The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25650   Message #302853
Posted By: Joe Offer
22-Sep-00 - 01:15 AM
Thread Name: Anyone here had to recite?
Subject: RE: Anyone here had to recite?
Who can forget these? MMy teachers called them "purple passages."
Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour

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-and-

Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit
Litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto
Vi superum, saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram.

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Bier her, Bier her
Oder ich fall um, juch he
Bier her, Bier her
Oder ich fall um.
Soll das Bier im Keller liegen
Und ich hier die Ohnmacht kriegen.
Bier her, Bier her
Oder ich fall um.
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If you can translate the last one, you'll know why that high school teacher was most popular.
-Joe Offer-