Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Mediaeval Baebes
Canonical path: /medieval-baebes/the-snake
Related lyric paths: 6
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The Snake
Read The Snake lyrics by Mediaeval Baebes on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Snake
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Era vn ortolano byen simpre e syn mal
En el mes de enero con fuerte tenporal
Andando por su huerta, vido so vn peral
Vna culebra chica, medio muerta atal
Con la nieue E con el viento e con la elada fria
Estaua la culeba medio amodorrida
El omne piadoso que la vido aterida
Doliose mucho della, quisole dar la vida
Tomola en la falda e leuola a su casa
Pusola çerca de fuego, çerca de buena blasa
Abiuo la culebra ante que la el asa
Entro envn forada desa cosina rrasa
Aqueste ome bueno da uale cada dia
Del pan E de la leche e de quanto el comia
Creçio con el grand vyçio e con el grand bien que
Tenia, tanto que sierpe grande a todos paresçia
Venido eselestio, la siesta affyncada
Que ya non avia miedo deviento nin de elada
Salyo de aquel forado sañuda E ayrada
Començo de enponçoñar con venino la posada
Dixole el ortolano, "Vete de equeste lugar
Non fagas aqui dapño!" Elle fuese en-sañar
Ablaçolo tan fuerte que lo querria afogar
Apretandolo mucho, cruel mente, syn vagar
Era vn ortolano byen simpre e syn mal
En el mes de enero con fuerte tenporal
Andando por su huerta, vido so vn peral
Vna culebra chica, medio muerta atal
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