culverin-shot

Updated: June 11, 2025

There is no metal like it to resist blows, in so far that, if culverin-shot should come to graze upon it, you would incontinently see distil from thence the blessed fruit of the great pox as small as rain. Beware, in the name of the devils, and hold off. Furthermore, no thunderbolt or lightning would fall upon it. For why? They are all either blest or consecrated.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2