[Gargantua and Pantagruel Book II. by Francois Rabelais]@TWC D-Link bookGargantua and Pantagruel Book II. CHAPTER 2 2/10
In saying this, he took the head and held it warm foregainst his codpiece, that the wind might not enter into it.
Eusthenes and Carpalin carried the body to the place where they had banqueted, not out of any hope that ever he would recover, but that Pantagruel might see it. Nevertheless Panurge gave him very good comfort, saying, If I do not heal him, I will be content to lose my head, which is a fool's wager.
Leave off, therefore, crying, and help me.
Then cleansed he his neck very well with pure white wine, and, after that, took his head, and into it synapised some powder of diamerdis, which he always carried about him in one of his bags.
Afterwards he anointed it with I know not what ointment, and set it on very just, vein against vein, sinew against sinew, and spondyle against spondyle, that he might not be wry-necked--for such people he mortally hated.
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