nine in the evening
It was on this day that Noël d'Arnaye blasphemed for a matter of a half-hour and then went to the Crowned Ox , where he drank himself into a contented insensibility ; that Ysabeau de Montigny , having wept a little , sent for Gilles Raguyer , a priest and aforetime a rival of François de Montcorbier for her favors ; and that Philippe Sermaise grinned and said nothing . But afterward Sermaise gnawed at his under lip like a madman as he went about seeking for François de Montcorbier . 2 . '' _ Deux estions , et n'avions qu'ung Cueur _ '' It verged upon nine in the evening -- a late hour in those days -- when François climbed the wall of Jehan de Vaucelles ' garden . A wall ! -- and what is a wall to your true lover ? What bones , pray , did the Sieur Pyramus , that ill-starred Babylonish knight , make of a wall ?