a-braying

Updated: May 29, 2025

Whenas he espied her in church of a Sunday morning, he would say a Kyrie and a Sanctus, studying to show himself a past master in descant, that it seemed as it were an ass a-braying; whereas, when he saw her not there, he passed that part of the service over lightly enough.

Giovanni Boccaccio - The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio