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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book V.

BOOK V
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The best commentators on that good father take the jubilee after the thirtieth to be the years that are included in this present age till 1550 (there being but one jubilee every fifty years).

Men shall no longer be thought fools next green peas season.
The fools, whose number, as Solomon certifies, is infinite, shall go to pot like a parcel of mad bedlamites as they are; and all manner of folly shall have an end, that being also numberless, according to Avicenna, maniae infinitae sunt species.

Having been driven back and hidden towards the centre during the rigour of the winter, 'tis now to be seen on the surface, and buds out like the trees.

This is as plain as a nose in a man's face; you know it by experience; you see it.

And it was formerly found out by that great good man Hippocrates, Aphorism Verae etenim maniae, &c.


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