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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book V.

CHAPTER 5
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In their tongue of ignorance they called him Twofold.

His dam lay by him, and her hair and shape was like her whelp's, only she had four heads, two male and two female, and her name was Fourfold.

She was certainly the most cursed and dangerous creature of the place, except her grandam, which we saw, and had been kept locked up in a dungeon time out of mind, and her name was Refusing-of-fees.
Friar John, who had always twenty yards of gut ready empty to swallow a gallimaufry of lawyers, began to be somewhat out of humour, and desired Pantagruel to remember he had not dined, and bring Double-fee along with him.

So away we went, and as we marched out at the back-gate whom should we meet but an old piece of mortality in chains.

He was half ignorant and half learned, like an hermaphrodite of Satan.


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