we should be hung by order of the king if we were caught. Alas! human actions are taken by two handles.

That is branded with disgrace in one which is crowned in another. He admires Cicero who blames Catiline. Is it not so, master? What say you to this philosophy? I possess philosophy by instinct, by nature, ut apes geometriam. — Come! no one answers me. What unpleasant moods you two are in! I must do all the talking alone. That is what we call a monologue in tragedy. — Pasque-Dieu! I must inform you that I have just seen the king, Louis XI., and that I have caught this oath from him, — Pasque-Dieu! They are still making a hearty howl in the city. — ‘Tis a villanous, malicious old king. He is all swathed in furs. He still owes me the money for my epithalamium, and he came within a nick of