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Therefore is it a common proverb to this day, to give a man the monk, or, as in French, lui bailler le moine, when they would express the doing unto one a mischief.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Therefore is it a common proverb to this day, to give a man the monk, or, as in French, lui bailler le moine, when they would express the doing unto one a mischief.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Dit qu'il a veu bailler au Sabbat du pain benist, & de l'encens, mais il ne sentoit bon comme celuy de l'Eglise, & que c'estoit vn des Diables nommé
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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Before the duke took his departure from King Louis's Court, the latter entered into a treaty with him in that connection to supply him with three hundred lances: "De bailler au Valentinois trois cents lances pour l'aider à conquérir Bologne au nome de l'Eglise, et opprimer les Ursins, Baillons et Vitelozze."
The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912
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Therefore is it a common proverb to this day, to give a man the monk, or, as in French, lui bailler le moine, when they would express the doing unto one a mischief.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Fond, de non bailler à boire et manger aux Vaudois, sans savoir qui ils étaient; et ce sur peine de la corde. "
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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"Que le Roy ne povoit avec son honneur bailler aide et assistence a icelluy son bon frere et cousin a l'encontre du Roy de Naples, qui estoit son confrere et allye, veu et considere qu'il avoit prise et recue l'ordre de la garretiere.
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_ Dieu veuille par sa miséricorde avoir pitié de son église et du royaume de France, les deux ensemble sont prestz de tomber en grande ruyne; Dieu veuille bailler bon conseil à nostre jeune roy et inspirer ses gouverneurs à bien faire; ils entrent à leur gouvernement par ung pauvre commencement, mais ce est en punition de noz pechez. "
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Before the duke took his departure from King Louis's Court, the latter entered into a treaty with him in that connection to supply him with three hundred lances: "De bailler au
The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Rousselay pourront et de receu et bailler quictance et discharge telle que mestier sera et generalemeat promettre, tenir et obliger biens et heiritages -- presents m Gales et Nieolaa Doublet Janus Verrazanus "
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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