By 1600, the ratio of pikers to gunmen was roughly 3:2. By mid-century the ratio was only 1:2, and by 1670 there was just one piker to every three gunmen in the French Army.

“Charming, there you are. I've been looking all over for you. Grumpy pants here wouldn't tell me where you went.”

When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.

He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.