#227 Rules For Monks
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“Benedict's Rule called for the monks to dispense alms and hospitality. According to the Rule, "All guests who come shall be received as though they were Christ." Monasteries served as gratuitous inns, providing a safe and peaceful resting place for foreign travelers, pilgrims, and the poor. An old historian of the Norman abbey of Bec wrote: "Let them ask Spaniards or Burgundians, or any foreigners whatever, how they have been received at Bec. They will answer that the door of the monastery is always open to all, and that its bread is free to the whole world."1 Here was the spirit of Christ at work, giving shelter and comfort to strangers of all kinds.
In some cases, the monks were even known to make efforts to track down poor souls who, lost or alone after dark, found themselves in need of emergency shelter. At Aubrac, for example, where a monastic hospital had been established amid the mountains of the Rouergue in the late sixteenth century, a special bell rang every night to call to any wandering traveler or to anyone overtaken by the intimidating forest darkness. The people dubbed it "the bell of the wanderers."2”
- Thomas E. Woods Jr., Ph.D., “How the Monks Saved Civilization,” How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
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1. Charles Montalembert, The Monks of the West: From Saint Benedict to Saint Bernard, vol. 5 (London: Nimmo, 1896), 225, 89-90.
2. Charles Montalembert, The Monks of the West: From Saint Benedict to Saint Bernard, vol. 5 (London: Nimmo, 1896), 227
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monica i have several lore questions for you. did you have like a specific sticker set in mind for words of affirmation? & i have been thinking about this for ages, do the numbers in L’s email address in next step mean anything? does the time that light sent it mean anything?
OH hi kyo fancy seeing you here just kidding i knew you would ask me because i was planning on asking you mwhahahaha.
the sticker set is from this tiktok sent to me by @god-of-this-new-blog i was planning to use the exact phrases from this sticker sheet, but there were other phrases that felt ~right but i had to google them to make sure that there are actual sticker sheets for sale that include all the phrases that i included because i'm insane. a fun fact about me and my writing is that any time there is An Item mentioned, i have to confirm that that item 1) exists in the real world and 2) available for purchase in japan preferably on amazon.jp or rakuten and 3) is within L's price range of infinity or light's price range of slightly fancy man upper middle class guy. of course these stickers were in english so i had to suspend my own rules a bit but there you have it. say what you will about me, but i have a truly deranged commitment to realism in my fics. nevermind the fact that literal gods of death and magic notebooks exist therein. not important. what IS important is that you can buy light's malfunctioning air conditioner from adieu adieu and his coffee siphon from words of affirmation. ask me what he was wearing in kompromat! i have info on that too!!!!
2. YOU HAVE MY NUMBER. HOW DO YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHEN I AM BEING SNEAKY? yes they mean something. 108 = in buddhism, the road to nirvana/reincarnation is laden with 108 temptations. 1212 = death year of honen, founder of pure land buddhism. 227 = rules of monastic discipline for buddhist monks. i got this idea from the idea that DN has 108 chapters which to me was a pretty obvious reference to the road to nirvana. but maybe i totally made that up? idk.
3. uhhhhhhh. this one is kind of random oooop. i enjoy the time around 8:30pm. it's a nice time of evening and i think light would like it too. it's comfortably after work and after dinner, but it's not so late that you might be sleepy.
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(Ants Talk) Stephen Graham is an ex Buddhist Monk from Australia, who is sharing his life story from addiction to monastery. Stephen lived by 227 rules which included, never to tickle another monk. Get an insight into life behind the robe and what led him there in the first place. facebook.com/ilovemysupermind
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Thai Buddhist Monks 🙏🧎♂️ 🎥: @bangkokguidesmile ✏️There are approximately 200,000 Buddhist monks in Thailand. ✏️Once in a lifetime, all young Thai men are ordained as a monk to make merit to parents and family. Usually, the period to become a monk are 2 weeks - 1 month with 227 rules, also required to live at the temple during that monk period. ✏️The daily routine of Thai monks has included wearing saffron robes and having shaved or closely cropped hair. During their early morning rounds, monks are given beautifully-packaged offerings of rice and vegetables by Thais who bow gently as they present them. ✏️Monks will give service every day in the evening usually 1 hour including chanting and meditation. You don't have to be Buddhist, everyone is welcome to join the service. . . . (en Bangkok Thailand) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca46WhBh43B/?utm_medium=tumblr
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Taking the Path Seriously
There has been a lot of criticism towards Buddhists about "NOT TAKING THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY".
I remember reading a blog about a woman who went to a Dharma Center, and listen to one of the monks, perhaps the teacher, talk about the monk's life and how it was a life of renunciation of worldly ways. She was very inspired and happy to hear that a person could do that.
Later, she was walking alone and saw the very same monk with an iPhone watching videos like any Person in the Worldly-ways would do. She was distraught, her faith smashed, and her spiritual inspiration vanquished.
Original Buddhism to become a bhikkhu is a serious and solemn promise to the path. The person who wants to walk the path is given a funeral, they are then shaved off all hair, stripped of all clothing and jewelry, and bid "good bye" to the world. They then walk naked to the funeral grounds to find a discarded mortcloth (funeral cloths used to carry the dead) to fashion a robe from. They return to the Sangha as reborn as The Monk with a new name.
The Bhikkhu owns nothing, cannot own anything. Even the bowl they eat from is not theirs, and it used to be they ate off of leaves or discarded broken pottery and other household dishes.
227 rules the Bhikkhu must know and do their best to adhere to. Gross and intentional violations of the rules can result in expulsion from the Bhikkhu Sangha.
Back in the day, there were no "temples" for the monks to sleep in. They walk from town to town, from city to city to beg for alms, to spread the words of Buddha to whom would listen.
The Bhikkhu is not there to do 'Good Deeds' such as feed the homeless, build shelters, or solve society's problems. They are there for one purpose, to end the cycle of rebirth and thus reduce the suffering in this phenomenal existence.
The Zen monk is a Bhikkhu under the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, different than the Theravadan Bhikkhu, however, the same concept applies: They DIE TO THE WORLDY WAYS OF MEN.
In my travels, I have talked to Zen Monks and Zen priests. There is a difference! In Japan, the Zen Priest is a temple minister (much in how a Christian minister is here in the USA) and the temple is in his family's possession and he is expected to produce an heir who will take over the temple. Though the temple priest may have gone through traditional Monk training, they are not considered Monks in the normal sense and are not expected to follow the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya. This however is not the case for actual Zen monks who live in the Monastic compounds where they ARE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW THE Dharmaguptaka Vinaya to the letter.
In my own Zen Buddhist training, we talked a lot about being a MONK, and Dharmaguptaka Vinaya. The head monks would discuss the fact that the Japanese Temple Priest and the Zen Monk are two different things, and that what we know in the west is mostly the Temple Priest, rarely do we know or see the actual Zen monk.
A friend of mine, Martin Huges, when to Japan to become a Rinzai monk. He spent 3 years living in the Rinzai monastery, lived as a Real Zen monk following the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, going on alms rounds, and attending all of the required events. Through the friendship of a fellow Japanese monk in training, whose father was a temple priest, he was allowed to become a Zen Priest in one of the sub-temples that the family owned. He noted that being a Priest was very different: Can watch TV, drink alcohol, and be introduced to girls as potential wives. Unfortunately, Martin passed away due to a meningitis infection he picked up while on a missionary event in the Philippines.
My first teacher Kyogen Carlson often talked about the confusion between the Zen Priest and the Zen Monk. He trained as a monk and followed the Vinaya, but later due to circumstances became a Temple Priest. He talked a lot following the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya as a Zen Monk while he trained at Shasta Abbey with Roshi Kennett. In his talks, he would bring up that what he is doing now, THE ZEN PRIEST, is not the same as THE ZEN MONK.
When I went to the San Fransico Zen center for further training because Shasta Abbey was not available for me to train in, the confusion between the Priest and the Monk was great, and a lot of blurring the two district paths together happened. This confusion I saw created a lot of suffering, to the point of people quitting the path, losing faith and belief, even so disillusioned to commit suicide (yes that happened).
Today, 25 years later, I see this confusion as contagious and has spread to all of the Zen Dharma Centers. When I ask ordained MONKS at these Dharma Centers and Monastic training places about the following Vinaya, I am told they just follow the Bodhisattva precepts and that the Vinaya is Hinayana and NOT OUR PATH. YIKES! Now I understand why Zen has become so wishy-washy and corrupted to be something that it never was.
Honestly, the Zen Dharma Centers always has been a recruitment center for Monastic Life, because that is what Buddhism is about - renunciation of the world. Laymen are just supporters of the Monastic Monks who follow the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, and gain spiritual merit by doing such. Lets face it, not everyone is cut out to be a renunciate. I knew a guy who wanted to be a monk, but he was caring for her mother full-time. Another lady had children she had to care for, and many young people said that perhaps in the future they will pursue this NOBLE PATH.
That is what the Zen Center is about, to encourage people to seek the path of Renunciation. Not to become a social hub, a political activist group, or a Lay lineage of Priest (like the Methodist churches)
As Roshi Kennett wrote, 'Every person who renounces the world lessens the sea of suffering for all beings'. She understood what Buddha taught and why the Buddhas path is the way it is. There is no middle ground, there is no compromise.
It is my sincere hope that we as a Zen community of Monks, Priest, and Laymen can clear up the confusion and return to the Path that Buddha set forth in the sutras to achieve the Liberation he preached about.
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A beautiful and educational day - just gone... 🥂😊😇 Wat Phra Singh (full name: Wat Phra Singh Woramahaviharn; Thai: วัดพระสิงห์วรมหาวิหาร) is a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), the older brother of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), bestowed on it the status of Royal temple of the first grade in 1935. Construction on Wat Phra Singh began in 1345 when King Phayu,[2]:226–227 the fifth king of the Mangraidynasty, had a chedi built to house the ashes of his father King Kham Fu. A wihan and several other buildings were added a few years later and the resulting complex was named Wat Lichiang Phra. When, in 1367, the statue of Phra Buddha Singh was brought to the temple, the temple complex received its present name. During restoration works in 1925, three funerary urns were discovered inside a small chedi. It was assumed that these contained royal ashes. The urns have since been lost. From 1578 to 1774 the Burmese ruled Lanna and in this period the temple was abandoned and came under serious disrepair. It was only when King Kawila assumed the throne as King of Chiang Mai in 1782, that the temple was restored. King Kawila had the ubosot built and the chedi enlarged. Later successors restored the Wihan Lai Kham and the elegant Ho Trai (temple library). The whole temple complex underwent extensive renovations under the famous monk Khru Ba Srivichaiduring the 1920s. . . . . #chiangmaithailand #watphrasing #tourismthailand #thailanddestiny #thailandonly #thaitraveling #lostinthailand #travelthailand #discoverthailand #explorethailand #wheninthailand #visitthailand #unseenthailand #IloveThailand #landofsmiles #lovethailand #thailandismagic #thailandgram #insta_thailand #ig_thailand #wondermore #theearthoutdoors #earthoutdoors #traveltheglobe #traveladdicted #theculturetrip #adventurethatislife #solotravelingisfun #worldnomads #worldnomad (at Wat Phra Sing) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtNRpxInzJJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tldtyy4ww3qz
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Vous pensez peut-être que la vie de novice bouddhiste est tranquille, méditative et détaché du monde... sachez donc que les moines et les novices possèdent des ensembles de règles pour les guider dans leur vie, règles résumées dans un ouvrage, le Patimokkha, comprenant les 227 règles fondamentales, réparties en sept sections. Ce texte est récité les jours de pleine et de nouvelle lune en présence de tous les moines résidant à ce moment au monastère. Pour les moniales, il existe 331 règles. C'est ainsi que les moines bouddhistes observent les Préceptes définissant une vie de renoncement et de simplicité.
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You may think that Buddhist novice life is tranquil, meditative and detached from the world ... so be aware that monks and novices have sets of rules to guide them in their lives, rules summarized in a book, the Patimokkha , with the 227 fundamental rules, divided into seven sections. This text is recited on full and new moon days in the presence of all monks residing at that time in the monastery. For the nuns there are 331 rules. Thus the Buddhist monks observe the precepts defining a life of renunciation and simplicity.
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Not Caught
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I got away with it
never repeated it
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once was enough
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A #buddhist #monk's life is one of simplicity and #monastic #dedication to the religion and its tenets. Monks must be at least 21 years old before agreeing to take a vow to follow the 36 rules of conduct for a novice monk. There are eventually 227 rules of conduct for male monks. The path to those 227 rules of conduct takes place along a journey. #peace #buddha #monestry #bhikkhu #yellow #serenity #glow #light #meditation #yoga #india #peetambar #life #shanti #peaceful #peaceofmind #viveku27 (at Bodh Gaya)
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THE CANTERBURY TALES
A MINIMALIST TRANSLATION
Forrest Hainline
GENERAL PROLOGUE
1 When that April with his shower’s sweet
2 The drought of March has pierced to the root,
3 And bathed every vein in such liquor
4 Of which virtue engendered is the flower;
5 When Zephirus too with his sweet breath
6 Inspired has in every holt and heath
7 The tender crops, and the young sun
8 Has in the Ram his half course run,
9 And small fowls making melody,
10 That sleep all the night with open eye
11 (So pricks them Nature in their courage) :
12 Then long folk to go on pilgrimage
13 And palmers for to seek strange strands,
14 To foreign hallways, known in sundry lands;
15 And specially, from every shire's end
16 Of England, to Canterbury they wend,
17 The holy blissful martyr for to seek
18 That them has helped, when that they were sick.
19 Befell that in that season on a day,
20 In Southwerk at the Tabarad as I lay
21 Ready to go on my pilgrimage
22 To Canterbury with full devout courage,
23 At night was come into that hostelry
24 Well nine and twenty in a company
25 Of sundry folk, by adventure to fall
26 In fellowship, and pilgrims were they all,
27 That toward Canterbury would ride.
28 The chambers and the stables were wide,
29 And well we were eased at best.
30 And shortly, when the sun was to rest,
31 So had I spoken with them everyone,
32 That I was of their fellowship anon,
33 And made forward early for to rise,
34 To take our way there as I you devise.
35 But nonetheless, while I have time and space,
36 Ere that I further in this tale pace,
37 Me thinks it according to reason,
38 To tell you all the condition
39 Of each of them, so as it seemed me,
40 And which they were, and of what degree,
41 And eek in what array that they were in;
42 And at a knight then will I first begin.
43 A knight there was, and that a worthy man
44 That from the time that he first began
45 To ride out, he loved chivalry,
46 Truth and honor, freedom and courtesy,
47 Full worthy was he in his lord's war,
48 And thereto had he ridden, no man as far,
49 As well in Christendom as in heatheness,
50 And ever honored for his worthiness.
51 At Alexander he was when it was won;
52 Full oft time he had the board begun
53 Above all nations in Prussia;
54 In Lithuania had he raised and in Russia,
55 No Christian man so oft of his degree;
56 In Grenada at the siege too had he be
57 Of Algezir, and ridden in Belmarie;
58 At Ayas was he and at Attalie,
59 When they were won, and in the Great Sea
60 At many a noble army had he be.
61 At mortal battles had he been fifteen,
62 And fought for our faith at Tlemcen
63 In lists thrice, and aye slain his foe.
64 This same worthy knight had been also
65 Sometime with the lord of Paletey
66 Against another heathen in Turkey:
67 And evermore he had a sovereign prize.
68 And though that he were worthy, he was wise,
69 And of his port as meek as is a maid.
70 He never yet any villainy said
71 In all of his life, unto no manner wight.
72 He was a very perfect, gentle knight.
73 But for to tell you of his array,
74 His horse was good, but he was not gay.
75 Of fustian he wore a gipon
76 All bespattered with his habergeon;
77 For he was lately come from his voyage,
78 And went for to do his pilgrimage.
79 With him there was his son, a young Squire,
80 A lover, and a lusty bachelor,
81 With locks curly as they were laid in press,
82 Of twenty year of age he was, I guess.
83 Of his stature he was of even length,
84 And wondrously delivered, and of great strength.
85 And he had been sometime in cavalry,
86 In Flanders, in Artois, and Picardy,
87 And born him well, as of so little space,
88 In hope to stand in his lady's grace.
89 Embroidered was he, as it were a meadow
90 All full of fresh flowers, white and red.
91 Singing he was, or fluting, all the day;
92 He was as fresh as is the month of May.
93 Short was his gown, with sleeves long and wide.
94 Well could he sit on horse, and fair ride.
95 He could songs make and well endite,
96 Joust and dance too, and well portray and write.
97 So hot he loved that by nighter-tale
98 He sleeps no more than doth a nightingale.
99 Courteous he was, lowly, and serviceable,
100 And carved before his father at the table.
101 A Yeoman had he, and servants no more
102 At that time, for he pleased to ride so;
103 And he was clad in coat and hood of green;
104 A sheaf of peacock arrows bright and keen
105 Under his belt he bore full thriftily;
106 Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly:
107 His arrows drooped not with feathers low;
108 And in his hand he bore a mighty bow.
109 A knot-head had he, with a brown visage.
110 Of woodcraft well could he all the usage.
111 Upon his arm he bore a gay bracer,
112 And by his side a sword and a buckler,
113 And on that other side a gay dagger,
114 Harnessed well, and sharp as point of spear;
115 A Christopher on his breast of silver sheen;
116 A horn he bore, the baldric was of green.
117 A forester he was, truly as I guess.
118 There was also a Nun, a Prioress,
119 That of her smiling was full simple and coy.
120 Her greatest oath was but by Saint Loy;
121 And she was called Madame Eglantine.
122 Full well she sang the service divine,
123 Intoned in her nose full seemly;
124 And French she spoke full fair and fetisly,
125 After the school of Stratford at the Bowe,
126 For French of Paris was to her unknow.
127 At meat well taught was she withal;
128 She let no morsel from her lips fall,
129 Nor wet her fingers in her sauce deep.
130 Well could she carry a morsel, and well keep,
131 That no drop would fall upon her breast.
132 In courtesy was set full much her lest.
133 Her over-lip wiped she so clean
134 That in her cup there was no farthing seen
135 Of grease, when she drunk had her draft.
136 Full seemly after her meat she raft,
137 And certainly she was of great disport,
138 And full pleasant, and amiable of port,
139 And pained her to counterfeit cheer
140 Of court, and be stately of manner
141 And to be held worthy of reverence.
142 But for to speak of her conscience,
143 She was so charitable and so piteous
144 She would weep, if that she saw a mouse
145 Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled.
146 Of small hounds had she, that she fed
147 With roasted flesh, or milk and wastel-bread.
148 But sore wept she if one of them were dead,
149 Or if men smote it with a yard smart:
150 And all was conscience and tender heart.
151 Full seemly her wimple pinched was;
152 Her nose tretis, her eyes gray as glass;
153 Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red.
154 But certainly she had a fair forehead;
155 It was almost a span broad, I trow;
156 For hardily, she was not under grow.
157 Full fetis was her cloak, as I was ware.
158 Of small coral about her arm she bare
159 A pair of beads, gauded all with green,
160 And thereon hung a brooch of gold full sheen,
161 On which there was first writ a crowned A,
162 And after, amor vincit omnia.
163 Another nun with her had she,
164 That was her chaplain, and priests three.
165 A Monk there was, a fair for the mastery,
166 An outrider, that loved venery,
167 A manly man, to be an abbot able.
168 Full many a dainty horse had he in stable,
169 And when he rode, men might his bridle hear
170 Jingling in a whistling wind all clear
171 And too as loud as doth the chapel bell
172 There as this lord was keeper of the cell.
173 The rule of Saint Maure or of Saint Benedict -
174 Because that it was old and somewhat strict
175 This same monk let old things pass,
176 And held after the new world the space.
177 He gave not of that text a pulled hen,
178 That says that hunters be not holy men,
179 Nor that a monk, when he is reckless,
180 Is likened to a fish that is waterless -
181 This is to say, a monk out of his cloister.
182 But that text held he not worth an oyster;
183 And I said his opinion was good.
184 What should he study and make himself wood,
185 Upon a book in cloister always to pour,
186 Or swink with his hands, and labor,
187 As Austin bid? How shall the world be served?
188 Let Austin have his swink to him reserved!
189 Therefore he was a pricasour aright:
190 Greyhounds he had as swift as fowl in flight;
191 Of pricking and of hunting the hare
192 Was all his lust, for no cost would he spare.
193 I saw his sleeves purfled at the hand
194 With gray, and that the finest of the land;
195 And for to fasten his hood under his chin,
196 He had of gold wrought a full curious pin;
197 A love knot in the greater end there was.
198 His head was bald, that shone as any glass,
199 And too his face, as he had been anoint.
200 He was a lord full fat and in good point;
201 His eyes steep, and rolling in his head,
202 That steamed as a furnace of lead;
203 His boots supple, his horse in great estate.
204 Now certainly he was a fair prelate;
205 He was not pale as a forpined ghost.
206 A fat swan he loved best of any roast.
207 His palfrey was as brown as is a berry.
208 A Friar there was, a wanton and a merry,
209 A limiter, a full solemn man.
210 In all the orders four there is none that can
211 So much of dalliance and fair language.
212 He had made full many a marriage
213 Of young women at his own cost.
214 Unto his order he was a noble post.
215 Full well beloved and familiar was he
216 With franklins over all in his country,
217 And too with worthy women of the town;
218 For he had power of confession,
219 As said himself, more than a curate,
220 For of his order he was licentiate.
221 Full sweetly heard he confession,
222 And pleasant was his absolution:
223 He was an easy man to give penance,
224 There as he knew to have a good pittance.
225 For unto a poor order for to give
226 Is sign that a man is well shrive;
227 For if he gave, he dared make avaunt,
228 He knew that a man was repentant;
229 For many a man so hard is of his heart,
230 He may not weep, although him sorely smart.
231 Therefore instead of weeping and prayers
232 Men must give silver to the poor friars.
233 His tippet was ay farsed full of knives
234 And pins, for to give young wives.
235 And certainly he had a merry note:
236 Well could he sing and play on a rote;
237 Of yeddings he bore utterly the prize.
238 His neck white was as the flour-de-lys;
239 Thereto he strong was as a champion.
240 He knew the taverns well in every town
241 And every hosteler and tappester,
242 Better than a lazar or a begster,
243 For unto such a worthy man as he
244 Accorded not, as by his faculty,
245 To have with sick lazars acquaintance.
246 It is not honest, it may not advance,
247 For to deal with no such porail,
248 But all with rich and sellers of victual.
249 And over all, there as profit should arise,
250 Courteous he was and lowly of service;
251 There’s no man nowhere so virtuous.
252 He was the best beggar in his house;
252a [And gave a certain fee for the grant;
252a None of his brethren came there in his haunt;]
253 For though a widow had not a shoe,
254 So pleasant was his “In principio, ”
255 Yet would he have a farthing, ere he went.
256 His purchase was well better than his rent.
257 And rage he could, as it were right a whelp.
258 In love days there could he much help,
259 For there he was not like a cloisterer
260 With a threadbare cope, as is a poor scholar,
261 But he was like a master or a pope.
262 Of double worsted was his semicope,
263 That rounded as a bell out of the press.
264 Somewhat he lisped, for his wantonness,
265 To make his English sweet upon his tongue;
266 And in his harping, when that he had sung,
267 His eyes twinkled in his head aright
268 As do the stars in the frosty night.
269 This worthy limiter was called Huberd.
270 A merchant was there with a forked beard,
271 In motley, and high on horse he sat;
272 Upon his head a Flanderish beaver hat,
273 His boots clasped fair and featously.
274 His reasons he spoke full solemnly,
275 Speaking always the increase of his winning.
276 He would the sea were kept for anything
277 Between Middleburgh and Orwell.
278 Well could he in exchange shields sell.
279 This worthy man full well his wit beset;
280 There knew no wight that he was in debt,
281 So stately was he of his governance
282 With his bargains and with his chevisance
283 For truth he was a worthy man withall,
284 But, truth to say, I know not how men him call.
285 A clerk there was of Oxford also,
286 That unto logic had long ago.
287 As lean was his horse as is a rake,
288 And he was not right fat, I undertake,
289 But looked hollow, and thereto soberly,
290 Full threadbare was his overest courtepy,
291 For he had gotten him yet no benefice,
292 Nor was so worldly for to have office.
293 For he was rather have at his bed’s head
294 Twenty books, clad in black or red,
295 Of Aristotle and his philosophy
296 Than robes rich, or fiddle, or gay psaltry.
297 But all be that he was a philosopher,
298 Yet had he but little gold in coffer;
299 But all that he might of his friends hent,
300 On books and on learning he it spent,
301 And busily gan for the soul’s prayer
302 Of them that gave him wherewith to scholar.
303 Of study took he most cure and most heed.
304 Not a word spoke he more than was need,
305 And that was said in form and reverence,
306 And short and quick and full of high sentence;
307 Sounding in moral virtue was his speech,
308 And gladly would he learn and gladly teach.
309 A Sergeant of the Law, aware and wise,
310 That often had been at the Parvise,
311 There was also, full rich of excellence.
312 Discreet he was and of great reverence –
313 He seemed such, his words were so wise.
314 Justice he was full often in assize,
315 By patent and by plain commission.
316 For his science and for his high renown,
317 Of fees and robes had he many a one.
318 So great a purchaser was nowhere none:
319 All was fee simple to him in effect;
320 His purchasing might not been infect.
321 Nowhere so busy a man as he there was,
322 And yet he seemed busier than he was.
323 In terms had he case and dooms all
324 That from the time of King William were fall.
325 Thereto he could endite and make a thing,
326 There could no wight pinch at his writing;
327 And every statute could he play by rote.
328 He rode but homely in a motley coat,
329 Girt with a seynt of silk, with bars small;
330 Of his array shall I no longer tell.
331 A Franklin was in his company.
332 White was his beard as is the daisy;
333 Of his complexion he was sanguine.
334 Well loved he by the morning a sup of wine;
335 To live in delight was ever his won,
336 For he was Epicurus’ own son,
337 That held opinion that plain delight
338 Was very felicity parfit.
339 A householder, and that a great, was he;
340 Saint Julian was he in his country.
341 His bread, his ale, was always after one;
342 A better envied man was nowhere known.
343 Without baked meat was never his house,
344 Of fish and flesh, and that so plenteous
345 It snowed in his house of meat and drink;
346 Of all dainties that men could think,
347 After the sundry seasons of the year,
348 So changed he his meat and his supper.
349 Full many a fat partridge had he in mew,
350 And many a bream and many a luce in stew.
351 Woe was his cook but if his sauce were
352 Poignant and sharp, and ready all his gear.
353 His table dormant in his hall alway
354 Stood ready covered all the long day.
355 At sessions there he was lord and sire;
356 Full oft time he was knight of the shire.
357 A dagger and a purse all of silk
358 Hung at his girdle, white as morning milk.
359 A sheriff had he been, an auditor.
360 Was nowhere such a worthy vavasour.
361 A Haberdasher and a Carpenter,
362 A Weaver, a Dyer, and a Tapisser –
363 And they were clothed all in a livery
364 Of a solemn and a great fraternity.
365 Full fresh and new their gear apiked was;
366 Their knives were mounted not with brass
367 But all with silver, wrought full clean and well,
368 Their girdles and their pouches everydell.
369 Well seemed each of them a fair burgess
370 To sit in a guildhall on a dais.
371 Each one, for the wisdom that he kan,
372 Was shapely for to be an alderman.
373 For cattle had they enough and rent,
374 And too their wives would it well assent
375 And else certain were they to blame.
376 It is full fair to have been called “madame, ”
377 And go to vigils all before,
378 And have a mantle royally bore.
379 A Cook they had with them for the nonce
380 To boil the chickens with the marrow bones,
381 And powdered marchant tart and galingale.
382 Well could he know a draft of London ale.
383 He could he roast, and seethe, and broil, and fry,
384 Makemortreux, and well bake a pie.
385 But great harm was it, as it thought me,
386 That on his shin, an ulcer had he.
387 For blancmanger, that made he with the best.
388 A Shipman was there, dwelling far by west;
389 For aught I know, he was of Dartmouth.
390 He rode upon a rouncy, as he couth,
391 In a gown of falding to the knee.
392 A dagger hanging on a laas had he
393 About his neck, under his arm adown.
394 The hot summer had made his hue all brown;
395 And certainly he was a good fellow.
396 Full many a draft of wine had he draw.
397 From Bordeaux-ward, while that the chapman sleep.
398 Of nice conscience took he no keep.
399 If that he fought and had the higher hand,
400 By water he sent them home to every land.
401 But of his craft to reckon well his tides,
402 His streams, and his dangers him besides,
403 His harbor, and his moon, his pilotage,
404 There was none such from Hull to Carthage.
405 Hardy he was and wise to undertake;
406 With many a tempest had his beard been shake.
407 He knew all the havens, as they were,
408 From Gotland to the cape of Finisterre,
409 And every creek in Brittany and in Spain.
410 His barge called was the Madelene.
411 With us there was A Doctor of Physic;
412 In all this world there was no one like him,
413 To speak of physic and of surgery,
414 For he was grounded in astronomy.
415 He kept his patient a full great deal
416 In hours, by his magic natural.
417 Well could he fortune the ascendant
418 Of his images for his patient.
419 He knew the cause of every malady,
420 Were it of hot, or cold, or moist, or dry,
421 And where they engendered, and of what humor.
422 He was a very, perfect practitioner:
423 The cause known, and of his harm the root,
424 Anon he gave the sick man his boot.
425 Full ready had he his apothecaries
426 To send him drugs and electuaries,
427 For each of them made other for to win –
428 Their friendship was not new to begin.
429 Well knew he the old Aesculapius,
430 And Dioscorides and too Rufus,
431 Old Hippocrates, Hali, and Galen,
432 Serapion, Rhazes, and Avicen,
433 Averroes, Damascene, and Constantine,
434 Bernard, and Gatisden, and Gilbertus.
435 Of his diet measurable was he,
436 For it was of no superfluity,
437 But of great nourishing and digestable.
438 His study was but little on the Bible.
439 In sanguine and in perse he clad was all,
440 Lined with taffeta and with sendal.
441 And yet he was but easy of dispense;
442 He kept that he won in pestilence.
443 For gold in physic is a cordial,
444 Therefore he loved gold in special.
445 A good Wife was there of beside Bath,
446 But she was somewhat deaf, and that was scathe.
447 Of cloth making she had such a haunt
448 She passed them of Ypres and of Ghent.
449 In all the parish wife was there none
450 That to the offering before her should go on;
451 And if they did, certain so wroth was she
452 That she was out of all charity.
453 Her coverchiefs full fine were of ground;
454 I dare swear they weighed ten pound
455 That on a Sunday were upon her head.
456 Her hose were of fine scarlet red,
457 Full straight tied, and shoes full moist and new.
458 Bold was her face, and fair, and red of hew.
459 She was a worthy woman all her life:
460 Husbands at church door she had five,
461 Without them other company in youth -
462 But there's no need to speak as now.
463 And thrice had she been at Jerusalem;
464 She had passed many a strange stream;
465 At Rome she had been, and at Boulogne,
466 In Galicia at Saint Jame, and at Cologne.
467 She could much of wandering by the way.
468 Gap-toothed was she, truly for to say.
469 Upon an ambler easily she sat,
470 Wimpled well, and on her head a hat
471 As broad as is a buckler or a targe;
472 A foot-mantle about her hips large,
473 And on her feet a pair of spurs sharp.
474 In fellowship well could she laugh and carp.
475 Of remedies of love she knew per chance,
476 For she knew of that art the old dance.
477 A good man was there of religion,
478 And was a poor Parson of a town,
479 But rich he was of holy thought and work.
480 He was also a learned man, a clerk,
481 That Christ’s Gospel truly would preach;
482 His parishioners devoutly would he teach.
483 Benign he was and wonder diligent,
484 And in adversity full patient,
485 And such he was proved oft times.
486 Full loathe was he to curse for his tithes,
487 But rather would he give, out of doubt,
488 Unto his poor parishioners about
489 Of his offering and too of his substance.
490 He could in little things have sufficience.
491 Wide was his parish, and houses far asunder,
492 But he left not, for rain or thunder,
493 In sickness nor in mischief to visit
494 The farthest in his parish, much and light,
495 Upon his feet, and in his hand a stave.
496 This noble example to his sheep he gave,
497 That first he wrought, and afterward he taught.
498 Out of the Gospel he those words caught,
499 And this figure he added eek thereto,
500 That if gold rust, what shall iron do?
501 For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
502 No wonder is a lewd man to rust;
503 And shame it is if a priest take keep,
504 A shitten shepherd and a clean sheep.
505 Well ought a priest example for to give,
506 By his cleanness, how that his sheep should live.
507 He set not his benefice to hire
508 And let his sheep encumbered in the mire
509 And ran to London unto Saint Paul’s
510 To seek him a chantry for souls,
511 Or with a brotherhood to be withhold;
512 But dwelt at home, and kept well his fold,
513 So that the wolf not make it miscarry;
514 He was a shepherd and not a mercenary.
515 And though he holy were and virtuous,
516 He was to sinful men not despitous,
517 Nor of his speech dangerous nor digne,
518 But in his teaching discreet and benign.
519 To draw folk to heaven by fairness,
520 By good example, this was his business.
521 But it were any person obstinate,
522 What so he were of high or low estate,
523 Him would he snib him sharply for the nonce.
524 A better priest I trust that nowhere none is.
525 He waited after no pomp and reverence,
526 Nor maked him a spiced conscience,
527 But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve
528 He taught; but first he followed it himself.
529 With him there was a Plowman, was his brother,
530 That had hauled of dung full many a fother;
531 A true swinker and a good was he,
532 Living in peace and perfect charity.
533 God loved he best with all his whole heart
534 At all times, though him gamed or smarte,
535 And then his neighbor right as himself.
536 He would thresh, and thereto dike and delve,
537 For Christ’s sake, for every poor wight,
538 Without hire, if it lay in his might.
539 His tithes paid he full fair and well,
540 Both of his proper swink and his chattel.
541 In a tabard he road upon a mare.
542 There was also a Reeve and a Miller,
543 A Summoner and a Pardoner also,
544 A Manciple, and myself, - there were no more.
545 The Miller was a stout carl for the nonce;
546 Full big he was of brawn, and too of bones.
547 That proved well, for over all there he came,
548 At wrestling he would have always the ram.
549 He was short-shouldered, broad, a thick knar;
550 There was no door that he could not heave off har,
551 Or break it at a running with his head.
552 His beard as any sow or fox was red,
553 And thereto broad as it were a spade.
554 Upon the top right of his nose he had
555 A wart, and thereon stood a tuft of hairs,
556 Red as the bristles of a sow’s ears;
557 His nostrils black were and wide.
558 A sword and a buckler bore he by his side.
559 His mouth as great was as a great furnace.
560 He was a jangler and a goliardeys,
561 And that was most of sin and harlotries.
562 Well could he steal corn toll threes;
563 And yet he had a thumb of gold, pardie.
564 A white cope and a blue hood wore he.
565 A bagpipe well could he blow and sound,
566 And therewithal he brought us out of town.
567 A gentle Manciple was there of a temple,
568 Of which achatours might take example
569 For to be wise in buying of victuals;
570 For whether that he paid or took by tally,
571 Always he waited so in his achate,
572 That he was ay before and in good state.
573 Now is not that of God a full fair grace
574 That such a lewd man’s wit shall pace
575 The wisdom of a heap of learned men?
576 Of masters had he more than thrice ten,
577 That were of law expert and curious,
578 Of which there were a dozen in that house
579 Worthy to be stewards of rent and land
580 Of any lord that is in England,
581 To make him live by his proper good
582 In honor debtless (but if he were wood) ,
583 Or live as scarcely as he might desire;
584 And able for to help all a shire
585 In any case that might fall or hap
586 And yet this Manciple set their all cap.
587 The Reeve was a slender choleric man.
588 His beard was shaved as nigh as ever he can;
589 His hair was by his ears full round shorn;
590 His top was docked like a priest before.
591 Full long were his legs and full leen,
592 Like a staff; there was no calf seen.
593 Well could he keep a garner and bin;
594 There was no auditor could on him win.
595 Well wist he by the drought and by the rain
596 The yielding of his seed and of his grain.
597 His lord’s sheep, his neet, his dairy,
598 His swine, his horse, his steer, and his poultry
599 Was wholly in this Reeve’s governing,
600 And by his covenant gave the reckoning,
601 Since that his lord was twenty year of age.
602 There could no man bring him in arrearage.
603 There’s no bailiff, no herder, no other hine,
604 That he not knew his sleight and his covine;
605 They were adread of him as of the death.
606 His dwelling was full fair upon the heath,
607 With green trees shaded was his place.
608 He could better than his lord purchase.
609 Full rich he was astored privily.
610 His lord well could he please subtlely,
611 To give and lend him of his own good,
612 And have a thank, and yet a coat and hood.
613 In youth he had learned a good mister:
614 He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
615 This Reeve sat upon a full good stot
616 That was all pomely grey, and called Scot.
617 A long surcoat of perse upon him hade,
618 And by his side he bore a rusty blade.
619 Of Norfolk was this Reeve of which I tell,
620 Beside a town men call Baldeswell.
621 Tucked he was as is a friar about,
622 And ever he rode the hindmost of our route.
623 A Summoner was there with us in that place
624 That had a fire-red cherubin’s face,
625 For sauceflemed he was, with eyes narrow.
626 As hot he was and lecherous as a sparrow,
627 With scaled brows black, and piled beard.
628 Of his visage children were afeard.
629 There’s no quick-silver, litharge, nor brimstone,
630 Borax, ceruse, nor oil of tarter none,
631 No ointment that would cleanse and bite,
632 That him might help of his whelks white,
633 Nor of the knobs sitting on his cheeks.
634 Well loved he garlic, onions, and eek leeks,
635 And for to drink strong wine, red as blood;
636 Then would he speak and cry as he were wood.
637 And when that he well drunk had the wine,
638 Then would he speak no word but Latin.
639 A few terms had he, two or three,
640 That he had learned out of some decree –
641 No wonder is, he heard it all the day;
642 And too you know well how that a jay
643 Can call out “Walter” as well as can the pope.
644 But whoso could in other things him grope,
645 Then had he spent all his philosophy;
646 Ay “Questio quid juris” would he cry.
647 He was a gentle harlot and a kind;
648 A better fellow should men not find.
649 He would suffer for a quart of wine
650 A good fellow to have his concubine
651 A twelve month, and excuse him at full;
652 Full privily a finch too could he pull.
653 And if he found anywhere a good fellow,
654 He would teach him to have no awe,
655 In such case of the archdeacon’s curse,
656 But if a man’s soul were in his purse;
657 For in his purse he should punished be.
658 “Purse is the archdeacon’s hell, ” said he.
659 But well I know he lied right indeed;
660 Of cursing ought each guilty man him dread,
661 For curse will slay right as absolving save it,
662 And also ware him of a Significavit.
663 In danger had he at his own guise
664 The young girls of the diocese,
665 And knew their counsel, and was all their rede.
666 A garland had he set upon his head,
667 As great as it were for an ale-stake.
668 A buckler had he made him of a cake.
669 With him there rode a gentle Pardoner
670 Of Rouncivale, his friend and his compeer,
671 That straight was come from the court of Rome.
672 Full loud he sang “Come hither, love, to me! ”
673 The Summoner barred to him a stiff burdoun;
674 Was never trumpet of half so great a sound.
675 This Pardoner had hair as yellow as wax,
676 But smooth it hung as does a strike of flax;
677 By ounces hung his locks that he had,
678 And therewith he his shoulders overspread;
679 But thin it lay, by culpons one and one.
680 But hood, for jollity, wore he none,
681 For it was trussed up in his wallet.
682 He thought he rode all of the new jet;
683 Disheveled, save his cap, he rode all bare.
684 Such glaring eyes had he as a hare.
685 A Vernicle had he sowed upon his cap;
686 His wallet, before him in his lap,
687 Bretfull of pardon come from Rome all hot.
688 A voice he had as small as has a goat.
689 No beard had he, nor ever should have;
690 As smooth it was as it were late shave.
691 I trow he were a gelding or a mare.
692 But of his craft, from Berwick into Ware
693 Nor was there such another pardoner.
694 For in his male he had a pillow-bier,
695 Which that he said was Our Lady’s veil;
696 He said he had a gobbet of the sail
697 That Saint Peter had, when that he went
698 Upon the sea, ‘til Jesus Christ him hent.
699 He had a cross of latten full of stones,
700 And in a glass he had pigs’ bones,
701 But with these relics, when that he found
702 A poor person dwelling upon land
703 Upon a day he got him more money
704 Then that the person got in months twey;
705 And thus, with feigned flattery and japes,
706 He made the person and the people his apes.
707 But truly to tell at the last,
708 He was in church a noble ecclesiast.
709 Well could he read a lesson or a story,
710 But all the best he sang an offertory;
711 For well he wist, when that song was sung,
712 He must preach and well affile his tongue
713 To win silver, as he full well could;
714 Therefore he sang the merrily and loud.
715 Now have I told you truly, in a clause,
716 The estate, the array, the number, and too the cause
717 Why that assembled was this company
718 In Southwerk at this gentle hostelry
719 Called the Tabard, fast by the Belle.
720 But now is time to you for to tell
721 How that we baren us that same night,
722 When we were in that hostelry allright;
723 And after will I tell of our voyage
724 And all the remnant of our pilgrimage.
725 But first I pray you, of your courtesy,
726 That you not ascribe it to my villainy,
727 Though that I plainly speak in this matter,
728 To tell you their words and their cheer.
729 Nor though I speak their words properly.
730 For this you know also well as I:
731 Whoso shall tell a tale after a man,
732 He must rehearse as nigh as ever he can
733 Every word, if it be in his charge,
734 All speak he never so rudely or large,
735 Or else he must tell his tale untrue,
736 Or feign things, or find words new.
737 He may not spare, although he were his brother;
738 He might as well say one word as another.
739 Christ spoke himself full broad in holy writ,
740 And well you know no villainy is it.
741 Eek Plato said, whoso can him read,
742 The words must be cousin to the deed.
743 Also I pray you to forgive it me,
744 All have I not set folk in their degree
745 Here in this tale, as that they should stand.
746 My wit is short, you may well understand.
747 Great cheer made our Host us everyone,
748 And to the supper set he us anon.
749 He served us with victuals at the best;
750 Strong was the wine, and well to drink us lest.
751 A seemly man our host was withall
752 For he'd been a marshal in a hall.
753 A large man he was with even step -
754 A fairer burgess was there none in Chepe -
755 Bold of his speech, and wise, and well taught,
756 And of manhood he lacked right naught.
757 Eek thereto he was right a merry man;
758 And after supper playing he began,
759 And spoke of mirth among other things,
760 When that we had made our reckonings,
761 And said thus: "Now, lords, truly,
762 You've been to me right welcome, heartily;
763 For by my troth, if that I shall not lie,
764 I saw not this year so merry a company
765 At once in this herber as is now.
766 Fain would I do you mirth, knew I how.
767 And of a mirth I am right now bethought,
768 To do you ease, and it shall cost naught.
769 "You're going to Canterbury - God you speed,
770 The blissful martyr quit you your meed!
771 And well I know, as you go on by the way,
772 You'll shape you to tell and to play;
773 For truly, comfort nor mirth is none
774 To ride by the way dumb as a stone;
775 And therefore will I make you disport,
776 As I said erst, and do you some comfort.
777 And if you like all by one assent
778 For to stand at my judgment,
779 And for to work, as I shall you say,
780 Tomorrow, when you ride by the way,
781 Now by my father's soul that is dead,
782 But you be merry, I will give you my head!
783 Hold up your hands, without more speech."
784 Our counsel was not long for to seek.
785 We thought it was not worth to make it wise,
786 And granted him without more avise,
787 And bade him say his verdict as he lest.
788 "Lords," said he, "now hearken for the best;
789 But take it not, I pray you, in disdain.
790 This is the point, to speak short and plain,
791 That each of you, to short with our way,
792 In this voyage shall tell tales tway
793 To Canterbury-ward, I mean it so,
794 And homeward he shall tell another two,
795 Of adventures that awhile have befall.
796 And which of you that bears him best of all -
797 That is to say, that tells in this case
798 Tales of best sentence and most solace -
799 Shall have a supper at all our cost
800 Here in this place, sitting by this post,
801 When that we come again from Canterbury.
802 And for to make you the more merry,
803 I will myself goodly with you ride,
804 Right at my own cost, and be your guide;
805 And whoso will my judgment gainsay
806 Shall pay all that we spend by the way.
807 And if you vouchsafe that it be so,
808 Tell me anon, without words more,
809 And I will early shape me therefore."
810 This thing was granted, and our oaths swore
811 With full glad heart, and prayed him also
812 That he would vouchsafe for to do so,
813 And that he would be our governor,
814 And our tale’s judge and reporter,
815 And set a supper at a certain price,
816 And we will ruled be at his devise
817 In high and low; and thus by one assent
818 We were accorded to his judgment.
819 And thereupon the wine was fetched anon;
820 We drank, and to rest went each one,
821 Without any longer tarrying.
822 At morning, when that day began to spring,
823 Up rose our Host, and was all our cock,
824 And gathered us together all in a flock,
825 And forth we rode a little more than pace
826 Unto the watering of Saint Thomas;
827 And there our Host began his horse to rest
828 And said, "Lords, hearken, if you lest,
829 You know your forward, and I it you record.
830 If even-song and morning-song accord,
831 Let's see now who shall tell the first tale.
832 As ever must I drink wine or ale,
833 Whoso be rebel to my judgment
834 Shall pay for all that by the way is spent.
835 Now draw cut, er we further twin;
836 He which that has the shortest will begin.
837 "Sir Knight, " said he, "my master and my lord,
838 Now draw cut, for that is my accord.
839 "Come near, " said he, "my lady Prioress.
840 And you, sir Clerk, let be your shamefacedness,
841 Study it not; lay hand to, every man! "
842 Anon to draw every wight began,
843 And shortly for to tell it as it was,
844 Were it by adventure, or sort, or case,
845 The truth is this: the cut fell to the Knight,
846 Of which full blithe and glad was every wight,
847 And tell he must his tale, as was reason,
848 By forward and by composition,
849 As you have heard; what need words more?
850 And when this good man saw that it was so,
851 And he that wise was and obedient
852 To keep his forward by his free assent,
853 He said, "Since I shall begin the game,
854 What, welcome be the cut, by God's name!
855 Now let us ride, and hearken what I say."
856 And with that word we rode on forth our way,
857 And he began with right a merry cheer
858 His tale anon, and said as you may hear.
© 2008, 2012, 2019 Forrest Hainline
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Save Yourself, Don’t Watch Death Note
I documented my thoughts while watching the new Death Note movie so...here you go.
1. Music is nice
2. Tf is this opening scene
3. ....the quiz ??????
4. edgy hair and all
5. Typical misunderstood girl
6. THE CIG??????
7. what's with the dramatic wind???? did no one else see the book?? (1:37:26)
8. random hard rain????
9. Bullies wtf
10. the girl
11. light WTF (1:36:34)
12. he sounds like an 8 year old
13. he acts like an 8 year old
14. Mia lied cuz she a ho
15. Light shut up UR SO EDGY!!! (1:35:21)
16. HIS MOM??? SHOULDNT BE DEAD??
17. okay principal is a dick but tbh it's an edgy movie what did I expect
18. he still likes her why
19. detention??????
20. he looks so gross
21. HE ACTS GROSS WTH (1:34:12)
22. the book looks gross
23. EW CREEPY TONGUE LICK
24. why r u reading it out loud
25. the book has been used?? why?? what??
26. also there should be lines
27. RYUK??? BBY?????? he didn't try to scare him in reality unmmmm what
28. "Hello?" @ monster (1:32:55)
29. RYUK LOOKS COOL DUDE
30. screaming omg I'm dead kill me
31. THE SCREAMING (1:32:14)
32. u fuckin child
33. APPLE!
34. cool voice
35. more screaming
36. AND THEN HES FINE?????????
37. "I'm asleep" stereotype
38. I love Ryuk babe
39. but what'd they do to him
40. LIGHT'S FACEEEEE IM DED (1:30:47)
41. bullies aren't like that um
42. so now Ryuk is the bad guy?
43. "I don't have a pen"
44. why does Ryuk have a pen
45. WHY IS LIGHT LISTENING
46. um wtf
47. DECAPITATION???????
48. "Watch" IM
49. HIS FACE (1:29:02)
50. decapitated by a ladder
51. GORE IS OFF THE CHARTS
52. and then Ryuk is like "k now here lemme accept it"
53. WHAT (1:28:15)
54. apparently his dad is a drunk and they live in a trailer
55. Light is apathetic towards the bully dying and so is the dad
56. "death of someone? meh. cheating? OH DEAR GAWD"
57. edgy kid and so disrespectful (1:26:53)
58. ......what is this family ???
59. Light is so disrespectful and the dad doesn't even care
60. edgy music
61. A P P L E
62. what, u gonna kill ur daddy?
63. "Don't trust Rie-uk" NOT HOW U SAY IT
64. monster in the closet ;) (1:25:06)
65. let's play with the creature in the closet!
66. human hand
67. fast eating
68. screaming again
69. "Ree-you-k" a so much better
70. casually talking (1:24:13)
71. what is this...
72. "UR FINGERS R HUGE" WHAAAAT [funny line tho cuz that’d be me]
73. "No shark attacks while someone's on the toilet" admittedly funny
74. they act as if this is a casual occurrence
75. IGNORES RULES AND WARNINGS AND DECIDES TO KILL OKAY YEAH SURE (1:22:45)
76. "Gotta get mummy's killer" oh give me a break
77. Of course he's gorging himself
78. *from earlier* light didn't care about the bully dying for more than two seconds
79. that's..such an improbable way to die (1:21:10)
80. bad hiding
81. Light is so bad at hiding
82. "Ur ma was a hippie" oh okay that explains his name
83. UM LIGHT WTF UR SO BAD AT ACTING
84. EVERYONE IS BAD AT ACTING KMS
85. fuckin Ryuk
86. I like his face tho is cool (1:19:43)
87. openly uses book in school
88. "Kenny was a sociopath... i wish id seen it"
89. Mia is a bitch
90. they're awkward
91. she's so weird
92. BAD ACTING ABOUT IT
93. "Can't tell you" "k bye" "U WANNA KNOW?" (1:17:54)
94. she doesn't see Ryuk
95. "Ur poetry sucks" funny
96. HIS FUCKING FACE WHEN SHE SEEs IT
97. "I have a death god" and she S M I L E S and then just stays cuz it's so normal
98. "Lemme kill someone to prove to you" (1:16:27)
99. same school thing okay that's fine
100. why wouldn't the police just shoot him
101. Hit by a truck and that's not how it....I'm..what
102. "I killed him" BITCH RUN
103. he's a sociopath. simple
104. she doesn't care (1:14:55)
105. okay so he has an easy excuse. mommy issues
106. "Think I'm crazy?" "No, not crazy enough. we could change the world"
107. sneaking into the house together what
108. why am I spending time watching this
109. STOP KISSING PLS
110. "YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ASK" Oh okay so no consent? sure fine totally (1:13:40)
111. and they have sex okay sure
112. HIS FACE IS WHAT
113. creepy relationship
114. kissing while killing
115. Asian guy killed
116. laughing at it
117. THEY made up the name? oh hell no (1:12:08)
118. OH MY GOD "killer in Japanese so they'll look on the wrong continent"
119. laughing at it all
120. riots for him????? I can't even tbh
121. Kira is suddenly a good guy for everyone okay sure whatever u ass
122. HEY IS IT L HEY HEY
123. "Tokyo nightclub" YOU ASSES (1:10:00)
124. hey it's my boy L yo
125. he looks stupid snooping around the scene
126. bad acting
127. L is cool ig
128. I'm so confused what is this
129. very very bad acting
130. ....THE SINGING!!!!!
131. and somehow L falls asleep to it (1:07:48)
132. obvious green screen
133. Light is so obvious
134. "Is there a complaint department if I don't like one of Kira's choices" I like the dad he's funny
135. dad ig looks similar in a whitewashed way
136. all the papers on the ground and "eat shit" cuz that's normal
137. the screen wasn't even in a phone call okay
138. Watari never showed his face (1:04:57)
139. why is his dad so rude
140. no voice changer
141. he's so messy what
142. candy obsession
143. thanks for the true to anime sitting that's good
144. HOW DO YOU KNOW SEATTLE?
145. oh first kill? (1:03:49)
146. and now she's manipulative
147. "It's not like that" How do you know??
148. not bad representation of L
149. you can't tell his age go away
150. ice cream pfft
151. "REST YOUR GLUTES" Funny
152. how did the police miss that (1:01:14)
153. why would you trust Light's dad then
154. speaking with Kira okay that's actually realistic
155. L never, and I mean NEVER, showed his face publicly
156. does light have nothing better to do
157. "He's a coward" Oh yeah do it
158. Ryuk I love you (59:17)
159. Ryuk laughing ily
160. okay so you got it light that sure okay fine
161. "THEN, James, ID BE DEAD" I love him
162. funny scene
163. why is Light sneaking downstairs You're so Obvious
164. SO OBVIOUS WTH
165. ...how is his dad so...oblivious
166. irony
167. ...more obviousness wth (56:53)
168. "A particularly bright kid" no he obviously isn't
169. stalker is obvious
170. and she's the manipulater okay
171. "Care-a"
172. SASSY LIGHT WOOT
173. she's a bitch
174. she's going to write in it isn't she
175. probably took it
176. she's a bitch okay (54:39)
177. *from earlier* why'd they change the if you touch the note thing
178. oh so the heart attack thing is back
179. agent franks is being controlled
180. L is shocked sureeeeeeeee not how he is tbh
181. what's this pop music I like it
182. inappropriate timing tho
183. and they walk off the building I'm screaming okay whatever
184. in Japan? what
185. screaming about the death note in school
186. OBVIOUSLY IT WAS HER
187. Ryuk is so sassy
188. okay so Ryuk’s killing them? Jesus that's not how it works
189. you can't kill a god of death idiot
190. what's with the name thing (51:37)
191. she's so demented
192. his dad already what is going on
193. she's insane and wanting to kill his dad....
194. SHES TRYING TO GET HIM TO KILL HIS DAD?!?!
195. Mia what the actual fuck
196. L isn't bad
197. his dad is ready to die? (49:22)
198. is he going to kill his dad cuz I feel like he is
199. what's with L's old phone?
200. okay so he's figured out who Kira is
201. what's with the sleeping?
202. I love how Ryuk is in the book Light is reading
203. casual approaching
204. HIS SITTING L I like you
205. confronting him...
206. LIGHT IS SASSY
207. why is Ryuk like this I wonder (46:53)
208. cool lighting tho
209. giving himself away
210. face shown
211. why are they fighting
212. "I dont even carry a gun, it's distracting" best line
213. L is actually cool
214. light is fucking insane
215. no one notices the fighting
216. ew here SHE is again
217. push her into the mud she's ugly
218. "I'm a cheerleader. nothing mattered before you" best excuse
219. "I love you" I'm.. (44:16)
220. ew ew ew ew ew they're so gross
221. you need his full name um
222. not going to kill Watari
223. only 1 name able to be burned okay
224. creepy monk orphan
225. CREEPY MONK ORPHANAGE
226. why is Watari listening
227. Mia go away pls
228. L doesn't think this is weird with Watari? (41:18)
229. the tattoo is cool behind L’s ear but why is it there
230. I like L actually
231. he freaks out? unlike his character
232. top hat
233. casual L
234. so obvious um
235. girl isn't even gone and now they're talking
236. unlike L's character (39:21)
237. she's still there
238. Police brutality UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
239. CHOKE HOLD?!
240. THREATENING TO KILL L!!!
241. UM LIGHT WHAT THE FUCK
242. WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCK
243. AND HIS FUCKING FATHER???? (38:18)
244. pfft Ryuk
245. "Is there anything I need to know" he would 100% support Kira
246. L in the background
247. completely calm after this ????
248. did they not look into the girl
249. why is Watari singing
250. Light is so obvious
251. THE TOPHATTT
252. Watari is probs going to die (35:41)
253. CREEPY ORPHANAGE
254. ghostly panting???????????? [subtitles]
255. Ryuk can't..I'm ...what
256. this is actually a cult tho
257. secret tunnel okay yes
258. what's with the weird music (34:12)
259. why is L so strung out
260. awkwardly morose
261. homecoming awkwardness
262. TOP HAT
263. middle fingers wouldn't be allowed
264. rat
265. I bet Watari is going to die. Light will probably be too late to/forget to burn the page
266. what happened to the monks? why did they leave the papers? plot hole
267. top hat
268. frosted tips like [ex’s name]
269. "Normal people scare me" the worst thing yet (31:32)
270. called it. Watari is dead
271. I don't get what the page
272. ohh to burn his name
273. she's fucking creepy and weird
274. and Light doesn't really care
275. top hat (29:21)
276. and then hugging
277. she's insane.....
278. "I saved you again" I'm screaming
279. ....what the actually hell is wrong with her. LIGHT FUCKING DUMP HER
280. I absolutely hate her
281. why is she able to write in it
282. ...and of course she killed him
283. she's insane, like actually completely insane (27:35)
284. What's with all the rules thing
285. I ACTUALLY HATE HER WHAT THE HELL
286. Ryuk wouldn't let this happen he isn't a bad guy
287. L is now even more insane and going to kill Light
288. inappropriate music
289. Light's ugly running (26:19)
290. why didn't he burn his own page
291. why didn't he put her in there towards the end so she couldn't see it
292. Plot holes
293. WRITE HER FING NAME (24:50)
294. did he leave the book
295. L is coming for you bitch also he can't drive so
296. inappropriate music and close ups
297. L is cool lol look @ his awesome running
298. ohhhh he's cool (23:22)
299. parkour
300. Light's running is like not pressing the correct buttons on a quick time
301. L's running is awesome
302. nice lighting tbh
303. KILL HIM KILL HIM (21:50)
304. "Lord Kira" kill me
305. is this supposed to be a romantic scene when she wrote his name in the book?
306. he's carrying a gun like literally what
307. he should kill her (20:30)
308. KILL HER KILL HER
309. inappropriate music
310. "Lets run away together"
311. she's insane and still smiling
312. he probs wrote her name (19:28)
313. probs pushes him out
314. oh look @ Ryuk
315. OH YESSSSSS HE KILLED HER OH YES
316. his reasoning
317. "You said you loved me I thought you wouldn't take it" you moron (18:17)
318. why would you take it back
319. did she already burn his page?
320. why is Ryuk involved
321. shouldn't they both die? they're both in it
322. THE MUSIC IS BACK WHAT
323. the book why would you catch it
324. THE MUSIC IS SO INAPPROPRIATE IM SCREAMING (16:51)
325. oh there they go! bye bye b
326. I love Ryuk's smile
327. the slowmo
328. everyone's faces
329. the flowers exploding
330. is Light alive????
331. is she???
332. I'm confused tbh (16:02)
333. she's dead
334. L is still alive yay!
335. free death note page
336. omfg it burned no
337. Light is alive probs 🙄
338. who took the random book? (14:45)
339. more killings
340. apparently everyone hates L?? that's not how he was treated
341. Who is this guy that picked up the book
342. why would you give back the book (13:42)
343. such an obvious place to leave it
344. the phone screen isn't on a call
345. is he going to wake up
346. yes
347. oh and he keeps the book you weirdo
348. she was insane why is he sorry
349. his dad is ugly and gross go away (12:10)
350. WAIT PLOT HOLE he was supposed to be in a coma but his dad knocked. his dad wouldn’t know he’s awake?
351. Dad somehow doesn't care it was Light
352. L what are you doing
353. is his dad going to join in... oh no
354. why would you need to write all this down idek man
355. what is L doing..oh nvm wait why did he act surprised by this (9:07)
356. so now L is thrown off course? oh going to write Light's name?
357. do it son, pls do it he's ugly
358. inappropriate music
359. Ryuk laughing (7:30)
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