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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book IV.

CHAPTER 4
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Be, be, bous, bous, bous, said Panurge; I am much afraid it is the bitch Helen.

It is truly Mixarchagenas, returned Epistemon, if thou likest better that denomination, which the Argives give him.

Ho, ho! I see land too; let her bear in with the harbour; I see a good many people on the beach; I see a light on an obeliscolychny.

Shorten your sails, said the pilot; fetch the sounding line; we must double that point of land, and mind the sands.

We are clear of them, said the sailors.
Soon after, Away she goes, quoth the pilot, and so doth the rest of our fleet; help came in good season.
By St.John, said Panurge, this is spoke somewhat like.


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