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Subject: [LUTE] Re: I saw my lady weep
We are talking about 400 year old English here. It is difficult for
many native speakers. The lute songs are not just normal English but
sometimes very deep. The syntax often blows my mind, - very hard to
hang on to sometimes. I
We are talking about 400 year old English here. It is difficult for
many native speakers. The lute songs are not just normal English but
sometimes very deep. The syntax often blows my mind, - very hard to
hang on to sometimes. I wouldn't worry at all about such a detail. If
you can
David wrote:
On the contrary. Yes, of course we must have a general understanding of the
poem to be able to play the song, but that is only the beginning. Poetry is
written in very precise language; ideas condensed into a few words and made
to fit into to the constraints of the poetic form.
Dear David,
Having studied with the late Robert Spencer at roughly the same time as
you, I too wish he were still here to ask
But I think the plural noun commonly took a singular verb form in
Elizabethan English. Sorry I can't (at the moment) come up with other
examples or references,
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From: Martin Shepherd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:17 PM
To: Lute Net
Subject: [LUTE] Re: I saw my lady weep
Dear David,
Having studied with the late Robert Spencer at roughly the
same time as you, I too wish he were still here
of writing to reflect on.
Best wishes,
Denys
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From: Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:29 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: I saw my lady weep
We are talking about 400 year old English
Dear David,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, LGS-Europe wrote:
..joyful looks excells.
Tears kills the heart...
What's with the s-es after the verbs? 'Looks' and 'tears' (noun, for sure in
the contaxt) are plural, so I would expect 'excell' and 'kill'.
Just an uneducated guess and speculation:
: Thursday, March 16, 2006 1:52 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: I saw my lady weep
Dear David,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, LGS-Europe wrote:
..joyful looks excells.
Tears kills the heart...
What's with the s-es after the verbs? 'Looks' and 'tears' (noun, for
sure in
the contaxt) are plural, so I
Arto Wikla wrote:
Dear David,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, LGS-Europe wrote:
..joyful looks excells.
Tears kills the heart...
What's with the s-es after the verbs? 'Looks' and 'tears' (noun, for sure in
the contaxt) are plural, so I would expect 'excell' and 'kill'.
Just an uneducated guess
then.
- Original Message -
From: guy_and_liz Smith
To: LGS-Europe ; Arto Wikla
Cc: Lute net
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:39 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: I saw my lady weep
Look can also be used as a noun, as in I gave him a dirty look. I
think
that's how he's using it here
it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
Lewis Carroll
- Original Message -
From: Sean Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:16 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: I saw my lady weep
It was a poor imagination that could think of but one way to spell a
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