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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book II.

CHAPTER 2
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I dilige and redame my proxims.

I observe the decalogical precepts, and, according to the facultatule of my vires, I do not discede from them one late unguicule.

Nevertheless, it is veriform, that because Mammona doth not supergurgitate anything in my loculs, that I am somewhat rare and lent to supererogate the elemosynes to those egents that hostially queritate their stipe.
Prut, tut, said Pantagruel, what doth this fool mean to say?
I think he is upon the forging of some diabolical tongue, and that enchanter-like he would charm us.

To whom one of his men said, Without doubt, sir, this fellow would counterfeit the language of the Parisians, but he doth only flay the Latin, imagining by so doing that he doth highly Pindarize it in most eloquent terms, and strongly conceiteth himself to be therefore a great orator in the French, because he disdaineth the common manner of speaking.

To which Pantagruel said, Is it true?
The scholar answered, My worshipful lord, my genie is not apt nate to that which this flagitious nebulon saith, to excoriate the cut( ic)ule of our vernacular Gallic, but vice-versally I gnave opere, and by veles and rames enite to locupletate it with the Latinicome redundance.


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