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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book V.

CHAPTER 5
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Come, he that would be thought a gentleman, let him storm a town; well, then, shall we go?
I dare swear we'll do their business for them with a wet finger; they'll bear it, never fear; since they could swallow down more foul language that came from us than ten sows and their babies could swill hogwash.

Damn 'em, they don't value all the ill words or dishonour in the world at a rush, so they but get the coin into their purses, though they were to have it in a shitten clout.

Come, we may chance to kill 'em all, as Hercules would have done had they lived in his time.

We only want to be set to work by another Eurystheus, and nothing else for the present, unless it be what I heartily wish them, that Jupiter may give 'em a short visit, only some two or three hours long, and walk among their lordships in the same equipage that attended him when he came last to his Miss Semele, jolly Bacchus's mother.
'Tis a very great mercy, quoth Panurge, that you have got out of their clutches.

For my part, I have no stomach to go there again; I'm hardly come to myself yet, so scared and appalled I was.


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