Wine, women, and song, mediæval Lat. students' songs, tr. into Engl. verse with an essay by J.A. Symonds |
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Archipoeta Bacchus Bibit bliss bloom bosom breast breath Carm Carmina Burana Carmina Vagorum classical Cockaigne Confession dance death Dies Irae doth drink drinking-songs earth ecclesiastical English eyes fair Flora flowers Gaudeamus Giraldus girl Goliardic literature Goliardic poems Golias grace hath heart heaven hexameters hymns Hyria Hyria hysria nazaza hysria nazaza Trillirivos jocund JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS joys kiss Latin lilies lips love-laden Love's lover lyre lyric maiden man's medieval Méril metre Middle Ages mirth Naught Neath nightingale o'er pagan parody passion pastime Phyllis play pleasure poet praise Primas prosody Provençal Renaissance rhyme rhythm rose ruddy Salimbene satires scholar sighs singing song soul specimens spring stanza Suabian sweet tantara Tara teino tender thee thine thou to-day topers translation tune Ubi sunt unspeakable the blessing Unto utterance vagabondage Vagi Venus verse Walter Mapes Walter of Lille Wandering Students wine winter young youth
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Page 50 - I, a wandering scholar lad, Born for toil and sadness, Oftentimes am driven by Poverty to madness. Literature and knowledge I Fain would still be earning, Were it not that want of pelf Makes me cease from learning. These torn clothes that cover me Are too thin and rotten ; Oft I have to suffer cold, By the warmth forgotten. Scarce I can attend at church, Sing God's praises duly ; Mass and vespers both I miss, Though I love them truly. Oh, thou pride of N , By thy worth I pray tliee Give the suppliant...
Page 85 - Keep the vows we swore together, Lads, obey that ordinance; Seek the fields in sunny weather. Where the laughing maidens dance Like a dream our prime is flown. Prisoned in a study; Sport and folly are youth's OWE. Tender youth and ruddy.
Page 136 - Bibit hera, bibit herus, bibit miles, bibit clerus, bibit ille, bibit illa, bibit servus cum ancilla, bibit velox, bibit piger, bibit albus, bibit niger, bibit constans, bibit vagus, bibit rudis, bibit magus...
Page 56 - Hath no habitation. Carried am I like a ship Left without a sailor, Like a bird that through the air Flies where tempests hale her; Chains and fetters hold me not, Naught avails a jailer ; Still I find my fellows out Toper, gamester, railer.
Page 17 - The scholars," wrote a monk of Froidmont in the twelfth century, " are wont to roam around the world and visit all its cities, till much learning makes them mad ; for in Paris they seek liberal arts, in Orleans authors, at Salerno gallipots, at Toledo demons, and in no place decent manners.
Page 53 - twill be done ! Tara, tantara, teino! Folk, fear the toss of the Horns of philosophy ! Tara, tantara, teino ! Here comes a quadruple Spoiler and prodigal ! Tara, tantara, teino ! License and vanity Pamper insanity : Tara, tantara, teino ! As the Pope bade us do, Brother to brother's true : Tara, tantara, teino ! Brother, best friend, adieu ! Now, I must part from you ! Tara, tantara, teino...
Page 53 - Tara, tantara, teino ! Folk, fear the toss of the Horns of philosophy ! Tara, tantara, teino ! Here comes a quadruple Spoiler and prodigal ! Tara, tantara, teino ! License and vanity Pamper insanity : Tara, tantara, teino ! As the Pope bade us do, Brother to brother's true : Tara, tantara, teino ! Brother, best friend, adieu ! Now, I must part from you ! Tara, tantara, teino ! When will our meeting be ? Glad shall our greeting be...
Page 18 - Omnipotens sempiterne deus, qui inter rusticos et clericos magnam discordiam seminasti, praesta quaesumus de laboribus eorum vivere, de mulieribus ipsorum vero et de morte deciorum semper gaudere.
Page 42 - At the mandate, Go ye forth, Through the whole world hurry ! Priests tramp out toward south and north, Monks and hermits skurry, Levites smooth the gospel leave, Bent on ambulation ; Each and all to our sect cleave, Which is life's salvation. In this sect of ours 'tis writ : Prove all things in season ; Weigh this life and judge of it By your riper reason ; "Gainst all evil clerks be you Steadfast in resistance, Who refuse large tithe and due Unto your subsistence. Marquesses, Bavarians, Austrians...
Page 58 - In the public-house to die Is my resolution; Let wine to my lips be nigh At life's dissolution: That will make the angels cry, With glad elocution, "Grant this toper, God on high, Grace and absolution!" With the cup the soul lights up, Inspirations flicker; Nectar lifts the soul on high With its heavenly ichor: To my lips a sounder taste Hath the tavern's liquor Than the wine a village clerk Waters for the vicar.