Interlude A - Baba Brinkman

Now imagine you could have been there

Just over six hundred years ago

To witness Geoffrey Chaucer

Reciting his version of that exact same story

For the court, in Middle English

Here’s how it would have sounded back then:

In Flaundres whilom was a compaignye

Of yonge folk that haunteden folye

As riot, hasard, stewes, and tavernes

Whereas with harpes, lutes, and giternes

They daunce and pleyen at dees bothe day and night

And ete also and drinke over hir might

Thurgh which they doon the devel sacrifise

Withinne that develes temple in cursed wise