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What! You have given me four sols, for those little sols there were worth five liards. Ah! To show you my gratitude, I want to tell you the sublime songs of the Mammamouche a comedic title or character trope representing an exoticized foreigner on the strand shore of Cappadocia; which melted his heart like the snows of Mount Etna, and made me avoid the most horrible tortures.
Ah! My nanny, let us listen to him; I love the poor, I do.
Will you be long?
No, Madam.
I am willing to grant you this little entertainment.
I thank you.
42 livres. A Louis of 24 livres French currency and then 18 livres make 42 livres. Go on, keep speaking.
I was brought before the Mufti and the Cadi: the Mufti was there, and the Cadi here; I had my feet and hands tied with brass wire ropes, mounted on iron spikes soaked in hemlock; imagine what that is like. I asked for my guitar; it was not that one, it was another: they untied my feet, they untied my hands, I approached the Mufti who was here, you are the Mufti; I bowed and I said:
Harfeïnam robek milon femur:
Then to the Cadi who was there:
Harfeïnam robek milon femur.
Good man, what does that mean?
That my divinity only walks beside his right. twice.