In Honour of Whan that Aprille Day
Twenty of Myne Favoured Thynges
(In VERY Pidgin Middle English)
1. Reyn droppes on roses
2. Wiskeres on kitouns
3. Benedictus Cumber Batche (gentleman, player) clad in noght but mittyns
4. Thomas Hiddlestone (gentleman, player) clad in noght but streng...
...do yow fynde it hot in heere?....
5. A goode lay.
Be yow not vile, this kynde of lay:
6. Sir Mumford and his gentil sones
7. Oteres, that I myghte boop hir noses.
8. Sloth. Be yow nat idel, I mente the animale.
9. Tacoes. Crunchye!
10. Tales of vertuous men and wommen who, thogh they were nat engeles, koude flye, and koude shoote laseres from their eyes, and koude defeate vileynye.
11. Wolvyrene.
12. Bookes.
13. Shakespeare. Yow shal meet hym in aboute 250 yeres.
14. Opera. Yow shal meet it in aboute 350 yeres. If yow be gentrye or noble.
15. Cosmoes. Sir Neil deGrasse Tyson (a man of wysdam and science from the Kyngdome of France).
16. The philosophie of histoire.
17. Fyne garments and clooth, noon of polyestere.
18. To wereth the clooth of the past, with verray freendes, and acte oute momentes of olde.
19. The blisse of an hotte chai.
20. Twittere, social media, for gathering loveres of historie.
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