Gargantua and Pantagruel eBook

behold, and said to his company no more but this:  Je trouve beau ce (I find this pretty); whereupon that country hath been ever since that time called Beauce.  But all the breakfast the mare got that day was but a little yawning and gaping, in memory whereof the gentlemen of Beauce do as yet to this day break their fast with gaping, which they find to be very good, and do spit the better for it.  At last they came to Paris, where Gargantua refreshed himself two or three days, making very merry with his folks, and inquiring what men of learning there were then in the city, and what wine they drunk there.

Chapter 1.XVII.



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