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By the flesh, blood, and body, I swear, reswear, forswear, abjure, and renounce, he evades and avoids, shifts, and escapes me, and quite slips and winds himself out of my grips and clutches.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony