[Gargantua and Pantagruel Book IV. by Francois Rabelais]@TWC D-Link bookGargantua and Pantagruel Book IV. CHAPTER 4 2/7
backbone, like a bagpipe. His legs, like a hawk's lure.
His ribs, like a spinning-wheel. His knees, like a joint-stool.
His brisket, like a canopy. His thighs, like a steel cap.
His shoulder-blades, like a mortar. His hips, like a wimble.
His breast, like a game at nine- His belly as big as a tun, buttoned pins. after the old fashion, with a His paps, like a hornpipe. girdle riding over the middle His armpits, like a chequer. of his bosom.
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