text:  A gentleman mounted on a black horse and who probably during the stay of the king had been unable to contemplate the disfigured corpse sufficiently at his ease lingered behind and was amusing himself by examining in all their details the chains irons stone pillars in short the whole paraphernalia of the gibbet which no doubt appeared to him who had been but a few days at Paris and was not aware of the perfection to which all things are brought in the metropolis a paragon of hideous ingenuity