{"id":1389,"date":"2013-02-08T00:18:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T00:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.stefanschleifer.com\/codex\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2013-04-15T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T12:28:19","slug":"very-punny-mister-rutebuef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everycodextellsastory.eu\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"Very Punny, Mister Rutebuef"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is an example of the poet Rutebeuf playing with the humorous potential of his name (or possibly pseudonym), in the last 40 lines of La Vie de Sainte Elyzabel<\/em> (the first text in the Rutebeuf section of BNF fr. 837). You can see the text as it appears in the manuscript, read a transcription of it and a translation of that transcription, and also listen to it being read aloud.<\/p>\n

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Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, fonds fran\u00e7ais 837 (pre 1300), f. 294v
Reproduced by courtesy of Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France: http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/?lang=EN<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018Se Rustebues rudemen<\/em>t rime
\nEt<\/em> se rudece en sa rime a,
\nPre<\/em>nez garde qui la rima.<\/p>\n

Rustebuef, qui<\/em> rudemen<\/em>t oevre
\nQui<\/em> rudemen<\/em>t fet la rude oevre
\nQu\u2019a<\/em>ssez en sa rudece ment,
\nRima la rime rudement.
\nQua<\/em>r por nule rien<\/em>s ne croiroie
\nQue<\/em> bu\u00e9s ne fe\u00efst rude roie,
\nTan<\/em>t i me\u00efst len gran<\/em>t estude.
\nSe Rustebues fet rime rude,
\nJe n\u2019i par<\/em>t plus, mes Rustebues
\nEst ausi rudes com<\/em>me uns bues.\u2019<\/p>\n

If Rudebull rhymes crudely<\/em>
\nAnd his rhymes are somewhat rudimentary<\/em>
\nThen you should bear in mind who the rhymer is.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rudebull, who works crudely,<\/em>
\nWho crudely fashions the rude work,<\/em>
\nAnd whose version of events is so rudimentary as to be wrong, sometimes,<\/em>
\ncrudely rhymed the rhymes.<\/em>
\nFor nothing would induce me to believe<\/em>
\nThat a bull would do anything but plough along crudely<\/em>
\nHowever much effort he put into it.<\/em>
\nIf Rudebull makes crude rhymes<\/em>
\nI won\u2019t make any more of it, but Rudebull<\/em>
\nis as rude as a bull.<\/em><\/p>\n

Click here to listen to the recording (read by Karen Pratt)<\/a><\/p>\n

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