Chapter 41 Chapter Thirty-Nine

How the monks received the high-level hospitality and talked loudly at the meal Gao Kangda sat down and began to eat. Gao Langgujie narrated the cause and reason of the war between him and Piccoloshou. When he talked about how the hermit John Day Antmore successfully defended the monastery , the praise of this man's valor is not inferior to that of Camilius, Scipion, Pompey, Caesar, Themistocles, and others.Gao Kangda asked to send someone to pick him up immediately so that he could discuss with him the steps to be taken.The steward was ordered to invite the monk to ride Gaolanggujie's mule and bring his wooden stick for holding the cross, and came happily.

After the monks arrived, everyone rushed forward, condolences, hugs, greetings, and so on: "Hey, Brother John, my friend, Brother John, my old cousin, Brother John, hell, let me give you a hug, my friend!" "Let me hug." "Ah, you bastard, let me hug you and squash you." Friar John was also a good joker, and there never was a man so polite and amiable. Gao Kangda said: "Come, come, put a stool beside me, at this end." The Friar said, "Very well, if you like. Squire, bring water! Pour it, boy, pour it, and let me clear the liver and moisten the throat."

Bonokrates said: "Deposita cappa; let us take off this religious robe." "Alas, my lord, by God, that will not do," said the monk; "in statu-tis Ordinis, there is a rule that the congregation's coat shall not be taken off." Jimnast said, "Come on, come on, let the Ruler go to the bathroom! This robe is breaking your shoulders, take it off." The monk said: "My friend, let me wear it. To tell you the truth, wearing it, I can only drink more and feel comfortable. As soon as I take it off, the attendants will use it to make leggings. I am in Gulina. ③I have met once. Besides, I am not hungry. Just let me sit down in my club clothes. To be honest, I would like to toast you and your horse. May God bless you all with health! I am I have already eaten, but I will eat less than you if I eat again, because my stomach is as good as St. Refuse. Eat all fish, get rid of sharks⑤, like to eat quail wings, or nun's thighs, otherwise, wouldn't it be worthwhile to die hard? Our dean especially appreciates the tender white meat of capons."

① Camilius: General of the Roman Empire, one of the twenty heroes in "Init". ② Scipion: The famous Roman general who defeated Carthage. ③ Pompeii: A famous Roman general, the rival of Caesar. ④ Themistocles: A famous general in Athens in the fifth century BC. ① Latin: "Take off your club coat". ② Latin: "in our rules". ③ Goulein: A castle near Shi Nong, Baumeng? Ang Vilon. ④ Benedictine priests wear long boots, and "boots" (botte) and "barrel" (botte) are homonyms. ⑤ This is a proverb, and the author only said half of it. The whole sentence is: "Eat all the fish, get rid of the sharks, eat the fish and the back, and leave the belly." The main thing here is that he eats everything.

Jimnast said: "In this, he is different from the fox, because the fox can catch the capon or the hen's chicks, but the white meat will never be eaten." "Why?" asked the monk. Jimnast replied: "Because they don't have a cook to cook them. The chicken is not cooked, it is red, not white. Red meat means raw meat, except for sea crabs and river prawns, which are not boiled." Not red." The monk said: "God of Bayar! The healer in our monastery has not cooked his head, and his eyes are always red like a wooden stick! . This rabbit leg can cure rheumatism Pain②. Lift the trowel ③, tell me why Miss’s legs are always so tender?”

Gao Kangda said: "This question was never mentioned by Aristotle, Alexander Aphrodisius, or Plutarch." The monk said: "There are three reasons why that place is naturally fresh and tender: primo4, because there is a constant flow of water, secundo5, because it is shady, dark, hidden, and the sun does not reach it; thirdly, because there is always a cool wind, The wind in the underwear, especially in the crotch, keeps blowing. Ha, what a joy! Waiter, drink, drink!?. Pour, pour, pour?. How merciful God is to give us such good wine! ?.I tell the truth, if I had been born in the time of Jesus Christ, I would never have let the Jews kidnap him from the olive garden. And those saints, one by one, had enough to eat, and left them in a pinch Good masters, cowardly fleeing each other for their lives, or I cut off their legs, and the devil abandons me! I hate him more than poison than poison, who runs away when it is time to pick up a knife.

Hmph, why don't I be his emperor in France for 80 years!To tell you the truth, I would be surprised if I didn't beat up those soldiers who deserted at Bavia⑥ as dogs without tails or ears!Let them suffer from malaria every two days!In such an emergency, why not rather die than leave the good king?Isn't it much better and more glorious to die heroically on the battlefield than to live in stealth? ?. We can't have gosling this year?. Oh my friend, cut me a piece of pork? .Damn it!No more wine; germinavit radix Jesse.I don't want to live anymore, I'm dying of thirst? This wine is not bad.What kind of wine do you drink in Paris?When I was in Paris, if I hadn’t been entertaining guests every day for more than six months, whoever came whoever pleased would have killed me! ? Do you know Brother Claude from Barois?Oh, what a good friend indeed!But what vermin stung him?I don't know since when, he did nothing but read books.I don't read.In our monastery, we never read books for fear of getting earaches.Our late dean once said that it is the scariest thing for a monk to become a scholar.To tell you the truth, my friend, magis magnos clericos non sunt magis magnossapientes? . Never have I seen so many rabbits as this year.I searched everywhere, but neither the eagle nor the vulture could be found.Monsieur de la Bellonière promised me a hawk, but he has recently written to me that he has asthma.This year's quail will eat people's ears④.I don't like to catch with nets, because I'm tired of waiting ① Bayar Knight's colloquial language.

② See the eighteenth chapter of the third volume and the sixteenth chapter of the twenty-eighth volume of Plinius' "Compendium of Natural History", saying that people suffering from rheumatism should always wear a rabbit leg. ③ The whole sentence should be: "When you lift the trowel, you think of the mason." Here it means: "When you lift the thigh, you think of the woman." ④ Latin: "first". ⑤ Latin: "Second". ⑥ Bavia: The name of the Italian city, King Francois I of France was defeated and captured by Charles V in the Battle of Bavia.The soldiers who deserted the king and ran for their lives were hated by the French.

① Latin: "From the book of Jesse there must be one", see "Old Testament? Isaiah" Chapter 11, Section 1.There is also this sentence in the circumcision scriptures of the Catholic Church. ② Upper Barois, between Lorraine and Champagne, here refers to Saint-Denis. ③ Latin: "The highest position is not always the most capable." ④ means too much. people.If I don't run or jump, I feel uncomfortable.Of course, jumping over a wall or over a fence will leave traces on my jersey.Then I got a decent hound.If the rabbit can jump over it, let me die.I stopped it when a servant gave it to Monsieur de Morevilliers. Is it not right? "

Jimnast said, "Yes, yes, Brother John, speak to all the devils, and no one must be right!" Said the monk: "So, since there are devils, let's drink to them! My God! What's the use of a hound for this cripple? God's body! Why don't you give him a pair of fat cows to make him happy!" Bonocrates said: "What? Brother John, do you know how to curse?" The friar said: "This can make my language more beautiful, which is the color of Cicero's rhetoric." ① Mr. de Morevilliers is a local rich man, and the author of this book says he is lame.

② "God's body!", "God's virtue!" were all swear words at that time.