He wanted to fling them into the swinehouse and leave them there on bread and water until someone should pay what they owed for them.
“Do you,” said Ulenspiegel, “want me to go surety for them?”
“Ay,” replied the baes, “if someone will be surety for you.”
The Good Red Noses were about to do it, but Ulenspiegel stopped them, saying:
“The dean will be surety, I am going to find him.”
Thinking of the masses for the dead, he went to the deanery and told him how that the baes of the Trumpet, being possessed of the devil, spoke of nothing but pigs and blind men, the pigs devouring the blind and the blind eating the pigs under divers unholy guises of roasts and fricassees. During these fits, said he, the baes broke everything in the house, and he begged the dean to come and deliver the poor man from this wicked fiend.
The dean promised, but said he could not go immediately, for at that moment he was casting up the accounts of the chapter, and endeavouring to derive some profit out of them.
Seeing him impatient, Ulenspiegel said he would come back with the wife of the baes and that the dean could speak to her himself.
“Come both of you,” said the dean.
Ulenspiegel came back to the baes, and said to him: