Doughtie · Spirit

I doe crave pardonne for my absents, the whiche was necessarie and for the sake of my countrie and our most gracious ladye, our Quene. I can speke no more of where I have bene or what I didde do there, butte I didde misse all my dere ladyes and didde grow weake from the lacke of fquie.

And so I am returned with manie giftes of silke and scented oils for all my dere frendes and to Blakefancier I doe say, Happie Birthdaie!

'Tis clere to me that there breethes not one personne in the fandomme of Drake's Venture that is not filled with manyfolde giftes of witte and eloquents, for daylie we do see more fyne exemples of bothe arte and prose whych doe, in everie waye delyte the eye and the soule and doe, betimes, also have a certane effecte on other membres of the bodie.

There is, alasse, still a dredfulle habitte of pretending Drake to be a gentilmanne, the whych he is nott, in worde or deede or blood. Thys I can overlooke, synce the perpetraitors are, sans exceptione, moste comelie and charminge, so that theyr wyckedness in wryting doth become a parte of theyr charme and doth, rather thanne arousinge mine anger, bringe to my lips an indulgente smyle.

It is no boaste to say mine eyelashes are prettie, for they have wonne an awarde for theyr prettinesse. Alle had awardes most fytting to them and most richlie deserved.

Happie indeede is thys fandomme of oures, wherein are founde alle manner of wonders and also, dere frendes, a bote!

To-day is Chrystmasse Day, a tyme for feasting and playinge at cardes and generalle roisterynge and revelrie.

In my daye, we didde not give giftes this daye, but as the yere turned. Gayley didde we bedecke our homes with yew and box and hollie.

This ryme doth list the most common foods of the feaste:

Good husband and huswife, now chiefly be glad,
Things handsome to have, as they ought to be had.
They both do provide, against Christmas do come,
To welcome their neighbors, good cheer to have some.
Good bread and good drink, a good fire in the hall,
Brawn, pudding, and souse, and good mustard withal.
Beef, mutton, and pork, and good pies of the best,
Pig, veal, goose, and capon, and turkey well drest,
Cheese, apples and nuts, and good carols to hear,
As then in the country is counted good cheer.
What cost to good husband, is any of this?
Good household provision only it is.

Thomas Tusser, 500 Points of Husbandry, 1573

Merrie Chrystmasse to alle my deare frendes!

shimere277 hath bestowed upon her humble servante a virtule rose the which doth now reside withinne my profyle and whose fragrans is moste pleasinge.  My hearte doth singe, notte juste for the beautie of the gifte, but that the giver doth value this poore deade lawyer so highlie.

1. a flowing body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks: a brooke

2. the thing you push around the grocery store: servante

3. a metal container to carry a meal in: casket

4. the thing that you cook bacon and eggs in: kitchen, althoe I doe leave suche work to a cooke.

5. the piece of furniture that seats three people: settle

6. the device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof: gargoyle

7. the covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening: porche

8. carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages: I knowe notte.

9. a flat, round breakfast food served with syrup: oatcakes

10. a long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself: Sandwiche is a terme I doe notte know.

11. the piece of clothing worn by men at the beach: doublette and hose

12. shoes worn for sports: shoes

13. putting a room in order. Aske a servante

14. a flying insect that glows in the dark. a careless mothe that hath too nearlie approched the candell

15. the little insect that curls up into a ball: Drake

16. the children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down: it doth sounde like one logge on another.

17. How do you eat your pizza? I eat it notte, never havinge seene one.

18. when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff: sellinge

19. the evening meal: supper

20. the thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are: cellare

21. the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places: well or conduit

1. State a name you don't have, but wouldn't mind living with:
Sir Thomas Doughtie doth have a fyne ring.

2. An address you wish you had:
The one I had made me ryte happie.

3. What you REALLY wanted for breakfast this morning:
The famouse saussages of Patagonya.

4. Tapioca Pudding: tasty treat or hideous slop?
Drake would eate it.

5. Diet Coke or Coke Zero or some other fizzy brown water?
ALE! Jolly goode Ale and olde!

6. Which would make a better Pope: Batman or Dr. Who? Why?
What care I whome the papistes preferre?

7: If you could be any character from any Star Trek show, who would you be?
Is there a fyne-lookinge manne with longe lashes?

8: Debussy or Ravel?
Both do sounde somewhat lesse thanne Englishe. I shall keepe to better musick.

9. Hemingway or Fitzgerald?
I didde knowe a Fitzgerald in Ireland and he doth owe me a shillinge. Therefore, I shall saye Hemmingwaie, who doth owe me nothinge.

10. Picasso or Matisse?
Holbein.

11. Linguini or Angel Hair?
Angel Hair was my nicke name at schoole.

12. Are beets actually food?
I would feed them to cattle, or to Drake.

13. What Canadian Province are you most like and why?
Quebec, for it doth have qualities envied by others, and Quebec doth have no head to strike off, so let their envie fynd other games!
14. If you could avoid any further exposure to a current celebrity, who would you choose?
David Beckham, for he is an uncouthe fellow who was notte borne to grateness and has neither refynement nor charm.

15. Is there a conspiracy?
There is indeede, and 'tis shamefulle.

16. What is your favourite flower?
The rose, for what other flower doth a manne neede?

17. Pick five people you do not actually know - living or dead - to have dinner with together.
Cato, Macchiavelli, Helen of Troye, Margaret of Anjou, Anne Boleyn.

18. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie-Pop?
It doth depende upon the cunninge of the tongue.

19. You're sitting on a beautiful beach, watching the waves. It's a glorious day -- perfect in whatever way you like it to be. As you calmly enjoy your peaceful solitude it is suddenly interrupted by whom doing what? Francis Drake coming to behead me.

20. What does peanut butter taste best with?
Aske Drake. I doubt notte he would eate it.

1. Five things which attract Thomas to Francis.
He is well-armed and doth wield his weapon welle.
He hath an open countenance, though notte a prettie one.
He doth make me feele superiore.
He hath no littel store of cashe and doth spende freelie.
He is ryte easie to wynd uppe.

2. Five of Francis Drake's unfulfilled ambitions.
To be a courtier and notte juste a corsair.
To fynd an endlesse springe of golden treasure.
To gane a grate titel in hopes his wyfe wille be impress'd and wille cease to calle him a lame drake.
Fayling that, to be a widower agane.
To discover a tuber or some thinge to smoke.

3. Francis Drake's five favorite foods.
Beefe.
Patagonian Sausages.
A litely fryed penguine.
Spaniardes, for breakfast.
A fyne piece of rump.

4. The five things Francis likes best in the world.
Him selfe.
His glorie.
Drynkinge with sailors.
Talking with gentilmenne.
Hagglinge with whores.

5. Five dirty secrets Thomas knows about Francis.
I knowe where the bodees are buryed, especially mine own.
I knowe he doth sing a littel songe of botes before he doth go to sleep.
I knowe he doth fancie me some thinge rottenne.
I knowe hys wyfe is some what lite of foote and easie of character.
I knowe he doth feare other thyngs I do knowe, of whych I wille notte speke.

- Five accusations that Drake struck out of the rough draft of Ned Bright's testimony.

1) He is more prettie thanne I and doth have unnaturalle beautie.

2) He is alwaye gathering in littel groups and conspyringe 'gainst me.

3) He doth wash his hose and leve them in my cabin to drye.

4) When I didde in manlie fashion hugge him, he didde make attempts to kiss me.

5) I have read in hys diarie that he hath looked through my personal effects.

- Five things to do with leftover penguin.

1) Use the oily fethers to brynge a shyne to the deckes.

2) Give it to Drake and pretende it to be a fyne piece of venissoun.

3) Leave it in Drake's bedde that he fynde it in the nite and screme lyke unto a girle of twelve.

4) Lace welle with poisonne and feed to Ned Bright.

5) Droppe it into the sea and watch howe fast it doth float away to judge the strength of the waives.

- Five things packed in Tom Doughtie's capcase.

1) A booke contayninge ye names and adresses of all the fayr maides of London.

2) A smalle device for brushing the eyelashes.

3) An harmlesse piece of stringe with knots, suche as many sailors doe carrie to conjure the winde.

4) A penne, trimmed to my lyking.

5) A letter, whych would doe noe goode to Francis Drake, were it to be read by certane people.

- Five favorite songs Drake's men sang while careening the ships.

1) Drunkenne Saylor (Drake)

2) A Pyrate's Lyfe For Me (Drake)

3) A Crusing We Wille Goe ("With streaming pennants gay," hem, hem!

4) Spanishe Ladyes (meaning Drake and Bright, who doe seeme at tymes verie lyke two ladyes from Spane.

5) Come all ye young fellows that follow the sea (for Drake doth lyke younge fellows ryte welle)

- Five suggestions to Drake on dealing with Convict!Doughtie other than execution.

1) Putte him in charge, for he wille serve better than you.

2) Give him a shippe and lette him race you home.

3) Kille Bright in steade and lette Doughtie live.

4) Selle him to slavers, who have never seen his lyke.

5) Offer him to the ladyes who fquie, who wille knowe beste how to keep him in goode order.

http://sirfrancisdrakehistory.net/drakes_drum/

That is Drake's drumme. When I didde knowe him, he made noise enough without neede of a drumme, butte never mynde.

Does thys notte chille the marrowe? Some bodie wanted to brynge him backe! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/england/1650689.stm

I knowe not whether anie bodie has founde him. It is to be hoped notte!

A - Age you got your first kiss: Elizabethan.
B - Band listening to right now: I am singing a songe my selfe, The Crost Couple, which is a naughtie songe taught to me by a manne named Drake.
C - Crush: My deare, belov'd DV_Fquiers.
D - Dad's name: Doughtie
E - Easiest person to talk to: My brother.
F - Favorite book at the moment: Anie booke which doth calle Drake a lyer.
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears? shimere277 says jellie babies are beste and she is wyse in these thinges.
H - Hometown: London felte moste lyke home.
I - Instruments: I have plaied the shawm and can coax a tune from a spinette.
J- Junior High: I knowe it notte.
K - Kids: Alle goats, olde or younge are moste troublesome in towne.
L - Longest car ride ever: I have never yette ridden in a carre, butte am eager to trye.
M - Mom's name: Mistress Doughtie.
N - Nicknames: Puppie.
O - One wish: To be remembered welle and to regaine my reputatione.
P - Phobia[s]: People who doe desyre to cutte off my heade.
Q - Quote: "Count it the gratest sinne to prefer lyfe to honour, and fore the sake of livinge to lose what makes lyfe worth havinge." Juvenal.
R - Reason to smile: I am notte all together forgotte, butte have deare frendes who doe fquie for me.
S - Song you sang last: Look above and see.
T - Time you woke up [today]: I knowe notte. The sunne was welle up.
U - Unknown fact about me: I doe danse a fair galliarde.
V - Vegetable you hate: His name is Bryte and he is a foule turnippe.
W - Worst habit(s): I myght be call'd overlie frank.
X - X-rays you've had: Notte one.
Y - Yummy food: I am passinge fonde of venisone.
Z- Zodiac sign: Guess! I would notte telle the worlde too hastilie.

In my explorationes of moderne lyfe, I didde fynde manie references on Google to "Queen" and, thinking it to be aboute Elizabeth of noble fame, didde clicke uponne the linke. There I didde discover, not a regalle ladie, butte music the which didde make me desyre to knowe the wordes that I might sing too.

I lyke notte the song, Don't Lose Youre Heade, because it doth seeme somewhat facetious. I didde quite lyke It's A Kynde of Magic. Killer Queen doth sound vaguely treasonous, and doth refer to thinges I doe notte knowe.

I didde notte fullie understande Bohemian Rhapsody, butte then I knowe little of Bohemia, notte having traveled in those partes. It lykely makes more sens if you knowe the countrie welle. The music, however, is excellent. I didde enjoie it moste happilie.

Shakespeare's father was ane ale-conner, one who doth taste ales for monie, rather than for the love of ales.

Pewter plates are beste cleaned withe the weede that menne do calle horse tail.

Carrottes in my tyme were yellow or even creame and notte the brite hue they are nowe.

Libelle laws beganne in the 16th centurie, a happie tyme for lawyers.

It was usuale in my tyme to speke of "a Scarborough warninge" whych doth implie no warninge at alle, the reason of it beinge that one Stafford didde attack Scarborough Castle in the tyme of Mary's rein and didde attack soe suddain that the castel was unprepared. Thus:

A Scarborough warninge,
A worde and a blowe,
Butte the blowe fyrst.

In my tyme childrenne didde playe three games whych are stille knowne, "all hid, all hid", whych you may knowe as hyde and seeke, "hoodmanne blinde", ore blinde manne's buffe and leapfrogge, whych doth keepe its olde name.

The fyrst flushinge toilette was invented bye Sir John Harington, Quene Elizabeth's godde-son. Alas, I had noe neede of one, being by then deceased, sine prole too!

The menne voyaginge with Chris. Columbuss, being superstitious and forane, didde caste over borde alle theyr playinge cardes, believinge Godde's displesure to have been the cause of a storme.

In my daye, womenne didde ware three petticoats. The innermoste one, knowne onlie to Godde and theyr husbandes, as they didde pretende, was callede "the secret" and the seconde "the rascale". The outer one was named, "the modeste". I can recommende the calling of secretarie moste highlie, and everie manne should be eager to wrestle a rascale to the grounde.

Here is a grace fore foode that was welle used in my tyme:

Godde blesse oure meate,
Godde guide oure wayes,
Godde give us grace,
Oure Lord to please.
Lord, long preserve in peace ande healthe,
Oure gracious Quene Elizabeth.

One daye when we were at sea and the sailes were more fill'd with sloth than wynde, a member of the crewe didde aske Drake, "What are the seven seas of whych men speke?" And Drake answered unto him, sayinge, "Name thou the seas thou knowest." Then the ladde didde rightlie name four or five and didde aske Drake what were the others. Drake sayd, "The first sea, and one on whych manie founder, is Policy. The second sea is Poesie, and best left to poets, being deep and of uncertane temper. The thyrd sea is Heresy, whereon preests and conjurors doe fynd sporte. The fourth sea is Dependency, whych is millpond calme and dothe lull the witlesse to sleepe. The sixthe sea is Conspiracie, wherein the weake muste drowne. The seventh and best is Buoyancie, which oft doth save a man from deathe. And those are the Seven Seas."

The ladde was noe foole and didde saye, "But you have left out the fifth sea, Sir!"

Drake didde smyle and winke and sayd, "Ah, ladde, we speke notte of Piracie on this shippe."

Haiku2 for doughtiespirit
aske are we neerlie there yet 6 when he askes what you are wryting say oh
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my dreame last night by its being too shorte would be nice someone would wryte
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