oh, Lydgate.

[angevin2]

Yet another candidate for "Best Footnote Ever," from the TEAMS edition of Lydgate's Siege of Thebes:
"Come forth, Daun John, be your Cristene name

Comments

[fuunsaiki]

Woah, that's only a single candidate? I demand more! That's hilarious! XD

[angevin2]

There are more examples of hilarious footnotes if you click the "marginalia" tag.

I don't suppose the one about Lydgate's nose is quite so hilarious as the one about the sound of birdshit hitting the ocean, though. That one is here.

[fuunsaiki]

OMG I love it when you're right. I'm going to be laughing about clig clag for DAYS. XD

[serrana]

"You're all right? You're not going to like, die or anything, are you?"

"You've got to come read this."

"I haven't got my glasses on."

"Yeah, well, read this anyway."

"Oh, my God, that's bad."

[lnhammer]

Lydgate did an adaptation of Statius?

---L.

[lnhammer]

Huh. Okay.

Still.

---L.

[amea]

And that's gonna be a big thumbs up.

I like your Bekker [sic] icon. :) Appropriate!

[reconditarmonia]

hehe. Marginalia are fuuuuuun.

Psycho Ex is at it again. Reeve's Tale: "it's not rape, she didn't scream!" grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[erstwhiletexan]

THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME.