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• Like hearts of oak.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• Whose cockloft is unfurnished.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• You shall never want rope enough.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• Plain as a nose in a man's face.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• Needs must when the Devil drives. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. lvii
• What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book v, Chap. xi...
• Scampering as if the Devil drove them. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap.
  lxii...
• The Devil was sick,--the Devil a monk would be; The Devil was well,--the devil a monk was he.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. xxiv...
• Which was performed to a T. -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, Book iv, Chap. xli