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 (clique ye for more)
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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. Click for more
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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. (Click for more)
If you can translate the last one, you'll know why that high school teacher was most popular. -Joe Offer-