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"But 'tis the devil who rings the Angelus!" "Oh! the deaf man! the one-eyed creature! the hunch-back! the monster!" "A face to make a woman miscarry better than all the drugs and medicines!" And the two scholars, Jehan du Moulin, and Robin Poussepain, sang at the top of their lungs, the ancient refrain, "Une hart Pour le pendard! Un fagot Pour le magot!"* * A rope for the gallows bird!

She looked at him, and saw he was in earnest: on this she suddenly rained hard to the memory of "le pendard": the tears came in a torrent, being the last; and she gave her hand to the landlord of "The White Hart," and broke a gold crown with him in sign of plighted troth. "We will keep it dark till the house is quiet," said the landlord.

At this Charles swore a great oath, as one in perplexity, and bade him not go so fast. 'See here, said he, with the rude expletives only too habitual with him; 'she is a pretty little girl, and she and her lands are much better with an honest man like you than with that pendard of a cousin; but you see he is bent on having her, and he belongs to a cut-throat crew that halt at nothing.

This wretched gallows-bird got eye on me; Such is the lot of all earthly things; And so of our fine mystery The whole secret came to light." Ce malheureux pendard me vit, C'est le sort de toutes les choses; Ainsi de motre pot aux roses Tout le secret se decouvrit.

The poor girl, however, had but one wish to escape the crowd that followed her, and hide her head somewhere where she could cry over her "pendard," whom all these proceedings brought vividly back to her affectionate remembrance.