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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Complete.

CHAPTER 1
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One of the said masters, called Jousse Bandouille, showed him that it was not seemly nor decent for one of his condition to do so, and that therefore he should deliver it to one of them.

Ha, said Janotus, baudet, baudet, or blockhead, blockhead, thou dost not conclude in modo et figura.

For lo, to this end serve the suppositions and parva logicalia.
Pannus, pro quo supponit?
Confuse, said Bandouille, et distributive.

I do not ask thee, said Janotus, blockhead, quomodo supponit, but pro quo?
It is, blockhead, pro tibiis meis, and therefore I will carry it, Egomet, sicut suppositum portat appositum.

So did he carry it away very close and covertly, as Patelin the buffoon did his cloth.


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