They talk as slow as Legends grow 1
No mushroom is their mind
But foliage of sterility
Too stolid for the wind－
They laugh as wise as Plots of Wit 5
Predestined to unfold
The point with bland prevision
Portentously untold.
No mushroom is their mind
But foliage of sterility
Too stolid for the wind－
They laugh as wise as Plots of Wit 5
Predestined to unfold
The point with bland prevision
Portentously untold.
(F.1732/J.1697)
[1] They:: seven women and three men who went to countryside to avoid the Black Death. talk, slow:: they told a hundred stories.
[2] No mushroom, mind:: they were gentle.
[3] foliage of sterility:: indirectly without conclusion.
[5] Plots of Wit:: stories plotted with wit.
[7, 8] point, bland precision, Portentously untold:: most stories mock at the Chatholic in the 14th century.