“The Devil was sick,—the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well,—the devil a monk was he.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fourth Book (1548, 1552), Chapter 24.
“A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.”
Joseph Ritson Bibliographia Poetica (1802) p. 87.
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