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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book IV.

CHAPTER 4
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Be, be, be, bous, bous, bous, cried Panurge; bous, bous, be, be, be, bous, bous, I am lost.
I see neither heaven nor earth; of the four elements we have here only fire and water left.

Bou, bou, bou, bous, bous, bous.

Would it were the pleasure of the worthy divine bounty that I were at this present hour in the close at Seuille, or at Innocent's the pastry-cook over against the painted wine-vault at Chinon, though I were to strip to my doublet, and bake the petti-pasties myself.
Honest man, could not you throw me ashore?
you can do a world of good things, they say.

I give you all Salmigondinois, and my large shore full of whelks, cockles, and periwinkles, if, by your industry, I ever set foot on firm ground.

Alas, alas! I drown.


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