Sir, I will heartily excuse your absence.
Stercus et urina medici sunt prandia prima.
Ex aliis paleas, ex istis collige grana.
You are mistaken, quoth Rondibilis, in the second verse of our distich, for it ought to run thus-- Nobis sunt signa, vobis sunt prandia digna.
If my wife at any time prove to be unwell and ill at ease, I will look upon the water which she shall have made in an urinal glass, quoth Rondibilis, grope her pulse, and see the disposition of her hypogaster, together with her umbilicary parts--according to the prescript rule of Hippocrates, 2.
Aph.

35--before I proceed any further in the cure of her distemper.

No, no, quoth Panurge, that will be but to little purpose.

Such a feat is for the practice of us that are lawyers, who have the rubric, De ventre inspiciendo.

Do not therefore trouble yourself about it, master doctor; I will provide for her a plaster of warm guts.