Castration Elation: the Nation's Salvation

Trump voters, cuckolds, and Medieval poetry 1/2

“If I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for Harris, that’s the same thing as having an affair.” Jesse Watters, Fox News.

       'Por coi me bait mes maris,
        laisette !

Je ne li ai rienz mesfait
ne riens ne li ai mesdit
fors c'acolleir mon amin
soulette.
       per coi me bait mes maris,
       laisette !

Et c'il ne mi lait dureir
ne bone vie meneir,
je lou ferai cous clameir,
a certes.

Or sai bien que je ferai
et coment m'an vangerai :
avec mon amin geirai
nuette.
       por coi mi bait mes maris...'

French, 1st half of the XIVth century; Douce 308 207a, Bodleian Library; in Karl Bartsch, Altfranzösische Romanzen und Pastourellen (Leipzig, F.C.W. Vogel: 1870), pp. 20-21 and 340.

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       Why does my husband beat me?
       Oh, dear!

I haven’t done him wrong
or told about him though
I held my friend with no
one near.
       Why does my husband beat me?
       Oh, dear!

If he won’t let me go
and have some fun in life
they’ll call him cuckold, so
I swear.

But I know what I’ll do
and how I’ll be revenged:
I’ll lie down with my friend
all bare.
       Why does my husband beat me?

Translated by Paul Werner.

WOID XXIV-22

November 2, 2024