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Gargantua and Pantagruel
Book V.

CHAPTER 5
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Pope-hawk will pardon thee all this.

But never be so mad as to meddle with these sacred birds, as much as thou lovest the profit, welfare, and life not only of thyself, and thy friends and relations alive or dead, but also of those that may be born hereafter to the thousandth generation; for so long thou wouldst entail misery upon them.

Do but look upon that basin.

Catso! let us rather drink, then, quoth Panurge.

He that spoke last, spoke well, Mr.
Antitus, quoth Friar John; while we are looking on these devilish birds we do nothing but blaspheme; and while we are taking a cup we do nothing but praise God.


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