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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book III.

CHAPTER 3
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But it is not, as you suppose, in the proposed matter.

For there it is not where I itch, it is not there where it fretteth, hurts, or vexeth me; for, henceforth being quit and out of debt, what countenance will I be able to keep?
You may imagine that it will become me very ill for the first month, because I have never hitherto been brought up or accustomed to it.

I am very much afraid of it.

Furthermore, there shall not one hereafter, native of the country of Salmigondy, but he shall level the shot towards my nose.
All the back-cracking fellows of the world, in discharging of their postern petarades, use commonly to say, Voila pour les quittes, that is, For the quit.

My life will be of very short continuance, I do foresee it.


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