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September 2, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
September 2, 2015
– Shelved
October 16, 2015
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Started Reading
October 16, 2015
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medieval
January 30, 2016
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2.04%
"My lord, though all the world may blame
me, I have come to make my claim against this peasant, who appals me with his large Hungarian balls
just like a charcoal burner's sack.
Oh, what an ill-intentioned pack
has given me to him in marriage!"
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me, I have come to make my claim against this peasant, who appals me with his large Hungarian balls
just like a charcoal burner's sack.
Oh, what an ill-intentioned pack
has given me to him in marriage!"
January 30, 2016
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23.0%
"A peasant Doctor
"Good sirs, your cure's no easy thing,
nor do I think that I could bring it off except this way: I'll choose
the one among all of you who's
most sick and throw him in the fire....
His ashes I'll give you to drink,
and you'll be cured quick as a wink."
They stared at one another. No one,
no matter how palsied or swollen,
would own, not for all of Normandy,
his was the gravest malady."
"Good sirs, your cure's no easy thing,
nor do I think that I could bring it off except this way: I'll choose
the one among all of you who's
most sick and throw him in the fire....
His ashes I'll give you to drink,
and you'll be cured quick as a wink."
They stared at one another. No one,
no matter how palsied or swollen,
would own, not for all of Normandy,
his was the gravest malady."
March 11, 2016
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33.0%
"anyone who calls these poems misogynistic should stop smoking the 21st century pipe and get of that phony pedestal because in these poems you will find lots of idiotic men, lascivious priests, naive knights, retarded husbands. So far there has only been one smart peasant and even he was outwitted by his wife."
July 30, 2021
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Finished Reading
