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"It is to be done," answered Jean, "but not easily. You must ride to Porto Vecchio and there find a man called Casabianda. You will find him on the quay or in the Cafe Amis. Tell him your name, and that you must be at Bastia by daybreak. He has a good boat." Lory rose to his feet.
Rather to do nothing than to do good, is the lowest state of a degraded mind. Boileau says to his pupil, 'Que les vers ne soient pas votre éternel emploi, Cultivez vos amis . That voluntary debility, which modern language is content to term indolence, will, if it is not counteracted by resolution, render in time the strongest faculties lifeless, and turn the flame to the smoke of virtue.
"Hearken not unto him!" said Le Brusquet; "he is for ever looking out for recruits for his guard. Blaise de Lorgnac is as insatiable a stirrer of the porridge of the times as I; only I use a longer ladle, as beseems a person of my wisdom. As for you, mon ami Blaise, you throw your lures in vain! Know you that Monsieur Broussel is a philosopher, who has found contentment in fifty écus a year, did you not say, monsieur?" And, reaching for his lute, he ran his fingers over the strings and began to sing: "Mes amis, la terre est
You come from Brittany by your accent. Why did you leave it?" "To save my skin," he answered, without reflecting. And then made haste to cover the blunder. "I have an enemy," he explained. M. des Amis frowned, stroking his square chin. "You ran away?" "You may say so. "A coward, eh?" "I don't think so." And then he lied romantically.
Pons took to himself the only life-partner permitted to him among his kind an old man and a fellow-musician. But for La Fontaine's fable, Les Deux Amis, this sketch should have borne the title of The Two Friends; but to take the name of this divine story would surely be a deed of violence, a profanation from which every true man of letters would shrink.
In that case perhaps M. Bertrand des Amis would not be too exigent. And anyway, Andre-Louis had not eaten for four-and-twenty hours, and whilst the employment here offered the precise nature of which he was yet to ascertain did not appear to be such as Andre-Louis would deliberately have chosen, he was in no case now to be fastidious. Then, too, he liked the name of Bertrand des Amis.
And this went on so long that at last some irreverent bystander, longing to see business done, cried out, "Allons, mes amis, avancez." And at that moment a skilful thrust from Malin wounded Poivre in the face, and the first blood was drawn. But Malin received it back with interest, for Poivre, who was a tall and very muscular man, beat down the other's guard, and laid open his bare head.
The end of the Grimms' tale of Faithful John is clearly the same as that of Amis and Amile. Once more we are led to believe in some dependence of the Folk-Tale on Romance, or, vice versa, since an incident like that of resuscitation by the sacrifice of a child is not likely to occur independently to two different tellers of tales.
While the early Mastersingers were pouring forth their strains with undiminished confidence in their own powers, a new species of poetic literature was growing up beside them in the form of simple and humorous fables, or daring satires, often directed against the clergy and nobility, which were among the most popular productions of the Middle Ages. Such were "Friar Amis" and the "Ship of Fools."
Eusebius of Verceil, and the other by the commandment of the Queen in honour of St. Peter. And the King did do bear thither two arks of stone, wherein were buried Amis and Amile; and Amile was borne into the Church of St. Peter, and Amis into the Church of St. Eusebius; and the other corpses were buried here and there.
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