[Gargantua and Pantagruel Book V. by Francois Rabelais]@TWC D-Link bookGargantua and Pantagruel Book V. BOOK V 8/8
Therefore, both dry and hungry souls, pot and trenchermen, fully enjoying those books, perusing, quoting them in their merry conventicles, and observing the great mysteries of which they treat, shall gain a singular profit and fame; as in the like case was done by Alexander the Great with the books of prime philosophy composed by Aristotle. O rare! belly on belly! what swillers, what twisters will there be! Then be sure all you that take care not to die of the pip, be sure, I say, you take my advice, and stock yourselves with good store of such books as soon as you meet with them at the booksellers; and do not only shell those beans, but e'en swallow them down like an opiate cordial, and let them be in you; I say, let them be within you; then you shall find, my beloved, what good they do to all clever shellers of beans. Here is a good handsome basketful of them, which I here lay before your worships; they were gathered in the very individual garden whence the former came.
So I beseech you, reverend sirs, with as much respect as was ever paid by dedicating author, to accept of the gift, in hopes of somewhat better against next visit the swallows give us. THE FIFTH BOOK..
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