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“I shall bang, belam thee, and claw thee well for thy labour.”

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

“Tush, whispered the horse, speak lower; for, by Bucephalus, if the grooms but hear thee they will maul and belam thee thrice and threefold, so that thou wilt have but little stomach to a leaping bout.”

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

“Bucephalus, if the grooms but hear thee they will maul and belam thee thrice and threefold, so that thou wilt have but little stomach to a leaping bout.”

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5

“By the belly of the wooden horse at Troy, Master Somebody, I shall bang, belam thee, and claw thee well for thy labour.”

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

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