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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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Misused C.
Crumpled C.

Demiss C.

Adamitical C.
Frumpled C.

Refractory C.
Ballockatso to the devil, my dear friend Panurge, seeing it is so decreed by the gods, wouldst thou invert the course of the planets, and make them retrograde?
Wouldst thou disorder all the celestial spheres, blame the intelligences, blunt the spindles, joint the wherves, slander the spinning quills, reproach the bobbins, revile the clew-bottoms, and finally ravel and untwist all the threads of both the warp and the waft of the weird Sister-Parcae?
What a pox to thy bones dost thou mean, stony cod?
Thou wouldst if thou couldst, a great deal worse than the giants of old intended to have done.

Come hither, billicullion.


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