Let them sing, they will have to pay.
Ils chantent, ils payeront.
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Saying uttered when the populace, incensed by some new form of extortion, vented their anger against the Minister in Mazarinades. — Edouard Fournier, L'Esprit dans l'histoire, 5th ed. (1883), p. 267. — King (1904), no. 1321
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Cf. Alexandre Dumas, Vingt ans après (1845), ch. 2; Arsène Houssaye, Voyages Humoristiques—Amsterdam—Paris—Venise (1856), translated in Bentley's Miscellany, vol. xli (1857), p. 258; Samuel Adams Drake, Around the Hub: A Boys' Book about Boston (1881), p. 199; variant reported by the Marquis de Gabriac, Souvenirs diplomatiques de Russie et d’Allemagne (Revue des Deux Mondes, 1896), pt. 3, p. 590: Qu’ils chantent, pourvu qu’ils payent.