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angevin2

slip me a slug from that wonderful mug

Jul 29, 2007 03:10

So sollersuk mentioned in a comment to my last post that I might be interested in the 16th-century Welsh pirate Sir Thomas Prys, who wrote what sounds like some completely fun and cracked-out poetry on subjects like piracy and being in prison, because he was a believer in the dictum that writers should write what they know ( Read more... )

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sollersuk July 29 2007, 09:07:44 UTC

I have somewhere a medieval student's letter requesting more cash ending with something like "for without Bacchus and Venus, Apollo grows weary"

Apologies - should be "Tomos Prys". A lot is in Welsh but I think there are some articles in English.

angevin2 July 29 2007, 09:09:37 UTC

Oh, I've read that letter! It is great.

I just searched for "prys" on EEBO and found a lot of Pryses but not this one. Feh. I shall have to inquire further.

sollersuk July 29 2007, 12:32:12 UTC

*swallows and grits teeth* There's a wikipedia article on him referring one to the Dictionary of National Biography. Google brings up a number of sites, unfortunately mostly in Welsh.

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writerwench July 30 2007, 11:15:43 UTC

Well, isn't that what Lloyd's of London started out as?
And Fortnum and Mason... and Whittards of Chelsea... and Jacksons of Piccadilly... coffee/chocolate shops were definitely THE places to see and be seen, to do business, and avoid the rabble of the ale-houses and taverns.

almeda July 31 2007, 13:00:05 UTC

The American Revolution was plotted in coffee-shops and chocolate-houses, believe it or not.

jaydeyn_sitari July 29 2007, 11:14:26 UTC

It also fills me with glee that students have always been thus. :D

:)
Jaydeyn

xiphias July 29 2007, 13:53:42 UTC

Eating chocolate was invented sometime around or just before 1847, when J S Fry and Sons, in England, marketed the first successful eating-chocolate bar. Cocoa butter had, before that time, just been an industrial waste product, but, by putting it back into the product, it was possible to create a solid chocolate confection.

angevin2 July 29 2007, 20:53:57 UTC

Neat! It's sort of hard to conceive of a world where chocolate is only a drink, so I'm glad somebody had that idea. ;)

lnhammer July 29 2007, 13:55:53 UTC

I confess it took me a couple seconds to come up with the missing word. I plead distraction, of trying to figure out the idiom behind women "spend[ing] their oyle" -- which is still puzzling me.

---L.

angevin2 July 29 2007, 20:51:01 UTC

I have no idea, except that I'm pretty sure it's something filthy. ;)