"Si d’un mort qui pourri repose Nature engendre quelque chose, Et si la generation Se fait de la corruption, Une vigne prendra naissance De l’estomac et de la pance Du bon Rabelais, qui boivoit Tousjours ce pendant qu’il vivoit."
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If anything can sprout From a dead man rotted out, And if further generation Arises from stagnation, A grapevine will surely take birth From the belly and the girth Of good Rabelais, who contrived Always to drink while alive. — Pierre de Ronsard, «Épitaphe de François Rabelais» in Le Bocage (1554); Terese Coe, tr., "Epitaph for François Rabelais", Poetry, vol. 185, no. 6 (March 2005), p. 438
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