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1601, or Conversation at the Social Fireside as it was in the Time of the Tudors
1601 or Conversation at the Social Fireside as it was in the Time of the Tudors Author:Mark Twain Yeres of age; ye Countesse of Granby, twenty-six; her doter, ye Lady Helen, fifteen; as also these two maides of honor, to-wit, ye Lady Margery Boothy, sixty-five, and ye Lady Alice Dilberry, turned seventy, she being two yeres ye queenes graces elder. I being her maites cup-bearer, had no choice but to remaine and beholde rank forgot, and yet h... more »igh holde converse with ye low as uppon equal termes, a grete scandal did ye world heare thereof. In ye heat of ye talk it befel yet one did breake wind, yielding an exceding mightie and distresfull stink, whereat all did laugh full sore, and then---Ye Queene sayd
"Verily in mine eight and sixty yeres have I not heard the fellow to this fart. Meseemeth, by ye grete sound and clamour of it, it was male; yet ye belly it did lurk behinde shoulde now fall lean and flat against ye spine of him yet hath bene delivered of so stately and so waste a bulk, where as ye guts of them yet doe quiff-splitters bear, stand comely still and rounde. Prithee let ye author confess ye offspring. Will my Lady Alice testify?"« less