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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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I understand, quoth Pantagruel, what he meaneth by that sign.

It denotes marriage, and withal the number thirty, according to the profession of the Pythagoreans.

You will be married.

Thanks to you, quoth Panurge, in turning himself towards Goatsnose, my little sewer, pretty master's mate, dainty bailie, curious sergeant-marshal, and jolly catchpole-leader.
Then did he lift higher up than before his said left hand, stretching out all the five fingers thereof, and severing them as wide from one another as he possibly could get done.

Here, says Pantagruel, doth he more amply and fully insinuate unto us, by the token which he showeth forth of the quinary number, that you shall be married.


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