Tab. Why, our Paris street-thieves, for they don't stop at taking off hats, but take cloaks off too.
Tab. Master, why don't they let women take orders?
Mon. Because the sex is frail, Tabarin, and not worthy to conduct the services of the Church, which are sacred mysteries.
Tab. Humbug! It's because they always will have the last word, so it wouldn't do to let them give the responses. Why, the services would never end.
By similar logic Tabarin demonstrates, among others, the following propositions:
An ass is a better linguist than his master, because he understands when he is spoken to, while his lingo is all lost upon the man.
A fiddler has the hardest lot of all mankind, because his life depends upon a bit of wood and a piece of cord, for all the world like a malefactor's.
Cut-purses are the most liberal of all men, for they not only empty their own purses, but those of other people.
If you put a miller, a tailor, a bailiff and an attorney in a bag, the first thing to come out will be a thief.