Unless Jon also wrote Love's Labour's Lost four centuries ago I don't
think it's a gag, Kasper!
2008/12/10 kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
> I wasn't sure if "by WS" was a gag or not, and if you'd written this
> yourself Jon!
>
> and I remember hearing that Shakespeare's spoken accent was a rather
> Northern/Kentish sort of brogue.. it was closer to irish than scottish as I
> recall, though a highlandish scottish accent would rhyme 'note/pot' much
> closer than a dublin irish, today & in my estimation. (in sc. the vowel
> would differ slightly but mainly just in roundedness, and in ir. the [o] in
> 'note' would be diphthongised vs. the undipthongised [o] in 'pot')
> (disclaimer: I could be wrong)
>
> KS
>
> 2008/12/7 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> I always remember that Shakespeare's elder, and never married, sister
>> was called Joan.
>>
>> It's certainly one of the most beautiful of the WS songs, and, as far
>> as I know, probably not a rewrite of a popular ditty (a few may well
>> have been)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> 2008/12/6 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
>> > Gorgeous!
>> > P
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> > Behalf Of Jon Corelis
>> > Sent: 04 December 2008 19:08
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Poem: Winter by William Shakespeare
>> >
>> > Winter
>> >
>> > by William Shakespeare
>> >
>> > When icicles hang by the wall
>> > And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,
>> > And Tom bears logs into the hall,
>> > And milk comes frozen home in pail;
>> > When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,
>> > Then nightly sings the staring owl
>> > Tu-whoo!
>> > Tu-whit! tu-whoo! A merry note!
>> > While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
>> >
>> > When all around the wind doth blow,
>> > And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
>> > And birds sit brooding in the snow,
>> > And Marian's nose looks red and raw;
>> > When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl-
>> > Then nightly sings the staring owl
>> > Tu-whoo!
>> > Tu-whit! tu-whoo! A merry note!
>> > While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > 4 F (-15 C) here I mean give me a break ...
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > By the way did the note/pot rhyme both rhyme with modern note or with
>> pot?
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
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