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What? said Gargantua, the progress and carrying on of the divine truth. By St. Goderan, said the monk, that is not my exposition. It is the style of the prophet Merlin.
Some of the lines are very grossly applied. As You Like it, act iii. sc. 2. The giant's name is Gargantua, not Garagantua. Coriolanus, act iii. sc. 1. See vol. i. p. 498. See ante, ii. 236, where Johnson charges Robertson with verbiage. This word is not in his Dictionary. Pope, meeting Bentley at dinner, addressed him thus: 'Dr. Bentley, I ordered my bookseller to send you your books.
Then did he sleep, without unbridling, until eight o'clock in the next morning. How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the day.
After this talk Touchfaucet got to his horse, and Gargantua for his safety allowed him the guard of thirty men-at-arms and six score archers to attend him, under the conduct of Gymnast, to bring him even unto the gate of the rock Clermond, if there were need.
By the Merdi, they are not of my making, but I heard them of this good old grandam, that you see here, and ever since have retained them in the budget of my memory. Let us return to our purpose, said Grangousier. What, said Gargantua, to skite? No, said Grangousier, but to wipe our tail.
After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can.
For the building of the abbey Gargantua gave twenty-seven hundred thousand eight hundred and thirty-one long-wooled sheep; and for the maintenance thereof he gave an annual fee-farm rent of twenty-three hundred and sixty-nine thousand five hundred and fourteen rose nobles.
The room which I occupy is not furnished in a dashing style, nor has it a parquet ciré, but it is on the first floor, and thrice as large and lofty and half as dear as that I had at Meurice's on the quatrième; and a Titan might stretch himself down at ease on the bed in which I sleep. Gargantua would cry for mercy. For all this, and a bottle of wine, I pay three francs.
But one thing never varies, either in our household or in any other, neither in the north nor in the south of the Empire, and that is the dessert and the manner of eating it: after all these little dishes, which are a mere make-believe, a wooden bowl is brought in, bound with copper an enormous bowl, fit for Gargantua, and filled to the very brim with rice, plainly cooked in water.
Thus fell he down also to the ground stark dead. And presently the monk gave his horse the spur, and kept the way that the enemy held, who had met with Gargantua and his companions in the broad highway, and were so diminished of their number for the enormous slaughter that Gargantua had made with his great tree amongst them, as also Gymnast, Ponocrates, Eudemon, and the rest, that they began to retreat disorderly and in great haste, as men altogether affrighted and troubled in both sense and understanding, and as if they had seen the very proper species and form of death before their eyes; or rather, as when you see an ass with a brizze or gadbee under his tail, or fly that stings him, run hither and thither without keeping any path or way, throwing down his load to the ground, breaking his bridle and reins, and taking no breath nor rest, and no man can tell what ails him, for they see not anything touch him.
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