[Gargantua and Pantagruel Book IV. by Francois Rabelais]@TWC D-Link bookGargantua and Pantagruel Book IV. CHAPTER 4 1/4
CHAPTER 4.XXIV. How Panurge was said to have been afraid without reason during the storm. Good morrow, gentlemen, said Panurge; good morrow to you all; you are in very good health, thanks to heaven and yourselves; you are all heartily welcome, and in good time.
Let us go on shore .-- Here, coxswain, get the ladder over the gunnel; man the sides; man the pinnace, and get her by the ship's side.
Shall I lend you a hand here? I am stark mad for want of business, and would work like any two yokes of oxen.
Truly this is a fine place, and these look like a very good people.
Children, do you want me still in anything? do not spare the sweat of my body, for God's sake. Adam--that is, man--was made to labour and work, as the birds were made to fly.
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