We broke the vessel with the pestle, so we put the pellet with the poison in the chalice from the palace. The flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true.
Could never understand that bit, no, not the rhyming stuff: if they broke one of the cups, why not just put the poison in the _new_ cup, instead of changing everything?
Admittedly, if they were sensible and logical, we wouldn’t have ended up with such a classic skit 😀
As long as it’s not the vessel with the pestle.
We broke the vessel with the pestle, so we put the pellet with the poison in the chalice from the palace. The flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true.
Could never understand that bit, no, not the rhyming stuff: if they broke one of the cups, why not just put the poison in the _new_ cup, instead of changing everything?
Admittedly, if they were sensible and logical, we wouldn’t have ended up with such a classic skit 😀
*Medics carry Danny Kaye away in a straitjacket, gibbering about plagons and vellets and gristles and epistles hehehehehe*
…We get rid of more bards that way…!
Bards WOULD be the pop-culture nerds of the middle ages, wouldn’t they? Let the puns and references flow freely!