If the medievals had produced those sugar hearts stamped with
cultural-artifactual terms, which nowadays include "fax me"
and "e-mail," they might have looked something like this....
Swetes Hertes: A Medieval Valentine
In Memoriam
Stephen Clark
(10/17/53-2/11/01)
wynsom
hey noyney!
gret joye,
sporte
cap
a
dos
hote
cakes
tripp
a
lutel
bawsy
sweit
swenking
eek!
muchel
man
so cunde
likam
to
plese
cum kis
me trim
dar nout?
proud
prikere
socour
Dame
Study
hendy
al the
bulle
lufly
loke
buxom
of
speche
harageous!
wantoun
&
wilde
soules
blisse
clippe me
lered
&
lewed
bony ane
colde
kepe hurle
offe
endeles
melodie
lilie-leor
in lin
passe
to
joye
see-sterre
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