about two in the
afternoon
Villon replied that the statute reached no farther than farces , drolls , antics , loose and dissolute games , and that he asked no more than what he had seen allowed at Brussels and other places . Tickletoby notwithstanding peremptorily bid him provide himself elsewhere if he would , and not to hope for anything out of his monastical wardrobe . Villon gave an account of this to the players , as of a most abominable action ; adding , that God would shortly revenge himself , and make an example of Tickletoby . The Saturday following he had notice given him that Tickletoby , upon the filly of the convent -- so they call a young mare that was never leaped yet -- was gone a-mumping to St. Ligarius , and would be back about two in the afternoon . Knowing this , he made a cavalcade of his devils of the Passion through the town . They were all rigged with wolves ' , calves ' , and rams ' skins , laced and trimmed with sheep 's heads , bull 's feathers , and large kitchen tenterhooks , girt with broad leathern girdles , whereat hanged dangling huge cow-bells and horse-bells , which made a horrid din . Some held in their claws black sticks full of squibs and crackers ; others had long lighted pieces of wood , upon which , at the corner of every street , they flung whole handfuls of rosin-dust , that made a terrible fire and smoke .