Vulgar words in Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse (Page 1)

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That is, that the Wandering Students ranked in common estimation with jongleurs, buffoons, and minstrels.

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[30] Their point is mainly this: A man of birth and education, generally a dweller in the town, goes abroad into the fields, lured by fair spring weather, and makes love among trees to a country wench.

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Small is the flock, and there you'll see The she-ass and the wether; This goat's a he, and that's a she, The bull-calf and the heifer.

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On an ass the elder borne All the mad crew guideth; Mirth and laughter at the view Through Love's glad heart glideth.

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Here's no place for bashful boys; Like the plague, they spoil our joys.-- Bashful eyes bring rustic cheer When we're drunk, And a blush betrays a drear Want of spunk.

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I vow, &c. The next is _The Last Will of the Dying Ass_.

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THE WILL OF THE DYING ASS.

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While a boor, as poets tell, Whacked his patient ass too well, On the ground half dead it fell.

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Then with gesture sad and low, Streaming eyes and words of woe, He at length addressed it so: "Had I known, my gentle ass, Thou from me so soon wouldst pass, I'd have swaddled thee, alas!

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He who saith this testament Will not hold, let him be shent; He's an ass by all consent.

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La sol fa, He's an ass by all consent, La sol fa mi re ut.

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