Now have you heard a truthful lay,
How with rich priests the bishops play;
And Rutebœuf the moral draws
That, spite of kings’ and bishops’ laws,
No evil times has he to dread
Who still has silver at his need.
Rutebœuf.
A BALLADE OF OLD-TIME LADIES
(Translated by John Payne.)
TELL me, where, in what land of shade,