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H2Andy

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this guy is pretty funny. he tells modern stories in the style of Chaucer's
The Canterburry Tales. it's worth a laugh.

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/


i figured i'd try one, it's called (in translation) The Two Diver's Tale


Thys ys the tale of a handsome payre, husbande and wyff, possessed
of myghtie magyque, to whyt, bothe could for to breathe under the watery element.
They wente on an apportenaunt vessele, with captayn and crewe for hyre,
and sayled long into the uncharted oceane Mares Australis. the captayn and crewe consumed muche liquore, and for to forget the handsome payre syll in
the watery element, and levyed anchor for to forsaque the handsome payre,
lefte behynde. the sharkes arryved thereafter, as sharkes are wont to arryve,
and muche calamyte ensued, the fate of the handsome payre known but to
the sharkes and the Almyghte.
 
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