The commander Forbin of Janson, being at a repast with a celebrated Boileau, had undertaken to pun him upon her name: "What name, told him, carry you thither? Boileau: I would wish better to call me Drink wine." The poet was answered him in the same tune: " And you, sir, what name have you choice? Janson: I should prefer to be named John-Meal. The meal don't is valuable better than the furfur?"
A Physician eighty years of age had enjoied of a health unalterable. Theirs friends did him of it compliments every days: "Mister doctor, they said to him, you are admirable man. What you make then for to bear you as well?—I shall tell you it, gentlemen he was answered them, and I exhort you in same time at to follow my exemple. I live of the product of my ordering without take any remedy who I command to my sicks."