The Tunning Of Elenor Rumming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAABBBBB CCCDDDEECC FFFCCEEBBGGG EEEEEEEEEEDDDEEFFEEE EEFFCCDDHHHHHCDDEEED DIIFFEEHHDDDDHHEE D JJBBDCEEKK AAADDDCCCCCC AAAAEECCEEEEEDDBBBJJ FFFFFEEAAEEFF CCDDDEEAA EEEE EELLLC CCBBBEEEEMMHHHHHH BBAAHHAAEE EEGGDD EEFFFFGGGAANNBBEE ETell you I chyll | A |
If that ye wyll | A |
A whyle be styll | A |
Of a comely gyll | A |
That dwelt on a hyll | A |
But she is not gryll | A |
For she is somwhat sage | B |
And well worne in age | B |
For her vysage | B |
It would aswage | B |
A mannes courage | B |
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Her lothely lere | C |
Is nothynge clere | C |
But ugly of chere | C |
Droupy and drowsy | D |
Scurvy and lowsy | D |
Her face all bowsy | D |
Comely crynkled | E |
Woundersly wrynkled | E |
Lyke a rost pygges eare | C |
Brystled wyth here | C |
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Her lewde lyppes twayne | F |
They slaver men sayne | F |
Lyke a ropy rayne | F |
A gummy glayre | C |
She is ugly fayre | C |
Her nose somdele hoked | E |
And camously croked | E |
Never stoppynge | B |
But ever droppynge | B |
Her skynne lose and slacke | G |
Grained lyke a sacke | G |
With a croked backe | G |
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Her eyen gowndy | E |
Are full unsowndy | E |
For they are blered | E |
And she gray hered | E |
Jawed lyke a jetty | E |
A man would have pytty | E |
To se how she is gumbed | E |
Fyngered and thumbed | E |
Gently joynted | E |
Gresed and annoynted | E |
Up to the knockles | D |
The bones of her huckels | D |
Lyke as they were with buckels | D |
Togyther made fast | E |
Her youth is farre past | E |
Foted lyke a plane | F |
Legged lyke a crane | F |
And yet she wyll jet | E |
Lyke a jollyvet | E |
In her furred flocket | E |
And gray russet rocket | E |
With symper the cocket | E |
Her huke of Lyncole grene | F |
It had ben hers I wene | F |
More then fourty yere | C |
And so doth it apere | C |
For the grene bare thredes | D |
Loke lyke sere wedes | D |
Wyddered lyke hay | H |
The woll worne away | H |
And yet I dare saye | H |
She thynketh herselfe gaye | H |
Upon the holy daye | H |
Whan she doth her aray | C |
And gyrdeth in her gytes | D |
Stytched and pranked with pletes | D |
Her kyrtel Brystow red | E |
With clothes upon her hed | E |
That wey a sowe of led | E |
Wrythen in wonder wyse | D |
After the Sarasyns gyse | D |
With a whym wham | I |
Knyt with a trym tram | I |
Upon her brayne pan | F |
Lyke an Egyptian | F |
Capped about | E |
When she goeth out | E |
Herselfe for to shewe | H |
She dryveth downe the dewe | H |
Wyth a payre of heles | D |
As brode as two wheles | D |
She hobles as a gose | D |
With her blanket hose | D |
Over the falowe | H |
Her shone smered wyth talowe | H |
Gresed upon dyrt | E |
That baudeth her skyrt | E |
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Primus passus | D |
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And this comely dame | J |
I understande her name | J |
Is Elynour Rummynge | B |
At home in her wonnynge | B |
And as men say | D |
She dwelt in Sothray | C |
In a certayne stede | E |
Bysyde Lederhede | E |
She is a tonnysh gyb | K |
The devyll and she be syb | K |
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But to make up my tale | A |
She breweth noppy ale | A |
And maketh therof port sale | A |
To travellars to tynkers | D |
To sweters to swynkers | D |
And all good ale drynkers | D |
That wyll nothynge spare | C |
But drynke tyll they stare | C |
And brynge themselfe bare | C |
With Now away the mare | C |
And let us sley care | C |
As wyse as an hare | C |
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Come who so wyll | A |
To Elynour on the hyll | A |
Wyth Fyll the cup fyll | A |
And syt there by styll | A |
Erly and late | E |
Thyther cometh Kate | E |
Cysly and Sare | C |
With theyr legges bare | C |
And also theyr fete | E |
Hardely full unswete | E |
Wyth theyr heles dagged | E |
Theyr kyrtelles all to jagged | E |
Theyr smockes all to ragged | E |
Wyth titters and tatters | D |
Brynge dysshes and platters | D |
Wyth all theyr myght runnynge | B |
To Elynour Rummynge | B |
To have of her tunnynge | B |
She leneth them on the same | J |
And thus begynneth the game | J |
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Instede of coyne and monny | F |
Some brynge her a conny | F |
And some a pot with honny | F |
Some a salt and some a spone | F |
Some theyr hose some theyr shone | F |
Some ran a good trot | E |
With a skellet or a pot | E |
Some fyll theyr pot full | A |
Of good Lemster woll | A |
An huswyfe of trust | E |
Whan she is athrust | E |
Suche a webbe can spyn | F |
Her thryft is full thyn | F |
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Some go streyght thyder | C |
Be it slaty or slyder | C |
They holde the hye waye | D |
They care not what men say | D |
Be that as be maye | D |
Some lothe to be espyde | E |
Start in at the backe syde | E |
Over the hedge and pale | A |
And all for the good ale | A |
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Some renne tyll they swete | E |
Brynge wyth them malte or whete | E |
And dame Elynour entrete | E |
To byrle them of the best | E |
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Than cometh an other gest | E |
She swered by the rode of rest | E |
Her lyppes are so drye | L |
Without drynke she must dye | L |
Therefore fyll it by and by | L |
And have here a pecke of ry | C |
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Anone cometh another | C |
As drye as the other | C |
And wyth her doth brynge | B |
Mele salte or other thynge | B |
Her harvest gyrdle her weddyng rynge | B |
To pay for her scot | E |
As cometh to her lot | E |
Som bryngeth her husbandes hood | E |
Because the ale is good | E |
Another brought her his cap | M |
To offer to the ale tap | M |
Wyth flaxe and wyth towe | H |
And some brought sowre dowe | H |
Wyth Hey and wyth Howe | H |
Syt we downe a rowe | H |
And drynke tyll we blowe | H |
And pype tyrly tyrlowe | H |
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Some layde to pledge | B |
Theyr hatchet and theyr wedge | B |
Theyr hekell and theyr rele | A |
Theyr rocke theyr spynnyng whele | A |
And some went so narrowe | H |
They layde to pledge theyr wharrowe | H |
Theyr rybskyn and theyr spyndell | A |
Theyr nedell and theyr thymbell | A |
Here was scant thryft | E |
Whan they made suche shyft | E |
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Theyr thrust was so great | E |
They asked never for mete | E |
But drynke styll drynke | G |
And let the cat wynke | G |
Let us washe our gommes | D |
From the drye crommes | D |
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But some than sat ryght sad | E |
That nothynge had | E |
There of theyre awne | F |
Neyther gelt nor pawne | F |
Suche were there menny | F |
That had not a penny | F |
But whan they should walke | G |
Were fayne wyth a chalke | G |
To score on the balke | G |
Or score on the tayle | A |
God gyve it yll hayle | A |
For my fyngers ytche | N |
I have wrytten to mytche | N |
Of this mad mummynge | B |
Of Elynour Rummynge | B |
Thus endeth the gest | E |
Of this worthy fest | E |
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Quod Skelton Laureat | E |
John Skelton
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