sir-reverence

A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may not speak of without he say ‘sir-reverence.’

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She therefore entreated him to pardon them their offence, telling him that sir-reverence was sooner found in Chitterlings than gall; and offering, for herself and all her successors, to hold of him and his the whole island and country; to obey him in all his commands, be friends to his friends, and foes to his foes; and also to send every year, as an acknowledgment of their homage,

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

She therefore entreated him to pardon them their offence, telling him that sir-reverence was sooner found in Chitterlings than gall; and offering, for herself and all her successors, to hold of him and his the whole island and country; to obey him in all his commands, be friends to his friends, and foes to his foes; and also to send every year, as an acknowledgment of their homage,

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

Poor Panurge fairly cast up his accounts, and gave up his halfpenny (i.e. vomited), seeing an archasdarpenin who laid a huge plenty of chamber lye to putrefy in horsedung, mishmashed with abundance of Christian sir-reverence.

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

Friar John, at the approach of Panurge, was entertained with a kind of smell that was not like that of gunpowder, nor altogether so sweet as musk; which made him turn Panurge about, and then he saw that his shirt was dismally bepawed and berayed with fresh sir-reverence.

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

Friar John, at the approach of Panurge, was entertained with a kind of smell that was not like that of gunpowder, nor altogether so sweet as musk; which made him turn Panurge about, and then he saw that his shirt was dismally bepawed and berayed with fresh sir-reverence.

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

Others made alchemy (i.e. sir-reverence) with their teeth, and clapping their hind retort to the recipient, made scurvy faces, and then squeezed.

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

Others made alchemy (i.e. sir-reverence) with their teeth, and clapping their hind retort to the recipient, made scurvy faces, and then squeezed.

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

Poor Panurge fairly cast up his accounts, and gave up his halfpenny (i.e. vomited), seeing an archasdarpenin who laid a huge plenty of chamber lye to putrefy in horsedung, mishmashed with abundance of Christian sir-reverence.

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

Friar John, at the approach of Panurge, was entertained with a kind of smell that was not like that of gunpowder, nor altogether so sweet as musk; which made him turn Panurge about, and then he saw that his shirt was dismally bepawed and berayed with fresh sir-reverence.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518