
From al thi thought; hemself, alas, thei kille.
O noble pantere! of thi breth the smylle,
Swete and pleasaunt to beest & briddis alle,
It oo.ly fleth the dragon fild with galle.
What helpeth it, lo, thangelis wil falle
On him with al our werreours attonys;
Thei muste nede his membris al to malle.Of this matere I stynte vntil eftsonys,
And fast I hast to write as it to doo.e is,
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That myght in right vppon the wrong prevaile
In londe & see, by knyghthode & bataile.
Lo, thus thelectioun with exercise
And ordynaunce, as for a legioun,
Exployed is, as writeth olde wise.
What ha we next? Belligeratioun.
O Jesse flour! Jhesu, Saluatioun
And Savyour, commaunde that my penne
To thin honour go right heryn & renne.
An oste of exercise 'exercitus'
Hath holde of olde his name; a legioun
As an electioun is named thus,
And a choo.s of cohortatioun.
The princys of her mynystratioun
Her namys have, and aftir her degre
The Chevetaynys vndir named be.
Exercitus, that is to seyn an Ooste,
Is legiounys, or a legioun;
Tweyne is ynough, and IIII is with the moste,
And oo. suffiseth in sum regioun;
Therof, with ayde and horsmen of renoun,
As needful is, groweth goo. gouernaunce
In euery londe, and parfit prosperaunce.
What is an ayde? It is stipendiaryis
Or souldiours conduct of straunge londe,
To such a numbir as it necessary is,
Aftir the legioun thei for to stonde
In ordynaunce, to make a myghti honde;
Heryn who wil be parfit and not erre,
Tak Maysterys of armys and of werre.
This was the wit of Princys wel appreved,
And ofte it hath be seid and is conclude,
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That oo.tis ouer grete be myscheved
More of her owne excessif multitude
Then of her foo., that thenne wil delude
Her ignoraunce, that can not modifie
The suffisaunce, an oo.te to geder & gye.
To gret an oo.t is hurt in mony cace:
First, slough it is in journeyinge & longe;
Forthi mysaventure it may difface,
Passagis hard, and floo.is hye amonge;
Expense eek of vitaile is ouer stronge,
And if thei turne bak and onys fle,
They that escape, aferd ay aftir be.
Therfore it was the gise amonge the wise,
That of ?es had experience,
Oonly to take an oo.t as wil suffice,
Of preved & acheved sapience,
In chiualerys that han done diligence
In exercise of werre; a lerned oo.te
Is sure, an vnlerned is cost for loste.
In light bataile, oo. legioun with ayde,
That is, X Ml. men o fote, and too.br> Thousand on hors, sufficed as thei saide;
They with a lord no grete estat to goo.
And with a gret Estate as mony mo;
And for an infinit rebellioun
Twey dukys and tweyn oo.tys went adoun.
Prouisioun be mad for sanytee
In watre, place & tyme & medycyne
And exercise. In place ?h be
The pestilence, his place anoo. resigne,
To weet marice and feeld to hard declyne;
To high, to lough, to light, to derk, to colde,
To hoo., is ille; attemperaunce be holde.
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In snow & hail & frost & wintir shouris,
An oo.te beyng, most nedes kacche colde;
For wyntir colde affrayeth somer flourys,
And mareys watir is vnholsom holde;
Goo. drinke and holsom mete away wil folde
Infirmytee; and fer is he fro wele,
That with his foo. & sekenesse shal dele.
Cotidian at honde ha medycyne,
First for the prince; as needful is his helth
To thoo.te, as to the world the sonne shyne;
His prosperaunce procureth euery welth;
But let not exercise goo. o stelthe;
Holde euer it. Ful seelde be thei seek
That euer vppon exercise seeke.
In ouer colde & hoo., kepe the couert,
And exercise in tymes temperate;
Foo.men in high & lough, feeld & desert;
An hors to lepe a dich, an hege, a yate.
Tranquillite with peax & no debate
Be sadly kept, exiled al envie;
Grace in this gouernaunce wil multiplie.
Ha purviaunce of forage & vitaile
For man & hors; for iron smyteth not
So sore as honger doth, if foo.e faile.
The colde fyer of indigence is hoo.e,
And woo. theron goth euery man, God woo.;
For other wepen is ther remedie,
But on the dart of hongir is to deye.
Or have ynough, or make a litil werre,
And do the stuf in placys stronge & sure;
In more then ynough, me may not erre;
The moneyles by chevishaunce procure,
As lauful is, I mene, nat vsure;
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But tak aforn the day of payment;
It loseth not, that to the prince is lent.
What man is hoo. in his possessioun,
If he ha no defense of men of armys?
Beseged if me be, progressioun
That ther be noo., and noo.vitail in arm is,
O woful wight, ful careful thin alarm is!
Honger within, and enmytee abowte,
A warse foo.withinn is then withoute.
And though thi foo.withoute an honger be,
He wil abide on honger thee to sle;
Forthi comynge a foo. vitaile the,
And leve hym noght, or lite, vnworth a stre;
Whete and forage and flesh, fissh of ?
Wyn, salt & oyle, fewel and euery thinge
That helpeth man or beest to his lyvinge:
Tak al, thi foo.comyng, and mak an oye
That euery man to strengthes ha ther goo.is,
As thei of goo. & lyves wil ha joye,
And negligentys to compelle it goo. is.
The feriage be take away fro flodis,
The briggis on the ryverys to breke,
And passagis with falling tymbour steke.
The yatis and the wallys to repare,
The gunnys and engynys & tormente,
And forge newe, ynowe if that ther nare;
Ful late is it, if thi foo.be presente,
And fere ingoth, if hardinesse absente.
Be war of this, and euery thing prouide,
That fere fle, and goo. corage abide.
Golde it is goo. to kepe, and make stoo.
Of other thing, and spende in moderaunce;
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More and ynough to haue, it is not soo.,
And spare wel, whil ther is aboundaunce;
To spare of litil thing may lite avaunce.
By pollys dele, and not by dignitee,
So was the rewle in sage antiquytee.
And best be war, when that thin aduersary
Wil swere grete, ye by the Sacrament,
And vse that, ye and by seint Mary,
And al that is vndir the firmament:
Beleve nat his othe, his false entent
Is this: thi trewe entent for to begile.
The pref herof nys passed but a while.
Wel ofter hath fals simulatioun
Desceyved vs, then opon werre; and where
Me swereth ofte, it is deceptioun.
Judas, away from vs! cum thou no nere:
Thou gretest, Goddis child as thaugh thou were;
But into the is entred Sathanas,
And thou thi self wilt hange! an hevy cas.
Sumtyme amonge an oo.te ariseth roo.e.
Of berth, of age, of contre, of corage
Dyuers thei are, and hoo. thei longe sore,
And to bataile thei wil, or out of wage.
What salue may this bolnyng best aswage?
Wherof ariseth it? Of ydilnesse.
What may aswage it best? Goo. bisinesse.
With drede in oo.t to fight thei are anoyed,
And speke of fight, when theim wer leuer fle,
And with the fode and wacch thei are acloyed.
'Where is this felde? Shal we no batail see?
Wil we goo. hoo.? What say ye, sirs?' 'Ye, ye!'
And with her hed to fighting are thei ripe
Al esily, but he the swellinge wipe.
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A remedie is, when thei are asonder,
The graunt Tribune, or els his lieutenaunt,
With discipline of armys holde hem vndir
Seuerously, tech hem be moderaunte,
To God deuout, and fait of werrys haunte,
The dart, baliste, and bowe, and cast of stoo.,
And swymme & renne & leep, tech euerychoo..
Armure to bere, and barrys like a sworde,
To bere on with the foyn, and not to shere,
And smyte thorgh a plank other a boo.de,
And myghtily to shake and caste a spere,
And loke grym, a Ml. men to fere,
And course a myghti hors with spere & shelde,
And daily se ho is flour of the feelde.
To falle a grove or wode, and make a gate
Thorgh it, and make a dike, and hewe a doun
A cragge, or thurl an hil, other rebate
A clyf, to make an even regioun,
Or dowbil efte the dike abowte a toun;
To bere stoo., a boo.ewerk forto make,
Other sum other gret werk vndirtake.
The chiualer, be he legionary,
As seide it is beforn, on hors or foo.e,
Or aydaunt, that is auxiliary,
On hors or foo.e,-if that thei talk or mote
Of werre, and reyse roo.e, vp by the roo.e
Hit shal be pulde with myghti exercise
Of werreourys, gouerned in this wise.
Commende, and exercise, and holde hem inne,
For when thei ha the verrey craft to fight,
Thei wil desire it, wel this for to wynne.
He dar go to, that hath both art & myght.
And if a tale is tolde that eny knyght
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Is turbulent other sedicious,
Examyne it the duke, proceding thus:
The envious man, voide his suggestioun,
And knowe the trowth of worthi & prudent
Personys, that withouten questioun
Wil say the soth, of feith and trewe entent,
And if the duke so fynde him turbulent,
Disseuer him, and sende hym ellys where,
Sum myghti feet to doo. as thaugh it were:
To kepe a castel, make a providence,
Or warde a place, and do this by thaduyce
Of counsel, and commende his sapience,
That he suppose hym self heryn so wise,
That therof hath he this honour & price;
So wittily do this, that he, reiecte,
Suppose that to honour he is electe.
For verreily, the hole multitude
Of oo. assent entendeth not rebelle,
But egged ar of theim that be to rude,
And charge not of heven or of helle,
With mony folk myght thei her synnys melle;
Thei were at ease her synnys forto wynne,
Suppose thei, if mony be ther inne.
But vse not the medycyne extreme
Save in thin vtterest necessitee,
That is, the crymynous to deth to deme,
The principals; by hem that other be
Aferd to roo.e, yet better is to se
An oo.t of exercise in temperaunce
Obeysaunt, then for feere of vengeaunce.
The werriours ha myche thing to lerne;
And grace is noo., to graunte negligence,
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Wher mannys helth is taken to gouerne;
To lose that, it is a gret offense;
And sikerly, the best diligence
Vnto thonour of victory tascende,
The seygnys is or tokenys tattende.
For in bataile, when al is on a roo.e,
The kynge or princys precept who may here
In such a multitude? And euermore
Is thinge of weght in hond, & gret matere,
And how to doo., right nedful is to lere;
Therfore in euery oste antiquitee
Hath ordeyned III signys forto be.
Vocal is oo., and that is mannys voys,
Semyvocal is trompe & clarioun
And pipe or horn; the thridde macth no noys,
And mute it hight or dombe, as is dragoun
Or thegil or thimage or the penoun,
Baner, pensel, pleasaunce or tufte or creste
Or lyuereys on shildir, arm or breste.
Signys vocal in wacch and in bataile
Be made, as wacch woo.dis: 'Feith, hope & grace,'
Or 'Help vs God,' or 'Shipman, mast & saile,'
Or other such, aftir the tyme and place;
Noo.ryme or geeste in hem be, ner oo. trace,
Ne go thei not amonge vs, lest espyes
With wepon of our owne out putte our eyis.
Semyvocals, as Trumpe and Clarioun
And pipe or horn, an hornepipe thoo.br> It myghte be; the trumpe, of gretter soun,
Toward batail blewe vp 'Go to, go to!';
The clarions techeth the knyghtys do,
And signys, hornys move; and when thei fight,
Attonys vp the soun goth al on hight.
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To wacch or worch or go to felde, a trumpe
Hem meved out, and to retourne; and signys
Were moved, how to do, by hornys crompe,
First to remeve, and fixe ayeyn ther digne is.
Oonly the clarioun the knyghtis signe is;
Fight & retrayt and chace or feer or neer,
The clarion his voys declareth cleer.
What so the duke commaundeth to be doo.
In werk or wacch or feeld, or frith or werre,
At voys of these it was fulfild anoo..The signys mute, in aventure a sterre,
A portcolys, a sonne, it wil not erre,
In hors, in armature, and in array
They signifie, and make fresh & gay.
Al this in exercise and longe vsage
Is to be knowe; and if a dust arise,
Theere is an oo.t, or sum maner outrage;
With fiyr a signe is mad in dyuers wise
Or with a beem, vche in his contre gise
His signys hath; and daily is to lerne,
That aftir hem men gide hem & gouerne.
Tho that of werre have had experience,
Afferme that ther is in journeyinge
Gretter peril, then is in resistence
Of fers batail; for in the counterynge
Men armed are oo.ly for yeynstondinge
And expugnatioun of hem present
In fight; theron oo.ly ther bowe hath bent.
Their sword & hert al preste ereither fight,
In journeyinge ereither lesse attente is;
Assault sodeyne a day other by nyght,
For vnavised men ful turbulent is.
Wherfore avised wel and diligent is
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The duke to be purveyed for vnwist,
And redy is the forseyn to resiste.
A journal is in euery regioun
First to be had, wheryn he thinketh fight,
Wheryn haue he a pleyn descriptioun
Of euery place, and passage a forsight,
The maner, wey, both turnyng & forthright,
The dale & hil, the mountayn & the floo.;
Purtreyed al to have is holdon goo..
This journal is to shewe dukys wise
Of that province, or as nygh as may be,
The purtreyture & writing forto advise;
And of the contrey men a serch secre
Himself he make, and lerne in veritee
Of hem, that on her lyf wil vndirtake,
That thus it is, and vnder warde hem make.
Tak gidis out of hem, beheste hem grete,
As to be trewe, her lyif and grete rewarde,
And other if thei be, with deth hem threte,
And sette a wayt secret on hem, frowarde
Whethor thei thinke be other towarde;
Thei, this seynge, wil wel condite & lede,
Of grete rewarde & deth for hope & drede.
Tak wise and vsed men, and not to fewe;
Goo. is it not to sette on II or III
The doubte of al, though thei be parfit trewe;
The simpil man supposeth ofte he be
Weywiser then he is, and forthi he
Behesteth that he can not bringe aboute;
And such simpilnesse is forto doubte.
And goo. it is, that whidirward goth thoo.te,
Secret it be. The Mynotaurys mase
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Doctryned hem to sey: 'Whidir thou goo.te,
Kepe it secret; whil thi foo.en go gase
Aboute her bekenys, to tende her blase,
Go thou the way that thei suppose leeste
Thou woldest go; for whi? it is sureste.'
Espyis are, of hem be war! also
The proditours that fle from oo.t to oo.te,
Be war of hem; for swere thei neuer so,
They wil betray, and make of it their boo.te.
Escurynge is to haue of euery coo.te;
Men wittiest on wightiest hors by nyght
May do it best, but se the hors be wight.
In a maner himself betrayeth he,
Whos taken is by negligence thespie;
Forthi be war, and quicly charge hem se
On euery side, and fast ayeyn hem hye;
Horsmen beforn eke euer haue an eye;
On vch an half foo.men, and cariage
Amyddis is to kepe in the viage.
Foo.men it is to haue & of the beste
Horsmen behinde; vppon the tail a foo.br> Wil sette among, and sumtyme on the breste,
And on the sidis wil he sette also.
With promptitude it is to putte him fro;
Light herneysed, and myghtiest that ride,
Doubte if ther is, putte hem vppon that side.
And archery withal is goo. to take;
And if the foo.falle on on euery side,
Goo. wacch on euery side it is to make;
Charge euery man in herneys fast abide,
And wepynys in hondys to prouide.
Selde hurteth it, that is wel seyn beforn,
And whos is taken sleping, hath a scorn.
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Antiquitee prouided eek, that roo.e
Arise not in thoo.t, for trowbelinge
The chiualers behinde other before,
As when the folk that cariage bringe,
Ar hurt, or are aferd of on comynge,
And make noyse; herfore helmettis wight
A fewe vppon the cariours were dight.
A baner hadde thei togedre to,
Alway CC vndir oo. banere;
The forfighters a-sondred so ther-fro,
That no turbatioun amonge hem were,
If that ther felle a conflicte enywhere.
And as the journeyinge hadde variaunce,
So the defense had diuers ordynaunce.
In open felde horsmen wold rather falle
On then foo.men; in hil, mareys & woo.is,
Foo.men rather. In feeld & frith to walle
An oo.t with myght, as wil the place, it goo. is,
And to be war that slough viage or floo.is
Asondre not the chiualerys; for thynne
If that me be, ther wil the foo.bygynne.
Therfore amonge it is to sette wyse
Doctours, as of the feelde, or other grete;
The forgoer to sette vnto his sise,
And hem that beth to slough, forthward to gete.
To fer aforn, and sole, a foo.may bete;
He may be clipped of, that goth behinde;
And to goo. hole as o man, that is kynde.
In placys as him semeth necessary,
And aduersaunt wil sette his busshement,
Not in apert, but in couert to tary,
And falle vppon; the duke heer diligent
It is to be, to haue his foo.en shent;
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But euery place it is the duke to knowe,
So that his witte her wylis ouerthrowe.
If thei dispose in mountayn oponly
Tassaulte, anoo. ha prevely men sent
To an herre hil, that be therto neer by,
And so sette on, that of the busshement
Aboue her hed, and of thi self present
Thei be aferd, and sech away to fle,
When ouer hede and in the frount thei se.
And if the way be streyt and therwith sure,
Let hewe adoun aboute, and make it large;
In large way, peril is noo.goo. vre;
Also this is tattende as thinge of charge,
Ye rather then gouerne ship or barge,
That wher the foo.by nyght other by day
Is vsed oo. to falle and make affray.
And, voyde that, it is to seen also,
What is his vse, on hors outher o foo.e,
With fele or fewe his feetys for to doo.
That sapience his werkys alle vnroo.e.
Of balys also grete is this the boo.e,
Dayly to gynne go in such an hour
As may be sure both oo.t & gouernour:
And yet bewar of simulatioun;
To festeyng call in sum fugitif
And here him wel with comendatioun,
And lerne first, hou fellen thei in strif,
And him beheste an honorabil lif;
Lerne of him al, and thenne aday or nyght,
When thei suppose leest, mak hem afright.
Agreved ofte are oo.tis negligent,
When it is hard passage ouer the floo.ys,
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For if the cours be ouer violent
Or ouer deep, gret peril in that floo. is.
A remedy to fynde heryn right goo. is,
For hevy men, pagis and cariage
Ar drowned oftyn tyme in such a rage.
The depth assay, and make of horsys hye
Tweyne eggys; oo. be sette ayenst the streem,
The myght therof to breke; another plye
Benethe that, tawayte vppon the fleem
And charge theim, that thei attende on hem
That faile foo.e, and brynge theim alonde,
And thus til thoo.te be ouer, shal they stonde.
The floo. is ouer deep in playn cuntre,
Departe it ofte, and make it transmeabil:
That most be doo. with dykis gret plente,
And wil it not be so, sette ore a gabil,
On empti vesselling ley mony a tabil
Fro lond to lond a brigge is made anoo.,
And sure ynough it is for hors & mon.
Horsmen haue had of reed or seggis shevys,
Theron carying their armure as thei swymme,
But better is, to voiden al myschevys,
Ha skafys smale, and hem togedir trymme
With coo.de alonge, atteynynge either brymme,
And anchore it and tabil it at large,
And sure it is as arch or shippe or barge.
Yet war the foo. for vppon this passage
He leyt awayt; anoo. thin oo.te dyuide
And stakys picch, encounter their viage,
And in that stede, if goo. is thought tabide,
Mak vp a strong bastel on eyther side,
And there, as axeth chaunce, it is to stonde
And ha vitaile out of ereither londe.
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Now castellinge in journey is to write.
Not euerywhere is founden a citee,
An oo.te to loge, and vilagis to lite
For it ther ar, and siker thei ne be,
As, to be sure, it is necessitee
To take a grounde as goo. as may be fonde,
And thervppon to make our castel stonde.
Leve not the better grounde vnto thi foo.
Be war of that; se, watir, ayer & londe
Holsom be there, and foo.e ynough ther to
For man & hors, and woo.e ynough at honde.
No force if rounde or anguler it stonde,
But feyrest is the place and moo.t of strengthe,
When twey in brede is thryis in the lengthe.
Mesure a grounde, as wil thin oo.te suffice;
To wide it is: thin oo.te therin is rare;
To streyt: thei be to thicke; a myddil sise
Is beste.-Now make it vp, no labour spare;
It mot be doo., theryn is our welfare;
As for a nyght, mak vp of turf a wale
And stake it on our foo. the poyntis tavale.
A turf it is, when gras & herbe is grave
Vp with the grounde, with irons mad therfore;
A foo.e brode, a foo.e & half it haue
In lengthe, and half a foo.e thick, no more.
But if the lond solute be, not herfore
Turf like a brik to make of necessary,
Thenne is to make a dike tumultuary.
Make it III foo.e deep, and V obrede,
And stake it as beforn, vtward to stonde;
O nyght to dwelle heryn it is no drede.
And if thi foo.be nygh, him to yeynstonde,
A gretter werk it is to take on honde.
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Sette vp in ordir euery man his sheeld,
Whil princys and prudentys parte a feeld.
Vch centyner take vp the werk foo.mel,
With sword igord, anoo. caste vp the dich,
And IX foo.e obrede wil do wel,
XI is as goo.; but poo.e and rich
Most on this werk, & even worch ilich,
XIII foo.e obrede or XVII
Is best of alle a werre to sustene.
The numbir odde is euer to obserue,
And hege it other stake it vp to stonde,
Therto ramayle and bowys ar to kerve,
Areyse it to his hegth aboue londe,
And make it castellike with myghti honde,
With loupis, archeturis, and with tourys.
O Chiualers! in this werk your honour is.
X foo.emel the centeneris take
This werk to doo., and ther vppon attende,
That euery company his cant vp make
And stynte not, vntil a parfit ende
Of al be mad; and who doth mys, is shende.
Forwhi? the prince himself goth al aboute
And by & by behaldeth euery rowte.
But lest assault felle on hem labouringe,
The hors, and thei on foo.e of dignitee,
That shal not worch, in circuyte a rynge
Shal make, and kepe of al hostilitie;
And first, as for the signys maiestie
Assigne place; for more venerabil
Then thei, ther is nothing, this is notabil.
And aftir that, the Duke & Erlys have
The pretory, a grounde out set therfore,
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And for Trybunys out a grounde thei grave,
Her tabernaclis thei theryn tenstore
For legions & aydis, lesse & more,
On hors other o foo.e; a regioun
And place is had to picch her paviloun.
And IIII on hors and IIII o foo.e anyght
In euery centeyn hadde wacch to kepe,
And it departed was, to make it light,
That reasonabil tymys myght thei slepe;
For right as houris aftir houris crepe,
So went the wach, and kept his cours aboute,
Foo.men withinne, & horsed men withoute.
Thei go to wacch by warnyng of the trumpe,
And there abide vntil their houris ende;
Away thei go by voys of hornys crumpe.
A wacch of serch also ther was tattende
That wel the tyme of wacchinge were spende;
Trybunys made of theim thelectioun,
That hadde of al the wacch directioun.
And twye a day the contrey was escured
By horsmen, in the morn and aftir noo.;
Not by the same alway, for that endured
Shuld not ha been. This feleship hath doo.:
They most reste, and other wynne her shoo.;
Thus bothe man & hors may be releved,
Ye, ofte ynough, and not but litil greved.
And on the duk hangeth the gouernaunce,
That in this castellinge he ha vitaile
For euery wight withoutyn variaunce,
Cloo.h, wepon, herneysing, that nothing faile;
And in fortressis nygh it is availe
Foo.men to haue & hors; ferde is thi foo.
If thou on euery side vppon him goo.
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Mortal bataile in hourys II or III
Termyned is, and hope on that oo. side
Is al agoo.; but a goo. prince is he,
That can him & his oo.te so wisely gide,
With litil slaught to putte his foo.fro pride;
Pluck him vnwar and fray his folk to renne
Away, and myghtily sette aftir thenne.
On this behalve it is ful necessary,
That olde & exercised sapience
The duke to counsel have, and with hem tary,
As wil the tyme, and here their sentence
Of vinqueshinge couertly by prudence
Or by apert conflict, that is, bataile;
The surer way to take and moo.t availe.
Here hem heryn, and what folk hath thi foo.
And charge that thei glose not, for it
Doth oftyn harm; and here theim also
Speke of her exercise, her strength & wit,
And to their aduersayrys how thei quyt
Hemself aforn, and whether his horsmen
Be myghtier in fight, or his foo.men.
Also the place of conflicte is to lerne,
And what thi foo.himself is, what his frendis;
Wher he be wys a werre to gouerne,
And whar thei lyue as angelis or fendis;
Wher variaunt, or vchon others frend is,
And wher thei vse fight in ordynaunce
Or foliously, withoute gouernaunce.
And euery poynt forseyd, and other moo.
Considir in thin oo.t, and tak avis
Of hem, what is the beste to be do;
And peyse al in balaunce, and ay be wys;
And if thin oo.te is ace, and his is syis,
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What so thei sey, couertly by prudence
Dispose the to make resistence.
Dischere nat thi folk in eny wise;
The ferde anoo. is redy for to fle;
Be vigilaunt and holde inne exercise,
And se thin hour; ful oftyn tyme hath he
The herre hand, that kepeth him secre;
Avaunte not for colde nor for hete,
For smale doo.h that speketh ouer grete.
Certeyn it is, that knyghthode & bataile
So stronge is it, that therby libertee
Receyued is with encreste and availe;
Therby the Croune is hol in Maiestee
And vche persone in his dignitee,
Chastised is therby rebellioun,
Rewarded and defensed is renoun.
Forthi the duke, that hath the gouernaunce,
Therof may thinke he is a Potestate,
To whom betakyn is the prosperaunce
Of al a lond and euerych Estate.
The Chiualers, if I be fortunate,
The Citesens, and alle men shal be
If I gouerne wel, in libertee.
And if a faut is founden in my dede,
Not oo.ly me, but al the commyn wele
So hurteth it, that gretly is to drede
Dampnatioun, though noman with me dele;
And forthi, negligence I wil repele
And do my cure in feithful diligence
With fauoraunce of Goddis excellence.
If al is out of vse and exercise,
As forto fight in euery legioun
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Chese out the myghtiest, the wight & wise
And aydis with, of like condicioun;
With their avice vnto correctioun
Reduce it al by his auctorite
The duke, & vse a grete seueritee.
Amended al as sone as semeth the,
Make out of hem a stronge electioun;
Disparpiled lerne if thi foo.en bee,
And when thei lest suppose in their reasoun,
Fal on, and putte hem to confusioun.
Therof thi folk shal take an hardinesse
And daily be desirous on prowesse.
At brigge or hard passage, or hillis browe,
Is goo. to falle vppon; or if ther be
Mire or mareys or woo.e or grovis rowe
Or aggravaunt other difficultee,
To falle vppon is thenne vtilitee;
The hors to sech vnarmed or aslepe
To falle vppon is goo. to take kepe.
Thus hardy hem; for whos is vnexpert
Of werre, and woundis seeth, and summe slayn,
He weneth euery strok go to his hert,
And wiste he how, he wolde fle ful fayn.
But and he fle, retourne him fast agayn.
Thus with seueritee and goo. vsage
Ther wil revive in theim a fyne corage.
Dissensioun among foo.en to meve,
Be thei rebellious or myscreaunt,
It is to do, theim selven thei myscheve.
The traditour Judas was desperaunt,
Him self he hynge: so wulle thei that haunt
Rebellioun or ellis heresie.
Alas! to fele thus wil lyve & deye.
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Oon thinge heryn is wisely to be seyn,
Of this matier that ther noman dispayre;
As hath be doo., it may be doo. ayeyn;
A desolat Castel man may repayre.
In wynter colde, in somer dayis fayre
Is goo. to se. So fareth exercise
Of knyghthode & of werre, as seyn the wise.
In Engelond til now was ther no werre
This LX yere, savynge at Seynt Albane,
And oo. bataile aftir the blasing sterre,
And longe on hem that whirleth as the fane.
Is not their owne cryme her owne bane?
Ther leve I that, and sey that exercise
Of werre may in peax revyue & rise.
Seyde ofte it is: the wepon bodeth peax,
And in the londe is mony a chiualere,
That ha grete exercise doubtlesse
And think I wil that daily wil thei lere,
And of antiquitee the bokys here,
And that thei here, putte it in deuoyre,
That desperaunce shal fle comynge espoyre.
More esily a thing is al mad newe
In many cas, then is an olde repared;
The plauntys growe, as olde tren vp grewe,
And otherwhile a riche thing is spared.
It nedeth not to crave this declared,
But go we se, what helpeth to prevaile
Vppon the feelde in sette apert bataile.
Here is the day of conflict vncerteyn,
Here is to se deth, lif, honour & shame.
Glade vs, o Lord, this day & make vs fayn,
And make vs of this grete ernest a game!
Lord, make in vs magnificent thi name,
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Thin angelis commaunde in vs tattende,
And she, thi modir, have vs recommende.
Now is the Duke the rather diligent,
That forth he goth bytwene espoyre & drede;
Now glorious the Prince is sapient,
Now thignoraunt shal deye or harde spede.
In this moment manhode & knyghtly dede
With Goddis honde is oo.ly to prevaile;
Now let se first, how wil our foo. assaile.
The chiualers set forth first at the yate,
Whether ye dwelle in Castell or Citee,
And sette a frount or eny foo.come ate,
Til thoo.te come out vndir securitee.
Go not to fer ne faste, for ye se,
A wery wyght hath spended half his myght,
And with the fresh is hard for him to fight.
And if thi foo.the yatis ha forsette,
Delay it and attende what thei mene;
Let hem revile and gnaste & gomys whette,
And breke her ordynaunce, and when thei wene
Ye be aslepe, and they foryeton clene,
Breke on hem vnavised day or nyght;
This wisdom is to do, manhode & myght.
It is to frayne also with diligence,
Wher chiualerys think it be to fight,
Her countynaunce of fere or confidence
Wil be the juge, and truste not the knyght
That is aferd, ner hym ?his myght
Presumeth, inexpert what is bataile,
Conforte hem yet, telle hem thei shal prevaile.
And reasounynge reherce rebellioun
Or myscreaunce, and how thei be forsake
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Of alle goo.e, a Prynce as a lyoun
May telle that aforn thei ha be shake;
And if he may with reasounynge awake
An hardinesse in hem he may procede
And ellys vttirly he stont in drede.
The first sight is ferdfullest for tho
That neuer were in fight; and remedie
Is in beholdinge ofte vppon her foo.br> Out of a siker place or placys heye;
Confort therof comyng, dispayr wil deye,
Eke issuynge on hem with a prevaile
Is hardyinge to falle to bataile.
Part of the victory is for to chese
The herre grounde, and ay the herre it be,
The more myght thou hast thi foo.to ceese,
And more sharp dounward the taclys fle,
Thi foo. her fight is with the grounde & the;
Yet foo.men hors, and hors foo.men tassaile,
Theire is the cleef, the playn is hem tavaile.
And if thou may ha with the sonne & wynde,
Ereither on the bak is grete availe,
Ereither also wil thi foo.en blynde;
Ayeinst the wynde to fight, it is travaile,
A cloude of dust wil therwithal assaile
Thi foo.en in the frount, and stony hem so
That they her wit shal seke what to do.
Forthi the Prince it is be prouident
And haue a sight to wynde & dust & sonne,
And on the turnyng take avisement,
Remembering hou certeyn hourys ronne.
It wil not stonde, as stoo. when thei begonne;
West wil the sonne and happely the wynde,
But seen he wil that thei come ay behinde,
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And euer smyte his foo.en in the face;
And there an ende of that. Now wil we se,
This oo.te embateled vch in his place,
That noo. errour in eny parti be;
Therof wel ordeyned vtilitee
Wil nede arise, and his inordynaunce
May brynge (as God defende) vs to myschaunce.
First is to sette a frounte, an Ege his name
Is. Whi? The foo. it shal behalde & bite;
Ther chiualers, the worthiest of fame,
That wil with wisdom & with wepon smyte,
Noo.knyght apostata, noo. ypocrite,
Feers, feithful, ofte appreved, olde & wise
Knyghtys be thei, none other in no wise.
This ege in dayis olde a principaunt
Of wurthi men, as princys, had his name;
In thordre next personys valiaunt,
Such as ha sought honour and voyded shame
That vre haue had, to make her foo.en tame,
Sette hem theryn, armure and shot & spere
That myghtily can vse and wel bewere.
Next to the firste frount this is secounde,
And as of old thei called hem hastate
By cause of vse of spere & shaftis rounde,
Of armure is noo. of hem desolate.
III foo.e atwene had euery man his state,
So in a Ml. pace olength stoo. fixe
A Ml CC LX and VI
Foo.men were alle these, and stode in kynde
In duble raunge, and euerych hadde III
Foo.e, as byforn is seide, and VI behinde
The raungis hadde a sondir, so that he
That stoo. beforn, vnlatted shulde be
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To drawe & welde his wepon, and to take
His veer to lepe or renne, assaut to make.
In tho tweyn orderys wer ripe & olde
Appreved werryours of confidence,
That worthi men of armys had ben holde,
With wighti herneysing for to defense;
These as a wal to make resistence
Ay stille stode, hem may noo.man constreyne
Tavaunce forth or reere o foo.e ayeyne.
Thei trouble not, lest other troubled were,
But fixe abide, and welcom thaduersary
With sword & axe, with shot & cast of spere,
Vntil thei yeve her coo.s to seyntewary,
Or fle; for whi? thei dar no lenger tary.
Thenne aftir hem that ar to go for al,
For these stille abide as doth a wal.
Tho tweyne eggys ar clept 'the grete armure,'
And aftir hem the thridde cours is sette
Of wighte & yonge and light herneysed sure,
With dartys and with taclis sharpply whette,
In dayis olde thei ferentayris hette;
The firthe cours was called the scutate,
Spedy to renne and glad to go therate.
Wight archery with hem to shote stronge,
The yongest and the best and lustyeste
Archers with crankelons & bowys longe;
The ferenters and thei to gedir keste
Named the light armure, as for the beste
Thorgh shulde passe and first with shot prouoke
The aduerse part, and on hem reyse a smoke.
If foo.en fle, thei and horsmen the chase
Go swift vppon, and ellis thei retrete
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And thorgh the frount indresse hem to their place.
The grete armure, if thei com on an hete,
Is hem to yeve of sword and axis grete,
On hem the feeld is now for to defende.
Thei gynne wel, God graunte hem a goo. ende!
The fifthe cours was the carrobaliste,
Manubalistys and fundibulary
And funditours; but now it is vnwiste,
Al this aray, and bumbardys thei cary,
And gunne & serpentyn that wil not vary,
Fouler, covey, crappaude and colueryne
And other soo.tis moo.then VIII or IXne.
Heer faughte thei, that hadde as yet no sheelde,
As bachelers, with shot of dart or spere.
The sixte cours, and last of al the feelde
Wer sheeldys, of the myghtiest that were,
The bellatourys beste in euery gere;
Antiquytee denamed hem Triayrys,
In theym, as in the thridde, al to repayre is.
Thei to be sadde in strength and requyete,
More feruently to make inuasioun,
To take her ease in ordir alwey seete,
And if aforn wer desolatioun,
In theym therof was reparatioun;
In eny part if ther wer desperaunce,
Thei turned it anoo. to prosperaunce.
Now the podisme, as whos wil sey, the space
Of grounde, vpon to fight; it to se,
Aforn is seide, hou in a Ml. pace
XVI C LX and VI may be,
So chiualers euerych ha foo.is III
To stonde vpon a foo.e and VI abacke
That for his veer and leep no rowme hym lacke.
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VI eggys heer sette in a Ml. pace
Shal holde II and XLti. feet in brede,
And so X Ml. wil this grounde embrace;
Thus tembataile is sure, and fer fro drede;
And to II Ml. pas III cours for nede
In long goth out, so that the latitute
In XXI foo.e it self enclude.
As here is taught, X Ml. men may stonde
In oo. or ellys in II Ml. pace,
And XXti. Ml. in the double londe,
And XXXti. Ml. in the threfolde space,
And XL Ml IIII folde is tembrace;
And this mesure is named the Pidisme,
Vntaught in doctrinal or in Grecisme.
A prince heryn expert, and hath to fight
His feelde and of his folk the multitude,
Shal seen anoo. how thei shal stonde aright,
And if the feeld is short & brod, conclude
On rangis IX, and by this similitude,
Be short and huge in brede, or longe & rare,
But myghtier is brede, and mo may spare.
And rare, an oo.te if thaduersary seeth,
He breketh on with hurt peraventure,
Wher thicke outholdeth him ayenst his teeth;
And ther an ende of that; but hoo.shal cure
Ereither, horn and myddis, to be sure,
Ordeyne that, or aftir dignitee
Or aftir thaduersayris qualitee.
The feelde ofoo.e ordeyned in this gise,
To sette it is these hors at eyther horn,
As writeth in her werkys olde wise,
That herneysed sperys be sette aforn,
Vnharneysed abak, that of be born
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The storm fro theym, whil myghti hors defende
Stronge archerye o foo.e to shote on ende.
For to defende haue horsis myghtieste,
Tho hornys in attempting is to sende
Out hors the swiftest & the wightieste,
To trouble theym sette on a pace on ende.
The duke it is to knowe & comprehende,
What hors ayenst what throngys ar to goo.,
And whar he have hors as goo.e as his foo..
Their hors ar ouer vs; theryn is boo.e:
Tak wight and yonge men with sheeldis light,
With twene on hors, sette one of theim o foo.e;
With hem resiste our aduersayrys myght.
But this to take effecte and spede aright,
These yonge men herof grete exercise
Moste have, as telleth werreourys wise.
And aftir al his oo.te, a duke shal haue
A myghti choyce of men on hors & foo.e,
Ereither horn and breste for to save,
That if the boo.ys hed in wolde wrote,
A sharre shere his groyn of by the roo.e.
(The boo.ys hed is a triangulere
Of men, a boo.ys hed as thaugh it were).
If that come on, with tuskys forto breke
The breste or egge or wynge or outher horn,
A sharre clippe hem of, right by the cheke,
And with the same his wrot away be shorn;
And set it al in ordir as beforn,
And if a place feynte, anoo. a yawe
Of myghti men aforn it is to drawe.
Tribunys, Erlis or their lieutenauntys,
Of these, myghtiest to renne & ride
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Wer mad the Capitayns & gouernauntys,
And werriours hem named the subside;
For thei releved thoo.t on euery side,
So that noman remeued from his place,
For so to doo., myght al an oo.t difface.
Eek out herof thei make a Boo.ys hed
And Cuneus thei name it, or a wege;
As thondirynge with leyting flammys red
It russheth on our aduersayrys egge
And shaketh of, ye mony a myghti segge,
And if it falle on either of the hornys,
It cracketh hem, as fier tocracketh thornys.
This stoo. behinde al other ordynaunce.
Now is to se the place of vche estate:
On the right honde, withoute variaunce
The principal Captayn or potestate,
That al the gouernaunce is taken ate,
There as the foo.men and the hors dyuide,
He hath his place, al to gouerne & gide.
Foo.men and hors to rewle heer stondeth he,
The potestate and al this oo.t to gide,
By premynence of his auctorite,
To chere theim that myghtily shal ride,
And theim o foo.e, as myghtily tabide.
A wynge is him to bringe aboute the horn
Him counteringe and on comynge beforn,
That is the lift horn of our aduersary,
Aboute a wynge, and on the backe hem clappe,
And thei of their comyng the tyme wary;
And if (as God defende) amys it happe,
Anoo. the subside is to stoppe a gappe;
For soueraynly on hym that is tattende,
And, as the cas requyreth, come on ende.
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The Duke secounde, and next in gouernaunce,
Amydde the frounte or forfrount is to stonde
And sustene it tabide in ordinaunce;
The boo.ys hed his part is to withstonde,
A sharre out of the subside is at honde,
Clappe it theron, and if ther nede a yawe,
Out of the same anoo. it is to drawe.
The thridde Duke, right wys & vigorous,
His part it is to stonde on the lift horn
And myghti men with hym, for dangerous
Is that to kepe, as writon is beforn.
His wynge he muste extende, and hadde thei sworn
It, let hem not her wynge aboute hym clappe,
Subside at him be sone, if ought mys happe.
A clamour, clept an harrow or a shout,
Vntil the fight begynne, noo. is to rere;
No werreour that wise is, out of doubt,
Wil shoute afer, therwith his foo.to fere;
But when the shoute & shaftys fille his ere,
Then voyce yfere is so fel & horribil,
That for to fere, it is not incredibil.
Be redy first, and first to sette vppon,
And first to shote & shoute & make affray,
With myghti countynaunce, that is the mon,
That mornynge is to haue a ful fayr day.
This promptitude & wit & stronge aray
Thi foo.seynge, is trembeling to fle,
The palme of victory goynge with the.
And ay bewar, lest his right wynge clappe
Aboute thi lift horn; this is remedie:
To rech it out; and if that wil not happe,
The wynge aboute thyn horn bacward replie
And fende hem of; now fight for the maistrye,
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And if a bosh come on on eny side,
A better bosh on hem from our subside.
Here angelike valiaunce, here is puissaunce
Archangelik in oo.te and legioun,
And it gouerneth Dukys principaunce
With myght, power, and dominatioun.
Omnipotens, this is his champioun;
God loueth this, his throne & sapience
Is sette heron, justice to dispence.
What is this oo.t, aduerse, rebelliouns
Presumptuous, periurious, mischevous,
Heresious with circumcelliouns?
A legioun attaynte, vntaken thevous,
That, as thei ar myscheved, wold myscheve vs.
Her lord is Lucifer, the kyng of pride,
In euery feeld with him doun goth his side.
Thei ha no breste, here hornys & her wyngis
Ful febil are and out of ordynaunce;
Subside is goo., no socour in their kynge is,
And moo.t amonge hem self is variaunce.
They wil away, now fle they to myschaunce;
Goo. is their herte, and if the body dwelle,
Their hope is aftir deth and aftir helle.
Here is .o. breste, here hornys are & wyngys
And myghtieste in raunge & ordynaunce;
Subside is here, and socour in our kynge is,
Amonge vs is ther noo.contrariaunce.
We wil abide vndir our gouernaunce,
Here is noo.drede of deth or peyne of helle;
Here or with angelys is vs to dwelle.
Therfore our eye is to the kyngis signe,
We here his voys, as trumpe & clarioun,
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His eyes are obeyed, we enclyne
Attonys vnto hym, his legioun
We are, and aftir God, his regioun.
His capitayn and his vicapitaynys
Tobey euerych of vs right glad & fayn is.
This champioun, this oo.te & Goddis knyght
With fele and also fewe may prevaile,
Miraclis here & there God sheweth myght;
But first (as seide is erste) is hem tassaile.
The gretter oo.te is this; now moste availe
Is ordinat bataile, as is beforn
Seide, and with wyngys clappe in eyther horn.
With wyngis wight hem vmbego, ley on
Behinde and holde hem streyt on euery side,
And cleche hem vp; whi wolde they be foo.?
Tech hem obeyssaunce; sey: 'Fy! o pride!
Com on your way, we wil our self you gide.'
This way is goo., so that this bestes ride
Be not a gret horribil multitude.
With multitude we myght been vmbegoo.,
War that perile; holde of on other side
With wyngis wight, and strengthe hem faste anoo.;
With myghtiest elect of the subside
Prevaile on hem; yet more is to prouide,
That if the boo.ys hed com in, a sharre
Be made for him, his tuskys forto marre.
But wurthi men are in this oo.te afewe,
Sette hem in wise and myghti gouernaunce;
For heer the Lord wil his myracle shewe,
Their multitude or myght be noo.turbaunce;
Truste in thi Lord and mak goo. ordynaunce;
Ordeyned wel, in fewe is to prevaile,
So that theryn no poynt or poyntis faile.
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Do thus when thegys are at the congresse;
Thi lift hond, hold it from thin aduersary,
That of his shot it have noo.distresse
And thi ryght wynge vppon hem wightly cary.
Theer to begynne it is most necessary;
Sette on in circuyte, and bringe abowte,
And to prevaile it nedeth nat to doubte.
But do this with thin horsmen myghtyeste
And foo.men of the beste, and ha noo.drede,
Thi foo.en vndir foo.e to be keste;
And if thi foo.to the the same bede,
A myghtiest subside vppon hym lede
Of horsmen and foo.men, and thus delude
Hir arte with arte, and thervppon conclude.
Or otherwise, if men be myghtieste
On the lift hond, the right is to retrete
And fal on her right horn with wightieste
Foo.men & hors; and til thei yelde hem, bete
Hem on the bak and breeste, and ouergete
Hem myghtily; but the right honde elonge,
That of thi foo.noo.forfeture it fonge.
War heer the boo.ys hed and euerywhere,
Or otherwise al putte in ordynaunce
CCCC or D pace yfere
Aforn the counteringe it is tavaunce
Our wyngis wight vppon their ignoraunce.
Prudence it is on hem to make affray,
Whil thei beth out of reule and of aray.
If hors be myghtiest, this wey is best
And doo. anoo., and ellis is grete drede;
A remedy therfore is to be keste,
That al the light armure wightly procede,
And archerye, as sparkil out of glede.
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And embataile anoo. the frounte aforn,
The breste to defende, and either horn.
If this be doo., the frounte alonge is sure,
Vnlabored with fight, or otherwise,
Like as beforn is seyde, it is to cure,
That thi right wynge vppon his lift horn rise;
But myghtiest and wittiest dyuise
Vnto that feat, and archers with hem fonge
Of wighte men, ofoo.e that be stronge.
And this doyng, retrete thi lifte horn
Fer, al abak, and raunge it like a spere,
Dyuers heryn vnto the way beforn,
So that the foo.noo.stroo. theron bewere.
This wil devicte anoo. withoute fere.
In this manere a smal & myghti oo.te
Shal ouerthrowe a multitude of boo.te;
Or finally, this oo.te is but of fewe
And not so myghti men as hath the foo.
Heer hath the werreour his craft to shewe,
And embataile hym nygh a floo. that goo.br> On outher half; a cragge is goo. also,
Lake or marice or castel or citee,
A side to defende is goo. to se.
There embataile and putte ereither wynge
On oo. side, and herwith pul of his horn,
But fro behinde aboute is beste it brynge,
And with the boo.ys hede route in beforn.
The myghtiest to this be not forborn,
Ner they, theryn that haue had exercise,
Thus hath be seyde of werryourys wise.
The foo.peraventure is ferde and fled
Into sum holde, and ferther wolde he fle
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Fayn, wiste he how. What is the beste reed
That he go forth, or heer beseged be?
To lete hem goo. is moste vtilitee
And no perile is it that foo.to chace
That turneth vs the bak & nat the face.
Yet heer be wys and sende a fewe aforn,
Right aftir hem, and with a myghty honde
Another way on even or amorn
Caste to come in and in their light to stonde.
When thei that aftir go, wynne on hem londe,
Her part it is tattempte hem esily
And so departe, aferd to bide therby.
This seyn, thei wil, suppose a wayt be goo.,
And disolute anoo. be negligent,
Thenne is the wit, that myghti honde come on
And take hem vp aslepe or vynolent;
Thus easily we haue our owne entent,
Therof to God the commendatioun
Be madde, and doo. sacrificatioun.
If part of thoo.te be fled, & part prevaile,
Heryn the Prince exploye his valiaunce,
Hem myghtily retournyng to bataile.
Forwhi? the foo. be fled vnto myschaunce.
Arere anoo. vnto your ordynaunce;
The feelde is youre, and trumpe & clarioun
And scryis make of victory resoun.
Of knyghthode and bataile in special
Thus seide thelectioun & ordynaunce,
Here is to sette vp rewlys general,
As this: The gracious goo. gouernaunce
Obserueth euerywhere; al suffisaunce
Hath he that is content; al may be born
Saue wele; and: scorned is that vseth scorn;
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Thi disavaile availe is to thi foo.
His hurt availeth the; voide his advice,
Do thin availe; do not as he hath do;
In thin electioun se thou be wys,
War negligence, do euery man justice,
Be vigilaunt, attende thin honour,
Thi prouidence be to thin oo.t socour.
Ha not to fight a knyght vnexercised;
Ha confidence in preved thing; secre
Thi counsel have; lerne of thi self disgised;
The fugitif herd and vntrested be;
Be gided wel by folk of that contre,
That thou wilt ouer ride; haue in writynge
Euery passage, and eke in purtreyinge.
Better is brede in oo.t to fight then lengthe;
Goo. is in stoo. to haue a grete subside;
With sapience socoure a feebil strength,
Sende of thi foo. Let not thin oo.t diuide;
Whette vp thin ege; bidde horsmen wightly ride;
Fight in a raunge aforn with multitude
Ayenst a fewe, and hem anoo. detrude.
A fewer oo.t falle on with the right horn,
And crokyng of the lift horn is telonge,
So that the myghtiest be sette beforn;
And if the lift horn be both wyce and stronge,
Sette it beforn, and bak the right be wronge;
Or on thin vnaduised foo.with wight
And myghti wyngis go beforn & fight.
The light armure and euery ferentary
Aforn thi frount in nede anoo. procede
With subside on the wyngys for to tary;
And he that hath a litil oo.te, hath nede
Of mych wit, and myghti men in dede,
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And on his honde a floo. or place of strengthe,
And either wynge on his oo. horn tenlengthe.
Ye truste in hors: the playn is beste; ye truste
Vppon foo.men: the cleef is goo.. Espie
Amongis vs to be ther is distruste:
That euery man go hoo., anoo. do crye,
And which is he, forwith me shal espie.
But sodenly this most be doo. be day,
The yatis shitte, lest he go stele away.
What is to doo., with mony take advice;
What shalbe doo., tak fewe or be alone;
Tak his advice that is secret & wyce,
Be juste, indifferent to euerychone;
For idelnesse haue ay sumwhat to doo.e;
To straunge not, not to familier,
Make of a lord; chere a goo. Chiualeer.
And here anende I thus the thridde part
In this Tretice of knyghthode & bataile.
What ha we next ? Forsothe, a subtil art
To bilde a stronge Citee, and for tassaile
It and defense; and aftir, fight Navayle,
That is bataile in ship, I here entende
For chiualers to write, and make an ende.
IV.
Vltima pars vrbes parat, obsidet atque tuetur,
Bello nauali finit & ornat opus.
This IIIde part, as long as othre tweyne,
Halt prouidence of myghtiest bataile,
The morthereer to bringe vndir the cheyne.
There al his olde craft shal nought availe,
But hate of ire and angush of travaile
To fynde; and aftir al that to descende
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To theuerlasting deth, if he namende.
In Brutis Albion is not to spende
This myghti knyghthode & bataile alone;
To Normandie and Fraunce it is tassende,
Til Cristis & the kyngis foo. vchone
Be dryven out or chastised, and noo.e
Alyve ylefte, that wil not wel beleve
And vttirly the myscreaunt myscheve.
Here ende I that, and to my werk releve
The laste part, anoo. to bringe an ende,
And aftir in correctioun it preve;
Criste truste I, that the kyng it wil attende
And werreours to knowe it condescende;
That leve I there, and write as is thavaile
To bilde and sette assege, and see bataile.
Nature or art assureth a Citee,
A dongeoun, a castel, or a tour,
In lake or in mareys or in the see
Sette it, that element is thi socour;
And if the lond shalbe propugnatour,
A mountayne or a clyef, a cragge, a rok
Sette it vppon, and saf it is fro strok.
And in foreste, in feelde or in champayne,
With craft or art it is tomake a strengthe,
And if nature assiste, it is tattayne
Effect anoo., as when the brede or lenghe
A rok, ryuer, mareys or see wil strengthe;
But art alone if noo. herof availe,
Shal make it stronge with wisdam & travaile.
Mak bosumy and angulous the wal,
And so sette out therof the fundament
With touris and turrettis oueral,
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That scale, engyne or rammer therto sent
Be ouer sette, and faile of his entent,
When he is vnbegon and al to donge
With al that may be kest fro wallis stronge.
In this manere a wal it is to make,
To stonde an infallibil thing for euer:
An interualle of XXti feet be take,
A wal on either side herof dissevre,
Caste in the moo.de, sadde it with mal & lever,
Out of the dich caste it bitwix the wallys,
And ramme it doun with punchonys & mallis.
Mak the inner wal wel lower then withoute,
That esily, as by the clif, ascende
Me may vnto the loupis al aboute,
Or by an esi grice hem to defende;
Thus mad a wal, the ram may nat offende;
For thaugh he fronte awey this vttir cruste,
The grounde is stronge ynough with him to juste.
For firing of the yatis make obstacle,
Couer hem with hidys and with iron plate,
And make aforn a myghti propugnacle,
A portcolys to plumpe adoun therate,
Aftir thi foo. atwixte it and the yate
Thei checked ar. The machcoling may thenne
Chastise hem that thei shal nat sle ner brenne.
The dichis ar to make brode at al
And deep at al, so that me may not fille
Hem in no wise, and renne vppon the wal;
The myner is his labour heer to spille,
And rathest if the watir hem fulfille;
For now hath he twey grete Impedymentys;
Depnesse is oo., another thelement is.
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The multitude of shot is to repelle
With sheeld, pavice an here and duble say;
Shot perceth not ther thorgh; eek wittis felle
Han cratys fild with stoo. at euery bay,
And if thassault come vp, adoun go they
Out of the crate, at euery loup is oo.
Of these. It quelleth ordynaunce & mon.
In mony wise assault is and defense;
And on manere is by enfameyinge.
Hoo.de foo.e away, and watir, kepe it thens,
And hem to honde anoo. shal honger bringe.
But if we wite a seege on vs comynge,
Anoo. gete al the foo.e within our wonys
And faste haue in the multitude of stonys.
Corn euerydel, larder, fisch, foul, forage,
And that may not be brought in, is to brenne,
Wyn, aysel, herbe, & fruyt and cariage,
Logyng, let brenne it vp, or cary it thenne;
So bare it for our foo. that whenne thei renne,
Thei fynde nought; and vse we vitaile
With such attemperaunce, that it ne faile.
Glew, tar & picch and oyle incendiary,
And sulphour herwithal to brenne engyne,
Charcole & cole, and al that necessary
Is forto make armure and arowys fyne
And shelde & spere, hundirdys VIII or IX,
And coggys, cogulys & pibblis rounde,
Fil vp the wal with hem by roo. & grounde.
Stoo. of the floo. is saddest and so best,
For fourneysinge a wal & euery loupe,
And outher with engynys to be kest
On hegh, adoun to falle on hed or croupe,
Or fro the scalyng forto make hem stoupe
And have of grene tymbour grete rollys
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And loggys leyd to route vppon her pollys.
And beemys is to haue of euery sise
And boo.d of euery soo.t, and also nayl.
Ayenst engyne, engyne is to devise,
And that the stuf be prest, is thin availe.
High if it be, pulle ouer their top sail,
And if thei come in touris ambulary,
Hem myghtily to mete is necessary.
Nerf is to haue or senewis aboundaunce,
The crosbowyng to stringe and bowe of brake;
Hors her of mane & tail, if suffisaunce
Therof ther is, therto goo. is to take;
Of wymmen here tho stryngis eke thei make:
With stryngys of their her Romaynys wyvis
Saved her owne & her husbondis lyvis.
Raw hidis ar to kepe, and euery horn
The portcolis to couere, eek sheeld & targe
And mony a thing, it may not be forborn;
And if so be your watir be not large,
To synke a welle anoo. it is to charge,
For lak therof; theym that the water brynge,
With shot defende outward & hoo. comynge.
And if the welle is out of our shotinge,
Make vp a tour and putte archerys there,
For to defende tho that watir brynge;
Cisternys who can make, it is tenquere;
Make vp of theym in placis euerywhere,
Rayn watir kepe in hem; when wellys faile,
Rayn watir in cisternys may availe.
A See Citee this is, and salt is geson:
Kest watre salt in vesselling that sprede,
Salt wil the sonne it make in litil season;
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But thus we dar not fette it in for drede,
The see gravel, gete it vp in this nede,
Fresh watir it, and let it drie in sonne,
And salt withoute doubte herof is wonne.
They that the wal assaulteth, bith terribil
A multitude, and trumpis proudly rynge;
The Citee nys but simpil and paisibil,
And ferde thei are at this first counteringe,
And in goth they; but if the spritis springe
And putte hem of, in comth an hardinesse,
And egal is fro now forth the congresse.
The tortoys or the snayl, the rammys grete,
The sekel or the sithe, and vyneyerd,
The cagys pluteal it is to gete
And tourys ambulary nere aferd;
The musculys eke with the pety berde,
Lo alle these wil this Citee assaile
With crafte, and yet with craft shal it prevaile.
Of tymbir and of boo.d it is to make
A tortoys or a shelled snail, and so
They name it; whi? for when hem liste awake
It, out therof the hed & hornys go
And in and out ayein; oo. horn or too.
Croked or streght, hath it, right as a snaile,
Right as it semeth hem their moo.t availe.
The bak of this tortoys, snail or testude,
Wherof it hath figure and also name,
With felt & heere & hidis rawe or crude,
Lest theron fier doun cast, brenne vp the frame.
Wel couered is, the sidis beth the same;
Pendaunt theryn, ther goth a beem alonge,
Therof the hed is iron steeled stronge.
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Tweyne hornys if it have, it is a snaile;
Streght may thei stonde, or the lifte horn may croke
Outher the right, as may be moo.t availe,
The wal to breke & stonys out to Roo.e;
And if it haue but oo. horn, & it hoo.e
A croche, it is a sikel or a sithe,
It breketh and out bringeth stonys swithe.
And when the frount is mad to breke & brese,
It is a ram for that similitude,
To rush vppon the wal and al to crese
The stuf in it; yet wil thei this delude,
And with oo.crafte thoo.craftis III conclude:
Of quylt & felt a trusse thei depende,
Ther as the ram entendeth for toffende.
Or by the hed they kecch it with a gnare
And hale it vp, or by the wal endlonge,
Or turne it vpsodoun thei wil not spare;
Hem semeth it to hurte it is no wronge;
And other haue a wulf, this ram to fonge:
That wulf is as a payre of smythis tongys,
Too.hed, that in a wayt alway to honge is.
That wulf goo.h on the ram, and by the hed
Or necke anoo. pulde is he vp so doun,
Or so suspended that his myght is deed,
And other fro the wallis of the town
Or out of tourys hye or of dongeoun
Wil caste an huge ston or a pilere
Of marbil, and so breke it al yfere.
And if the wal be thorled therwithal,
As happeth ofte, or doun it goo.h anoo.:
Awey with euery hous, and mak a wal
Withinne that of planke or lyme & ston;
And if thin aduersayris come vppon,
Conclude theym bitwixt the wallis tweyne,
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And so be quyte of this perile & peyne.
The vyneyerde is lighter tymburynge,
VIII foo.e brode, VI foo.ys high, XVI
Foo.ys in length, and dubil couertinge
Hath it of boo.d & fleyk; of twyggis grene
The sidis are, and fier for to sustene,
With felt & hidis grene it couere they,
So that to brenne or breke it, is no wey.
And made ynowe of these, ar sette yfere
Vnto the wal, as summe sette a vyne,
And tre pilers vpsetting heer & there,
To make it falle, vndir the wal thei myne,
That, puld away the stulpis VIII or IXne,
Doun go the wal, this vyneyerd remeved,
Lest it and al ther vndir be myscheved.
The cage pluteal of twiggis plat,
Of heerys hath couert and hidis grene;
Not ouer high the roo. ner ouer flatte,
That shot & fier suffice it to sustene.
On whelis III to go thei thise demene,
As goth a cart; and fele herof thei make
With mony a wit the wallis forto awake.
The muscle shelle is but a smal engyne,
Mightily mad on whelis for to go,
And bere away the wallis when thei myne;
Thei bringe stuf the dich to fille also;
And on the werk it may go to & fro
And sadde it vp, that tourys ambulary
May men ynowe vppon the wallis cary.
The muscul eke is goo., the way to mende,
For eny thing, of tourys ambulary.
To se the crafte is now to condescende,
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Thartificeer it nedeth not to vary;
Make hem like other housing necessary,
A XXXti foo.e or XL foo.e square,
And otherwhile of Lti feet thei are.
Of bemys and of boo.d be thei compacte,
And competent the brede hath altitude,
With hidis, grene or felt sadly coacte
The robinge & the sidis are enclude.
Their apparaile ashameth wallys rude,
At euery lyme herof ar huge whelys
And broo. withal the sole of euery whel is.
Present perile is, if this tour ammoeve
Vnto the wal, the place is in a doubte;
And impossibil is it of to shove.
Of myghtieste theryn is mony a route,
And briggis in, to renne on from withoute,
And scalis of al maner farsioun,
From eny part to renne on vp & doun.
The rammys are alongh as first engyne,
And not a fewe, a wal to ouerthrowe,
And vndir as a vyneyerd they myne
And briggis in the myddis are a rowe,
And fro the toppe they shote & stonys throwe;
Thus vndir and above and euerywhere
The wall besette; who dar abide there?
Yet here ayenst is diuers medycyne:
First, if the Chiualers with confidence
Go myghti out, and fire this engyne,
First pulde away the firys resistence,
And if thei ha not this magnificence,
Shote at hem molliols, also fallayrys;
But what thei ar, to knowe it necessayir is.
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A malliol, a bolt of wilde fier is,
A fallary, a shafte is of the same;
Thorgh felt & hide hem shoo.e: al on a fier is;
But shoo.e hem thorgh into the tymber frame;
With myghti alblastris go to this game,
Brymston, rosyn, glewe, oyle incendiary
With flax doo. on this shafte is necessary.
Or preuely with fier out of the toun
Ouer the wal, whil this tour is asclepe,
A feleship of fewe is let adoun,
That fiere it, as noo.watir may it kepe;
And triced vp at hoo. thei skippe & lepe
To se this ambulary touris brenne;
This hath be doo., & yet ful seelde whenne.
And otherwise is doun, the wal tarise,
And ouer go the touris altitude;
Yet ther ayenst is vsed to deuise
A subtiltee, tho wallis to delude;
In the vtter tour, an inner tour tenclude,
And when thei sette vppon this wallis blynde
With gabils & polifs hem ouerwynde.
And beemys otherwhile, ye ouerlonge,
Ordeyne thei, and sette on iron hornys,
And as a rammys hed thei make hem honge;
This tour with hem forbeton and throgh born is,
And sette ofiere, and vtturly for lorn is;
Yet otherwise, out of the toun a myne,
Vndir the way therof, sleth this engyne.
When this engyne on that concavitee
Goth with his wight vppon his myghti whelis,
Doun goth it, into helle as it wold fle;
And this to se, the toun in joy & wele is.
But thoo.te withoute al in dolour & deel is,
Al desperate of help by their engyne,
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And al by witty makyng of a myne.
But if this tour sauf sette vppon the wallis
With euery shot of dart, of shaft, of spere,
And dynt of axe, of swoo.d, billys & mallys,
And caste of stoo. thei ley on euerywhere,
That fro the wal awey they fle for fere,
Now to the wal, the briggis forto avale is,
And mony oo. goth doun anoo. by scalys.
Thei trice in other with the Tollenon:
The tollenon a tymbir pece on ende
Is sette, another twye as long theron,
The lighter ende of it adoun thei bende;
A cageful of men therwith thei sende
Vppon the wal, when they with cordis drawe
Adoun that other ende, as is the lawe.
Sumtyme ayen this werk, the bowe of brake,
Carribalistys and Arcubalistis,
Onagris and fustibulis wer take,
And mony a dart that vncouth & vnwiste is
Amonge vs heer. The taberinge of the fistis
Vppon the bowe, and trumpyng of the gunne
Hath famed vs as fer as shyneth sonne.
Thei trumpe adoun the tourys ambulary,
Thei ouerthrowe as wel ram as tortoys,
The cage and vyneyerd therby myscary,
The muscul may not with his dynt & voys;
And countir as it goth, ther is noo.choys,
But deed or quyt; for and it onys touche,
It goth for al that hangeth in the pouche.
A conynger, that now they calle a myne,
Goth vndir erth vnwist; by that cauerne
Come in tatoun, ye, tourmys VIII or IXne,
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And prevely they rise in sum tauerne
Or desolat hous, so noo.wight hem werne;
And sodenly by nyght vppon the yate
They hewe, and leet their frendis in therate.
And ther ayenst, if that the dwellers be
In touris, on the wal, or housys hye,
Vppon the strete,-is ther yit comfort? Ye,
So stonys out of numbir on hem flye,
As thaugh the buldir hailed from the skye;
They wil anoo. retrete out at the yatis,
Now steke hem out; and stynted this debate is.
And if thei do not thus, anoo. their foo.br> Of prouidence her yatis may lete stonde,
Vntil as fele as fle, wil been ago,
And thenne in ease have hous & toun & londe;
But God defende vs that we be not fonde
Aslepe so that foo. lede vs away
Withoute stroo., or seide hem onys nay!
Lo, man, womman and childe may keste stoo.
Vppon his foo.from euery place o lofte,
And ther to redy sone are euerychon
By day & nyght; this holpen hath full ofte.
Ha stonys out of floo. or feeld or crofte,
Store hem on high, that in a sodeyn fere
Fynde hem ye may, and on your foo.bewere.
This conynger hath eek another gise,
Vndir the wal to crepe pryvely,
And sette vp postis heer, & ther by sise
And pike away the fundament wightly,
Ramayle it wel. the postis by & by,
And when their oo.te was redy, make it brenne;
Doun goth the wall; in and vppon hem thenne!
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Peraventure ther is a countir myne,
So that thei faile, and feyneth a dispayre,
And hem remeveth mylys VIII or IXne;
Now best be war, at market or at fayre,
Or day or nyght, thei thinketh to repayre,
If there appere among hem negligence;
Therfore now do grettest diligence.
Now se the wacch abide vppon the wall,
And houndis wise & grete is goo. to kepe;
Eek gees is goo. to haue in special,
For thei wil wake folke that ar aslepe,
The foo.comynge her welth away to repe;
The mavlard in the dich and in the wallis,
The martilet at scaling wont to calle is.
The toun eke on thassege sodenly
Is wont to falle, if it be negligent;
Therfore a dich thei make vp myghtily,
Without shot of euerych instrument,
And stake it, pale it, toure it to thentent,
Ther to be sure hem self and holde hem inne;
Thus wayteth vch an other for to wynne.
The craft tassaulte a citee and defende
By myght and wit of knyghthode & bataile,
Honour to God, therof is mad an ende.
Now go we forth vnto this fight navaile,
That is fight on the see, no light travaile,
And not o londe; as there is so grete drede,
Therfore of gouernaunce hath it gret nede.
To make an hous, goo. stuf it is to take
Goo. farsioun, and goo. stuf is the hous;
But rather he that shippis is to make,
Se that his stuffe ne be nat vicious;
A feebil hous nys not so perilous
As is a feebil ship, other a barge,
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Forthy therof the more it is to charge.
Fir and cipresse and the pynappul tre
Therfore is goo., as seyn the boo.ys olde,
And oo. is holden goo. in this cuntre;
The nayles are of bras wel better holde
Then iron. Whi? For ruste thei wil & olde
And kanker and consume, there as bras,
Consumed al the ship, is as it was.
Fro Juyl Kalendis vnto the Kalende
Of Janyveer, that is by monthis sixe
The seson is, tymbur to falle an ende;
Thumour dryinge in treen, now sad & fixe
Is euery pith; but fallinge is bitwixe
XV and XXIIti, when the mone
Is wanyng, dayis VII is this to done.
In other tyme or seson if me falle,
Wormeton wil it ben, eek it wil rote;
The tymbourmen of craft this knoweth alle;
Of rynde or bark is rende away the cote
And dryed thorgh, er it be put to note,
For tymbir weet, so wroght, wil aftir shrynke
And ryve and with right grete disconfort drynke.
For if the shippe vnto the maryner
Drynke of the see, sone aftir of the same
Thei drinketh al, and are of hevy cher;
Forthi, the carpenter is wurthi blame
That into shippis wil weet tymbour frame,
And wurthi thonk is he, that frameth drye,
So that in his defaulte no men deye.
The namys of the shippis as for werre
Myn auctour writeth not, save a liburne
He writeth of as mightier & herre
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Of boo.d, and wight of foo.e, and light to turne.
As to the wastom of this shippis storne,
Thei hadde V or IIII ordris of oo.is,
Or fewer, as the vessel lesse or more is.
And euery grete liburne a balynger
Hath had, and that a scafe exploratory
Was named, for to aspie fer & neer;
Of oo.ys hadde thei not but oo. story.
But wight it was to go for a victory;
The seyl, the maste, and euery marynere
With see colour wer clad for to vnnapere.
A navey and an oo.t that wil gouerne
Vppon the see, him nedeth forto knowe
The wyndis, and the wedir to discerne;
He moste ha wit, leste he be ouerthrowe;
And first the foure cardinals arowe
Be knowe, as Est & West & North & South,
How thei amonge hem self discorde, is couth.
Theest cardinal is called subsolan,
And on his lifte hond hath he Sir Vulturne,
And Colchyas is on his right hond tan,
Septentrion, that cardinal so storne
Out of the North the see wil ouer torne,
Thocastias his right, and his lift side
Halt Aquylo, what se may theim abide.
Auster is cardinal meridian,
Nothus ful grymly goth on his right side,
And Chorus on the lift hond forth thei han,
And Zephirus that cardinal, abide
Wil in the west, and when him list to ride,
Grete Affricus shal ride on his right honde,
And Duk Fauonius on his lift honde.
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If III or oo. or tweyne of these vp blowe,
Tethis, of hir nater that is tranquylle,
Thei lene vppon, oppresse and ouerthrowe,
And causeth al crye out that wold be stille;
Thei ror ayeyn, of her thei haue her wille;
The shippe that this conflict seeth & hereth
(Heryn beleve me) his hert it fereth.
Sum varyaunce of tyme will refreyne
Her cruelous & feers rebellioun,
A nothir helpith hem to shake her cheyne
As all the firmament shuld falle adoun
And Occian lepe ouer Caleys Toun;
And after in a while it is tranquylle
And playne & calme, as whos seith 'husht, be stille!'
Therfore a storme is whisedom to preuyde,
And goo. it is forse serenyte,
And fro the storme abide or stopp atide,
And with meanabil wynd sette on the see;
Ful hard it is in peril hym to se,
That of the wyndes had inspeccioun,
Is raysonabil in direccioun.
Thenne is to se the monthis & the dayes
Of Nauygaunce, forwhy? not al the yere
The wyndis on the shippis make affrayes,
Sum monthis euer are of mery cheer,
And summe loure a while, & after cleer
Ynough they loke, & summe ar intractabil
And ragy woo., ancour to breke & gabil.
The VIth kalende of Juyn, when Pliades
Appereth: what is that? the sterrys VII;The wyndes alle ar bounden to the pees,
So that ther nys no truble vndir heuen,
Vntil the berth of Arcture al is even,
That is of Octobir the XVIIIth kalende,
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Seecraft plesaunt hath at this day an ende.
Tho dayis euer are of mery cheer,
And thenne vnto the IIIde Ide of Nouembre
The dayis wil now loure and now be cleer;
For vnto now, as boo.ys me remembre,
Arcture, as from the first Ide of Septembre,
His reigne he hath, and in this meane while
The firmament wil loure amonge & smyle.
Nouembir in tempest is al to shake,
And aftir vnto Marchis Idus VI,
Viage thenne on see nys noo. to take,
But in the woo.e it is tabide fixe;
Also by londe vnvsed is betwixe
Alhaleweday & March to goo. or ride,
But if a grete necessitee betide.
Short is the day, the nyght is ouerlonge,
Thicke is the myst, and thestir is the mone,
And aftir in ther comth of wynde a thronge,
That forto stonde he hath ynough to done,
That is o londe; a strom is aftir sone
Of leyt, of wynd, of rayn, of hail, of thondir,
That woful is the wight that goth thervndir.
And, ovir this, in Marche, Aprile & May,
Antiquytee of Navigatioun
Dyuers sollemnytee and grete aray
Was vsed have in high deuotioun,
And eke of arte exercitatioun
To kepe in honde, and as for feat of werre,
Thei boo. vntil the sonne ascended herre.
And tokenys of tranquille and tempeste,
Of wynde and rayn, thei hadden in the moo.e;
Of tokenys this was surest & best:
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Reed is the mone, it wil be wynde right sone,
To take see theryn is goo. to shone;
The pale mone is lyke to haue a rayn,
The pale rede is wynde & storm, thei sayn
And when the mone ariseth glad & bright,
And namely the day that is the pryme,
Withoute humour, in hornys sharpe & light,
To take a grete viage is right goo. tyme.
But if the sonne telle of eny cryme,
As is if he arise vndir a cloude,
That day in rayn & wynd is wont to croude.
His bright aristh is like a mery day,
His rede aristh is like a breef to blowe,
And maculous, is shour or cloudis ay,
And pale aristh wil reyn or ellis snowe;
A tokyn eke of rayn is the raynbowe.
In wynde and ayer, in fish & foule, Virgile
The signys seyth that may noman begile.
The maryners, thei sayn, haue al this art
Of wydiringe, and thei be wedir wise,
By discipline of it ha thei no part,
But of a longe vsage or exercise.
Wel knowe thei, the Reume if it arise,
An aker is it clept, I vndirstonde,
Whos myght ther may no ship or wynd withstonde.
This Reume in Thoccian of propur kynde
Withoute wynde hath his commotioun,
The maryner therof may not be blinde,
But whenne & where in euery regioun
It regneth, he moste haue inspectioun;
For in viage it may both hast & tary
And vnaduised therof al mys cary.
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The marinere, er he come at congresse
Or counturinge, vppon the see bataile,
Wil his Navey so for the Reume adresse,
As may been his aduerser dissavaile
And hindiraunce, and also his availe.
This may be doo. anoo., for a liburne
With wynde or oo.ys, as me wil, may turne.
The Maister Marynere, the gouernour,
He knoweth euery coo.te in his viage
And port saluz; and forthi grete honour
He hath, as worthi is, and therto wage.
The depper see, the gladder he; for rage
Of wynde or of bataile if ther abounde,
The surer he, the ferre he be fro grounde.
He knoweth euery rok and euery race,
The swolewys & the starrys, sonde & sholde,
And where is deep ynough his foo.to chace;
And chese a feeld he can, bataile to holde,
And myghtily sette on liburnys bolde,
First with the frounte al vndir see to route,
And as a thought, anoo. be brought aboute.
The maister of the shippe, he muste be wyis;
The mariners most be ful diligent,
And myghti rowing vp at point device
Is to been had at his commaundement,
That storne and oo.is go by oo. assent
Forth right to sette vppon, and light to turne,
Ful gret avauntage haldeth this liburne.
And as o londe an oo.t may be prevent
And leyde awayt vppon, right so by see
At ilis or in streytys pertynent
A bushement to falle vppon may be
Rathest; out of aray is goo. to se
When that thei be; the reume & strem & wynde
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With you & countour hem is goo. to fynde.
Or wayte on hem, for wery or aslepe,
Or when thei leest of thi comynge suppose,
Or in a rode as is no wey to crepe
Away, but that ye must been in their nose.
Al that is you to wynne, is hem to lose,
And if thei can avoyde alle your cautelis,
Thenne vch his right, the feeld & fight to dele is.
Thenne in a feelde a frounte of this liburnys
It is to sette, and not as on the londe
An oo.t; and whi? for inward it to turne is,
The hornys as a sharp cressaunt to stonde,
A bosomynge amyddis to be founde,
That vmbego ye may your aduersary
And close hem enviroun, and with you cary.
But on the hornys be liburnys sturne
With myghtiest & boo.dest men of werre,
Aboute our foo. of myscreaunce to turne,
With confidence hem for to seyn: 'Ye erre;
Com vndir vs, and knowe your ouer herre
Moo.t gracioux, knowe him your souuerayne;
And wil ye not? At youre perile & peyne!'
The beemys, vp thei goth out of the trumpe
And euery brayn astonyeth their reson;
The firmament, lo! clariounys crumpe
To crye vppon, and lo! it comth adoun
With angelis, ye, mony a legioun,
To countour periurie & myscreaunce
And surquydrye and disobeyssaunce.
In euery man thei setteth fortitude
And high magnificence and confidence,
Perseueraunt for trouth to conclude
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With adiuuaunce of myghti patience,
And on the part aduerse, an impotence
With couwardise & diffident dispayre
Wil ferdfully with trembelyng repayre.
The canonys, the bumbard & the gunne,
Thei bloweth out the voys & stonys grete,
Thorgh maste & side & other be thei runne,
In goth the serpentyne aftir his mete;
The colueryne is besy for to gete
An hole into the top, and the crappaude
Wil in; the fouler eek wil haue his laude.
The covey fleeth as foulis thorgh the sayle,
The pavice are accombred with coventys,
Yet on thei come, and vs thei wil assaile;
The bowe vnnumerabil redy bent is,
The shaft fro there an ende it goth. Apprentys
Thonagir is and the carribaliste,
The fundubal and the manubaliste.
The catafract, plumbate & scorpioun,
The dart and arpagoun in dayis olde
Were had, and are amonge vs leyde adoun;
Crosbowys yet and crankelons ar bolde
With wilde fier to brenne al in the folde,
The malliol goth out with the fallary,
The wildefier to bere our aduersary.
Yet on they come: awaite vppon the toppe
Goo. archery; the storm of shot as hail
So rayketh on, thei dar not shewe her croppe
Ner in the mastys topp, ner vndir sail,
Yet haile hem in a myghti voys: 'hail, hail!
Come vndir your Kyng Harry! fy! o pride!'
Thei wil not throf attonys on hem ride.
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Bende vp, breke euerych oo.e in the mytside
That hath a rash; help hem, lo, thei goth vndir;
To this mysaventure hemself thei gide;
Lo, how thei cracke on euery side a sondir,
What tempest is on hem, what leyt & thondir!
On grapesinge anoo. let se their fleete,
What hertys are in hem with vs to mete!
Armure & axe & spere of ouer wight
Is ouer light; as sparkelys in rede,
So sparkel they on helm & herneys bright
The rammys and twibil the side out shrede
Of ship & mast; doun goth the sail in dede,
Vp goth our hoo., now it is on their gabil;
Lo, ther it lyeth; this batail is notabil.
Summe into se go, fisshes forto fede,
Summe vndir hacch ar falde adoun for fere,
And summe above, her hert bloo. to bleede,
And summe seke, hem self they wote ner where;
And summe crye 'alas, that we come there!
Myschefe vpon mysgouernaunce betide!
Lo, pride hath vs betrapped! Fy, o pride!'
'Com on! with vs ye shal go se the kyng,
The gracious,-have of anoo. this gere!
Ye muste have on another herneysing:
A gyngeling of jessis shal ye were.
Ye shal no lenger stondyn in this fere.
O siluer bere, o lilial lioun,
O goldon Eagle! where is your renoun!'
Thus may be doo., if that it be forseyn
Of our meryte in souuerayn providence;
Forthi forwith do euery wight his peyne,
Sleuth out to holde, and haue in diligence,
Sette vp the werk, and spare noo. expense;
Of Goddis honde although ye have victory,
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Yet in the knotte is al thonour & glory.
Knytte vp the werk, and say: 'Hail haliday!'
The werre intraneous of al this londe
Is at an ende, here nys no more affray;
Justice is heer peasibilly to stonde,
And al the world shal telle of Engelonde
And of the kyngis high magnificence,
And been adred tattempte it with offense.
But forto knytte a knotte vppon this boo.,
That is to sey, therof to make an ende,
What is the ram, this twibil & this hoo.,
That helpeth vs this shippis thus to shende?
The ram, a beem is, by the mast suspende,
That as a saylis yerde is smal & longe,
On either ende an iron hed to fonge.
A rammys or a snailis hed theron
Ther may be sette, with streght or caumber horn,
On either side it may sette on our foo.,
With myghti hand adoun that thei be born.
Ther nys nothing may stonde ther beforn;
For of the shippe it breketh out the side,
Vnnethe may the mast his myght abide.
The hoo. of iron kene is & of strengthe,
And like a sithe vppon a myghti sperre,
And not to gret, but of an huge lengthe,
And polissed to bace & make it herre;
The gabelis that in a ship of werre
Bere vp the sail, herwith may be fordone,
So may the stay & shroudis euerychone.
The twibil is an axe with double bite,
And therwithal in myddis of the maste;
What maryneris dede, is hard to wite,
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But fele it hurte, and fele it made agaste.Now faste vntil and ende I wil me haste,
Yet first thonagir and carribaliste,
What thing it was, it were goo. we wiste.
Thonagir was an huge & myghti bowe,
Strynged with nerf, therwith the stonys grete,
In maner of a thonderynge were throwe,
And for defaute of nerf, hors heer was gete
To strynge hem with, and rather then forlete
The help therof, their heer Romaynys wyvis
Kitte of, to strynge hem with, and saue her lyvys.
Theim leuer was to haue her goo.e husbandis
With honestee, & with their hedis bare,
Then dishonest be led to straunge londys,
Dispareged, her mariage forfare.
O, mony oo. of yon goo.e wyvys are,
That charge more vertue and honestee
Then worldly goo. or bodily beautee.
In carris had for hem, carribalistis
Wer sette; thei were, as bowis are, of brake;
Oon more of hem then X manubalistis;
Of nerf or heer stringes for hem wer take.
Their myghti shot made herte & herneys quake;
They and thonagre bowys myghtieste,
Tymbir that oo., stonys that other keste.
Of tholde world the brightest herneysinge,
Best ordinaunce and myghtieste mad were;
O Chiualers, to you this is to bringe;
The beste ye chese, and yet a point go nerre.
O Lady myn, Maria, lode sterre,
Licence me toward the lond; beholde,
See seke am I, fulfayn o lande I wolde!
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Hail, porte saluz! with thi pleasaunt accesse,
Alhail Caleis! ther wolde I faynest londe;
That may not I - oo. whi so? for thei distresse
Alle, or to deye or with her wrong to stonde.
That wil I not, to wynne al Engelonde!
What myght availe, a litil heer to dwelle,
And world withouten ende abide in helle.
O litil case, o pouere hous, my poo.t
Saluz thou be, vntil that ayer amende,
That is to sey, vntil an other soo.t
Gouerne there, that by the kyng be sende.
Yit let me se, what way my wit is wende:
In this tretys, first is thelectioun
Of werreours, as for the legioun,
Yonge, and statured wel, of vp o londe
And laborers be taught to pace & renne
And lepe and shote and with a dart in honde
Shakyng vppon the Sarrasins that grenne,
To shote quyk, and to swymme ouer, whenne
The ryuer is to deep, there euery gise
Of hosteyinge & fight hath exercise.
The part secounde hath the diuisioun
Of al an oo.t, wheryn is tolde of thaide,
That subsequent is to the legioun,
Wherin teuerych office his part is leyde;
Theer of a feeld al ordinaunce is seyde,
With evitatioun of al perile;
Who redeth it, therate among wil smyle.
The IIIde part prouideth and vitaileth
And paeseth thoo.te, and voydeth al myschaunce,
And al that in the journeyinge availeth,
Is here to rede, and what feeld may avaunce
An oo.te to fighte, and euery ordinaunce
How is to sette, and in conflicte how VII
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Weyis ther ar the quyckest vndir heven.
The firthe part in crafte & in nature
Strengtheth a place and techeth it tassaile,
Engynys eek to make & putte in vre,
And to resiste hemself to disavaile;
And on the see to make a stronge bataile,
Where euery feat of werre it is to spende,
And of this werk theryn is mad an ende.
Go, litil boo., and humbilly beseche
The werriourys, and hem that wil the rede,
That where a fault is or impropir speche,
Thei vouchesafe amende my mysdede.
Thi writer eek, pray him to taken hede
Of thi cadence and kepe Ortographie,
That neither he take of ner multiplye.
Finis
~ Anonymous Olde English,#NFDB
41 Integral Yoga
39 Poetry
24 Fiction
13 Philosophy
6 Mythology
4 Occultism
3 Christianity
2 Hinduism
1 Yoga
1 Sufism
1 Science
1 Psychology
1 Philsophy
1 Mysticism
36 The Mother
34 Satprem
21 H P Lovecraft
8 Lucretius
7 John Keats
6 Robert Browning
5 Sri Aurobindo
5 Ovid
4 Walt Whitman
4 Percy Bysshe Shelley
3 Nolini Kanta Gupta
3 Aleister Crowley
2 Vyasa
2 Thubten Chodron
2 Plotinus
21 Lovecraft - Poems
8 Of The Nature Of Things
8 Agenda Vol 10
7 Keats - Poems
7 Agenda Vol 12
6 Browning - Poems
5 Metamorphoses
5 Agenda Vol 02
4 Whitman - Poems
4 Shelley - Poems
4 Agenda Vol 03
3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
2 Vishnu Purana
2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
2 Magick Without Tears
2 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
2 Agenda Vol 08
2 Agenda Vol 06
2 Agenda Vol 04
0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
Sri Ramakrishna now devoted himself to scaling the most inaccessible and dizzy heights of dualistic worship, namely, the complete union with Sri Krishna as the Beloved of the heart. He regarded himself as one of the gopis of Vrindavan, mad with longing for her divine Sweetheart. At his request Mathur provided him with woman's dress and jewelry. In this love-pursuit, f oo. and drink were forgotten. Day and night he wept bitterly. The yearning turned into a mad frenzy; for the divine Krishna began to play with him the old tricks He had played with the gopis. He would tease and taunt, now and then revealing Himself, but always keeping at a distance. Sri Ramakrishna's anguish brought on a return of the old physical symptoms: the burning sensation, an oo.ing of bl oo. through the pores, a l oo.ening of the joints, and the stopping of physiological functions.
The Vaishnava scriptures advise one to propitiate Radha and obtain her grace in order to realize Sri Krishna. So the tortured devotee now turned his prayer to her. Within a short time he enjoyed her blessed vision. He saw and felt the figure of Radha disappearing into his own body.
01.10 - Nicholas Berdyaev: God Made Human, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
Eastern spirituality does not view sorrow and sufferingevilas an integral part of the Divine Consciousness. It is born out of the Divine, no doubt, as nothing can be outside the Divine, but it is a local and temporal formation; it is a disposition consequent upon certain conditions and with the absence or elimination of those conditions, this disposition t oo.disappears. God and the Divine Consciousness can only be purity, light, immortality and delight. The compassion that a Buddha feels for the suffering humanity is not at all a feeling of suffering; pain or any such normal human reaction does not enter into its composition; it is the movement of a transcendent consciousness which is beyond and purified of the normal reactions, yet overarching them and entering into them as a s oo.hing and illumining and vivifying presence. The healer knows and understands the pain and suffering of his patient but is not touched by them; he need not contract the illness of his patient in order to be in sympathy with him. The Divine the Soulcan be in flesh and yet not smirched with its mire; the flesh is not essentially or irrevocably the oo.e it is under certain given conditions. The divine physical body is composed of radiant matter and one can speak of it even as of the soul that weapons cannot pierce it nor can fire burn it.
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01.11 - Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
"To its heights we can always come. For those of us who are still splashing about in the lower oo.e, the phrase has a rather ironical ring. Nevertheless, in the light of even the most distant acquaintance with the heights and the fullness, it is possible to understand what its author means. To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer worlds of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier because the heights within reveal themselves to those who are ready to exclude from their purview all that lies without. And though this exclusion may be a painful and mortificatory process, the fact remains that it is less arduous than the process of inclusion, by which we come to know the fullness as well as the heights of spiritual life. Where there is exclusive concentration on the heights within, temptations and distractions are avoided and there is a general denial and suppression. But when the hope is to know God inclusivelyto realise the divine Ground in the world as well as in the soul, temptations and distractions must not be avoided, but submitted to and used as opportunities for advance; there must be no suppression of outward-turning activities, but a transformation of them so that they become sacramental."
The neatness of the commentary cannot be improved upon. Only with regard to the "ironical ring" of which Huxley speaks, it has just to be pointed out, as he himself seems to understand, that the "we" referred to in the phrase does not mean humanity in general that 'splashes about in the lower oo.e' but those who have a sufficiently developed inner spiritual life.
There is a quotation from Lao Tzu put under the heading "Grace and Free Will": "It was when the Great Way declined that human kindness and morality arose".
0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This state is very difficult to get out of. It is really Pharisaismthis sense of social dignity, this narrow-mindednessbecause no one with an atom of intelligence would fall into such a hole! Those who have traveled through the world, for instance, and seen for themselves that social mores depend entirely upon climatic conditions, upon races and customs and still more upon the times, the epochthey are able to l oo. at it all with a smile. But the self-righteous oo.h!
This is a primary stage. As long as you havent gone beyond this condition, you are unfit for yoga. Because truly, no one in such a rudimentary state is ready for yoga.
0 1961-01-22, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I saw it last night oo.! It was a kind of artificial hurricane created by semi-human beings (that is, they have human forms but they arent men). They created the storm to cut me off from my home. But everything and everyone was disruptedit must have been going on for a rather long time. Finally last night it became quite amusing: I kept attempting to get to my home which was up above, but each time I tried to find a way everything was blocked by try to imagine, artificial, mechanical and electric thunderstorms, and then things made to cave in. All of it was artificial, nothing real, and yet terribly dangerous.
At last I found myself in a big place down below where there was a row of houses, all kinds of things, and it was absolutely essential that I go back upwhen suddenly a somewhat indistinct form (rather dark, unluminous) came to me and said, Oh, dont go there, its very bad, very dangerous! Theyve set it all up in a terrifying way: none can withstand it! You mustnt go there, wait a bit. And if you need something, do come, you know I have everything you need! (Mother laughs) its a little old and dusty but youll manage! Then she led me into a huge r oo. filled with objects piled one on top of another, and in one corner she showed me a bathtubmy child, it was a marvel! A splendid pink marble bathtub! But it was unused, dusty and old. Well just wipe it off, she said, and youll be able to use it! She showed me other areas for washing and dressing, there was everything one could possibly need. You can use it all. Dont go up there! I l oo.ed at her closely. She struck me as having a tiny face, it was oddit wasnt a form, it was it was a form and yet it wasnt! As imprecise as that. Then I clasped her in my arms and cried out, Mother, you are nice! (Mother laughs) I knew then that she was material Mother Nature.
0 1961-04-25, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.! OH! How dreadful. How dreadful. He t oo.
(silence)
0 1961-06-06, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Its so subtle! It could almost be. Its almost like being on the border between two worlds. Its the same world and itsis it two aspects of this world? I cant even say that. Yet its the SAME world; all is the Lord, He and nothing but He, only its. And so subtle, so subtle: if you go like this (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the right), its perfectly harmonious; if you go like that (Mother tilts her hand slightly to the left), oo.! Its its at once absurd, meaningless, and laborious, painful. But its the SAME thing! Its all the same thing.
What is it?
0 1961-10-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But some people I dont hear at all! I see lips moving, but there is nothing, nothing, not even an ordinary thought! When people are capable of a little clear-thinking, I hear everything. But with others, its like oo. oo. oo. Just recently there was something really comical! I no longer know who it was, but someone came to see me and when he began to talk I underst oo. nothing! All I heard was noise. What to do? This person was asking me questions (he came here for sadhana, mind you, not for external matters; it was a serious visit), and all that came out was oo. oo. oo. oo. nothing else. So I concentrated and put myself in contact with his soul, which was the only thing I could contact. It t oo. some time. I kept silent, and finally so did he, since he saw that I was not replying. Then suddenly it came, so clearly, like drops of water falling from above: ready-made sentences. I began to tell him all sorts of things about what his soul wanted, what he had to do in the world. It was a revelation! Ah! he said, I have been waiting to hear this all my life!
But it t oo. some time, because first of all he had to stop talking, and then I had to concentrate.
0 1962-02-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo., but its a whole world! (Mother laughs) Its not one question, its twenty!
If anything in it seems worthwhile to you.
0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
One day I will certainly use the same method on those r oo. changes, but for that it will have to become very clear and distinct, well defined in the consciousness. Because that change of r oo. (intellectually you would call it a change of consciousness, but that means nothing at all; were dealing here with something very, very material) I have sometimes gone through it without experiencing ANY CHANGE OF EFFECT, which probably means I was centered not in the material consciousness but in a higher consciousness dwelling and l oo.ing on from elsewherea witness consciousness and I was in a state where everything flows flows like a river of tranquil peace. Truly, its marvelousall creation, all life, all movements, all things, and everything like a single mass, with the body in the midst of it all, blending homogeneously with the whole and it all flows on like a river of peace, peaceful and smiling, on to infinity. And then oo.s! You trip (gesture of inversion2) and once again find yourself SITUATEDyou ARE somewhere, at some specific moment of time; and then theres a pain here, a pain there, a pain. And sometimes I have seen, I have witnessed the change from the one to the other WITHOUT feeling the pains or experiencing the thing concretely, which means that I wasnt at all in the body, I wasnt BOUND to the body I was seeing, only seeing, just like a witness. And its always accompanied by the kind of observation an indulgent (but not blind) friend might make: But why? Why that again? Thats how it comes. Whats the use of that? And I cant catch hold of what makes it happen.
It will come.
0 1962-06-02, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There is I know there is. Theres simply a void between two parts of your consciousness, and when your consciousness passes through, it loses touch with everything on the other side. Its as though you had fallen into a hole, and then, oo.!
It takes a very long time to build, but there must be a way to make a bridge thats what I am hunting for now.
0 1962-07-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
They tried, fought, operated: no movement, nothing moved. Then one day they declared him dead (by the way, according to doctors, when the body dies the heart beats on faintly for a few seconds; then it stops and its all over). In his case, those faint beats (not strong enough to pump bl oo.) continued for half an hour the kind of heartbeats typical of the trance state. (They all seem to be crassly ignorant! But anyway, it doesnt matter.) And they all said, even the doctors, oo.h, he must be a great yogi, this only happens to yogis! I have no idea what they mean by that. But I do know that although those heartbeats arent strong enough to pump bl oo. through the body (thus putting the body into a cataleptic state), they do suffice to maintain life, and thats how yogis can remain in trance for months on end. Well, I dont know what type of doctors they are (probably very modern), but theyre ignorant of this fact. Anyway, according to them he had those pulsations for half an hour (normally they last a few seconds). All right. Hence their remarks. And he was here the whole while, immutable. Then suddenly I felt a kind of shudder; I l oo.edhe was gone. I was busy and didnt note the time, but it was in the aftern oo., thats all I know. Later I was told that they had decided to cremate him, and had done so at that time.
The violence of the accident had brutally exteriorized him, but when it happened he must have been thinking of me with trust. He came and didnt budgehe never knew what was happening to his body. He didnt know he was dead! And if.
0 1963-01-14, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
As s oo. as it comes (Mother makes a solemn face), I get suspicious, I say to myself, Oh, something is wrong, some influence or other must have entered the atmosphere that shouldnt be there. All that remorse, all that regret, all that oo.! The sense of indignity, of fault and, going a little farther, the sense of sinoh, that! That seems to me to belong to another age, a Dark Age.
But especially all the prohibitions. For instance, let me quote you a statement from X which I heard from a third person: I will do a special puja to help money come. I will prepare a special yantram1 to bring money. But FOR GODS SAKE dont say anything [to Mother], dont do anything or give anything before January 14, because until January 14, a certain planet is in opposition to a certain other planet (Mother laughs), so things follow a downward trend and wont be successful. But afterwards, that particular planet will be ascending and everything will be successful! (Mother laughs) Something in me said spontaneously (something, well, someone), spontaneously and immediately, But why? I can always hear! And I laughed. So they thought I was making fun of him I dont make fun: I laugh, its not the same!
0 1963-03-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But that man, a MASS, oo.! harder than iron. Truly interesting.
And he was blue. His aura was blue, with blue pulsationsnot radiating out or upward, but coagulated all around him. A blue like the sea when its very deep, very tranquil, but luminous. A magnificent blue.
0 1964-08-11, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
But as long as there is personal effort, its oo.! its like the man who rolls his barrel uphill, and down it rolls again every minute.
But it must be spontaneous, not as a calculation, it mustnt be done with the idea, Its going to work. It must truly be done with the sense of your complete helplessness and of the very formidable dimension of the task that Oh, please do it Yourself; I cantits not possible.
0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
It started with disgusta disgust a sickening disgustat all this misery, all this weakness, all this fatigue, all this discomfort, all this friction and grating, oo.! And it was very interesting because there was that disgust, and along with it came a sort of suggestion of Annihilation, of Nothingness: of eternal Peace, you understand. And it swept all that away, as if the whole body straightened up: Hey, but thats not it! Thats not what I want. I want (and then there was a dazzling burst of lighta dazzling golden light) I want the splendor of Your Consciousness.
That was an experience.
0 1965-11-13, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And I have an impression, a very strong impression (I dont have any pr oo. yet) that its contagion is absolute, you understand. So having to explain, having to struggle, having to oo.! its all overits contagious.
Bringing that and keeping it. Holding it, learning to hold it. Its fantastic! And then it becomes just a question of receptivity, thats all. And the receptivity must be in proportion to the g oo.will (thats what the old experience is saying for the moment, I have no pr oo.), the receptivity must be in proportion to the g oo.will or to the aspiration (but the two are very similar), to this something that wants something else. People who are very content, very satisfied and (this is an interesting illustration) and who have realized a harmony in life (some people have realized a harmony in this life: everything appears so harmonious, so comfortable, they succeed in everything they do, everything that happens to them is), I think those still have a long way to go before they can receive.
0 1966-11-15, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Sometimes, when its tired or something isnt quite all right or (that always comes from a contact with outside; afterwards I see, I know what the cause was, but while its happening there is simply a discomfort or a disorganization), then, oh, its exactly like a childs trusting abandon in something which is everywhere, around it, inside it, there, like this (enveloping gesture). And the bodys aspiration is just, May That alone exist. All the rest oo.! its nothing at all, a nuisance. May That alone exist. If That alone existed, what a marvelous world this would be!
Thats how it feels. All the rest is either a bother or deeply ridiculous. Oh, often its so ridiculous! At any rate, so flimsy, so dry, like a bad performance. And what becomes quite comical, truly amusing and comical is (Mother puffs up her cheeks) when the ego swells up! Oh, then! The egos that assert themselves, that come and tell you, I want this, I dont want that, I have decided that Oh, mon petit, thats the big fun! And they dont in the least see that they are puppets.
0 1967-10-04, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I have received your answer with joy and am writing again. I am in Aurobindo Ashram, where I thought I would only pass through, but there is a certain something here which attracts me strongly, and I think I have had enough of travelling around. I intend to go to Ramakrishna Mutt at oo.acamund, since I informed them of my visit, but will come back here as early as possible. Everything here is wonderful and spellbinding. One who sees beyond the surface panes might well wonder if the new heaven and the new earth St. John speaks of do not meet here.
There is a big church just a few minutes walk away, and yesterday morning, the 1st of October, the celebrant said, Become citizens of the heavenly city. He could not have hit upon my questionings more precisely. And in the evening, a young Parisian, landed here as pure as a newborn, and the first person he met was that same priest of the big church, who said to him, What have you come here for? There is nothing. The Parisian answered, What about the Ashram? The priest replied, The Ashram? Its a brothel. Because of that insulting declaration (and it is the kindest thing he said [Mother laughs ]), I am petitioning Mother for permission to remain here till the end of my stay in India. I do think there is abomination and desolation in the Holy Place. When will Christs words be acknowledged at last, A tree is recognized by its fruits? Jai-jai!
0 1967-11-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
There are many, many of them you know, a whole crop of new Christs, Kalkis,2 supermen, oo.! so many of them, but generally, communication is made somehow or other, at any rate their existence is known; well, among them, among all those with whom I have been in contact either invisibly or visibly, there isnt one who has (how should I put it?) less inconscient than there is in this body but I acknowledge there is a lot, oh!
What I dont see is the process to break out of this inertia or unconsciousness.
0 1968-06-26, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Now and then, there is the old habit [the bodys protest]: oo.! Oh, t oo.much, t oo.much! Just give it a little slap, it gets ashamed and goes back to work. Its very interesting. Very interesting.
So then, till next time.
0 1969-02-19, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
I am entirely convinced that things are as they must be, and that its simply the body that lacks suppleness, tranquillity, trust. So I cant even say that things grate (they dont grate at all), but You understand, the work consists in changing the conscious base of all the cells but not all at once! Because that would be impossible; even little by little is very difficult: the moment when the conscious base is changed is There is almost a sort of panic in the cells, and the impression, oo.! Whats going to happen? And since there are still lots and lots of them So now and then, its difficult. Its by group, almost by faculty or part of faculty, and some of them are a little difficult. I dont know (since its quite new), I dont know if it would be easier if I werent doing anything? Probably not, because its not so much the work [to be done], its not that: its peoples general attitude. It makes for a kind of collective support at the moment of the transition. At the moment when the consciousness that ordinarily supports the cells fades away for the new one to take the place, the cells need (the cells, I dont know if its them), but there has to be the support of (how can I put it?) in people it gets expressed as the need of the Presence, but thats not what is necessary: its a sort of collaboration of the collective forces. Its not much, its not indispensable, but it helps a little, in some measure. There is a moment when theres almost an anguish, you know, youre suspended like that; it may be a few seconds, but those few seconds are terrible. This morning again there was a moment like that. I remember that at the time of the darshans, for two days Sri Aurobindo didnt want me to do any work for others (to see them, read letters, reply, all that), but he was here, so it was he who acted as support. Because I see that the work began long ago (in a subordinate and very little conscious way), but now its in full swing. So the cells feel some slight panic. Generally, a few minutes concentration is enough, but it causes a sort of wearinessweariness in the cells, a need not to do anything (Mother points at the clock, which reads 11).
If I hadnt known, if the body hadnt known what it was, well, ordinarily I would have lain down without seeing anyone. But the consciousness was there to say that the unpleasantness of it [the second of transition], the unpleasant consequence of it would have been worse than the fact of being tired.
There were a few very difficult days when Amrita left,1 because a whole collectivity of people thought, oo., so one can die. There. So thats how it is.
But more and moremore and more the body has been learning that what happens (what happens every second) is the best thing that can happen given the general condition. Its entirely convinced of that. And its content to do like this (gesture of self-abandon) and say, Let Your Will be done. Thats all. If it can do that in a very continuous and peaceful way, then things are fine. Its only when it tries to find out why and how and then things go wrong. It has to be like this (same gesture of self-abandon): Let Your Will be done. Then its all right. It doesnt ask to know, only theres the old habit.
0 1969-04-26, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Ah, yes. Oh, yes, oo.!
But thats why this Consciousness told me that, its to to be, to REMAIN in the Consciousness, tranquil, peaceful, like that (gesture of being enfolded).
0 1969-05-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
This Consciousness is very interesting. It has (smiling) its not scorn, its a sort of faraway indifference for all human ideasall conventions, all principles, all moralities, it finds all of that absolutely grotesque. Now and then, it comes into contact with human ideas (Mother takes a surprised tone of voice): oo.! So thats what they think Its amusing!
There are two things. Death, it doesnt at all understand what we mean by that, the importance we attach to it but not at all. And then, money, to this consciousness, is buff oo.ery: this system of money, the invention of this system, which prevents you from doing anything unless you pull out a banknote, to it, really its buff oo.ery. Strange, I suddenly realize that the psychic being (dominating gesture behind) the psychic being is almost like a witness, its a witness to the whole evolution of things, and it KNOWS (it understands the deeper reasons, it knows how things are). Its in the body that this Consciousness is so active, and so, every time the body goes on with the little habits from the time when there was a mind and a vital, really it feels it as buff oo.ery. And the attitude with regard to money is like Death, f oo. and money: this Consciousness feels those are the three awesome things in human life, that human life revolves around those three thingseating, (laughing) dying, and having money and to it, the three are they are passing inventions which derive from a wholly transitory state that doesnt correspond to anything very deep or very permanent. Thats its attitude. And then, it teaches the body to be otherwise.
0 1969-05-28, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.!
Maybemaybe if In Sri Aurobindos conception, the Supermind clearly escaped all this misery.
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oo.!
Well get out of this.
0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.! That explains all the visions Ive had. I thought I put the blame on my body, thinking this p oo. body has an unfortunate atavism: constantly dreadful, frightful imaginations but they werent imaginations, it was conscious of what was going on. Oh!
Oh, what youre telling me is very interesting, because yesterday (these last few days, these last three days), faced with the horror of the perception of things, this body (which is quite the opposite of sentimental, its never, never been sentimental) started weeping. It didnt weep materially, but it was And with an inner intensity, it said, Oh, why does this world exist? Like that, it was so awful, sad, miserable so miserable and so horrible, you know, oh! But it instantly gets the Responsenot a response with words, its simply like an immensity opening in the Light. Then, theres nothing more to say.
0 1969-07-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.!
I said, Be careful! Here is what he thinks of your cuts.6
0 1969-08-06, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.! It seems to be that.
Yes! I underst oo. it differently, but one may understand that this subtle world will break the screen, or the barrier, and will be able to manifest physically!
0 1969-09-17, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.!
And five months after he was nominated, he abdicatedcausing a scandal unique in the history of the Church and his successor had him imprisoned straight away. Later on, by the way, he was canonized. But in actual fact, since then the cardinals have always elected the Pope from among themselves.
0 1971-01-23, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.! Its lovely. Oh, how lovely it is. There must have been a whole shell.
Its for you, Mother.
0 1971-07-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.!
When you were sitting here [in front of Mother] and I l oo.ed at you, you t oo. your body and opened it like this (gesture as if Satprem were ripping his body in half from the stomach down), all, all the way.
0 1971-09-22, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.! That must be the supramental victory. A white peacock is the integral victory; a golden tail is the supramental realization. Did you see that?
Satprem saw it.
0 1971-10-16, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.!
(silence)
0 1971-10-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
(With a smile) oo.!
For Sri Aurobindo himself, its better in the houseits more in keeping with his temperament and character. For the people, its better outside.
0 1971-11-10, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.!
Either from Auroville or the Ashram, or French or Germans. I have seen lots of themanyone who came to the tennis court could see me. I did that for several years. And then I dont know, all of a sudden I completely stopped. I said I wouldnt see anyone anymore. I dont know if I was right. Because sometimes, I feel it would perhaps be g oo., it might help people, but on the other hand I have the feeling that its not the solution.
0 1971-12-29b, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
The Force (Mother lowers her hands in an irresistible gesture), oo.! theres a great change.
(long silence)
0 1972-01-29, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
oo.!
Hes a man who has been severely stricken. He went through a record number of operations.
04.39 - To the Heights-XXXIX, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
In the cosiness of ignorant moments, level with the sap and oo.e of earth.
But now as I open my eyes with the rise of the sun,
1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
And to their oo.y beds, the finny fish repair.
A creature of a more exalted kind
1.02 - Substance Is Eternal, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Of white oo.e trickle from distended bags;
Hence the young scamper on their weakling joints
1.03 - Tara, Liberator from the Eight Dangers, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
chains of miserliness, the oo. of attachment, and the carnivorous demon
of doubt.
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face on the oo. induces the feeling of humility and the relinquishing of ego.
Letting go of arrogance is a relief. Tremendous energy is required to try
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The oo. of attachmentplease protect us from this danger!
Like a oo., attachment sweeps over us, propelling us helplessly in the
stormy ocean of cyclic existence. It does this in two ways. First, under the
--
Attachment resembles a oo.; we are powerlessly swept along by its current. When our mind is attached to something, it has no space for anything
else. We are obsessed with the object of our attachment; we worry about not
getting it and fear losing it once we do. Drowning in the oo. of attachment,
we cannot brea the the fresh air of satisfaction and peace. We may want to
--
still swept along by the oo. of attachment, we continue to act destructively,
leaving more negative karmic imprints on our mindstream that cause yet
1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
ordinary conditions before it has reached a temperature of l oo.de-
grees? Before passing into the Beyond, the World and its elements
1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
The stream produc'd nor slimy oo.e, nor weeds,
Nor miry rushes, nor the spiky reeds;
1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
To its heights we can always come. For those of us who are still splashing about in the lower oo.e, the phrase has a rather ironical ring. Nevertheless, in the light of even the most distant acquaintance with the heights and the fulness, it is possible to understand what its author means. To discover the Kingdom of God exclusively within oneself is easier than to discover it, not only there, but also in the outer world of minds and things and living creatures. It is easier because the heights within reveal themselves to those who are ready to exclude from their purview all that lies without. And though this exclusion may be a painful and mortificatory process, the fact remains that it is less arduous than the process of inclusion, by which we come to know the fulness as well as the heights of spiritual life. Where there is exclusive concentration on the heights within, temptations and distractions are avoided and there is a general denial and suppression. But when the hope is to know God inclusivelyto realize the divine Ground in the world as well as in the soul, temptations and distractions must not be avoided, but submitted to and used as opportunities for advance; there must be no suppression of outward-turning activities, but a transformation of them so that they become sacramental. Mortification becomes more searching and more subtle; there is need of unsleeping awareness and, on the levels of thought, feeling and conduct, the constant exercise of something like an artists tact and taste.
It is in the literature of Mahayana and especially of Zen Buddhism that we find the best account of the psychology of the man for whom Samsara and Nirvana, time and eternity, are one and the same. More systematically perhaps than any other religion, the Buddhism of the Far East teaches the way to spiritual Knowledge in its fulness as well as in its heights, in and through the world as well as in and through the soul. In this context we may point to a highly significant fact, which is that the incomparable landscape painting of China and Japan was essentially a religious art, inspired by Taoism and Zen Buddhism; in Europe, on the contrary, landscape painting and the poetry of nature worship were secular arts which arose when Christianity was in decline, and derived little or no inspiration from Christian ideals.
1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
midwife. But he can be detected by the water that oo.es from
the border of his garments. He is bald, tun bellied, puffy
1.05 - 2010 and 1956 - Doomsday?, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
In Sylvie Simon: 2012 Le rendez-vous, p. 45.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
95
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and 21.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
97
--
Lovelock, p. x.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
99
--
10 Edward Wilson: The Future of Life, pp. 156 and 43.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
101
--
12 Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 221.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
103
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13 In Russell on Religion, pp. 9 and 38.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
105
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16 Edward Wilson: op.cit., pp. 28-33, passim.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
107
--
18 LAgenda de Mre, vol. 12, p. 330.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
109
--
star systems. (Lewis Dartnell: Life in the Universe)2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
111
--
20 See talk 8: Sri Aurobindos Descent into Death.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
113
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24 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 932.2012 and 1956: D oo.sday?
115
1.06 - BOOK THE SIXTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
Melantho sweet beneath the oo.y fl oo..
All these the maid with lively features drew,
--
To plunge, and dive among the watry oo.e;
Sometimes they shew their head above the brim,
1.06 - Confutation Of Other Philosophers, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Rock rubbed on rock should yield a gory oo.e.
Likewise the herbs ought oft to give forth drops
1.07 - A Song of Longing for Tara, the Infallible, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
The example is given of sweeping the oo. with one tiny stick or sweeping the oo. with a br oo.. The stick is the positive potential accumulated by
practicing alone; the br oo. is the collective positive potential we generate
--
to time when I lived there. His hut had a dirt oo., stone and mud walls, and
plastic over the cracked windows to keep the wind out. He would make us tea
--
it on the oo., and sat down. It was an incredible lesson for us. He wasnt
interested in being treated as a big lama with pomp and fuss. He didnt care
1.07 - Production of the mind-born sons of Brahma, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
Madhusūdana, whose essence is incomprehensible, in the forms of these (patriarchs and Manus), is the author of the uninterrupted vicissitudes of creation, preservation, and destruction. The dissolution of all things is of four kinds; Naimittika, 'occasional;' Prākritika, 'elemental;' Atyantika, 'absolute;' Nitya, 'perpetual[15]: The first, also termed the Brāhma dissolution, occurs when the sovereign of the world reclines in sleep. In the second, the mundane egg resolves into the primary element, from whence it was derived. Absolute non-existence of the world is the absorption of the sage, through knowledge, into supreme spirit. Perpetual destruction is the constant disappearance, day and night, of all that are born. The productions of Prakriti form the creation that is termed the elemental (Prākrita). That which ensues after a (minor) dissolution is called ephemeral creation: and the daily generation of living things is termed, by those who are versed in the Purāṇas, constant creation. In this manner the mighty Viṣṇu, whose essence is the elements, abides in all bodies, and brings about production, existence, and dissolution. The faculties of Viṣṇu to create, to preserve, and to destroy, operate successively, Maitreya, in all corporeal beings and at all seasons; and he who frees himself from the influence of these three faculties, which are essentially composed of the three qualities (g oo.ness, foulness, and darkness), goes to the supreme sphere, from whence he never again returns. oo.notes and references:
[1]: It is not clear which of the previous narratives is here referred to, but it seems most probable that the account in p. 35, 36. is intended.
1.09 - BOOK THE NINTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
But Achelous in his oo.y bed
Deep hides his brow deform'd, and rustick head:
1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
'Till Proteus rising from his oo.y bed,
Thus to the p oo. desponding lover said:
1.12 - Brute Neighbors, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I formerly saw the racc oo. in the w oo.s behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or two in the shade at n oo., after planting, and ate my lunch, and read a little by a spring which was the source of a swamp and of a br oo., oo.ing from under Bristers Hill, half a mile from my field. The approach to this was through a succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch-pines, into a larger w oo. about the swamp. There, in a very secluded and shaded spot, under a spreading white-pine, there was yet a clean, firm sward to sit on. I had dug out the spring and made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a pailful without roiling it, and thither I went for this purpose almost every day in midsummer, when the pond was warmest. Thither, t oo. the w oo.-cock led her br oo., to probe the mud for worms, flying but a f oo. above them down the bank, while they ran in a tr oo. beneath; but at last, spying me, she would leave her young and circle round and round me, nearer and nearer till within four or five feet, pretending broken wings and legs, to attract my attention, and get off her young, who would already have taken up their march, with faint wiry peep, single file through the swamp, as she directed. Or I heard the peep of the young when I could not see the parent bird. There t oo.the turtle-doves sat over the spring, or fluttered from bough to bough of the soft white-pines over my head; or the red squirrel, coursing down the nearest bough, was particularly familiar and inquisitive. You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the w oo.s that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
I was witness to events of a less peaceful character. One day when I went out to my w oo.-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly. L oo.ing farther, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it was not a _duellum_, but a _bellum_, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my w oo.-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the only battle-field I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely. I watched a couple that were fast locked in each others embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at n oo.-day prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out.
1.19 - Dialogue between Prahlada and his father, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
On hearing this, Hiraṇyakaśipu started up from his throne in a fury, and spurned his son on the breast with his f oo.. Burning with rage, he wrung his hands, and exclaimed, "Ho Viprachitti! ho Rāhu! ho Bali[2]! bind him with strong bands[3], and cast him into the ocean, or all the regions, the Daityas and Dānavas, will become converts to the doctrines of this silly wretch. Repeatedly prohibited by us, he still persists in the praise of our enemies. Death is the just retribution of the disobedient." The Daityas accordingly bound the prince with strong bands, as their lord had commanded, and threw him into the sea. As he floated on the waters, the ocean was convulsed throughout its whole extent, and rose in mighty undulations, threatening to submerge the earth. This when Hiraṇyakaśipu observed, he commanded the Daityas to hurl rocks into the sea, and pile them closely on one another, burying beneath their iñcumbent mass him whom fire would not burn, nor weapons pierce, nor serpents bite; whom the pestilential gale could not blast, nor poison nor magic spirits nor incantations destroy; who fell from the loftiest heights unhurt; who foiled the elephants of the spheres: a son of depraved heart, whose life was a perpetual curse. "Here," he cried, "since he cannot die, here let him live for thousands of years at the bottom of the ocean, overwhelmed by mountains. Accordingly the Daityas and Dānavas hurled upon Prahlāda, whilst in the great ocean, ponderous rocks, and piled them over him for many thousand miles: but he, still with mind undisturbed, thus offered daily praise to Viṣṇu, lying at the bottom of the sea, under the mountain heap. "Glory to thee, god of the lotus eye: glory to thee, most excellent of spiritual things: glory to thee, soul of all worlds: glory to thee, wielder of the sharp discus: glory to the best of Brahmans; to the friend of Brahmans and of kine; to Kṛṣṇa, the preserver of the world: to Govinda be glory. To him who, as Brahmā, creates the universe; who in its existence is its preserver; be praise. To thee, who at the end of the Kalpa takest the form of Rudra; to thee, who art triform; be adoration. Thou, Achyuta, art the gods, Yakṣas, demons, saints, serpents, choristers and dancers of heaven, goblins, evil spirits, men, animals, birds, insects, reptiles, plants, and stones, earth, water, fire, sky, wind, sound, touch, taste, colour, flavour, mind, intellect, soul, time, and the qualities of nature: thou art all these, and the chief object of them all. Thou art knowledge and ignorance, truth and falseh oo., poison and ambrosia. Thou art the performance and discontinuance of acts[4]: thou art the acts which the Vedas enjoin: thou art the enjoyer of the fruit of all acts, and the means by which they are accomplished. Thou, Viṣṇu, who art the soul of all, art the fruit of all acts of piety. Thy universal diffusion, indicating might and g oo.ness, is in me, in others, in all creatures, in all worlds. Holy ascetics meditate on thee: pious priests sacrifice to thee. Thou alone, identical with the gods and the fathers of mankind, receivest burnt-offerings and oblations[5]. The universe is thy intellectual form[6]; whence proceeded thy subtile form, this world: thence art thou all subtile elements and elementary beings, and the subtile principle, that is called soul, within them. Hence the supreme soul of all objects, distinguished as subtile or gross, which is imperceptible, and which cannot be conceived, is even a form of thee. Glory be to thee, Puruṣottama; and glory to that imperishable form which, soul of all, is another manifestation[7] of thy might, the asylum of all qualities, existing in all creatures. I salute her, the supreme goddess, who is beyond the senses; whom the mind, the tongue, cannot define; who is to be distinguished alone by the wisdom of the truly wise. Om! salutation to Vāsudeva: to him who is the eternal lord; he from whom nothing is distinct; he who is distinct from all. Glory be to the great spirit again and again: to him who is without name or shape; who sole is to be known by adoration; whom, in the forms manifested in his descents upon earth, the dwellers in heaven adore; for they behold not his inscrutable nature. I glorify the supreme deity Viṣṇu, the universal witness, who seated internally, beholds the g oo. and ill of all. Glory to that Viṣṇu from whom this world is not distinct. May he, ever to be meditated upon as the beginning of the universe, have compassion upon me: may he, the supporter of all, in whom every thing is warped and woven[8], undecaying, imperishable, have compassion upon me. Glory, again and again, to that being to whom all returns, from whom all proceeds; who is all, and in whom all things are: to him whom I also am; for he is every where; and through whom all things are from me. I am all things: all things are in me, who am everlasting. I am undecayable, ever enduring, the receptacle of the spirit of the supreme. Brahma is my name; the supreme soul, that is before all things, that is after the end of all. oo.notes and references:
[1]: These are the four Upāyas, 'means of success,' specified in the Amera-koṣa.
1.23 - Improvising a Temple, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
Of course all these miracles are very naughty of you; they mean that your magical power has sprung a few small leaks; at least, the water is oo.ing between some planks not sealed as Hermetically as they should be. But oh and this is naughtier still it is a blessed, blessed comfort that they happen, that chance, coincidence and all the rest will simply not explain it all away, that your new vision of life is not a dream, but part and parcel of Experience for evermore, a real as any other manifestation of Reality through sense such as is common to all men.
And this brings us it has been a long way round from the suggestion of your visit to the question (hitherto unanswered) in your letter.
1.33 - The Gardens of Adonis, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
of mankind. Thus at oo.eyp oo. in Rajputana a festival is held in
honour of Gouri, or Isani, the goddess of abundance. The rites begin
1.33 - The Golden Mean, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
All perfectly true. My equable nature is congenitally hostile to extreme measures, except in imagination. I cannot bear sudden violent movements. Climbing rocks, people used to say that I didn't climb them, that I oo.ed over them!
This explains, I think, my deep-seated dislike of many passages in The B oo. of the Law. "O prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger." (AL II, 10-11)
1953-11-18, #Questions And Answers 1953, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
And we benefit by all the experiences of those who were upon earth before us. But if we had to come to a country about which we knew nothing, and had to learn everything by ourselves, we would have very unpleasant experiences. There are other fruits like that, this is not the only one, there are many such. For example, the fig the unripe figif you touch the white juice that oo.es from the fig but its awfulyou have boils all over the mouth and become quite ill, and you get ulcers in the stomach also. But when the fig is ripe and you take care not to touch the white juice, it is a perfect f oo.. I could give you a great many examples of this kind. But now we know this because we have been told. Those who told us learnt it from others. But who first made the experiment, who learnt all that, all the things in Nature? There are many, there are countless things in Nature. Well, take plant life in Nature, we dont yet know everything today. For instance, some people tell you: The remedy is always there along with the illness, in Nature; Nature has made it thus. I dont know if this is strictly so, but in any case, in a way it works, it is true. It is said, for instance, that if a snake has its hole somewhere, you may be sure you will find beside it a plant which will cure you if bitten. But which plant? There are so many there and who will teach you? There are people who go up to the mountains in the m oo.light and collect herbs which cure diseases generally considered incurable. How have they learnt that? Who has made the experiment?
And mushr oo.s?
1957-05-15 - Differentiation of the sexes - Transformation from above downwards, #Questions And Answers 1957-1958, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
Where is the greatest resistance? In your head. (Laughter) This is not a special case. Most often what refuses most to change is the physical mindso obstinate, isnt it, in the conviction of its own competence, oo.! In the love it has for its own ignorance, its own way of thinking, its own way of seeing, its own way of not knowing.
Is that all? All right! Then we wont say anything more.
1f.lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
the nightmare plastic column of foetid black iridescence oo.ed tightly
onward through its fifteen-f oo. sinus; gathering unholy speed and
1f.lovecraft - Celephais, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
of oo.h-Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills, where his spirit had dwelt
all the eternity of an hour one summer aftern oo. very long ago, when he
--
come back to the Valley of oo.h-Nargai and the splendid city of
Celephas.
--
orchid-wreathed priests told him that there is no time in oo.h-Nargai,
but only perpetual youth. Then Kuranes walked through the Street of
--
could tell him how to find oo.h-Nargai, beyond the Tanarian Hills. One
night he went flying over dark mountains where there were faint, lone
--
would have descended and asked the way to oo.h-Nargai had not a
fearsome aurora sputtered up from some remote place beyond the horizon,
--
created oo.h-Nargai in his dreams, on which account he was now to be
appointed its chief god for evermore. Then they gave Kuranes a horse
--
And Kuranes reigned thereafter over oo.h-Nargai and all the
neighbouring regions of dream, and held his court alternately in
1f.lovecraft - In the Walls of Eryx, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
splash, disintegrating at once and oo.ing downward in disappearing
streams with surprising rapidity. Plainly, the wall was a lofty one. A
--
be oo.ing in from the plain to complete the ghastly work. Approaching
the body with some reluctance, I was preparing to step past it when a
1f.lovecraft - Medusas Coil, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
fix over the parlour ceiling where the bl oo. had oo.ed through. And I
burned nearly everything in Marcelines r oo., scrubbing the walls and
1f.lovecraft - Out of the Aeons, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
People said that if no victims were offered, Ghatanothoa would oo.e up
to the light of day and lumber down the basalt cliffs of Yaddith-Gho
--
After all, it was not a long thing to tell. oo.ing and surging up out
of that yawning trap-d oo. in the Cyclopean crypt I had glimpsed such an
1f.lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
dripping with green oo.e and sinister with latent horror. Hieroglyphics
had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point
--
43 come upon a coast-line of mingled mud, oo.e, and weedy Cyclopean
masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of
--
Acropolis, and clambered slipperily up over titan oo.y blocks which
could have been no mortal staircase. The very sun of heaven seemed
--
anything more definite than rock and oo.e and weed was seen. Each would
have fled had he not feared the scorn of the others, and it was only
1f.lovecraft - The Colour out of Space, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
same state, and a number of bones of smaller animals. The oo.e and
slime at the bottom seemed inexplicably porous and bubbling, and a man
--
at all. Just oo.e and bubbles and the feeling of something lurking
under there. Ammis horse still pawed and screamed deafeningly in the
1f.lovecraft - The Curse of Yig, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
perhaps even now twining slipperily about the bedposts and oo.ing up
over the coarse w oo.len blankets. Unconsciously she crept under the
1f.lovecraft - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
Celephas in oo.h-Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills, where reigns half
the year the great King Kuranes, a man he had known by another name in
--
never a sound as their stinking green ichor oo.ed fatally upon that
porous earth with the obscene fungi.
--
of the seaport Celephas which lies in oo.h-Nargai beyond the Tanarian
Hills and is ruled over by that King Kuranes whom Carter once knew in
--
and from there to the city Celephas in oo.h-Nargai beyond the Tanarian
Hills, it seemed rather doubtful; for these ghouls of the waking world
--
the seeker; for he knew nothing of the way from Leng to oo.h-Nargai,
and was likewise reluctant to awake lest he forget all he had so far
--
oo.h-Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills. And as he went he thought of the
zebra he had left tethered to an ash tree on Ngranek in far-away Oriab
--
were come to the land of oo.h-Nargai and the marvellous city of
Celephas. Swiftly there came into sight the glittering minarets of
--
the secret lore known to cats on the seaward slopes of oo.h-Nargai.
Best of all, he repeated several things told him furtively by the timid
--
taken to the library where Kuranes, Lord of oo.h-Nargai and the Sky
around Serannian, sat pensive in a chair by the window l oo.ing on his
--
yearned long years for lovely Celephas and the land of oo.h-Nargai,
and for the freedom and colour and high experience of life devoid of
--
in oo.h-Nargai, but found no meaning therein, and dr oo.ed always for
the old familiar things of England that had shaped his youth. All his
--
the steps, and so greasy with the oo.e of inner earth, that the climber
never quite knew when to expect a breathless fall and hurtling down to
1f.lovecraft - The Festival, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
crowd had oo.ed into the black d oo.way, and till all the stragglers had
followed. The old man was pulling at my sleeve, but I was determined to
1f.lovecraft - The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
and serious way. Clearly, there was nothing to do but consult oo.n, and
oo.n was a highly portentous being.
oo.n, though a creature of extremely doubtful nature, was the virtual
ruler of Zeth. It obviously belonged somewhere in the outer abyss, but
--
the Delphi and Dodona of a later world, oo.n grew famous as a giver of
judgments and solver of riddles; nor did Its essence differ from them
--
and richly-fitted hall wherein oo.n br oo.ed and mimicked the promptings
of the priests.
--
knew that It was oo.n.
Hesitantly Yalden stated his unfortunate mission and asked advice;
--
Having tidily finished Its f oo., oo.n raised three small reddish eyes
to Yalden and uttered certain words in a tone of vast decisiveness:
--
alleged it was a mound of gelatinous substance that oo.ed hatefully in
the manner of putrescent flesh. Still others claimed they had seen it
--
With due supplications to his gods and to their messenger oo.n, Yalden
set out for the Cave of Three Winds. In his bosom were mixed an
--
been sanctified by a priest of oo.n, Yalden tremblingly advanced. When
he had attained the very opening of the lair, he hesitated no longer,
--
or even in the Temple of oo.n, upon which had been lavished unthinkable
wealth and beauty. Yalden st oo. agape, but not for long, since he
1f.lovecraft - The Horror in the Museum, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
the obscurer corners, and these lumpish hybrid growths oo.ed and
wriggled toward him as though hunting him down in a circle. Black
1f.lovecraft - The Lurking Fear, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
oo.ed up alone from that nether world of unknown nightmare, I drew my
automatic pistol and shot it under cover of the thunder.
1f.lovecraft - The Mound, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
living thingsliving things that oo.ed along stone channels and
worshipped onyx and basalt images of Tsathoggua. But they were not
1f.lovecraft - The Night Ocean, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
those early half-mammals which had not yet ventured upon the oo.y land.
The monotony of the waves gave repose, and I had no other occupation
1f.lovecraft - The Quest of Iranon, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
think of the lutes of distant oo.ai whereof travellers have told. And
thinking thus, they bade the stranger stay and sing in the square
--
Karthian hills lieth oo.ai, the city of lutes and dancing, which men
whisper of and say is both lovely and terrible. Thither would I go were
--
may be that oo.ai the city of lutes and dancing is even the fair Aira
thou seekest, for it is told that thou hast not known Aira since old
days, and a name often changeth. Let us go to oo.ai, O Iranon of the
golden head, where men shall know our longings and welcome us as
--
though it were well to visit distant and lute-blessed oo.ai across the
Karthian hills, which may indeed be Aira, though I think not. Airas
--
whilst of oo.ai the camel-drivers whisper leeringly.
At the sunset Iranon and small Romnod went forth from Teloth, and for
--
rough and obscure, and never did they seem nearer to oo.ai the city of
lutes and dancing; but in the dusk as the stars came out Iranon would
--
crest and l oo.ed down upon the myriad lights of oo.ai. Peasants had
told them they were near, and Iranon knew that this was not his native
city of Aira. The lights of oo.ai were not like those of Aira; for they
were harsh and glaring, while the lights of Aira shine as softly and
--
Iranons mother once rocked him to sleep with song. But oo.ai was a
city of lutes and dancing, so Iranon and Romnod went down the steep
1f.lovecraft - The Shunned House, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
of the fireplace, my spade causing a viscous yellow ichor to oo.e from
the white fungi which it severed, I trembled at the dubious thoughts of
1f.lovecraft - The Tree on the Hill, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
anything familiar. I thought I saw a great temple by a sea of oo.e,
where three suns gleamed in a pale red sky. The vast tomb, or temple,
1f.lovecraft - Two Black Bottles, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
dipping down into the dank, slimy oo.e. An odor of deadness and decay
filled the air, and even in the sunlit aftern oo. little wisps of vapor
1f.lovecraft - What the Moon Brings, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
oo.e miles below, I shrieked and shrieked lest the hidden face rise
above the waters, and lest the hidden eyes l oo. at me after the
1.jk - Endymion - Book II, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Tawny and gold, oo.'d slowly from far lands
By my diligent springs; my level lilies, shells,
1.jk - Endymion - Book III, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Of happiness, from fairy-press oo.'d out.
Speechless they eyed each other, and about
--
The oo.e-born Goddess beckoned and drew
Fair Scylla and her guides to conference;
--
A new magnificence. On oo.y throne
Sm oo.h-moving came Oceanus the old,
1.jk - Endymion - Book IV, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
And warm with dew at oo.e from living bl oo.!
Whither didst melt? Ah, what of that!all g oo.
1.jk - Hyperion. Book I, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
His Druid locks to shake and oo.e with sweat,
His eyes to fever out, his voice to cease.
1.jk - Hyperion. Book II, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Arose, with locks not oo.y, and began,
In murmurs, which his first-endeavouring tongue
1.jk - Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil - A Story From Boccaccio, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
And divine liquids come with odorous oo.e
Through the cold serpent pipe refreshfully,
1.jk - Ode To Autumn, #Keats - Poems, #John Keats, #Poetry
Thou watchest the last oo.ings hours by hours.
3.
1.kbr - Dohas II (with translation), #Songs of Kabir, #Kabir, #Sufism
Kaal Paron Bhuin Letna, oo.er Jamsi Ghaas
[Says Kabir
1.lovecraft - Nemesis, #Lovecraft - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
That oo.e down to the marsh and the main;
And in hot cursed tarns I have seen things, I care not to gaze on again.
1.pbs - Alastor - or, the Spirit of Solitude, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
What oo.y cavern or what wandering cloud
Contains thy waters, as the universe
1.pbs - Julian and Maddalo - A Conversation, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
Such as from earth's embrace the salt oo.e breeds,
Is this; an uninhabited sea-side,
--
Accosted us. We climbed the oo.y stairs
Into an old courtyard. I heard on high,
--
One with the other, and the oo.e and wind
Rushed through an open casement, and did sway
1.pbs - Ode to the West Wind, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
The sea-bl oo.s and the oo.y w oo.s which wear
The sapless foliage of the ocean, know
1.pbs - Prometheus Unbound, #Shelley - Poems, #Percy Bysshe Shelley, #Fiction
The oo.y bottom of clear lakes and p oo.s,
Are the pavilions where such dwell and float
--
Round f oo.less men wrecked on some oo.y isle.
Asia.
1.rb - Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church, Rome, The, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
As if the corpse they keep were oo.ing through
And no more lapis to delight the world!
1.rb - Sordello - Book the Fifth, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
"Stained like pale honey oo.ed from topmost rocks
"Sun-blanched the livelong summer"from his worst
1.rb - Sordello - Book the Second, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
"'Coloured like honey oo.ed from topmost rocks
"'Sun-blanched the livelong summer'if they heard
1.rb - Sordello - Book the Sixth, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
"Stained like pale honey oo.ed from topmost rocks
"Sun-blanched the livelong summer,"all that's left
1.rb - Sordello - Book the Third, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Mark ye the dim first oo.ings? Meribah!
Then, quaffing at the fount my courage gained,
1.rb - The Laboratory-Ancien Rgime, #Browning - Poems, #Robert Browning, #Poetry
Ah, the brave tree whence such gold oo.ings come!
And yonder soft phial, the exquisite blue,
1.rwe - Monadnoc, #Emerson - Poems, #Ralph Waldo Emerson, #Philosophy
In the wide thaw and oo.e of wrong,
Adhere like this foundation strong,
1.whitman - As I Ebbd With the Ocean of Life, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
(See, from my dead lips the oo.e exuding at last,
See, the prismatic colors glistening and rolling,)
1.whitman - Elemental Drifts, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
(See! from my dead lips the oo.e exuding at last!
Seethe prismatic colors, glistening and rolling!)
1.whitman - Song of Myself, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the oo.e of my skin,
I fall on the weeds and stones,
1.whitman - Song Of Myself- XXXIII, #Whitman - Poems, #unset, #Integral Yoga
I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the oo.e of my skin,
I fall on the weeds and stones,
2.02 - The Ishavasyopanishad with a commentary in English, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Integral Yoga
wiping them away as they oo.e out and l oo. out on the Universe.
That is thy self, that is Brahman. Realise all this Cosmic Stir, this
3.11 - Spells, #Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E, #unset, #Integral Yoga
The result is usually inversion, unless the target would not be adversely affected by this process (e.g., a slime, oo.e, golem, elemental, etc.). In this case, implosion takes place. In either case, the effect kills/destroys the target instantaneously unless it makes a successful saving throw versus death magic at a -4 penalty.
The priest can affect one creature per round with this spell. After each round, the priest must make a Constitution check. If this fails, the priest is overwhelmed with the effort of sustaining the spell, at which time the spell terminates, leaving the priest fatigued (the equivalent of being stunned) for 1d4 rounds. The maximum possible duration of the spell is 3 turns.
3.2.03 - To the Ganges, #Collected Poems, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
Down thou plungest through the Ocean, far beneath its oo.y bed
In Patala's leaden gl oo.
3.21 - Of Black Magic, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
their auras are ragged, muddy and malodorous; they oo.e the slime
of putrefying corpses.
3-5 Full Circle, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
32. "In this Satanic world, the false always appears first and imitates the truth, thus confusing people." Young oo. Kim. (See Kim, Young oo., Divine Principle and its Application, H.S.A.U.W.C., 1611 Upshur St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20011, 1969.
33. Gierke, Otto von, Political Theories of the Middle Ages (translated by E. F. Maitland), Cambridge Univ. Press, London, I927.
--
23. Kim, Young oo., Divine Principle and its Application. Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. 1611 Upshur St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20011, 1968.
24. Edwards, David L., editor, The Honest to God Debate. Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1963.
3 - Commentaries and Annotated Translations, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
or continuously, anoint etc. We may compare ; to oo.e, trickle,
flow, stream & EV^ to go, where the sense of motion comes out
4.02 - Existence And Character Of The Images, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
And oo.e, as 'twere, through intervening air.
Besides, if those fine particles of things
4.03 - The Senses And Mental Pictures, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
The bodies of the oo.y flavour, then
Delightfully they touch, delightfully
4.16 - AMONG DAUGHTERS OF THE WILDERNESS, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
Brown, sweet through, oo.ing gold, lusting
For the round mouth of a girl,
5.05 - Origins Of Vegetable And Animal Life, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
May oo.e, released from the members all;
Last, the possession of those instruments
5.07 - Beginnings Of Civilization, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Then from the boiling veins began to oo.e
O rivulets of silver and of gold,
5.4.01 - Notes on Root-Sounds, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
, oo. o
, o
6.03 - Extraordinary And Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Sweat moisture and distil the oo.y drops;
Likewise, from all our body seeps the sweat;
6.04 - The Plague Athens, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
Black on the inside, sweated oo.y bl oo.;
And the walled pathway of the voice of man
--
Through the clogged nostrils would there oo.e along
Much fouled bl oo., oft with an aching head:
Cratylus, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
(soma, sozetai), as the name oo.a implies, until the penalty is
paid; according to this view, not even a letter of the word need be
ENNEAD 02.09 - Against the Gnostics; or, That the Creator and the World are Not Evil., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02, #Plotinus, #Christianity
The differences between the universal Soul and our (human) souls are very important. To begin with, the universal Soul does not govern the world in the same manner (as our soul governs the body); for she governs the world without being bound thereto. Besides many other differences elsewhere noted,324 we were bound to the body after the formation of a primary bond.325 In the universal Soul the nature that is bound to the body (of the world) binds all that it embraces; but the universal Soul herself is not bound by the things she binds. As she dominates them, she is impassible in respect to them, while we ourselves do not dominate exterior objects. Besides, that part of the universal Soul which rises to the intelligible world remains pure and independent; even that326 which communicates life to the body (of the world) receives nothing therefrom. In general what is in another being necessarily participates in the state of that being; but a principle which has its own individual life would not receive anything from any other source.327 That is why, when one thing is located within another, it feels the experiences of the latter, but does not any the less retain its individual life in the event of the destruction of the latter. For instance, if the fire within yourself be extinguished, that would not extinguish the universal fire; even if the latter were extinguished, the universal Soul would not feel it, and only the constitution of the body (of the world) would be affected thereby. If a world exclusively composed613 of the remaining three elements were a possibility, that would be of no importance to the universal Soul, because the world does not have a constitution similar that of each of the contained organisms. On high, the universal Soul soars above the world, and thereby imposes on it a sort of permanence; here below, the parts, which as it were flow off, are maintained in their place by a second bond.328 As celestial entities have no place (outside of the world), into which they might oo.e out,329 there is no need of containing them from the interior, nor of compressing them from without to force them back within; they subsist in the location where the universal Soul placed them from the beginning. Those which naturally move modify the beings which possess no natural motion.330 They carry out well arranged revolutions because they are parts of the universe. Here below there are beings which perish because they cannot conform to the universal order. For instance, if a tortoise happened to be caught in the midst of a choric ballet that was dancing in perfect order, it would be trodden under f oo. because it could not withdraw from the effects of the order that regulated the feet of the dancers; on the contrary, if it conformed to that order, it would suffer no harm.
GNOSTIC DEMANDS FOR REASON OF WORLD'S CREATION ARE IDLE, AND INVOLVE STILL LARGER QUESTIONS.
ENNEAD 04.03 - Psychological Questions., #Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02, #Plotinus, #Christianity
This difference between souls is caused principally by the constitution of the bodies they animate; also by401 the moral habits, the activities, the thoughts and behavior of these souls in earlier existence. According to Plato109 the choice of the souls' condition depends on their anterior existence. On observing the nature of souls in general, we find that Plato recognizes differences between them by saying that some souls occupy the second or third ranks.110 Now we have said that all souls are (potentially) all things,111 that each is characterized by the faculty principally exercised thereby, that is, that some souls unite with the intelligible world by actualization, while others do so in thought or desire.112 Souls, thus contemplating different objects, are and become all that they contemplate. Fulness and perfection also belong to soul, but in this respect they are not all identical, because variety is the law that directs their co-ordination. Indeed, the universal113 reason is on the one hand manifold, and on the other varied, like a being that is animate, and which possesses manifold forms.114 In this case, there is co-ordination; beings are not entirely separated from each other, and there is no place for chance either in real beings, nor in bodies; consequently the number of beings is definite. To be individual, beings must first be stable, then they must remain identical, and last, they must numerically be one in order to achieve individuality. Bodies which by nature perpetually oo.e away, because for them form is something incidental, never possess formal existence but by their participation in (and imitation of), genuine "Beings." On the contrary, for the latter, that are not composite, existence consists in each of them being numerically single, in possessing this unity which dates from the beginning, which does not become what it was not, and which will never cease being what it is. If indeed they cannot exist without some producing principle, that principle will not derive them from matter. It will have to add to them something from its own being.402 But if intelligible entities thus have at times more, and at times less, perfection, they will change; which would contradict their (nature, or) "being," which is to remain identical. Why indeed should they become such as they are now, and why should they not always have been such as they now are? Further, if they be at times more or less perfect, if they "become," they are not eternal. But it is granted that the Soul (as an intelligible being) is eternal.
LIKE THE DIVINITY, THE SOUL IS ALWAYS ONE.
IS - Chapter 1, #Invisible Cities, #Italo Calvino, #Fiction
voice cries oo.!, is that he feels envy toward those
who now believe they have once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were
Liber 71 - The Voice of the Silence - The Two Paths - The Seven Portals, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
69. The fearless warrior, his precious life-bl oo. oo.ing from his wide
and gaping wounds, will still attack the foe, drive him from out his
Talks With Sri Aurobindo 2, #Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Integral Yoga
SRI AUROBINDO: oo.h, these things should not be told.
490
The Logomachy of Zos, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
By relativeness we are as diatoms emerging from the oo.e of becoming.
Likewise by relativeness we are greater than anything we conceive or
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