WON BY WIT.
In the reign off Francis I. of France, quickness of wjit was often more promptly rewarded than actual merit. The monk. Regmier Mainus did not lack merit, but (he owed his first advancement, nevertheless, to a clever, retort. Francis, who*was very fond of the game of tennis, was playing a match one day with Mainus. The monk finally ended the hatrd-fought game with aj brilliant 'Stroke | The King was somewhat oat of humour otn account of his defeat. "Remarkable,:'" he-exclaimed, sarcastically "to think)that-such a stroke should be made by-a mere monk!" "Btjt, sire," replied the monk, who was as quick with his wit as he was with his racket, "it is Your Majesty's iown fault that the stroke was not made, jby an abbot." f A week later Mainus received his apV pointmept as abbot of Beaulieu.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 364, 28 March 1918, Page 4
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