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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book II.

CHAPTER 2
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I am at your commandment, body and goods, tripes and bowels.
In the meantime the lady was not very well content with the want of her paternosters, for they were one of her implements to keep her countenance by in the church; then thought with herself, This bold flouting roister is some giddy, fantastical, light-headed fool of a strange country.

I shall never recover my paternosters again.

What will my husband say?
He will no doubt be angry with me.

But I will tell him that a thief hath cut them off from my hands in the church, which he will easily believe, seeing the end of the ribbon left at my girdle.

After dinner Panurge went to see her, carrying in his sleeve a great purse full of palace-crowns, called counters, and began to say unto her, Which of us two loveth other best, you me, or I you?
Whereunto she answered, As for me, I do not hate you; for, as God commands, I love all the world.


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