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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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Then did this fool of a husband and his mad wife join together, and, falling on the doctor and the surgeon, did so scratch, bethwack, and bang them that they were left half dead upon the place, so furious were the blows which they received.

I never in my lifetime laughed so much as at the acting of that buffoonery.
Let us come to where we left off, quoth Panurge.

Your words, being translated from the clapper-dudgeons to plain English, do signify that it is not very inexpedient that I marry, and that I should not care for being a cuckold.

You have there hit the nail on the head.

I believe, master doctor, that on the day of my marriage you will be so much taken up with your patients, or otherwise so seriously employed, that we shall not enjoy your company.


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