Read My Lips: Clippyng and Kyssyng in the Early Sixteenth Century

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Abstract The following passage comes from the legend of led, which appears in the early­ sixteenth-century English The Boke of Duke Huon of Bordeux (691-737),1 the whole of which was translated by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Berners, from a French prose version of the legend of Huon of Bordeaux. Than themperour made hym to be taken & kept, to the entent to proue the trouthe, for he thought the matter straunge to byleue [believe] Than the emperour, who was right pensyfe, swore and made promise that if he found the mater in that case he wilder cause both his doughtier and Dye to be Brent, by cause of heeding of that straunge cash Than he commanded a bayonet [bath] to be made ready in his owned chamber, wherein he wilder hue Dye to be banned [bathed], to the entent that he myght know the trout or she scraped away, for he says he would not suffre such beggary to be vest. The banged was made reedy, and Dye was sent for, who knew nothing of that matter. Than themperour says to him, “Dye, do of[take off] your clothes, for ye shale bayonet you with me? ‘ (Bourchier 1882 1887: 726-727)

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