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"How Godric became Deric and sailed the seas with Roger Mouse"

Godric and Roger go into business together transporting goods from place to place by boat. Godric tells Roger his real name is "Gudericus"— "Deric for short"—because he feels that by changing his name, he can somehow escape St. Cuthbert's admonition to stop sinning. The time spent with Roger is wild and debauched. They travel from town to town, drinking and fornicating almost nightly. Because they cannot initially afford to pay all of their workers, they develop tricky schemes to cheat them out of wages. Piracy is a problem then and the two men find a way to use this as an advantage. They stage pirate raids of their own to rob the pilgrims aboard their ships. Roger takes it much further than Godric and, when it is...