AG: (George Herbert’s) “Love” next – “Love – 3” . I thought maybe, in some of his most amazing .. It’s a little bit like the famous “Crazy Jane” poem by William Butler Yeats?, you know? ( I think I recited it in the last class) – “I met the bishop on the road” – Does everybody know that? – Anybody not know “I met the Bishop on the road”.. ? –
{Allen reads the poem in its entirety]
I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
`Those breasts are flat and fallen now
Those veins must soon be dry;
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.’
`Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,’ I cried.
‘My friends are gone, but that’s a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily lowliness
And in the heart’s pride.
`A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.’
or.. hymen that would be, I guess – “Nothing can be whole or sole that has not been put out for rent – or rent apart – So…
[Audio for the above can be heard here, beginning at approximately twenty-nine minutes in and concluding at approximately thirty-and-a-quarter minutes in]