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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book IV.

CHAPTER 4
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For, as Homer saith, it is a grievous, dreadful, and unnatural thing to perish at sea.

And indeed Aeneas, in the storm that took his fleet near Sicily, was grieved that he had not died by the hand of the brave Diomedes, and said that those were three, nay four times happy, who perished in the conflagration at Troy.

No man here hath lost his life, the Lord our Saviour be eternally praised for it! but in truth here is a ship sadly out of order.

Well, we must take care to have the damage repaired.

Take heed we do not run aground and bulge her..


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