This wine is none of the worst.

What wine drink you at Paris?
I give myself to the devil, if I did not once keep open house at Paris for all comers six months together.

Do you know Friar Claude of the high kilderkins?
Oh the good fellow that he is! But I do not know what fly hath stung him of late, he is become so hard a student.

For my part, I study not at all.

In our abbey we never study for fear of the mumps, which disease in horses is called the mourning in the chine.