The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-22
The ChautauQua Assembly.

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FIFTH DAY.
MONDAY Aua. Is.
Morning Session.
Tho morning was occupied with de.
votional exercises, chorus drill and Nor.
NAL class.
At II o'clock. DIR. Freeman contin.
ued his lecture on Chaucer,
Our FIasr Humorous PoEr.
4 DR.. Freeman opened the wicket gate
and gave the audience a glance into
the England Of our forefathers. Tue
knights, squires and yeomsn, the pri.
presses, monks and friars. the summon.
ers, ~pardoners and priests, and twenty
characters besides, gallopcd past. A
holly crowd they were, representing
all ranks Of society.
The squire was q highly accomplished
young man.
HE coulde eongsc make and we'll endite,
Joust and exc dance and well portray and write
"courteys he was, lowly and serviceabls
And carved before his father at the table,"
Although twenty years of age he
did not sit at meat will, his father
but stood and served while his fathe,
ate. The different position of children
in the ancient and present time is no.
Iticeable. A Roman father had the
right to put his children to death. We
have changed that. 1t is just the othe,
way now.
The Prioress, for all her pious ways
was a woman Of fashion. She didn't
pore over the lives Of the saints. but il
she could have got a copy Of Harpers
Bazar or Dcmorest's Magazine, il
would have been a joy to her soul.
And French she spoke full fair and fety.Jy
After the school of Stratford at tn. Bow,
- VA WIN VA = u Wa W = ultA NuNtuJ.
As it one were to say 'she spoke the
French of Deadwood and Spearfsh
and not the French of Paris. OF
course French would soon leave Eng
land when the poets began to ridicule
it like that.
The Sergeant of law was a very
able counsellor. you are familiar
with the term sergeant applied to a
lawyer. No doubt you long ago made
the acquaintance of those pleasant gen.
tlemen, Sergeant Snubbin and Ser.
geant Buzfuz, the opposing counsel in
the case OF Bardell versus Pickwick.'
The poet will have his joke at the law.
yer'Iexpepsc. He praises him to hi
$plY bent. He lifts him up and uf
but only to let him unexpectedly drop
"Nowhere so busy q man as he there was,
And yet he seemed buster than he was"
The lawyer was a little fussy withal,
and pretended to have more business
than he really had.
The sailor was q poor rider. HI
rode however ''as well as he could
He seemed to be ,owiny the horse. Hi
barge was named not after the Virgin
Mary, but after Mary Ms.,lalen.
The Doctor Of Physic was a wonder
full talker.
"In all this world ne was there's none him like
To speak of whysik and of surgerye."
He found out what was the matter o:
his patient not by examining him, bu
by looking in the almanac and findin,
the position Of tic planets in the heay
u.s.. Chaucer dlops the remark tina
1.-The Doctors study was but little o,
the Bible"
Although Chaucer hurls ridicule an,
scorn at friars, monks and priors, b
has only good words for the countr
clergy. The country parson is "ric
in holy thought and work."
Sand chri-te'r lore and his apostles twelve,
He taught, but first he followed i. hinselyc."
The parsons brother, the plough
man, is kindly treated by the poet.
"Goa loved He best with all His whole heart,
At allie times though Him gained or smart,
And than Hia pat,rll,or nj .ht os M, "
The miller vas a stout, rough fellow
He would burst doors off their hinge
or break them by running at the,
with his head. His head was good fc
something.
upon the cop right of His nose he had
A wart. and thereon stood o tuft of hairs
Red rs tn. brietles of u sowc's ears"
An object Of beauty the miller wa
and yet he was surpassed by the sun
moner who had IL fire-rel cherublI
nose, whc.ks, knobs and ridges on III
face that no cosmetic would remov,
He was q man OF taste. He loved ga,
lick, onions and leeks, and to drin
strong wine red as blood.
"And when that he we'll dronken had the time.
Then void he spoken NO word hut Satin"
He had a few terms, two or three, ths
he had picked up in the courts, an
down the street he went, roaring OF
hiS acclas;ast;co latin
To see this procession Of all ranks j
old England pass, the grave and til
gay, the festive and the serious, was