{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"hearthis.at","provider_url":"https:\/\/hearthis.at","height":"150","width":"100%","title":"the names of the hare","description":"I came across this 13th century poem a good few years ago, and have been fascinated by it ever since. In this recording, I tried to keep to the original lolloping rhythm of the poem, and made only a few alterations to the text. Although a lot of the words have fallen out of use, and it reads almost like a piece of surrealist poetry, it\u2019s possible to get more than the general gist of their meaning, even though we may not entirely sure what is being said.\r\n\r\nthe man that by the hare is met\r\nof him shall never get the better\r\nbut if he lays down on the land\r\nthat which he beareth in his hand\r\n(be it staff, or be it bow)\r\nand bless him with his elbow\r\nand with well good devotion\r\nhe shall say an orison\r\nin worship of the hare\r\nthen may he well fare\r\n*\r\nthe hare, the scotart\r\nthe big-arse, the bouchart\r\nthe scotewin, the skikart\r\nthe turpin, the tirart\r\nthe way-beater, the ballart,\r\nthe go-by-ditch, the soilart\r\nthe wimount, the babbart,\r\nthe scutter, the dewbert\r\nthe stop-out, the swikebert\r\nthe friendless, the wood-cat\r\nthe broad-looker, the broom-cat\r\nthe purblind, the furze-cat\r\nthe clumsy, the west-looker\r\nthe wall-eyed, the side-looker\r\nand also the rollicker\r\nthe stubble-deer, the long-ear\r\nthe straw-deer, the spring-heeled\r\nthe wild-deer, the leaper\r\nthe short-deer, the lurker\r\nthe wind-swift, the skulker\r\nthe hare-shagger, the hedge-squatter\r\nthe dew-beater, the dew-hopper\r\nthe sitter-still, the grass-hopper\r\nthe fettle-foot, the fold-sitter\r\nthe light-foot, the fern-sitter\r\nthe cabbage-stag, the herb-cropper\r\nthe go-by-ground, the sit-still\r\nthe pin-tail, the turn-to-hill\r\nthe quick-arise\r\nthe agitator\r\nthe white-bellied\r\nthe go-with-lambs\r\nthe chump, the churl\r\nthe niggard, the coward\r\nthe make-fare, the breaker-of-word\r\nthe sniveller, the cropped-head\r\n(his chief name is scoundrel)\r\nthe stag with the leathery horns\r\nthe creature that dwells in the corn\r\nthe animal that all men scorn\r\nthe beast that none dare name","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/img.hearthis.at\/7\/4\/3\/_\/uploads\/5792387\/image_track\/1251664\/w1200_h628_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_1489623347.jpg","thumbnail_width":1200,"thumbnail_height":628,"html":"