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The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo or The Tretis Of The Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo is a narrative poem in Scots by the makar William Dunbar. The title translates into English as The conversation of the two married women and the widow. ==History== It dates to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries and is written in the archaic form of alliterative verse rather than the rhyming verse more typical of Scots poetry of the time. It survives in The Chepman and Myllar Prints of 1508, held in the National Library of Scotland and, as a fragment, in the Maitland Manuscripts, held in the Pepys Library.〔W. Mackay Mackenzie (1932). ''The Poems of William Dunbar''.〕 The poem describes an unnamed narrator's overhearing of a discussion between three women in a garden. The women speak frankly and at length of marriage and their experiences with their husbands. The discussion of sexuality is often in language which is earthy and uninhibited.〔(The full text at TEAMS )〕 The work ends with the narrator asking the reader, :''Quhilk wald ye waill to your wif, gif ye suld wed one?'' or, in English, :''Which would you choose for your wife, if you were to marry one?'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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