5 Paano At Bakit Lumawak Ang Responsabilidad Ng Mga Pari Sa Pamamahala Ng Mga Pamayanan?

5 Paano at bakit lumawak ang responsabilidad ng mga pari sa pamamahala ng mga pamayanan?

 

Answer:

1. Upon a time, as Aesop could report,
2. A little Mouse came to a river side;
3. She might not wade, her shanks were so short;
4. She could not swim, she had no horse to ride:
5. Of verray force behove it her to bide,
6. And to and fro beside that river deep
7. She ran, crying with many piteous peep …
8. We get two animals for the price of one in this medieval poem: a frog and a mouse (‘paddock’ is an old word for a frog). Three centuries before Robert Burns would write his more famous poem about a mouse, the fifteenth-century poet Robert Henryson wrote this, a verse translation of one of Aesop’s fables.

1. It’s written in Middle Scots – the medieval Scots dialect – and tells of a mouse that wishes to cross a stream. A paddock/frog offers to help, with disastrous results. The version we’ve linked to above is a modernised translation of Henryson’s poem