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Song and Legend from the Middle Ages
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The Monk of Montaudon. Thirteenth Century.
I love the court by wit and worth adorned, A man whose errors are abjured and mourned, My gentle mistress by a streamlet clear, Pleasure, a handsome present, and good cheer.
I love fat salmon, richly dressed, at noon; I love a faithful friend both late and soon.
I hate small gifts, a man that’s poor and proud, The young who talk incessantly and loud; I hate in low-bred company to be, I hate a knight that has not courtesy. I hate a lord with arms to war unknown, I hate a priest or monk with beard o’ergrown; A doting husband, or a tradesman’s son, Who apes a noble, and would pass for one. I hate much water and too little wine, A prosperous villain and a false divine; A niggard lout who sets the dice aside; A flirting girl all frippery and pride; A cloth too narrow, and a board too wide; Him who exalts his handmaid to his wife, And her who makes her groom her lord for life; The man who kills his horse with wanton speed, And him who fails his friend in time of need.
—Tr. by Costello.
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Chicago: William Darnall MacClintock, "The Monk of Montaudon. Thirteenth Century.," Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, ed. CM01B10.Txt - 149 Kb, CM01B10.Zip - 56 Kb and trans. M. Jules Cambon in Song and Legend from the Middle Ages (New York: The Modern Library Publishers, 1918), Original Sources, accessed October 4, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4BGFYPE964SHCLC.
MLA: MacClintock, William Darnall. "The Monk of Montaudon. Thirteenth Century." Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, edited by CM01B10.Txt - 149 Kb, CM01B10.Zip - 56 Kb, and translated by M. Jules Cambon, in Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, New York, The Modern Library Publishers, 1918, Original Sources. 4 Oct. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4BGFYPE964SHCLC.
Harvard: MacClintock, WD, 'The Monk of Montaudon. Thirteenth Century.' in Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, ed. and trans. . cited in 1918, Song and Legend from the Middle Ages, The Modern Library Publishers, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 4 October 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4BGFYPE964SHCLC.
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