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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book II.

CHAPTER 2
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The fox, perceiving this, said unto the lion, O gossip lion, my friend, I pray thee do not put in all thy moss there; keep somewhat, for there is yet here another little hole, that stinks like five hundred devils; I am almost choked with the smell thereof, it is so pestiferous and empoisoning.
Thus must these walls be kept from the flies, and wages allowed to some for wiping of them.

Then said Pantagruel, How dost thou know that the privy parts of women are at such a cheap rate?
For in this city there are many virtuous, honest, and chaste women besides the maids.

Et ubi prenus?
said Panurge.

I will give you my opinion of it, and that upon certain and assured knowledge.

I do not brag that I have bumbasted four hundred and seventeen since I came into this city, though it be but nine days ago; but this very morning I met with a good fellow, who, in a wallet such as Aesop's was, carried two little girls of two or three years old at the most, one before and the other behind.


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