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Aelfric’s Colloquy

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/* A Colloquy, For Exercising Boys In Speaking Latin */
|''Master''|| What do you say, Ploughboy, how do you carry on your work?
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|<br><div id="Ploughboy"></div>'''''Ploughboy'''''|| <br>Master, I have to work far too much; I go out at dawn, driving the oxen to the field, and I yoke them to the plough ; I dare not in the severest weather lie hid at home, for fear of my lord ; and when I have yoked the oxen together, and fastened the ploughshare to the plough, I have to plough a whole acre every day, or more.
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|''Ploughboy''|| Yes, it is a great labour that I have to fulfil, for I am not free.
|}<div id- valign="Shepherdtop"></div><br>''Master''. What do you say, Shepherd, have you any work ? <br>'''''Shepherd'''''. Indeed, I have. In early morning I drive my sheep to the pastures, and I stand by them, in heat and cold, with dogs, lest the wolves should devour them, and I bring them back to their folds, and milk them twice a day, and I move their folds besides. I also make butter and cheese, and I am faithful to my lord. <br>
|<br><div id="OxherdShepherd"></div><br>''Master''. Oxherd, what ||<br> What do you say, Shepherd, have you any work at ? <br>|- valign="top"|'''''OxherdShepherd'''''. Master|| Indeed, I labour muchhave. When the ploughman unyokes the oxen, In early morning I lead them drive my sheep to the pastures, and all night I stand by them watching against thieves, in heat and thencold, early in with dogs, lest the morningwolves should devour them, and I give bring them over back to the ploughmantheir folds, well fed and wateredmilk them twice a day, and I move their folds besides. I also make butter and cheese, and I am faithful to my lord.|- valign="top"|<brdiv id="Oxherd"></div>''Master''. Is that boy one of your companions || Oxherd, what do you work at? <br>''Oxherd''. He is. <br>|- valign="top"
|<br>'''''Oxherd'''''|| <br>Master, I labour much. When the ploughman unyokes the oxen, I lead them to the pastures, and all night I stand by them watching against thieves, and then, early in the morning, I give them over to the ploughman, well fed and watered. |- valign="top"|''Master''|| Is that boy one of your companions?|- valign="top"|''Oxherd''|| He is. |- valign="top" |<br><div id="Huntsman"></div><br>''Master''. || <br>Can you do anything ? <br>|- valign="top"|'''''Huntsman'''''. || One craft I know. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Which is that ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || I am a huntsman. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Whose ? <br>|- valign="top"||''Huntsman''. || The King's. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || In what way do you practise your art ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || I make myself nets, and set them in a fitting spot, and I urge on my dogs, to chase the wild animals, till unawares they get into the nets, and so they are entangled, and I cut their throats when in the nets. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Don't you know how to hunt without nets ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || Yes, I am able to hunt without nets. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || How do you manage that ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || I hunt the wild animals with swift dogs. I take stags, and boars, and fallow deer, and goats, and sometimes hares. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Were you hunting to-day ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || I was not, because it is the Lord's Day, but yesterday I was hunting. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || What did you catch ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || I took the stags in nets, and I cut the throat of the boar. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || How was it that you were daring enough to cut the throat of the boar ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || The dogs drove him towards me, and I, standing towards him, suddenly cut his throat. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || You were very daring then. <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || A huntsman must not be fearful, for a number of various beasts haunt the woods. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || How do you dispose of what you have caught ? <br>|- valign="top"''Huntsman''. I give whatever I catch to the King, as I am his huntsman. <br>|- valign="top"''Master''. And what does he give you ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Huntsman''. || He clothes and feeds me well, and sometimes he gives me a horse, or a bracelet, that I may the more willingly practise my art. ''(Anglo-Saxon men were fond of wearing bracelets.)''<br>|}
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