Flen flyys is a poem, written some time before 1500, that is chiefly famous for containing the first known written usage in English of the vulgar verb "fuck". In fact the usage was "fuccant", a hybrid of an English root with a Latinconjugation, and was disguised in the text by a simple code, in which each letter was replaced with the next letter in the alphabet.
Written half in English and half in Latin, the poem satirisedCarmelitemonks in the English county of Cambridgeshire. The poem takes its name from the opening line Flen, flyys and freris meaning "fleas, flies and friars".
The famous line reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." meaning "They [the friars] are not in heaven, since ..." followed by words that when decoded read "fvccant vvivys of heli", a Latin/English mix that means "...they fuck the wives of Ely" [a town].
Flenflyys is a poem, written some time before 1500, that is chiefly famous for containing the first known written usage in English of the vulgar verb "fuck".
In fact the usage was "fuccant", a hybrid of an English root with a Latin conjugation, and was disguised in the text by a simple code, in which each letter was replaced with the next letter in the alphabet.
The first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500.
The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flenflyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris"; that is, "Fleas, flies, and friars".
Its first known use as a verb meaning to have sexual intercourse is in a poem titled "Flenflyys" some time before 1500; see above for more information.
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