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This flea which I have in mine ear.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Others made a virtue of necessity.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Needs must when the Devil drives.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Let us fly and save our bacon.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
As soon as he was born, he cried not as other babes use to do, Miez, miez, miez, miez, but with a high, sturdy, and big voice shouted about, Some drink, some drink, some drink, as inviting all the world to drink with him.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Plain as the nose in a man's face.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
To return to our wethers.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
A good crier of green sauce.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Corn is the sinews of war.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
And thereby hangs a tale.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Here enter not attorneys, barristers,
Nor bridle-champing law-practitioners:
Clerks, commissaries, scribes, nor pharisees,
Wilful disturbers of the people's ease:
Judges, destroyers, with an unjust breath,
Of honest men, like dogs, even unto death.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
To laugh is proper to man.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Comrades, I hear the track and beating of the enemy's horse-feet, and withal perceive that some of them come in a troop and full body against us. Let us rally and close here, then set forward in order, and by this means we shall be able to receive their charge to their loss and our honour.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Whose cockloft is unfurnished.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
How well I feathered my nest.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Here enter you, and welcome from our hearts,
All noble sparks, endowed with gallant parts.
This is the glorious place, which bravely shall
Afford wherewith to entertain you all.
Were you a thousand, here you shall not want
For anything; for what you'll ask we'll grant.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Our forefathers and ancestors of all times have been of this nature and disposition, that, upon the winning of a battle, they have chosen rather, for a sign and memorial of their triumphs and victories, to erect trophies and monuments in the hearts of the vanquished by clemency than by architecture in the lands which they had conquered. For they did hold in greater estimation the lively remembrance of men purchased by liberality than the dumb inscription of arches, pillars, and pyramids, subject to the injury of storms and tempests, and to the envy of everyone.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
I have already related to you great and admirable things; but, if you might be induced to adventure upon the hazard of believing some other divinity of this sacred Pantagruelion, I very willingly would tell it you. Believe it, if you will, or otherwise, believe it not, I care not which of them you do, they are both alike to me. It shall be sufficient for my purpose to have told you the truth, and the truth I will tell you.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
Which was performed to a T.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)