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"The Twa Cummeris", also rendered as "The Twa Cumeris", is a short humorous poem in Scots written at an unknown date by William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460) The poem takes the form of a dialogue during Lent between two close female confidants who have become indiscreet due to the drinking of wine. The women are depicted as being insincere in their observation of Lent and of being manipulative with regard to their husbands.

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  • "The Twa Cummeris", also rendered as "The Twa Cumeris", is a short humorous poem in Scots written at an unknown date by William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460) The poem takes the form of a dialogue during Lent between two close female confidants who have become indiscreet due to the drinking of wine. The women are depicted as being insincere in their observation of Lent and of being manipulative with regard to their husbands. (en)
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  • "The Twa Cummeris", also rendered as "The Twa Cumeris", is a short humorous poem in Scots written at an unknown date by William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460) The poem takes the form of a dialogue during Lent between two close female confidants who have become indiscreet due to the drinking of wine. The women are depicted as being insincere in their observation of Lent and of being manipulative with regard to their husbands. The noun cummer has no precise equivalent in English. The Concise Scots Dictionary defines it, literally, as a godmother and, figuratively, as "a female intimate or friend; a gossip." It is spelt interchangeably as cumer. The source texts of the poem are the Bannatyne Manuscript, the Maitland Folio and a side-note in the Minute Book of Sassines of Aberdeen. The texts vary in several respects and the version given in this article is that formulated by William Mackay Mackenzie in 1932. (en)
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