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Unread 12-08-2009, 09:48 AM
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This mixture is called macaronic verse, and it's fairly common in Middle English lyrics and the other medieval European vernacular languages. All the examples I can think of are religious in some sense (Timor mortis conturbat me comes to mine), but so much of medieval poetry is that. The Wiki page will probably introduce me to some new ones!
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