...Elizabeth Archibald Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 ∗ I am grateful to Prof. Melissa Furrow for her invitation to participate in a stimulating session entitled “The Puzzle of Macaronics” at the Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco in December 1991; to Prof...

... chapters deal with (1) sounds, symbols, alphabets, and (2) the production and classification of sounds. The third chapter is entitled “Historical Phonetics,” and its contents may be summarized in the typically macaronic statement: “The most important Lautwechsel are due to: (1) Verner’s Law...

... chapters deal with (1) sounds, symbols, alphabets, and (2) the production and classification of sounds. The third chapter is entitled “Historical Phonetics,” and its contents may be summarized in the typically macaronic statement: “The most important Lautwechsel are due to: (1) Verner’s Law...

... macaronic verse with the capacity for worldwide circulation: “Chanson, or puez aler par tout le monde, / Namque locutus sum in lingua trina” (Song, now you can go anywhere around the world, since I have been speaking with a triple tongue) (Chiamenti 2009 : 3–4; trans. Davis 2018 ). In turn...

...- sions. As the macaronic sexual vocabulary suggests, the exposition of these details works at least in part according to a logic of innuendo, and innuendo makes things vague rather than explicit. The phrases “I would do her business” and “je avais ma volonté d’elle,” both of which occur in the entry...

..., there is a curiously Lagamonian feel to the Fragment’s prosody (long, alliterative lines, macaronic rhymes, syntactic parallelisms), as there is to that of The Soul’s Address (Brehe; Moffatt, 25-33). At times, however, the prosodic omnivorous- ness of The Soul’s Address offers up brief passages...

... and faithful1 hart.”13 Exu- berant jesting with the items to be passed on characterizes burlesques such as Dunbar’s Testament of Andro Kennedy, a macaronic piece sup- posedly emanating from a drunken physician at the court of James IV of Scotland, in which the soul is directed “In to my lordis wyne...