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Rabelais

The English Rabelais. Swift, Sterne, and Thomas Amory have been so called. Voltaire so calls Swift.

The modern Rabelais.

William Maginn (1794-1842).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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