"Alas, messire, methinks then perchance it may be true that thou, for all thy youth, and despite thine eyes, art a mocker of love, a despiser of women?

Fierce eyed and scant of breath, Beltane redoubled his blows, striving to beat his mocker to the earth, whereat he but laughed again, saying: "Look to thy long legs, dullard!"

THE BLACKBIRD [Bowing with every sign of admiration.] Allow me to CHANTECLER That inveterate mocker!

Whoever it was who had spoken (I did not wish to know), I had no need to condemn the mocker; they themselves silenced him; then Jacques Richard (still less worthy of credit) cried out again with a voice that was husky.

During my fortnight in Tallahassee there were never many consecutive five minutes of daylight in which, if I stopped to listen, I could not hear at least one mocker.

[The text is here mutilated: Hasisadra is ordered to threaten the mockers with Ea's vengeance.