If ich sayde that thou hadde a bele chose, woldstow holde it ayeinst me?

[XNASA]

[miss_american_pie]

1. No

Is that middle English?

[XNASA]

3. Yes. It's a Chaucerian pick-up line.

[miss_american_pie]

4. Chaucer huh?

How very anachronistic of him. ;)

[Major Hogwash]

5. Does it work?

Pick up any Chaucierians lately with it?

[6th Borough]

12. I thought it was an Olde English pickup line...

Apparently I am more familiar with my malt liquor than with Middle English. :shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. I hate Middle English. nt

I also hated the professor. He was a dick.

[jpgray]

6. Mine shoures soote shalt bathe thy every veyne in swich licour

Of which vertu engendred is the boor.

:patriot:

(now will this be locked?)

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Only if one of us posts the translation. nt

[XNASA]

13. Thou art a freake.

[jpgray]

15. Aye, and eek to inspire thy tender croppes to melodye

with mine brethe sweete, to freake.

[meegbear]

7. Dew ewe waant , dew ewe waant to go back to my place

bouncy bouncy

[jpgray]

14. ...

:patriot:

[stellanoir]

9. Can't decide whether to say

a} I'm not that type of Chaucerian chick

or

b) Anytime you rube. Your stable or mine?

Ack this virgin/whore schism is so-o-o totally confusing. :)

[XNASA]

11. Whattes a nice maiden like thou, doest in a place svch as this?

Makstow a pilgrymage heere often? :hi:

[stellanoir]

16. Damned-ist if I knoweth.

And Oh yay verily, I be-ist a bona fide stable fly.

Nowest and againeth if you knoweth whatith I meanith.

I tarryith so.

[Tyler Durden]

10. Ever heard Shakespeare in Elizabethan cadence/pronounciation?

Best if it's a comedy, because even the St. Crispin's day speach is HILARIOUS.