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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Complete.

CHAPTER 1
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I will get me to my drawer; in terms of falconry, my tiring.

What drawer or tiring do you mean?
said Gargantua.

My breviary, said the monk, for just as the falconers, before they feed their hawks, do make them draw at a hen's leg to purge their brains of phlegm and sharpen them to a good appetite, so, by taking this merry little breviary in the morning, I scour all my lungs and am presently ready to drink.
After what manner, said Gargantua, do you say these fair hours and prayers of yours?
After the manner of Whipfield (Fessecamp, and corruptly Fecan.), said the monk, by three psalms and three lessons, or nothing at all, he that will.

I never tie myself to hours, prayers, and sacraments; for they are made for the man and not the man for them.

Therefore is it that I make my prayers in fashion of stirrup-leathers; I shorten or lengthen them when I think good.


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