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The constable wagered his big black coquedouille before the king and the lady of Sorel, who were playing cards before supper; and his majesty was well pleased, because he would be relieved of this noble, that displeased him, and that without costing him a Thank You. "And how will you manage the affair?" said Madame de Sorel to him, with a smile. "Oh, oh!" replied the constable.
But having had the ill fortune to borrow of Maître Jacquet Coquedouille the sum of six livres ten sous, and having paid him back at divers terms eighty livres two sous, he had found himself at the last to owe yet six livres two sous to the account of his creditor, which account was approved correct by the judges, for Jacquet Coquedouille was a sound arithmetician.
From this it may be concluded by the learned that the great coquedouille was a household utensil in the shape of a kettle used for cooking things." "Well," continued the constable, who was the Sieur of Richmond, "I will have the husband ordered to go into the country for a day and a night, to arrest certain peasants suspected of plotting treacherously with the English.
Thinking herself quite learned enough, Madame Petit, who was, as has been stated, a virtuous, wise, and honest wife, refused to listen to the said constable. After certain arguments, reasonings, tricks and messages, which were of no avail, he swore by his great black coquedouille that he would rip up the gallant although he was a man of mark. But he swore nothing about the lady.
The constable wagered his big black coquedouille before the king and the lady of Sorel, who were playing cards before supper; and his majesty was well pleased, because he would be relieved of this noble, that displeased him, and that without costing him a Thank You. "And how will you manage the affair?" said Madame de Sorel to him, with a smile. "Oh, oh!" replied the constable.
"True," said the king; "it was not made to be shown." "Old coquedouille! that was your wife," said the constable. "My lord constable, she is asleep, poor girl!" "Quick, quick, then! To horse! Let us be off, and if she be in your house I'll forgive you." Then the constable, followed by the provost, went to the latter's house in less time than it would have taken a beggar to empty the poor-box.
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