The Anathemata
Mabinog’s Liturgy (continued)
Kneel sisters!
Graymalkin! Kneel.
Kneel my sweet ape
whose habit is to imitate.
For in the Schools, they say:
if he but take the posture
the old grey ass may bray a Gloria.
Kneel sisters!
Graymalkin! Kneel.
Kneel my sweet ape
whose habit is to imitate.
For in the Schools, they say:
if he but take the posture
the old grey ass may bray a Gloria.
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The witch orders her familiars (an ape and a cat) to kneel. Graymalkin is the name of the witches’ cat in Macbeth.