Caleno custure me
Template:Short description Template:More citations needed Caleno custure me (also spelled Calin o custure me) is the title of a song mentioned in Shakespeare's Henry V (IV,4). The context is on a Hundred Years' War battlefield, where an English soldier cannot understand his French captive and intending to answer in similar gibberish pronounces the title of the song.
- French Soldier
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- PISTOL
- Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?
- what is thy name? discuss.
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The song as preserved has English lyrics, with this single line of mock-Latin as its Chorus. The origin of the line is not Latin, however, but is most commonly believed to refer to the Irish-language song {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. It has also been claimed<ref>Shakespeare and an Irish tune</ref> to be from the Irish {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, 'I am a girl from the Suir-side' from the 17th century Irish poem {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}.<ref>Dánta Grádha (Love Poems)</ref>