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CHAP. XXXIII. Rondibilis the Physician's Cure of Cuc∣koldry. (Book 33)
AT that time (quoth Randibilis) when Iupitur took a view of the state of his Olympick House and Family, and that he had made the Calender of all the Gods and Goddesses, appointing unto the Fe∣stival of every one of them its proper day and season, establishing certain fixed places and stations for the pronouncing of Oracles, and relief of travelling Pil∣grims, and ordaining Victims, Immolati∣ons and Sacrifices suitable and correspon∣dent to the Dignity and Nature of the worshipped and adored Deity. Did not he do (asked Panurge) therein, as Tintou∣ille the Bishop of Auxerre is said once to have done? This Noble Prelate loved entirely the pure Liquor of the Grape, as every honest and judicious Man doth; therefore was it that he had an especial care and regard to the Bud of the Vine∣tree, as to the great Grandfather of Bac∣chus,