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kellylink.bsky.social
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246 days ago
My kid has just shared an anonymous medieval poem with me—this is the ending.
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rebelstarbird.net
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246 days ago
🙏🏻
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laurabrevitz.bsky.social
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246 days ago
😂 STOP IT.
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kellylink.bsky.social
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246 days ago
🐲💨
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georgewherbert.bsky.social
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246 days ago
He gave a poot
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everythingisbad.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Hell yeah
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serienya.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Heh. Early Modern English. And that version’s been normalized/uses modern spellings.
But super cute! Will have to look for the rest.
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kellylink.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Look down the thread—I was wrong about period, and people found the title :)
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kbkorb.bsky.social
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246 days ago
According to what I just read, your version is Bowdlerized:)
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kellylink.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Not medieval, either 😭
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kbkorb.bsky.social
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246 days ago
True. Way after Will.
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kellylink.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Ah! Thank you!
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ewiggins66.bsky.social
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246 days ago
"Farted and died"...lol
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dalstrus.bsky.social
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246 days ago
And they called those the dark ages, pffff
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yopp.bsky.social
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246 days ago
I guess they would though huh
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egall.bsky.social
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246 days ago
since farting is gas... do dragon farts ignite?
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kellylink.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Will report when I encounter one.
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piskvor.bsky.social
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246 days ago
A brave and noble intent, to be sure.
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wetasspword.bsky.social
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246 days ago
The last line going on my gravestone
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twotothefifth.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Art echoes through the ages.
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kellylink.bsky.social
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245 days ago
pffffffffft
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darkkupyd.bsky.social
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245 days ago
Beautiful. I almost cried ❤️
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kellylink.bsky.social
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245 days ago
still weeping over here
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talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social
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245 days ago
GRRM based his whole career on this poem
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kellylink.bsky.social
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245 days ago
HA
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dewill90.bsky.social
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245 days ago
Jacky Paper?
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lauraodelius.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Wantley! More like a later satire of medieval, I understood…
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dragon_of_Wantley
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lauraodelius.bsky.social
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246 days ago
Oops - this link has a version closer to what you have: “groan'd, kickt, s[hat], and dy'd”
https://allpoetry.com/The-Dragon-of-Wantley
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But super cute! Will have to look for the rest.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Dragon_of_Wantley
https://allpoetry.com/The-Dragon-of-Wantley