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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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Ho, ho, I am quite mistaken; I digress from the purpose, and fly out of my discourse, as if my spirits were a-wool-gathering.

The devil take me, if I go thither! Virtue God! The chamber is already full of devils.

O what a swinging, thwacking noise is now amongst them! O the terrible coil that they keep! Hearken, do you not hear the rustling, thumping bustle of their strokes and blows, as they scuffle with one another, like true devils indeed, who shall gulp up the Raminagrobis soul, and be the first bringer of it, whilst it is hot, to Monsieur Lucifer?
Beware, and get you hence! for my part, I will not go thither.

The devil roast me if I go! Who knows but that these hungry mad devils may in the haste of their rage and fury of their impatience take a qui for a quo, and instead of Raminagrobis snatch up poor Panurge frank and free?
Though formerly, when I was deep in debt, they always failed.

Get you hence! I will not go thither.


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