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Noies. 107

Line 9. Dindenant is the man who in 'Rabelais's Gargantua' had the misfortuiie to travel on the same ship as Panurge. Dindenaut had a lot of sheep with him, and as he was anxious to sell them, he praised them to Panurge who being bent on playing poor Dindenaut a practical joke bought one of his sheep which he threw overboard into the sea. He had no sooner done this than the rest of the flock followed the one Panurge had thrown into the sea, and Dindenaut thus lost ail his sheep. Hence bas come the saying "comme les moutons de Panurge" employed to signify that people often do a thing simply because some one else bas done it before them. 10. Ieu7-, à leur compte, 'theirs, as they thought'.

14. Voilà mes gens frappés comme, 'behold our fellows struck as it were'.