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Again, it is written thou shalt not steal, And this you follow, i'faith! to the letter, For open-faced robbery suits ye better. The gripe of your vulture claws you fix On all and your wiles and rascally tricks Make the gold unhid in our coffers now, And the calf unsafe while yet in the cow Ye take both the egg and the hen, I vow.
"I will undertake to throw up fifty, and when the day comes, to defend them." "I'faith!" exclaimed Gondy, "you speak with a certainty that gives me pleasure; and since monsieur le cure can answer for you " "I answer for him," said the curate.
O, your Viscountess never drinks under your Beer-glass, your Citizens Wives simper and sip, and will be drunk without doing Credit to the Treater; but in their Closets, they swinge it away, whole Slashes, i'faith, and egad, when a Woman drinks by her self, Glasses come thick about: your Gentlewoman, or your little Lady, drinks half way, and thinks in point of good manners, she must leave some at the bottom; but your true bred Woman of Honour drinks all, Supernaculum, by Jove.
"The town is in open revolt, and just now, as I was crossing the Rue Montorgueil with Monsieur du Vallon, who is here, and is your humble servant, they wanted in spite of my uniform, or perhaps because of my uniform, to make us cry 'Long live Broussel! and must I tell you, my lord what they wished us to cry as well?" "Speak, speak." "'Down with Mazarin! I'faith, the treasonable word is out."
"Are you not married?" asked the vicar, trotting his animal again. "No," said she. "Not at all?" "I'faith! No!" "What a shame, at your age!" "You are right, sir; but you see, a poor girl who has had a child is a bad bargain."
"My reverend father," said the king, "behold the twilight hour, in which ears feminine may be regaled with certain pleasant stories, for the ladies can laugh without blushing, or blush without laughing, as it suits them best. Give us a good story a regular monk's story. I shall listen to it, i'faith, with pleasure, because I want to be amused, and so do the ladies."
'Noble Captain, said Kisloch, 'we trust that you will permit us to enlist in the band. This is not the first time we have served under your orders in this spot. Old co-mates, i'faith, who have seen the best and the worst. We suspected where you might be found, although, thanks to the ever felicitous invention of man, it is generally received that you died in battle.
At that she slapped his face and made his nose bleed. He was captivated. "I'faith, art a daring girl," he cried delightedly. "Knowest who I am?" "I care not!" replied the girl. "George the First!" said the King, rising. Madcap Moll blanched. "Sire," she murmured, "I did not know a poor, unwitting country lass have mercy!" The King touched her lightly on the nape.
My uncle, for whose character she had a great veneration, being by this time come to town, I introduced him to my bride; and, although he was not very much subject to refined sensations, he was struck dumb with admiration at her beauty. After having kissed and gazed at her for some time, he turned to me, saying. "Odds bobs, Rory! a notable prize indeed, finely built and gloriously rigged, i'faith!
These orations always terminated with, "I never lose my purse; cut-purses never take my purse; no, i'faith, because I take proper care of it." To teach his worship wisdom, and cure him of his self-sufficiency, More engaged a cut-purse to relieve the magistrate of his money-bag whilst he sat upon the bench.
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