Rachel Deering about 1 month ago
‘The quick-scut, the dew-flirt,
the grass-biter, the goibert,
the home-late, the do-the-dirt.
The starer, the wood-cat,
the purblind, the furze cat…’ ~ The Names of a Hare, trans from Middle English by Heaney. #BookWormSat
🖼️ From Cocharelli Codex, c.1330, Genoa, Italy, Brit. Library, 28841, f. 6v