J'a
J'ai touz jors engraisse ma pance
D'autrui chateil, d'autrui sustance:
Ci a boen clerc, a miex mentir!
All my days I have filled my belly
With others' wealth, with others' goods:
An honest cleric, the best of liars!
La Repentance Rutebeuf, 13th cent.
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