8/9 That will not harm the Bishop Peter, whom my master has gone to visit. He is a friend of his, a man learned in ecclesiastical affairs, who comes to hold disputations with the Bishop--" "Disputations--what be those? There is very little money at the tail of anything in this town." I thought I would try the effect of a broad silver piece upon him, at the same time giving the lad the information that disputations were kinds of fights with the tongues of men instead of with their fists. He seized me by the hand. I am not stable-master, but feed the grouting piglings. |