UBC graffiti (1969)

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:42 PM -0700 10/14/05, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The reference to boneless chicken is in Child No. 46, "Captain
>Wedderburn's Courtship,"  of the Eighteenth Century. It is a dove
>without a bone that is utilized in the ME lyric, "I have a yong
>suster" (Sloane MS. 2593), ca1430.
>
>You can read an entire book about the latter that utilizes a
>context-sensitive, cultural and textual hermeneutic :
>http://www.four-courts-press.ie/cgi/bookshow.cgi?file=suster.xml  !
>
>Or, ye sluggards, you can just read the original lyric here :
>
>http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/lyrics2.htm .

Or, for the somewhat more familiar modern (16th century) version,
http://www.catholicculture.org/lit/activities/view.cfm?id=329

Now, of course, alternate solutions are possible, what with dried
cherries, boneless chicken breasts, and such...

L