And what, I pray you?
A glove, a point, or some such trifling toy of no importance, to make him keep a gentle kind of stirring in the research and quest thereof.

In like manner, these small scolding debates and petty brabbling contentions, which frequently we see spring up and for a certain space boil very hot betwixt a couple of high-spirited lovers, are nothing else but recreative diversions for their refreshment, spurs to and incentives of a more fervent amity than ever.

As, for example, we do sometimes see cutlers with hammers maul their finest whetstones, therewith to sharpen their iron tools the better.

And therefore do I think that these three lots make much for my advantage; which, if not, I from their sentence totally appeal.

There is no appellation, quoth Pantagruel, from the decrees of fate or destiny, of lot or chance; as is recorded by our ancient lawyers, witness Baldus, Lib.