Now, let us make an end of the difference betwixt the Levites and mole-catchers of Landerousse. Whereabouts were we? Priapus was standing in the chimney-corner, and having heard what Mercury had reported, said in a most courteous and jovial manner:King Jupiter, while by your order and particular favour I was garden-keeper-general on earth, I observed that this word hatchet is equivocal to many things;for it signifies a certain instrument by the means of which men fell and cleave timber. It also signifies(at least I am sure it did formerly) a female soundly and frequently thumpthumpriggletickletwiddletob yed. Thus I perceived that every cock of the game used to call his doxy his hatchet; for with that same tool (this he said lugging out and exhibiting his nineinch knocker) they so strongly and resolutely shove and drive in their helves, that the females remain free from a fear epidemical amongst their sex, viz., that from the bottom of the male's belly the instrument should dangle at his heel for want of such feminine props. And I remember, for I have a member, and a memory too, ay, and a fine memory, large enough to fill a butter-firkin; I remember, I say, that one da of tubilustre (horn-fair) at the festivals of goodman Vulcan in May, I heard Josquin Des Prez, olkegan,hobrecht, Agricola, Brumel, Camelin, Vigoris, De la Fage, Bruyer, Prioris, Seguin, De la Rue, Midy,Moulu, Mouton, Gascogne, Loyset, Compere, Penet,Fevin, Rousee, Richard Fort, Rousseau, Consilion,Constantio Festi, Jacquet Bercan, melodiously singing the following catch on a pleasant green: