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CHAP. XXXIX. How Pantagruel was present at the Try∣al of Iudge Bridlegoose, who decided Causes and Controversies in Law, by the Chance and Fortune of the Dice.
ON the Day following, precisely at the Hour appointed, Pantagruel came to Merlingues: At his Arrival the Presidents, Senators, and Counsellors prayed him to do them the Honour to enter in with them, to hear the Decision of all the Causes, Ar∣guments, and Reasons, which Bridlegoose in his own Defence would produce, why he had pronounced a certain Sentence a∣gainst the Subsidy-Assessor, Toucheronde; which did not seem very equitable to that Centumviral Court. Pantagruel very wil∣lingly condescended to their desire, and accordingly entring in, found Bridlegoose sitting within the middle of the Inclosure of the said Court of Justice; who imme∣diately upon the coming of Pantrgruel, ac∣companied with the Senatorian Members of that worshipful Judicatory, arose, went