Dinner time conversation was about silly names I got from the Dunkirk marriage registers. Lupus who turned out to be Wolfgang, a Swiss mercenary. Or Iler, in Latin Hilarius, which was Hillary. And there were a couple of Ægidiuses, which prompted some Middle Dutch poetry recital:
Egidius, waer bestu bleven?This in turn prompted a modern Dutch parody:
Mi lanct na di, gheselle myn
Egidius, waer bestu bleven?Then Myshele asked for the time and it was, in fact, 19:20.
Het is al twintig over zeven
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