Arts & Sciences
Icham of Irlaunde
From Bodleian MS Rawlinson D. 913
Arts & Sciences
Icham of Irlaunde,
Ant of the holy londe
Of Irlande.
Gode sire, pray ich þe,
For of saynte charité,
Come ant daunce wyt me
In Irlaunde.
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Codex Note
Seven lines in which a dancer from Ireland begs a gentleman, ‘for seynte charité’, to dance with her — a minstrel’s song written on a flyleaf of a Bodleian manuscript. Text from Kenneth Sisam, Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose (Oxford, 1921).
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