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"Frier Laurence, my lord, now holy water help us! Some witch or some divell is sent to delude us: Haud credo Laurentius that thou shouldst be pen'd thus In the presse of a nun; we are all undone, And brought to discredence, if thou be Frier Laurence."
On certain weeks Cadine owed the frier as much as twenty sous, a crushing debt, which required the sale of an incalculable number of bunches of violets, for she could count upon no assistance from Marjolin. Moreover, she was bound to return Leon's hospitalities; and she even felt some little shame at never being able to offer him a scrap of meat. He himself had now taken to purloining entire hams.
"Heyday!" cries one, "this is a frier in good earnest." "Whatever I am," said the frier, "I hope at least you are what you appear to be. Heaven forbid, for the sake of our posterity, that you should be gentlemen." "Jack," cries one, "let us toss the frier in a blanket."
He thought of the fight Joe Frier and Tom Stacey had had. And he did not drink much himself; he despised a drunkard and these things disgusted him. There was little Phil, too, "the saloon-keeper's boy," and that cut deep. Wouldn't it pay better, in the long run and then the music floated softly in.
"Me in a blanket?" said the frier: "by the dignity of man, I will twist the neck of every one of you as sure as ever the neck of a dunghill-cock was twisted." At which words he pulled off his mask, and the tremendous majesty of Colonel Bath appeared, from which the bucks fled away as fast as the Trojans heretofore from the face of Achilles.
Claruit anno redemptionis nostne 1200 sub Ioanne Anglorimi Rege. The same in English. Richard surnamed Canonicus an obseruant Frier of Trinitie Church in London, was in great loue with the studies of good Artes, and tooke paines in them and learned them.
They also provisioned themselves at the markets, keeping a sharp look-out as they made their way between the stalls, picking up everything that fell, and often assisting the fall by a push of their shoulders. In spite, however, of all the marauding, some terrible scores had to be run up with the "frier" of the Rue de la Grand Truanderie.
"Me in a blanket?" said the frier: "by the dignity of man, I will twist the neck of every one of you as sure as ever the neck of a dunghill-cock was twisted." At which words he pulled off his mask, and the tremendous majesty of Colonel Bath appeared, from which the bucks fled away as fast as the Trojans heretofore from the face of Achilles.
"Rather dirty," I commented, "but otherwise a good, useful member, I make no doubt." "It's a-goin'," said he, alternately drawing in and shooting out the fist in question, "it's a-goin' to fill your eye up." "Is it?" said I. "Ah!" said he. "But what for?" "I aren't a Semmy, nor yet a Quaver, an' as for Friers," said he, very deliberately, "why Frier yourself, says I."
The devil himself, or more properly, one of the many devils who abounded in the sixteenth century, is the hero of the "Historie of Frier Rush." The imagination of the peasantry had peopled the woods and dells with gay and harmless spirits, fairies and imps. These were sometimes mischievous, but might always be propitiated, and excited in the rural mind curiosity and amusement rather than fear.
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