[2070] p. 201.
[2071] p. 602; compare a similar case at Legbourne, above, p. [412].
[2072] p. 43.
[2073] pp. 518, 564.
[2074] p. 16.
[2075] pp. 73, 207, 220, 305, 624.
[2076] Montaiglon, Recueil de Poésies Françoises des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, t. VIII, pp. 171, 173.
[2077] pp. 43-4.
[2078] But a better example of his wit is shown in his repartee to another’s pun, quoted in Coulton, A Medieval Garner, p. 289. “A clerical buffoon once ventured to ask him across the table, ‘What is the difference, my lord, betwixt Rigaud and Ribaud [rascal]?’ ‘Only this board’s breadth,’ replied the Archbishop.” The jest is however widespread, mutatis mutandis, in the east as well as in the west. It is told of one John Scot, ‘What difference is there between sot and scot?’ ‘Just the breadth of the table.’ Calendar of Jests, Epigrams, Epitaphs etc. (Edinburgh 1753); it also occurs in Gladwin’s Persian Moonshee and in several Indian collections of facetiae. W. A. Clouston, Popular Tales and Fictions (1887) I, p. 51.
[2079] p. 207.