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[ursula]

Early Stuart Libels is just what the name suggests: a database of rude seventeenth-century poetry (with a few late Elizabethan verses thrown in for good measure.) I'm tempted to imitate it for SCA purposes, but my aversion to drama dissuades me, or at least restricts me to generic commentary:

Epitaph.

Here lies a man festooned from ear to ear
With laurels, gouttes, medallions: a great weight!
What drove the man to carry such a freight?
Without this mass, none knew he was a peer.

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[ornerie.livejournal.com]

oh!!!! that's brilliant!!!!

I may have a new sig line ;)

I for one appreicate your restraint. goodness knows I can think of a number of people who arent as classy as you. and yes, some of them are peers....

seriously, can I steal it? I can even attribute it to Anon if you like ;)

[ursula]

Sure, you can borrow it and attribute it to Anonymous. But it might be good to link to the original inspirations. For instance, here's a c. 1603 complaint about the cheapness of knighthood:

http://www.earlystuartlibels.net/htdocs/early_jacobean_section/B3.html

and here's an epitaph for a real person:

http://www.earlystuartlibels.net/htdocs/early_jacobean_section/B17.html