Quid juris! Blood shall spurt. By quid! His nose

Shall have a pax. By nails! A bloody quid!

[Seizing up from the table a round loaf for a shield and a long loaf for a sword, he reels out.]

ALISOUN

[Laughing.]

So, Peggy, they shall woo thy lily-white hoof,

While Alisoun doth keep her rendezvous.

[Comes over to Chaucer.]

Ho, candle! Come out from thy bushel.

CHAUCER