For a clerk hath great power beyond the simple and unlettered of the world, be they as cunning even as Brother Thomas.
"Nom Dieu! this is another story," said D'Aulon, turning the paper about in his hands and looking doubtfully at me.

But I smiled upon him, whereby he was the more perplexed.

"The ink is hardly dry, and in some places has run and puddled, so that, poor clerk as I am, I can make little of it"; and he pored on it in a perplexed sort.

"Tush, it is beyond my clerkhood," he said at last.

"You, Messire Saint-Mesmin,"-- turning to the physician--"must interpret this." "Willingly, fair sir," said the physician, moving round to the shutter, which he opened, while the cordelier's eyes glittered, for now there was one man less between him and the half-open door.