This is an example of the _tropus_ or _farcius_, so common in the middle ages, which is a paraphrase or extension of the liturgy by inserting additional words between the important parts—as at the _Gloria in Excelsis_, the _Sanctus_, the _Agnus Dei_, etc.—the word _farsus_, _farcius_, or _farcitus_, as it was differently written by the monks of the middle ages, being derived from the Latin _farcire_, used by Pliny the naturalist, Apicius, and Cato the agriculturist, in the sense of filling, distending, enriching. Pope Adrian II. is said to have instituted these _farci_ to be sung in monasteries on solemn festivals. They were the _festivæ laudes_ of the Romans. Others attribute them to the Greek church. These _farci_ were of three kinds in France: the usual liturgy being expanded by inserting additional words in Latin; or the text was Greek and the paraphrase in old French; or, again, the latter was in the vulgar tongue of Oil and Oc. These paraphrases in the vulgar tongue became popular, not only in France, but in England and Germany. From them was derived the proverbial expression, _Se farcir de Grec et de Latin_—that is, to have the head full. These _tropes_ or _farcies_ of mixed French and Latin are still very common in southwestern France, especially in the popular Noëls, which are often rude lines in _patois_ alternate with Latin, after the following style: Born in a manger _Ex Mariâ Virgine_, On the chilly straw _Absque tegumine_. It is not surprising that, with daily High Masses and a perpetual round of imposing services, the people of Aubiet should feel the change when the place became impoverished, the number of priests diminished, and most of the churches destroyed at the invasion of the Huguenots. We are told that when the vicar was unable to sing High Mass on the festival of St. John the Baptist in 1623, there was universal murmuring, and the magistrates drew up a solemn protest against so unheard-of a scandal, which document is still extant.[59] But the church of _Notre Dame de Pitié_, although profaned, was left standing. The admirable confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament soon revived, and with it many of the former solemnities. Père de Mongaillard tells us the _Kyrie eleison farci_ was still chanted in his time.