Education: Not Entirely Wasted
This is probably only hysterically funny to people who’ve read (or
memorized, like I had to in high school English class) Chaucer’s
Prologue to the <a
href=”http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm”>Canturbury Tales:
Whan that Septembre with his shoures sote
Summers droghte hath percéd to the rote,
And bathéd Napas vynes with swich licour
As makéth Gallo Brothers shayre price soare;
Whan al vacacioun tyme is used and gonne
And beaches emptye lye beneath the sonne,
Whan freeways clogge with workers offys-bounde
Whyl scole-buses mak roade rage all arounde.
Whan harlots on the Strippe crye to be payd
By Englishe heart-throbbes crusyng for rough trayd
(Whom Nature hath anon depryved of braynes!)
Than longen folk to run polityckal campaygns
And pollsters for to scanne ye publick moode
By telephoun and questionnaire intrude.
And specially, from every countys ende
Of Golden State, to Sacramento wende,
The Governour's fyn castel for to wyn
And dwel with powre and glorie ful therein.
Derb should be kept busy “translating” this new find — I think that
Chaucer had less pilgrims than California has candidates.
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