The Saxon Slave and the Pork

Swine is good Saxon, said the jester. But how call you the sow when she is flayed and drawn and quartered and hung up by the heels like a traitor? Pork, answer the swine herd. I am very glad every fool knows that too, said Wamba. And pork, I think, is good Norman French. There is old Alderman ox, continues to hold his Saxon epitaph, while he is under the charge of serfs and bondsmen such as thou,. When he arrives before the worshipful jaws that are destined to consume him. Mine here, Kath, too, becomes most ir devau in the like manner. He is Saxon