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    Gilbert and Sullivan

    It’s Clear That Medieval Art Alone Retains Its Zest • Patience

    Also performed by: Darrell Fancourt, Neville Griffiths, Peter Pratt
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It’s Clear That Medieval Art Alone Retains Its Zest lyrics

It’s clear that medieval art alone retains its zest,
To charm and please its devotees we’ve done our little best.
We’re not quite sure if all we do has the Early English ring;
But, as far as we can judge, it’s something like this sort of thing:
 
You hold yourself like this,
You hold yourself like that,
By hook and crook you try to look both angular and flat.
We venture to expect
That what we recollect,
Though but a part of true High Art, will have its due effect.
 
If this is not exactly right, we hope you won’t upbraid;
You can’t get high Aesthetic tastes, like trousers, ready made.
True views on Medievalism Time alone will bring,
But, as far as we can judge, it’s something like this sort of thing:
 
You hold yourself like this,
You hold yourself like that,
By hook and crook you try to look both angular and flat.
To cultivate the trim
Rigidity of limb,
You ought to get a Marionette, and form your style on him.
 

 

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