e flutter
and eat two sous' worth of tripe in a new inn. On their way they met
Dame Tifaigne, the milliner, who recommended the tavern of the
"Maillez," where the wine was excellent. Thither they went and fared
not wisely but too well. When fifteen sous had already been spent,
they determined to make a day of it, and ordered roast goose with hot
cakes. After further drinking, gauffres, cheese, peeled almonds,
pears, spices and walnuts were called for, and the feast ended in
songs. When the bad quarter of an hour came, their sum of sous proving
inadequate, they parted with some of their finery to meet the score,
and at midnight left the inn dancing and singing--

"Amours au vireli m'en vois."

The streets of Paris, however, at midnight were unsafe even for sober
ladies, and these soon fell among thieves, were stripped of the rest
of their clothing, then taken up for dead by the watch and flung into
the mortuary in the cemetery of the Innocents; but, to the terror of
the gravedigger, were found lying outside the next morning, singing--

"Druin, Druin, ou es allez?
Apporte trois harens salez
Et un pot de vin du plus fort."

Pursuing our way N. by the Rue St. Denis we pass (R.) the restored
fourteenth-century church of St. Leu and St. Gilles, and on our L. two
old reliefs of St. Peter and St. Andrew embedded in the corner of a
modern house at the corner of the Rue St. Denis and the Rue Etienne
Marcel. Near by stood the Painters' Gate of the Philip Augustus wall.
We turn L. by the latter street and soon sight on our R. the massive
machicolated Tower of Jean sans Peur (p. 133). It was at the Hotel de
Bourgogne that the Confreres de la Passion de Jesus Christ were
performing in the sixteenth century, and where in 1548 they were
forbidden by royal decree to play the mystery of the Passion any
longer, and limited to profane, decent and lawful plays. From
1566-1576 the comediens of the Hotel de Bourgogne continued their
performances, which at length became so gross that complaints were
made of the _blasphemes et impudicites_ enacted there, and that not a
farce was played that was not _orde_, _sale et vilaine_. Repeated
ordinances were levelled at the actors, aiming at the purification of
the stage and preventing words of _double entente_. It was here, too,
that the most exalted and noble masterpieces of Corneille and
Racine--_Le Cid_, _Andromaque_ and _Phedre_--were first enacted. We
turn R. by the Rue Francaise