OIGNIEZ A MASTIN LE CUL, IL VOUS CHIERA EN LA PAUME
(Rub a dog's bum, and he'll shit in your hand)
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Medieval people tended not to be prudish... Variants on this survive also, perhaps all deriving from the original above:
OIGNIEZ LE VILAIN LA PAUME, ET IL VOUS CHI[E]RA ENS
(Rub a peasant's hand, and he'll shit on you)
OIGNI LO VILAIN, IL TE CHIERA EN LA MAIN
(Rub a peasant, and he'll shit on your hand)
GRATEZ AL VILAIN LA COILLE, E IL VOUS CHIERA EN LA PALME
(Scratch a peasant's balls, and he'll shit on your hand)
I'm amused by the combination of extreme snobbery and equally extreme scattology. It tells us quite a lot about the thirteenth century...
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