When You Try to Explain a Joke 2

Once again my warped sense of medieval humor caused confusion. I got a lot of "I don't get it" comments. This happened back in February when I had to explain another Drollery

To refresh, drolleries are illuminated drawings found in the margins of some Medieval manuscripts. They are basically doodles, but they may have also been used for political commentary. In the above example we have a rabbit posed as a knight riding a snail. Perhaps, meaning lower classes riding above their station. The grotesque face may have been a way to get back at a colleague or a superior for some slight, real or imagined.

The first part of the text:

"Twas Brother Maynard doth feasted upon the aberrant mushrooms..."

Some mushrooms contain psillocybin which would make someone hallucinate. So Brother Maynard has some of these magic mushrooms at the noon day meal. He goes back to work in the scriptorium, but he's hallucinating. 

"And the abbey art supplies were expended in a corrupt manner. " 

Because Brother Maynard is hallucinating instead of illuminating the manuscripts with beautiful, religious or floral themes, Brother Maynard, still on Mr. Toad's wild ride, draws weird things. Like rabbits pretending to be knights and riding snails with grotesque human faces. He paints the rabbit's shield with the expensive blue pigment made from the mineral, Lapis Lazuli. That pigment should be used to paint the garment of a saint not the armaments of a ridiculous rabbit/knight.(Abusing the art supplies in a corrupt manner)

For his punishment, Brother Maynard will probably have to crawl around the abbey 1,000 times saying "I will not draw drolleries. Mea culpa, mea cupla, mea maximum culpa. (through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault)