The silence which he preserved allowed the prologue to proceed without hindrance, and no perceptible disorder would have ensued, if ill−luck had not willed that the scholar Joannes should catch sight, from the heights of his pillar, of the mendicant and his grimaces.
Le silence qu’il gardait laissait aller le prologue sans encombre, et aucun désordre sensible ne serait survenu, si le malheur n’eût voulu que l’écolier Joannes avisât, du haut de son pilier, le mendiant et ses simagrées.