Jamieson, in Illustrations of Northern Antiquities (p. 379), preserved a cante-fable called Rosmer Halfman, or The Merman Rosmer. Motherwell remarks (Minstrelsy, Glasgow, 1827, p. xv.): "Thus I have heard the ancient ballad of Young Beichan and Susy Pye dilated by a story-teller into a tale of remarkable dimensions--a paragraph of prose and then a screed of rhyme alternately given." The example published by Mr. Motherwell gives us the very form of Aucassin and Nicolete, surviving in Scotch folk lore:-英文原著 · 《Aucassin and Nicolete》
About halfway through your screed, I realized: You weren't insulting me.美剧 · 《Billions》