Barefoot in Middle Age

It's swell to go barefoot
When the weather is hot.
But the pot what I got
Just perspires a lot.
So goin' out in the heat
Makes barefooting fun...NOT!

 

Do it in the style of Chaucer, I dare you!

 

I doubt that it's easy to find the ME word for "weather"...

The beginning is easy... after all, "swell" is a direct descendant
of the Middle English "swellan".

Wiggling linguistic toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on berfot pilgrimages,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende.

 

I still do it anyway!