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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)
Ne clochez pas devant les boyteux. (Old French.)
Do not limp before the lame.
The dress does not make the monk.
Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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)
The thing is written. It is true.
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)
Coin is the sinews of war.
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)
Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompts them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honor. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue.
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)