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MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ.
J'ai fait par comblance[1]Gironde larguecapé,[2]Soiffant picton sans lance,[3]Pivois non maquillé,[4]Tirants, passe à la rousse,[5]Attachés de gratouse,[6]Combriot galuché.[7]Cheminant en bon drille,Un jour à la CourtilleJe m'en étais enganté.[8]
En faisant nos gambades,Un grand messière franc,[9]Voulant faire parade,Serre un bogue d'orient.[10]Après la gambriade,[11]Le filant sur l'estrade,[12]D'esbrouf je l'estourbis,[13]J'enflaque sa limace,[14]Sod bogue, ses frusques, ses passes,[15]Je m'en fus au fourallis.[16]
Par contretemps, ma largue,Voulant se piquer d'honneur,Craignant que je la nargueMoi que n' suis pas taffeur,[17]Pour gonfler ses valadesEncasque dans un rade,[18]Sert des sigues a foison[19]On la crible à la grive,[20]Je m' la donne et m'esquive,[21]Elle est pommée maron.[22]
Le quart d'œil lui jabotte[23]Mange sur tes nonneurs,[24]
  1. ↑ An increase.
  2. ↑ A handsome mistress.
  3. ↑ Drinking wine without water.
  4. ↑ Unadulterated wine.
  5. ↑ Stockings.
  6. ↑ Lace.
  7. ↑ Laced hat.
  8. ↑ Clad.
  9. ↑ Citizen.
  10. ↑ A gold watch.
  11. ↑ Dance.
  12. ↑ Following him in the boulevard.
  13. ↑ I stun him.
  14. ↑ I take off his shirt.
  15. ↑ I steal his watch, clothes, and shoes.
  16. ↑ The receiving house.
  17. ↑ Coward.
  18. ↑ Enters a shop.
  19. ↑ Steals money.
  20. ↑ They call for the guard.
  21. ↑ I fly.
  22. ↑ Taken in the fact.
  23. ↑ The commissary questions him.
  24. ↑ Denounces his accomplices.
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