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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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Therein lieth an evident and manifestly apparent danger.

For if you have any silver coined with a cross upon it, they will cast thee down headlong upon some rocks, as the eagles use to do with the tortoises for the breaking of their shells, as the bald pate of the poet Aeschylus can sufficiently bear witness.

Such a fall would hurt thee very sore, my sweet bully, and I would be sorry for it.

Or otherwise they will let thee fall and tumble down into the high swollen waves of some capacious sea, I know not where; but, I warrant thee, far enough hence, as Icarus fell, which from thy name would afterwards get the denomination of the Funnelian Sea.
Secondly, be out of debt.

For the devils carry a great liking to those that are out of debt.


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