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Swete sone, reu on me
And breste out of thy bondes
For me thinket that I see
Thoru Bothen thin bondes
Nailes driven into the tree
So reufuliche thu honges
Now is betre that I flee
And lett alle these londes

Swete sone, thy faire face
Droppet all on blode
And thy body downward
Is bounded to the rode
How may thy modress hert
Tholen so swete fode
That blessed was of alle born
And best of alle gode

How may thy modress hert
Tholen so swete fode
That blessed was of alle born
And best of alle gode

Swete sone, reu on me
And bring me out of this live
For me thinket that I see
Thy deth, it neyhet swithe
Thy feet nailed to the tree
Now may I no more thrive
For this werld withouten thee
Ne shall me maken blithe

Doesn't this seem a bit like Middle Egyptian? Could it be a lost inscription?

Is it Japanese? Mandarin? Couldn't be anything related to English, that is for sure. But I would leave it for the experts to translate it.

Looks like an open-and-shut case of Middle English.

Why do you ask?

Dr. Shades wrote:Looks like an open-and-shut case of Middle English.

Why do you ask?

Middle English?!!! That does seem like a possibility. Geesh, thought it might be Middle Egyptian. My initial reasoning must have been off base. I was thinking that if Reformed Egyptian bore a relationship to Jacobean English, then this Middle English sounding piece must be is some way analogous to Middle Egyptian.

Clearly I could not pass the Gee challenge.

I dearly luv a pasty,
A 'Old Testament 'n' leaky wun,
Weth taties, mayt 'n' turmit,
Purs'ly 'n' honyun,
Un crus be made with su't,
'N' shaped like 'alf a moon,
Weth crinkly hedges, freshly baked,
E always gone too soon!

This is neither Reformed Egyptian nor a latter variant of
Nephitics, but rather some ditty from Cornwall. As proof,
the term pasty has been more closely associated with
Cornwall than the Nile delta or the Levant. However this
understanding might be open to challenge with sufficient
apologetics and applied Reformed Egyptology.