Once queer Duke insisted on Serf Thigh rights* <br />So bridegrooms replaced brides on first nights: <br />Droit de cuissage* then free <br />Duchess claimed repartee – <br />Since newly-weds rush to castle in tights! <br /> <br />• In European feudal societies during the Middle Ages and thereafter <br />in succeeding centuries, it is thought that <br />the Lord of the Manor or Seigneur of the Serfdom arrogated for himself <br />the Droit de cuissage, i.e. the right to sleep with the bride of a serf on <br />the wedding night. <br /> <br />© T. Wignesan – Paris,2014<br /><br />T (no first name) Wignesan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limerick-once-queer-duke-insisted-on-serf-thigh-rights/
