a Quote and Unrelated Image vol.iv
14 May, 2010
‘For woe my wit is in a were
that moves me mickle in my mind’
-Satan, Mankind
(by far the best 15th Century Morality Play. I’d suggested reading it if you’ve ever got a hankering for amazing alliteration and a lewd joke about the Pope (if you can find a version that doesn’t censor it).
And because Satan’s alliterative boasts are just as good as his self-pity, here’s a fun stanza to read aloud:
‘All the mirth that is made is marked in me!
the beams of my brighthood are burning bright,
and I so seemly in sight myself now I see,
for like a lord am I left to lend in this light.
More fairer by far than my feres,
in me is no point that may pair,
I feel me featous and fair,
My power is passing my peers.’
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