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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SECOND DAY. CHAPTER I. HIC BIBITUH . Or, dist Pantagruel, faisons ung transon de bonne chiere, et beu- vons, je vous enprie, en-fans?car il faict heau boire tout cemois.? Rabblais. Gargantua. Liv. ii., ch. XXX. On the day succeeding the events we have related, and about two hours before noon, the interior of the Falcon (a small but greatly frequented cabaret in the Rue Pelican, to which we have before alluded, and which was famed alike for the excellence of its wines and the charms of its hostess) presented a scene of much bustle and animation. The tables were covered with viands; the benches with guests. The former consisting of every variety of refection, liquid and solid, proper to a substantial Parisian breakfast of the sixteenth century; from the well-smoked ham of Bayonne, and savoury sausage of Bologna, to the mild potage de levrier, and unctuous soupe de prime. The latter exhibiting every shade of character, from the roystering student (your scholars have always been great tavern hunters) and sottish clerk of the Basoche, to the buff-jerkined musketeer and strapping sergeant of the Swiss Guard. The walls resounded with the mingled clatter of the trencher, the flagon, and the dicebox?with the shouts of laughter, and vociferations of the company, and with the rapid responses of the servitors. The air reeked with the fumes of tobacco, or, as it was then called, herbe a la Reine, pimento, and garlic. Pots of hydromel, hippocras, and claret, served to allay the thirst which the salt meats we have mentioned (compulsoires de beu- vettas, according to the Rabelaisian synonyme) very naturally provoked?and many a deep draught was that morning drained to the health of Dame Fredegonde, the presiding divinity of the Falcon. When we said that the wines of Dame F...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217814768 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021781476X |
| Weight | 0.63 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 In |
| List Price | $21.97 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 190 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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