[Gargantua and Pantagruel Book II. by Francois Rabelais]@TWC D-Link bookGargantua and Pantagruel Book II. CHAPTER 2 8/9
But to the purpose, said he; are not you in love with me? I have, said she, told you so many times already that you should talk so no more to me, and if you speak of it again I will teach you that I am not one to be talked unto dishonestly.
Get you hence packing, and deliver me my paternosters, that my husband may not ask me for them. How now, madam, said he, your paternosters? Nay, by mine oath, I will not do so, but I will give you others.
Had you rather have them of gold well enamelled in great round knobs, or after the manner of love-knots, or, otherwise, all massive, like great ingots, or if you had rather have them of ebony, of jacinth, or of grained gold, with the marks of fine turquoises, or of fair topazes, marked with fine sapphires, or of baleu rubies, with great marks of diamonds of eight and twenty squares? No, no, all this is too little.
I know a fair bracelet of fine emeralds, marked with spotted ambergris, and at the buckle a Persian pearl as big as an orange.
It will not cost above five and twenty thousand ducats.
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