Note 1023 — Chapter XIII · THE FEAST OF FOOLS
Reading edition
R. de Renard, xii. 469 (ed. Martin, vol. ii. 14):
‘Dan prestre, il est la feste as fox. Si fera len demein des chox Et grant departie a Baieus: Ales i, si verres les jeus.’
Branch xii of the Roman is the composition of Richart de Lison, who, according to Martin, suppl. 72, wrote in Normandy †1200. The phrase ‘faire les choux’ = ‘get drunk,’ cabbages being regarded as prophylactic of the ill effects of liquor.