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Gwynplaine! He knew the name. Masca ridens. Like every one else, he had been to see the Laughing Man. He had read the sign nailed up against the Tadcaster Inn as one reads a play-bill that attracts a crowd. He had noted it. He remembered it directly in its most minute details; and, in any case, it was easy to compare them with the original.
He turned the pages with his thumb, stopped at a certain one, opened the book wide on the stove, and read, "'De Denasatis, it is here." And he continued, "Bucca fissa usque ad aures, genezivis denudatis, nasoque murdridato, masca eris, et ridebis semper." "There it is for certain." Then he replaced the book on one of the shelves, growling.
'Let no one presume to kill another man's aldia or ancilla, as a striga, witch, which is called masca; because it is not to be believed by Christian minds, that a woman can eat up a live man from within; and if any one does so he shall pay 60s. as her price, and for his fault, half to her master, and half to the king.
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