The Jester shook his hood and bells, and leaped upon a chair;
The pages laughed, the women screamed, and tossed their scented hair;
The falcon whistled, staghounds bayed, the lapdog barked without,
The scullion dropped the pitcher brown, the cook railed at the lout;
The steward, counting out his gold, let pouch and money fall,—
And why? because the...
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Saint Anthony at church
Was left in the lurch,
So he went to the ditches
And preached to the fishes;
They wriggled their tails,
In the sun glanced their scales.The carps, with their spawn,
Are all hither drawn;
Have opened their jaws,
Eager for each clause.
No sermon beside
Had the carps so... -
à Esclairon
Je suis jaloux, je le veulx confesser,
Non d'aultre amour qui mon coeur mette en crainte,
Mais des amys de la parolle saincte,
Pour qui j'ai veu madame me laisser.
Je commençois à propos luy dresser
Du jeune archier dont mon ame est attainte,
Quand, s'esloignant de moy et de ma plainte,
A un prescheur elle alla s'...