The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #81776   Message #1501004
Posted By: pavane
06-Jun-05 - 06:53 AM
Thread Name: Need a humorous Ren or Medieval song
Subject: RE: Need a humorous Ren or Medieval song
How about The Comical Wager
from the Bodleian Library
(Later versions are known as The Cluster of Nuts)

"An account of a Laywers wife who laid a guinea with her husband's clerk that he did not Flourish her over seven times in an hour:
How the Lusty Rogue performed six times effectually, but the seventh time happening to be a dry Bob, she pretended that he had not won the wager (Warger), whereupon the Clerk refur'd it to his Master, and his Master gave it in favour of him"