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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book IV.

CHAPTER 4
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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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