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The herb Pantagruelion, in September, under the autumnal equinox, is dressed and prepared several ways, according to the various fancies of the people and diversity of the climates wherein it groweth. Then must it be parched before the sun till it be drained of its moisture. After this it is in the shadow, where the sun shines not, to be peeled and its rind pulled off.
It is likewise called Pantagruelion because of the notable and singular qualities, virtues, and properties thereof.
In the meanwhile, during your absence, I shall not be neglective of providing a wife for you, nor of those preparations which are requisite to be made for the more sumptuous solemnizing of your nuptials with a most splendid feast, if ever there was any in the world, since the days of Ahasuerus. How Pantagruel did put himself in a readiness to go to sea; and of the herb named Pantagruelion.
It was indeed the talk of madness, good chum, and a very pretty madness was it, one that needeth not any Anticyran purgatives to expel it. So thou must not fash thyself about the lad, du liebe dummkopf, for he will come right very speedily. Didst remark not what he said about the 'herb Pantagruelion, which, in the vulgar, meaneth only hemp?
The herb Pantagruelion hath a little root somewhat hard and rough, roundish, terminating in an obtuse and very blunt point, and having some of its veins, strings, or filaments coloured with some spots of white, never fixeth itself into the ground above the profoundness almost of a cubit, or foot and a half.
"Sapperment, Ned! that was the time of the 'herb Pantagruelion'! Well, what were you doing on the canal at that hour?" asked Mac, slyly. "No, you needn't, now, I see you wink at him, honor bright.
Amongst other things, it was observed how he caused some of his vessels to be fraught and loaded with a great quantity of an herb of his called Pantagruelion, not only of the green and raw sort of it, but of the confected also, and of that which was notably well befitted for present use after the fashion of conserves.
Why it is called Pantagruelion, and of the admirable virtues thereof. By such-like means of attaining to a denomination the fabulous ways being only from thence excepted, for the Lord forbid that we should make use of any fables in this a so veritable history is this herb called Pantagruelion, for Pantagruel was the inventor thereof.
For as Pantagruel hath been the idea, pattern, prototype, and exemplary of all jovial perfection and accomplishment in the truth whereof I believe there is none of you gentlemen drinkers that putteth any question so in this Pantagruelion have I found so much efficacy and energy, so much completeness and excellency, so much exquisiteness and rarity, and so many admirable effects and operations of a transcendent nature, that if the worth and virtue thereof had been known when those trees, by the relation of the prophet, made election of a wooden king to rule and govern over them, it without all doubt would have carried away from all the rest the plurality of votes and suffrages.
Such was their destiny; there was their end appointed, and thither the Coqcigrues can never come. For all the air of that land is full of laughter, which killeth Coqcigrues; and there aboundeth the herb Pantagruelion. But for thee, Master Francoys, thou art not well liked in this island of ours, where the Coqcigrues are abundant, very fierce, cruel, and tyrannical.
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