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Aelfric’s Colloquy

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/* A Colloquy, For Exercising Boys In Speaking Latin */
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|''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.)''
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|- valign="top"|<br><div id="Fisherman"></div><br>''Master''. || <br>What craft do you know ? <br>|- valign="top"|'''''Fisherman'''''. || I am a fisherman. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || And what do you gain by your craft ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || Food, and clothing, and money. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. | How do you catch the fish ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || I get into a boat, and place my nets in the river, and I throw in a hook, and baskets, and whatever they catch I take. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || What if your fishes are not clean ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || I throw the unclean away, and take the clean ones for food. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Where do you sell your fish ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || In the city. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Who are your purchasers ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || The citizens. I cannot catch as many as I could sell. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || What kinds of fish do you catch ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || Eels and pike, minnows and joltheads, trout and lampreys, and any fish that swim in the river. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Why don't you fish in the sea ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || I do sometimes, but it is a long way to the sea, so I seldom go thither. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || What do you catch in the sea ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || Herrings and salmon, dolphins and sturgeons, oysters and crabs, mussels and winkles, cockles, plaice, soles and lobsters, and the like. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Are you desirous of catching a whale ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || I am not. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Why is that ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || Because catching a whale is a dangerous business. I prefer to go on the river in my own boat rather than to accompany a number of boats for hunting a whale. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || How is that ? <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || Because I like better to catch a fish that I can kill, than a fish that by one blow can drown or put to death both myself and my companions. <br>|- valign="top"|''Master''. || Yet there are many, who catch whales, and escape the dangers and make great gain thereby. <br>|- valign="top"|''Fisherman''. || You speak the truth, but I dare not, for my mind is slothful. <br>|}
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