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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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What say they?
I hear and understand them, quoth Panurge; their sound is, by my thirst, more uprightly fatidical than that of Jove's great kettles in Dodona.

Hearken! Take thee a wife, take thee a wife, and marry, marry, marry; for if thou marry, thou shalt find good therein, herein, here in a wife thou shalt find good; so marry, marry.

I will assure thee that I shall be married; all the elements invite and prompt me to it.

Let this word be to thee a brazen wall, by diffidence not to be broken through.

As for the second part of this our doctrine,--thou seemest in some measure to mistrust the readiness of my paternity in the practising of my placket-racket within the Aphrodisian tennis-court at all times fitting, as if the stiff god of gardens were not favourable to me.


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