Just for Fun!

Largely because I want a record of these lyrics, and because I’ve never tried to embed a YouTube video into my blog, I thought I’ve give you a post Convergence treat.  Soprano Emma Kirby sings John Dowland’s “Fine Knacks for Ladies” just so you know what the melody should sound like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dabqyiJZN0c

Fine Knacks for Ladies

Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new,
Good pennyworths but money cannot move,
I keep a fair but for the fair to view,
A beggar may be liberal of love.
Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true.

Great gifts are guiles and look for gifts again,
My trifles come as treasures from my mind,
It is a precious jewel to be plain,
Sometimes in shell the Orient’s pearls we find.
Of others take a sheaf, of me a grain.

Within this pack pins, points, laces and gloves,
And divers toys fitting a country fair,
But in my heart, where duty serves and loves,
Turtles and twins, Court’s brood, a heav’nly pair.
Happy the man that thinks of no removes.

With liberties taken by Daryl Lancaster & Amy Morris, Convergence 2010

Fine yarns for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new,
Good pennyworths but bring your plastic too,
Bright colored yarns, and looms for all to view,
A weaver may fall thoroughly in love.
Though I don’t need more stash, I shop on cue.

Workshops and lecture, ideas flow again,
Surprises that we least expect to find,
Cloth from my loom no longer to be plain,
All my designs are treasures from my mind.
When inspiration comes, excitement reigns.

Draft, threading, treadling, sett, beat, structure too,
And divers toys that make a fabric fair,
But in my heart, where threads may not undo,
Sometimes I must unweave because I care.
Skipped wefts and broken threads, the cloth holds true.