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Pull away and save tide, for nothing is so dear and precious as time; therefore we will be sure to put it to a good use. He would fain have carried us first to bathe in the bagnios of the cardin-hawks, which are goodly delicious places, and have us licked over with precious ointments by the alyptes, alias rubbers, as soon as we should come out of the bath.
But Pantagruel told him that he could drink but too much without that.
He then led us into a spacious delicate refectory, or fratery-room, and told us: Braguibus the hermit made you fast four days together; now, contrariwise, I'll make you eat and drink of the best four days through stitch before you budge from this place.
But hark ye me, cried Panurge, may not we take a nap in the mean time? Ay, ay, answered Aedituus; that is as you shall think good; for he that sleeps, drinks.
Good Lord! how we lived! what good bub! what dainty cheer! O what a honest cod was this same Aedituus!.
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