Status Updates From The Lays of Marie de France

WHAT THE FUCK. okay i’m reading this because libgen wasn’t loading and i couldn’t bother to dig harder for a copy of our translation but THIS ONE IS SO MUCH FUNNIER. i didn’t know the lais were supposed to RHYME what. this is ibn arabi all over again

“men and women have often found/that the evil they plan can rebound/and strike them down who intended to strike./it’s poetic justice or something like.”

“mortality was the only relief he could think of for his ailment”

" In the summertime, when the tender crops are pierced to the root with sweet raindrops, when the meadows turn a deeper green and the brightly coloured flowers preen to the songs of birds that call and respond, even the sternest hearts grow fond and feel a freshening of desire"