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Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language.

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Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language.
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Eliot, John.
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London :: Printed by [Richard Field for] Iohn VVolfe,
1593.
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French language -- Conversation and phrase books -- English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Ortho-epia Gallica Eliots fruits for the French: enterlaced vvith a double nevv inuention, vvhich teacheth to speake truely, speedily and volubly the French-tongue. Pend for the practise, pleasure, and profit of all English gentlemen, who will endeuour by their owne paine, studie, and dilligence, to attaine the naturall accent, the true pronounciation, the swift and glib grace of this noble, famous, and courtly language." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21218.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.

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Le Barbier. Chap. 12.

QVe fait le gentil Barbier?

Bien venu monsieur.

Ie viens pour me faire la barbe & les cheueulx.

Mettez vous là: on vous accoustrera tantost.

Me voulez vous lauer, car i'ay grand' haste?

Attendez vn peu, i'ay quasi fait auec ce bon seigneur.

ça donnes moy des linges blancs.

Que dist vostre calendrier, Barbier?

Que la Lune est en vraye eclypse de pecune.

Quand fait-il bon saigner?

Quand-il y a des escus à gaigner.

Vous estes auaricieux en Diable.

Ie demande que tousiours fanté: bourse pleine d'argent,

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belle amye pour amour,

Et Paradis à la fin de mes iours.

Vous auez la barbe bien herisée & touillée.

Detouillez ma perruque auec ce peigne.

Ne frottez pas si rudement.

Frottez tout bellement.

Vne Pomade & du sauon, ho.

Haulssez ce bassin.

Mouillez moy doucement.

Vous couperay ie les cheueux?

Voulez vous faire raser la barbe?

Vous laueray ie le col, la poictrine & l'estomac?

Vous nettoyeray-ie les dents?

Garçon, où sont mes-cizeaux?

Baillez moy ce peigne d'Iuoire.

Aiguisez vn peu le rasoir.

Vous coupperay-ie les moustaches?

Vne cure-dent & cure-oreille ho.

Vous estes quasi accoustré.

Prenez le miroir, & mirez vous.

Me voyla bien.

Sambredeigne, ie porte vne mine bien fiere & felonne.

Tien pour ton vin. Adieu.

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