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“But Aedituus cried to him, Hold, hold, honest friend! strike, wound, poison, kill, and murder all the kings and princes in the world, by treachery or how thou wilt, and as soon as thou wouldst unnestle the angels from their cockloft.”

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

“Lucifer will break loose, and issuing forth of the depth of hell, accompanied with his furies, fiends, and horned devils, will go about to unnestle and drive out of heaven all the gods, as well of the greater as of the lesser nations.”

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

“I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus, to dash out the gods 'brains, unnestle them, and scour their heavenly lodgings.”

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

“I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus, to dash out the gods’ brains, unnestle them, and scour their heavenly lodgings.”

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