Le Doigt Sale
(foole's finger)
Il ne faut pas mettre le doigt entre l'arbre et l'écorce.
L'affaire lui a glissé entre les doigts.
[er, MuKhTaLiF pEsHoOn. (near to mirth, or so)]
It caused a meruaylous swete sauour
To respyre and smell aboute his fyngers
A pelare of marble Quare-on a tulke
Wiþ
Mashies
Hwat spekstu of eny stone
As in old pictures tender cherubim
Her armes doo sweetly spred
Like two rare branchie saples
As frome the fyre departeth fume
This man in his breech feelyng such fumblyng
Clepe at his dore, or knokke with a stoon
They are but burs, Cosen, throwne vpon thee
nice tristramin
