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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book II.

CHAPTER 2
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They are not so many in number as were in the army of Xerxes, for he had thirty hundred thousand fighting-men, if you will believe Herodotus and Trogus Pompeius, and yet Themistocles with a few men overthrew them all.

For God's sake, take you no care for that.

Cobsminny, cobsminny, said Panurge; my codpiece alone shall suffice to overthrow all the men; and my St.
Sweephole, that dwells within it, shall lay all the women squat upon their backs.

Up then, my lads, said Pantagruel, and let us march along..


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