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"My father ran the Bagaudy, and I now run the Vagrery, but both to the one cry 'The devil take the Franks! and 'Long Live Gaul! "Aëlian and Aman, Bagauders in their days, as we in ours are Vagres, in revolt against the Romans, as we against the Franks Aëlian and Aman, put to death two centuries ago in their old castle near Paris, they are our prophets.
May our druids, both the Christian and the non-Christian, continue to inspire us with a love for freedom and with the virile virtues of our ancestors. "'The devil take the Franks! Long live the Vagrery and Old Gaul! Such is the cry of all Vagres. The Franks call us 'Wand'ring Men, 'Wolves, 'Wolves' Heads. Let us be wolves!
Did not her wound already protect her against the brutalities of the count and the torture of to-day? Die, die, little Odille, we shall live again in yonder world. Were I free I would have made you my wife for life in Vagrery, if you consented.
The bridge lay not far away; we could see it from where we stood and that is the way in which I captured my booty. We are now far enough away from the burg; the count's voice could not be heard there. Remove the jacket from his head and the gag from his mouth. Hurrah for the Vagrery!"
Here are your good friends the Vagres! They approach! Death to the seigneurs and the bishops! "Six men united are stronger than a hundred divided: Let us unite! Each for all, and all for each! 'The devil take the Franks! Long live the Vagrery and Old Gaul!" Who sang this song? Ronan the Vagre. Where did he sing it?
Despite his ire, Bishop Cautin excelled himself as a cook. Long before had a certain sauce known to be a favorite with the bishop been the subject of talk in Vagrery. The holy man was ordered to produce it. He did. He filled with it a large caldron into which each one dipped his roast, whether of game or beef it was a toothsome sauce, made of old wine and oil, aromated with wild thyme.
The Vagres of Ronan are ever faithful to the sacred commandments of the Vagrery: "Let us take from the rich and give to the poor. The Vagre who preserves a sou for the morrow ceases to be a Vagre, a 'Wolf's-head, a 'wand'ring man. He ever divides the booty of the previous evening among the poor, so that he be compelled to pillage fresh renegade bishops, and Frankish oppressors of old Gaul.
I shall narrate to you the conversation that took place between us: "'I said: "Did you ever hear about the Vagres?" "Alas, yes! Those people commit grave crimes in other regions. But, thank God, the Vagrery never entered Burgundy." "Well, bishop, I wish to inform you that bands of Vagres are approaching your diocese." "Oh, woe is me! Woe is all of us! What will become of us all?
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