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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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What I have told you of dice, I say the same of the play at cockall.

It is a lottery of the like guile and deceitfulness; and therefore do not for convincing of me allege in opposition to this my opinion, or bring in the example of the fortunate cast of Tiberius, within the fountain of Aponus, at the oracle of Gerion.

These are the baited hooks by which the devil attracts and draweth unto him the foolish souls of silly people into eternal perdition.
Nevertheless, to satisfy your humour in some measure, I am content you throw three dice upon this table, that, according to the number of the blots which shall happen to be cast up, we may hit upon a verse of that page which in the setting open of the book you shall have pitched upon.
Have you any dice in your pocket?
A whole bagful, answered Panurge.

That is provision against the devil, as is expounded by Merlin Coccaius, Lib.
2.

De Patria Diabolorum.


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