"They make a fine tail for the rector."

"One would say that he was a Doge of Venice on his way
to his bridal with the sea."

"Say, Jehan! here are the canons of Sainte-Geneviève!"

"To the deuce with the whole set of canons!"

"Abbé Claude Choart! Doctor Claude Choart! Are you in
search of Marie la Giffarde?"

"She is in the Rue de Glatigny."

"She is making the bed of the king of the debauchees."
She is paying her four deniers* ~quatuor denarios~."


* An old French coin, equal to the two hundred and
fortieth part of a pound.


"~Aut unum bombum~."

"Would you like to have her pay you in the face?"

"Comrades! Master Simon Sanguin, the Elector of Picardy,
with his wife on the crupper!"