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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Complete.

CHAPTER 1
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By God's feast-gazers, said the monk, the porter of our abbey then hath not his head well boiled, for his eyes are as red as a mazer made of an alder-tree.

The thigh of this leveret is good for those that have the gout.

To the purpose of the truel,--what is the reason that the thighs of a gentlewoman are always fresh and cool?
This problem, said Gargantua, is neither in Aristotle, in Alexander Aphrodiseus, nor in Plutarch.

There are three causes, said the monk, by which that place is naturally refreshed.

Primo, because the water runs all along by it.


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