Happy New Year!

I trust your New Year's Eve/Hogmanay went with a bang?

Or did it go something like this:

 

"D...dronken -

dronken, dronken, y-dronken,

... dronken is Tabat attë wyne.             (Drunk is Tabart at the wine)

Hay…suster, Walter, Peter,                  (sister)

Ye dronke all depe,                             (you all drink deeply)

And Ichulle eke.                                 (and I shall too)

Stondëth alle stillë -                            (stand everyone still)

Stillë, stillë, stillë –

Stondëth allë stillë –

Stille as any ston;                                (stone)

Trippe a litel with thy fot,

And let thy body gon."                         (go)

A happy, healthy and prosperous new year to you all!

Notes

Image - MS, British Library, Additional, 27695, f. 14

Poem/Song - MS Oxford, Bodleian. Rawlinson D. 913

Duncan, T., ed., Medieval English Lyrics and Carols (Camridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013) p. 176