wench-courtiers

Updated: March 11, 2026

One thing I will tell you, that as it was both long and large, so was it well furnished and victualled within, nothing like unto the hypocritical codpieces of some fond wooers and wench-courtiers, which are stuffed only with wind, to the great prejudice of the female sex.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1