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Old
Song
When
the
Jester
,
arrayed
in
the
cowl
and
frock
of
the
hermit
,
and
having
his
knotted
cord
twisted
round
his
middle
,
stood
before
the
portal
of
the
castle
of
Front-de-Boeuf
,
the
warder
demanded
of
him
his
name
and
errand
.
"
Pax
vobiscum
,
"
answered
the
Jester
,
"
I
am
a
poor
brother
of
the
Order
of
St
Francis
,
who
come
hither
to
do
my
office
to
certain
unhappy
prisoners
now
secured
within
this
castle
.
"
"
Thou
art
a
bold
friar
,
"
said
the
warder
,
"
to
come
hither
,
where
,
saving
our
own
drunken
confessor
,
a
cock
of
thy
feather
hath
not
crowed
these
twenty
years
.
"
"
Yet
I
pray
thee
,
do
mine
errand
to
the
lord
of
the
castle
,
"
answered
the
pretended
friar
;
"
trust
me
it
will
find
good
acceptance
with
him
,
and
the
cock
shall
crow
,
that
the
whole
castle
shall
hear
him
.
"
"
Gramercy
,
"
said
the
warder
;
"
but
if
I
come
to
shame
for
leaving
my
post
upon
thine
errand
,
I
will
try
whether
a
friar
's
grey
gown
be
proof
against
a
grey-goose
shaft
.
"
With
this
threat
he
left
his
turret
,
and
carried
to
the
hall
of
the
castle
his
unwonted
intelligence
,
that
a
holy
friar
stood
before
the
gate
and
demanded
instant
admission
.
With
no
small
wonder
he
received
his
master
's
commands
to
admit
the
holy
man
immediately
;
and
,
having
previously
manned
the
entrance
to
guard
against
surprise
,
he
obeyed
,
without
further
scruple
,
the
commands
which
he
had
received
.
The
harebrained
self-conceit
which
had
emboldened
Wamba
to
undertake
this
dangerous
office
,
was
scarce
sufficient
to
support
him
when
he
found
himself
in
the
presence
of
a
man
so
dreadful
,
and
so
much
dreaded
,
as
Reginald
Front-de-Boeuf
,
and
he
brought
out
his
"
pax
vobiscum
"
,
to
which
he
,
in
a
good
measure
,
trusted
for
supporting
his
character
,
with
more
anxiety
and
hesitation
than
had
hitherto
accompanied
it
.
But
Front-de-Boeuf
was
accustomed
to
see
men
of
all
ranks
tremble
in
his
presence
,
so
that
the
timidity
of
the
supposed
father
did
not
give
him
any
cause
of
suspicion
.
"
Who
and
whence
art
thou
,
priest
?
"
said
he
.
"
Pax
vobiscum
,
"
reiterated
the
Jester
,
"
I
am
a
poor
servant
of
St
Francis
,
who
,
travelling
through
this
wilderness
,
have
fallen
among
thieves
,
(
as
Scripture
hath
it
,
)
quidam
viator
incidit
in
latrones
,
which
thieves
have
sent
me
unto
this
castle
in
order
to
do
my
ghostly
office
on
two
persons
condemned
by
your
honourable
justice
.
"
