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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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You are, quoth Panurge, by cockshobby, a right honest man, and I love you with all my heart.

Eat a little of this quince-pie; it is very proper and convenient for the shutting up of the orifice of the ventricle of the stomach, because of a kind of astringent stypticity which is in that sort of fruit, and is helpful to the first concoction.

But what?
I think I speak Latin before clerks.

Stay till I give you somewhat to drink out of this Nestorian goblet.

Will you have another draught of white hippocras?
Be not afraid of the squinzy, no.


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