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Updated: June 29, 2025
"One day I walked alone, and sooth to say, lighthearted, for mine honest Denys sweetened the air on the way; but poor Cul de Jatte poisoned it. The next day passing a grand house, out came on prancing steeds a gentleman in brave attire and two servants; they overtook me. The gentleman bade me halt. I laughed in my sleeve; for a few batzen were all my store. He bade me doff my doublet and jerkin.
Was he to have nothing for coming so far out of his way with them? "Here are two batzen, friend. "Add the wine, the good Rhenish?" "Did you give aught for it?" "Ay! the peril of my life." "Hum! what say you, Denys?" "I say it was worth its weight in gold.
How am I to live, if you take my very money from me? 'That is your outlook, said they; and added, He must even find stowage for his stack of herring-scales or batzen, as soon as it was sealed up; 'we have no room for it in the Packhof!" for a man: Here is a roughish welcome "I must leave all my money here; and find stowage for it, in a day or two.
I am my own fatherland, and I keep my patriotism in my purse. Ever since the fat citizens and journeymen took to cutting about the streets with their pop-guns, they are all grown such big men that if one of them happens to set eyes on you, you must jump out of his way like a bewitched frog. Wife! Wife, I say! Here's a batzen. Run across to Seiler's and fetch me a herring.
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