Wednesday, October 18, 2006

at the fair

Everything is
for sale
carts and horses
tapestries and silver
wonderful silks
  from Syria
Saracen carpets
  woven in Persia
Eastern dyestuffs
  red from Damascus
  indigo from Jerusalem
beautiful glass vessels
  made in Venice
new paper
  for the monks
spices aplenty
  pepper
  cinnamon
  clove
solid linseys
mellow wines

mix this
with fine
entertainments
trick dogs
performing bears
a caged lion
male and female
  rope dancers
acrobats
story tellers
professors of
  white magic
jongleurs
  sawing their viols
  reciting romances
  and merry fables
swarms
  of brazen women
  an evil kind
drunks aplenty.

[Loosely based on a passage in Life on a Mediaeval Barony by W. S. Davis.]

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