But now, hither come, some drink, some drink here! Bring the fruit.
These chestnuts are of the wood of Estrox, and with good new wine are able to make you a fine cracker and composer of bum-sonnets.

You are not as yet, it seems, well moistened in this house with the sweet wine and must.
By G--, I drink to all men freely, and at all fords, like a proctor or promoter's horse.

Friar John, said Gymnast, take away the snot that hangs at your nose.

Ha, ha, said the monk, am not I in danger of drowning, seeing I am in water even to the nose?
No, no, Quare?
Quia, though some water come out from thence, there never goes in any; for it is well antidoted with pot-proof armour and syrup of the vine-leaf.
Oh, my friend, he that hath winter-boots made of such leather may boldly fish for oysters, for they will never take water.

What is the cause, said Gargantua, that Friar John hath such a fair nose?
Because, said Grangousier, that God would have it so, who frameth us in such form and for such end as is most agreeable with his divine will, even as a potter fashioneth his vessels.