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[Il] vouloyt que maille à maille on feist les haubergeons, de cheval donné tousjours reguardoyt en la gueulle, saultoyt du coq à l'asne, mettoyt entre deux verdes une meure, faisoit de la terre le foussé, gardoyt la lune des loups, si les nues tomboient esperoyt prandre les alouettes. [Rabelais. Gargantua, chapter IX.]
(He always looked a given horse in the mouth, leaped from the cock to the ass, and put one ripe between two green. By robbing Peter he paid Paul, he kept the moon from the wolves, and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.)
(A nice proverb that, so bon the mot: garder la lune des loups, des chiens.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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