And this, Gentle Souls, is why the old Book of Common Prayer is such a literary joy!
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 7:23 AM Rainer <[1][email protected]> wrote: Have a closer look at the spelling - which became somewhere infamous :) Rainer On 16.09.2018 14:06, EDWARDS DAVID wrote: > Mary Boleyn? > > On 16 September 2018 at 09:49 Rainer <[2][email protected]> wrote: > > Dear lute netters, > > a little puzzle for fans of Elizabethan music and literature (do not use > Google!) > > Who can guess the writer of this pearl of Elizabethan letter-writing? > > Dearesste Anna > > AS thou haste alwaye founde me toe mye Worde moste trewe soe thou shalt see > I have stryctlye kepte mye promyse I praye you perfume thys mye poore Locke > withe thye balmye Eysses forre thenne indeede shalle Kynges themmeselves > bowe ande paye hommage toe itte ... > > Rainer > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
