It is only our rustics who are modest and respectful nowadays." "If that be all, I am ready." "I'll take you with me everywhere.

You shall drink, dice, bully, brawl, cudgel the men, and befool the women to the top of your bent.

At the end of twelve months your Whitsun Kingship will be over, you will doff your genteel mummery, and become the leader of my heydukes.

You shall then don the red _mente_, and wait upon those very gentlemen with whom you have been drinking and dicing for a whole year; you shall help into their carriages the same little wenches with whom you used to make merry.

I consider that a very good joke.