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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book IV.

CHAPTER 4
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Now I will hold you a peck of Busch oysters that in weight, value, and price he shall outdo you, and you shall be found light in the very numerical manner as when you shall be hanged and suspended.
Patience, said Panurge; but you would do much for me and your whole posterity if you would chaffer with me for him, or some other of his inferiors.

I beg it of you; good your worship, be so kind.

Hark ye, friend of mine, answered the other; with the fleece of these your fine Rouen cloth is to be made; your Leominster superfine wool is mine arse to it; mere flock in comparison.

Of their skins the best cordovan will be made, which shall be sold for Turkey and Montelimart, or for Spanish leather at least.

Of the guts shall be made fiddle and harp strings that will sell as dear as if they came from Munican or Aquileia.


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