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Oh, cozening knaves! Said I, 'Becomes you to complain of guile. 'Alas, Bon Bec, said he, 'I but outwit the simple, but these monks would pluck Lucifer of his wing feathers. And went a league bemoaning himself that he was not convent-bred like his servant 'He would put it to more profit; and railing on quiens.
Because he could blind the culls but not the quiens. At last I prevailed on him to leave cursing and canting, and tell me his adventure. Said he, 'I sat outside the gate of yon monastery, full of sores, which I sho'ed the passers-by. Oh, Bon Bec, beautifuller sores you never saw; and it rained coppers in my hat.
'If thy wit be scant, good Bon Bec, thy manners are a charm. I have made a good bargain. So he to the 'rotboss, and I to a decent inn, and sketched the landlord's daughter by candle-light, and started at morn batzen three the richer, but could not find my master, so loitered slowly on, and presently met him coming west for me, and cursing the quiens. Why so?
He fled adown the road. I followed leisurely, and found him at dinner. 'Curse the quiens, said he. And not a word all dinner time but 'Curse the quiens! "I said, I must know who' they were, before I would curse them. "'Quiens? why, that was dogs. And I knew not even that much? He had made a bad bargain. Well, well, said he, 'to-morrow we shall be in Germany.
Good fathers," cried I, "whose day is this?" "St. Isidore's," said one. "St. Isidore," cried I, in a sort of rapture. "Why, St. Isidore is my patron saint: so that accounts." And the simple folk swallowed my miracle as those accursed quiens my wounds.
Presently the monks came home from some procession, and the convent dogs ran out to meet them, curse the quiens! 'What, did they fall on thee and bite thee, poor soul? 'Worse, worse, dear Bon Bec. Had they bitten me I had earned silver. But the great idiots, being, as I think, puppies, or little better, fell on me where I sat, downed me, and fell a licking my sores among them.
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