There is a pun or a poem that starts out..'In days of old when knights were bold....' What is the rest of it
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It's also in a movie about King Arthur, a satire.
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Betrayal\n  \n If a man says half himself in the light, adroit\nWay a tune shakes into equilibrium,\nOr approximates to a note that never comes:\n\nSays half himself in the way two pencil-lines\nFlow to each other and softly separate,\nIn the resolute way plane lifts and leaps from plane:\n\nWho knows what intimacies our eyes may shout,\nWhat evident secrets daily foreheads flaunt,\nWhat panes of glass conceal our beating hearts?\n\n\nA.S.J. Tessimond\n\nhere's a site for classic betrayal poetry by classic poets:\nhttp://www.eliteskills.com/classics.php
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that must be relly old or belonging to or struck in come famous person or king of that time. try to find it out in the library or net
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The oldest form seems to have been spann-nyr, which is Old Norse for a fresh chip of wood, one just carved from timber by the woodman’s axe, so the very epitome of something new. (Nyr is our modern new, while spann is a chip, the source of our spoon, an implement that was originally always made from wood, so that wooden spoon is a retronym.) By about 1300 the Old Norse phrase had started to appear in English in the form span-new, a form that lasted into the nineteenth century.\n\nThis evolved by the sixteenth century into an elaborated form similar to the modern one: spick and span new, still with the old sense of something so new as to be pristine and unused. Spick here is a nail or spike. This form seems to have been inspired by a Dutch expression, spiksplinternieuw, which referred to a ship that was freshly built, so with all-new nails and timber. It is first found in Sir Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives in 1579, “They were all in goodly gilt armours, and brave purple cassocks apon [upon] them, spicke, and spanne newe.”\n\nBy the middle of the following century, it had been shortened to our modern spick and span. It had also shifted sense to our current one, for something so neat and clean that it looks new and unused. Samuel Pepys is the first recorded user, in his diary for 15 November 1665: “My Lady Batten walking through the dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes.”
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It's from Horace - I will look it up for you...\n\nI found some translations, but since it it a poem, they have all taken some literary license.  The part you have put up is only the first two lines, and I have given you the first four.  Literally, it starts out, "You will live correctly, Licinius, neither always pressing while storms..."    altum means deep or high, but the word it modifies isn't given.\n\nYour life will be better by not pressing\nAlways out to deep sea, Licinius\nNor by staying too close to shore and guessing\nWhere rocks lie treacherous.\n\nYou better sure shall live, not evermore\nTrying high seas; nor, while sea’s rage you flee,\nPressing too much upon ill-harboured shore.\n\nYou will live more rightly, Licinius, \nneither by always pressing far out onto the deep sea \nwhen you are bold, \nnor by too closely hugging the unfriendly shore \nwhen you quake, wary of storms.\n\nSeek to live, Licinius, life more fitly,\nNeither pressing always to open seas nor\nSo afraid of storms that you steer too close to\nTreacherous shorelines.
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Medieval is the word you are looking for.\n\nEnjoy
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It means tough it out or being brave. The oldest orgins I'm aware occured in England during the war.
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It refers to the old practice of a knight (or any man) wearing his lover's token on his sleeve.  These days, it means showing emotion openly.
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The Canterbury Tales is chock full of medieval words, having been written in the middle ages. http://prodigi.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/search.asp\n\nOr, if you want some of the spellings modernized, with unfamiliar words defined, try http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2383
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - Horace wrote it, not Homer (this one was Greek). It's a line of Horace's "Odes", and it means: it's sweet and appropriate to die for one's homeland!
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"Once in an ancient city, whose name I no longer remember,\nRaised aloft on a column, a brazen statute of Justice\nStood in the public square, upholding the scales in its left hand,\nAnd in its right a sword, as an emblem that justice presided\nOver the laws of the land, and the hearts and homes of the people.      310\nEven the birds had built their nests in the scales of the balance,\nHaving no fear of the sword that flashed in the sunshine above them.\nBut in the course of time the laws of the land were corrupted;\nMight took the place of right, and the weak were oppressed, and the mighty\nRuled with an iron rod. Then it chanced in a nobleman's palace          315\nThat a necklace of pearls was lost, and ere long a suspicion\nFell on an orphan girl who lived as maid in the household.\nShe, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold,\nPatiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice.\nAs to her Father in heaven her innocent spirit ascended,                320\nLo! o'er the city a tempest rose; and the bolts of the thunder\nSmote the statue of bronze, and hurled in wrath from its left hand\nDown on the pavement below the clattering scales of the balance,\nAnd in the hollow thereof was found the nest of a magpie,\nInto whose clay-built walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven."
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it comes from the fruit "baneberry" which was a poisonous fruit given to enemies in old England.\nThe actual expression is "bane of my life", meaning "he will be the death of me.
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on the day that they win the war against finland( i don't remembre the name of the county) the weather is sucky and the king says something like this day is foul but fair. this is one of the themes of the play . that things are not always as they seem
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Hope this helps....Not sure what kinda of knighting you are talking about...medieval or modern?
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An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.\n\nThe widow-queen of Portugal\nHad an audacious jester\nWho entered the confessional\nDisguised, and there confessed her.\n\n"Father," she said, "thine ear bend down —\nMy sins are more than scarlet:\nI love my fool — blaspheming clown,\nAnd common, base-born varlet."\n\n"Daughter," the mimic priest replied,\n"That sin, indeed, is awful:\nThe church's pardon is denied\nTo love that is unlawful.\n\n"But since thy stubborn heart will be\nFor him forever pleading,\nThou'dst better make him, by decree,\nA man of birth and breeding."\n\nShe made the fool a duke, in hope\nWith Heaven's taboo to palter;\nThen told a priest, who told the Pope,\nWho damned her from the altar!\n—Barel Dort
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Unfortunately this quote is famous because several knights who were drunk and lingering outside the door overheard this and went to go "help" their king. They killed Thomas Becket and it is said the cut his head off.  The King grief stricken by his good friends death sent the knights to the holy land (Jerusalem), an effective death sentence, to make penance for their crimes against the church and god.\nG
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find the Knights who like to say NEE. lol