I hate a gibble-gabble and a rimble-ramble talk.

I am for a man of brevity.
I will, for your sake, replied the holder-forth; but then he shall give me three livres, French money, for each pick and choose.

It is a woundy price, cried Panurge; in our country I could have five, nay six, for the money; see that you do not overreach me, master.

You are not the first man whom I have known to have fallen, even sometimes to the endangering, if not breaking, of his own neck, for endeavouring to rise all at once.

A murrain seize thee for a blockheaded booby, cried the angry seller of sheep; by the worthy vow of Our Lady of Charroux, the worst in this flock is four times better than those which the Coraxians in Tuditania, a country of Spain, used to sell for a gold talent each; and how much dost thou think, thou Hibernian fool, that a talent of gold was worth?
Sweet sir, you fall into a passion, I see, returned Panurge; well, hold, here is your money.
Panurge, having paid his money, chose him out of all the flock a fine topping ram; and as he was hauling it along, crying out and bleating, all the rest, hearing and bleating in concert, stared to see whither their brother-ram should be carried.