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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 13 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 13 cont’d : How the King held his feast, and how Lapreel the Cony complained unto the King upon Reynart the Fox. 3 Lapreel the rabbit hopped through the Feast, and the revellers parted to make way for his progress, which brought the puny Beast before the superb table of the King and Queen. Without preamble the rabbit launched into his problem, and all the guests heard him speak. “Your worshipable” (he said) have pity on my complaint. I must tell of unspeakable acts of the despicable Fox!” 4 At the perturbed rabbit all went silent; and a crowd encircled Lapreel’s appeal. “The Fox” (he said) “would have murdered me yesterday, when I ran past his Castle. I thought myself elsewhere but it was there. Malperdy. He was standing beside his hole, his head bowed, like a pilgrim. I should have passed by peaceably toward the Feast, but he saw me come, and stood before me, saying his beads.” 5 “I saluted him, but he said nothing. Instead he reached out his foot and I felt a dubbing in my neck, and suddenly he was over me. God be thanked I was light enough to spring away, but it smarted to tear myself from his claws. I escaped the Fox—but look! I lost an ear!” (he said) “His sharp nails left four deep holes in my head, and the blood rushed out like a fountain, and I swooned.” 6 “So in fear of my life I sprang away and ran so fast he couldn’t overtake me. Look, my Lord, on these wounds that he has made!” The partygoers murmured among them. The Rabbit said, “I pray you punish him, this contemptible traitor and murderer, or else no Beast shall come and go over the heath in safety while he haunteth all the public ways and bypaths with his shrewde rewle.” Next : How Corbant the Roke complayned on the foxe for the deth of his wyf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 13 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 13 Dub “To thrust: implying a moderately firm blunt thrust or poke. †Formerly also, To stab as with a dagger; to bring down (a club) (obsolete).” earliest example in OED : Or that Proserpine..dubbit hir heid Onto the Stygian hellis flude of deid. G. Douglas, translation of Virgil, Æneid iv. xii. 109 1513 Scrooby rides again! William Caxton’s translation of Reynard the Fox 1481 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 13 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 13 (edited) First use of the expression “Give it time”? χρόνῳ δὲ δόντες ταῦτ᾽ ἴσως εὕροιμεν ἄν. [ time ] — [ and if ] - [ we give over to ] , [ this] - [ made straight ] - [ we will find ] - [ possibly ] . Euripides, Ion, 575. Edited August 13 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 15 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 15 Canto 24 How Corbant the Roke complayned on the foxe for the deth of his wyf. 1 Right as the Rabbit had ended his complaint, Corbant the Rook swooped in out of the sky and landed before the King. “Dear Lord” (he spoke) “hear now my piteous complaint! My wife Sharpbeak and I went yesterday to play on the heath. And there lay Reynard the Fox on the ground, like something already done. His eyes stared, and his tongue hung from his mouth; he looked for all the world like a creature long dead.” 2 “We both knew all about Reynard the Fox so we went about his body carefully. We felt and tasted his belly, but found no life there. Then my wife had an idea. She hopped along his length and laid her ear before his mouth, to see if he drew breath; this is what brought her terrible evil; for the false Fox had been biding his time. When she went near to him he caught her by the head” 3 “and bit it off.” And I cried out in sorrow, ‘Alas!’ I cried, ‘Alas! What has happened?’ Then he stood up, and came so fast at me that for fear of death I flew up a tree and landed on a high branch. So I watched from afar as the false Fox ate and swallowed my wife so hungrily that neither flesh nor bone was left, only a few feathers; the smaller feathers he’d taken in with the flesh.” 4 “The villain seemed so hungry he would well have eaten two of her. Then he went away.” The Rook paused his speech, and you would have heard a pin drop in the Court; then Corbant said : “I flew down in great sorrow, and gathered up the feathers to show them to you here. I had never felt such danger and fear as I felt there; and wouldn’t want to ever again, even for all the worms of Araby.” 5 And now the whole Court burst into murmur when Corbant announced, “My Lord, my King, see here this sad sight! Look on the feathers of Sharpbeak my wife!” And the Court looked on, and shuddered, and murmured, and they listened : “My Lord” (said the Rook) “if you would have worship you must give me justice! Avenge this act so all Beasts shall fear you; for if you aren’t feared, ye yourself shall not go peaceably on the highway.” 6 And now the whole Court burst into murmur again, but Corbant the Rook wasn’t done. “The Kings who do not give justice” (he said) “and allow murderers and thieves and all who misdo to escape the punishment of the law are thereby themselves partners of all of those misdeeds and trespasses. And will each Beast be a king unto himself? Dear Lord, see well to things, so to keep yourself well.” Next : How the kynge was sore angry of thise complayntes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 15 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 15 (edited) Bethlehem Eric Gill & Hilary Pepler Saint Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1927. Edited August 15 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 15 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 15 (edited) Lighting c1300s Illuminated illustrations of Froissart London : William Smith, 1844 Edited August 15 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 16 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 16 Les quinze joyes de marriage Éditions Jardin du Luxembourg Paris 1948 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 17 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 17 Canto 25 How the kynge was sore angry of thise complayntes. 1 The King was sore angry with these complaints. His fierce lion eyes flashed with fire; and he was frightful to look on. He raised a roar that moved the Court to quake in fear; then at the last he said for all to hear : “By my crown I shall so wreak and avenge this evil that our forest shall never forget it. I was foolish to believe so lightly the Fox’s false flattering speech; and he fooled me.” 2 “Oh he can stuff the pillow with feathers all right!” (said the King) “I gave him a staff and a scrip and made of him a pilgrim; and all in earnest, true and heart-to-heart. Oh with what false touches he paints his words! I pray and command all those who follow me and desire my fellowship, be they here or wheresoever they be, to help me avenge this evil, and put this false thief in shame.” 3 Isengrim the Wolf and Bruno the Bear approved the King’s speech, as both hoped to avenge themselves on Reynard the Fox, but they dared not speak one word; and the King was so sore that no one there had any courage to speak. Finally the Queen spoke out, and replied : “Pour Dieu!” (she said) “A discerning Beast should not so lightly trust their suspicions, nor greatly swear either one way or the other, 4 until the matter is clearly understood. By rights the other party should be given leave to reply. We know many Beasts complain aloud who are themselves in the default. Audi alteram partem—the other side must have the opportunity to speak. I myself believe Reynard the Fox is good” (the Queen continued) “and I have helped him as well as I may, thinking he means no falsehood.” 5 “But howsoever it cometh or goeth, is Reynard evil or good, I thinketh ye should not proceed against him quickly. That were nor good nor honest, for you know he may not escape from you. You may throw the Fox in prison or flay him; he must obey your judgment.” Then Fyrapeel the Leopard spoke out : “My lord, me thinketh my Lady is wise and true and counsels well, and should be heard. 6 And if it be found the Fox is guilty of many misdeeds, let him be punished. And if he come not hither ere this feast be ended, and give excuse as he should, then do as the council shall advise you. And though he be as twice as false and ill as he already is, I do not advise he be done to more than is right.” Answering this the Wolf said : “Sir Fyrapeel, we all agree. 7 As far as this pleaseth my lord the King, it cannot be better. However, if the Fox were here, and cleared of double the complaints against him, still I would argue in Court that his crimes are so great he’s forfeited his life. But I speak no more, for the Fox is not here to answer. But allow me to point out that Reynard hath told the King of certain treasure hidden in a squatting-pit 8 in Husterlo Forest, West of Flanders. Permit me to point out there is no treasure. And there may be no squatting-pit either. A greater lie has never been attempted! He fooled all of us, and sore hindered me and the Bear. I would dare lay down my life that the Fox hath said not one true word yet. Now he lurks upon the heath and robbeth all that go innocently by Castle Malperdy. 9 “Nevertheless” (the Wolf said) “what pleases the Leopard and the King must well be done. But there is one more point I’d like to make. The Fox would be here now if Bruno the bear hadn’t been sent to him as messenger.” (Isengrim recalled the plot of Canto 6.) In answer the King said, “We will send for him no more. Instead, I command all of those who owe me service, and trust my honour and worship, 10 to make ready for war in six days’ time.” The King continued : “All those with bows, guns, cannons, horsemen, and soldiers, I command all these be ready to besiege Malperdy. If I am King I will destroy Reynard the Fox. Ye Lords and Sirs, what say ye to all this? Will ye follow my standard with good will?” And the entire Court of Partygoers cheered, and cried, “Where you go, my Lord, we go with you!” next : How Grimbert the Dasse warned the foxe that the kynge was wroth with hym and wold slee hym. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 17 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 17 One Hundred & Sixty CAT Proverbs & Proverbial Similes Jane Grabhorn Grabhorn-Hoyem Press San Francisco 1969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 17 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 17 The Portland Pirate and Fashions of 1934 Perhaps the best approximation of the European model by publisher Thomas Mosher of Maine, known as the "Portland Pirate" for his shameless quick-off-the-draw copyright infringement (recalling the film Fashions of 1934). The layout recalls the first edition of Paradise Lost (1667); and, for example : The Temple George Herbert Nonesuch Press, 1927. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 18 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 18 Canto 26 How Grimbert the Badger warned the Fox that the King was wroth with him and would slay him. 1 Grimbert the Badger heard this with dismay. He sorrowed for red Reynard his uncle; and ran then the highway to Malperdy, sparing nor bush nor branch but ran so sore he broke a sweat. “Alas!” (he said) “Good uncle! He’s in terrible danger! Ah, me! Ah, me! What shall become of him? Must I see his life taken? Or watch him leave our land as exile? I sorrow, for he is best of all our lineage.” 2 “Ye be wise of council,” (Badger continued) “ye be ready to help all your friends in need, ye speak so well that when ye speak ye lead. Now’s the time to think, good uncle, or bleed!” With such a wailing and piteous Word came Grimbert the Badger to Malperdy. There he found Reynard his uncle walking before the Castle gate. ’Twere two pigeons who had just come first out of their nest to see things. 3 Might they spread their wings and fly? No; they fell down to the ground, for their wing feathers were too short; and as Reynard left the Castle to find out meat he saw them, and caught them, and was coming home with them. When he saw Grimbert coming, he tarried awhile. “Welcome!” (he said) “O best beloved nephew, the favorite of all my kindred! Ye have run fast; ye be all in a sweat. Have ye any news?” 4 “Alas, alas!” (said Grimbert) “dear uncle, it stands evil with you! Ye have lost both life and good. The King hath sworn he shall give ye a shameful death. He has commanded his folk within six days to be here. Reynard, think of it! Archers, soldiers, horsemen, wagons; guns, cannons, tents, pavilions! And Beasts with fiery torches! See before you, for you have need to think. I fear much for your life, so much so I’m all sick.” 5 “That’s it?” (asked the Fox) “Puff puff! Dear nephew, why be ye so afraid?” Badger answered, “The Wolf, the Bear, the Leopard, and the Rook all want you dead, and the King has listened.” “Don’t worry” (said the Fox) “be happy. Let the King swear my death, let every Beast in the Court swear my death, yet I shall win. Though they all jangle, clatter, and counsel, and do it quickly, they can’t beat my subtlety; and let me add they can not prosper without me.” next : How Reynard came another time to the court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 18 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 18 (edited) Molto Lensing : Poetry-Prose Fusion c1300s page 8. Here is a refrain that recurs in which Nicolete is described as “La face clere”. clere = [holy] bright; exquisite (as in well-lensed). page 21. Here is Nicolete escaping from her captor. Above her over the shadowy street : la lune luiosoit molt clere the - moon - [ to shine ] - much - [ clere ] Edited August 18 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 18 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 18 Tom Phillips Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted August 18 Author Premium Member Share Posted August 18 cues of interiority sustained difference : Alma keeps eyes averted throughout dialogue; and, for example, listening to music : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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