THEABGESANG.
THEABGESANG.
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"Far - mer, of all your pains... the cause,Is slime with - in your stom - ach wide dis - tend - ing."The far - mer heard with gap - - ing jaws,For gnaw - ing pains in - side his paunch were rend - ing.
"Far - mer, of all your pains... the cause,Is slime with - in your stom - ach wide dis - tend - ing."The far - mer heard with gap - - ing jaws,For gnaw - ing pains in - side his paunch were rend - ing.
"Far - mer, of all your pains... the cause,Is slime with - in your stom - ach wide dis - tend - ing."The far - mer heard with gap - - ing jaws,For gnaw - ing pains in - side his paunch were rend - ing.
The tale is an old one, popular in one form or another in the Middle Ages. A variant of it is to be found in theGesta Romanorum, to which extraordinary collection of moral tales it is possible that Sachs had reference when he spoke of theBuch der Kleinen Wahrheit, or Lesser Book of Truth, as I have rendered it. In theGesta, however, the physician substitutes a goat's eye, and subjects his patient to an extraordinary strabismus. Hans Sachs's variation is eminently characteristic of the man and the people for whom he wrote.