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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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Thou wilt see the ashes thus aloft dispersed exhibiting thy wife in a fine posture.

By botanomancy; for the nonce I have some few leaves in reserve.

By sicomancy; O divine art in fig-tree leaves! By icthiomancy, in ancient times so celebrated, and put in use by Tiresias and Polydamas, with the like certainty of event as was tried of old at the Dina-ditch within that grove consecrated to Apollo which is in the territory of the Lycians.

By choiromancy; let us have a great many hogs, and thou shalt have the bladder of one of them.

By cheromancy, as the bean is found in the cake at the Epiphany vigil.


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