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Ulenspiegel took the bottle, drank his fill, then handed it back again.
"Call me a Spaniard," he said, "if I've left enough to make a minnow drunk!"
Lamme inspected the bottle. Then, without ever ceasing to groan, he rummaged in his wallet and produced another bottle, and another piece of sausage which he cut up in slices and began to munch in the most melancholy fashion.

HERE BEGINS THE SECOND BOOK OF
THE LEGEND OF THE GLORIOUS
JOYOUS AND HEROIC ADVENTURES
OF TYL ULENSPIEGEL AND LAMME
GOEDZAK IN THE LAND OF FLANDERS
AND ELSEWHERE

"Ah!" said Mathyssen, " there lives a man who is sadder even than you are-Grypstuiver the fishmonger. None speaks to him, and all avoid him, so much so that when he wants his pint of bruinbier he is forced to go out all alone to the poor folk of the Roode Valck. Verily he is well punished."

And at my feet stretched out on every side the land of Flanders, with a few lights shining here and there, and I said to myself: 'They that rise early and work late, surely they are the blessed of God!'