artificier

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After the same manner a monk — I mean those lither, idle, lazy monks — doth not labour and work, as do the peasant and artificier; doth not ward and defend the country, as doth the man of war; cureth not the sick and diseased, as the physician doth; doth neither preach nor teach, as do the evangelical doctors and schoolmasters; doth not import commodities and things necessary for the commonwealth, as the merchant doth.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
After the same manner a monk — I mean those lither, idle, lazy monks — doth not labour and work, as do the peasant and artificier; doth not ward and defend the country, as doth the man of war; cureth not the sick and diseased, as the physician doth; doth neither preach nor teach, as do the evangelical doctors and schoolmasters; doth not import commodities and things necessary for the commonwealth, as the merchant doth.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002