“ I drink no more than a sponge. ”
François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534). copy citation
Author | François Rabelais |
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Source | Gargantua and Pantagruel |
Topic | drinking sponge |
Date | 1534 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1200/1200-h/1200-h.htm |
Context
“Bravely and well played upon the words! Our fathers drank lustily, and emptied their cans. Well cacked, well sung! Come, let us drink: will you send nothing to the river? Here is one going to wash the tripes. I drink no more than a sponge. I drink like a Templar knight. And I, tanquam sponsus. And I, sicut terra sine aqua. Give me a synonymon for a gammon of bacon. It is the compulsory of drinkers: it is a pulley. By a pulley-rope wine is let down into a cellar, and by a gammon into the stomach.”
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