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Any idea why so many lines end in ooooooo?

by poglet 3y ago

jacobolus 3y ago
You can look at the manuscript. I don't think it's really supposed to be letters – more like a decorative doodle – but I'm not sure what the deal is: https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/134161777?mode=fullsize https://digital.nls.uk/early-manuscripts/browse/archive/1341...
- nomel 3y ago
  Perhaps "pause for audience laughter"?
  - jacobolus 3y ago
    It's every third line in this poem/song so maybe you're right about leaving a gap for the music or something.
    - IIAOPSW 3y ago
      Maybe its literal, like a bunch of people saying OOOOOohhhhhh..
- isaacfrond 3y ago
  The paper is archived here: https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.2010.009 https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1515/angl.2010.009 The first three stanzas translated by gpt4: A little tale I will tell you, I trust it will please you well, At it, you shall have good fun. But where it was I dare not say, Perhaps another day, It might turn me to blame. Now pay good heed everyone, How a yeoman came riding along, He found a very fair way. He looked beside him light gliding, He found a hare very fair sitting, Upon a fallow land. He marked well where she sat then, He rode to the town as fast as he could, The way then did he pursue. The first man that he met with, Was a husband named Howkin of the hall, A good man and a true. The yeoman said with laughing cheer, 'Does any gentleman dwell here, Good man, as God save you? Over there I have found a hare sitting, If you have any greyhounds, bring them with you, A chase there shall you have.'