The Works of François Rabelais, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
Rabelais, François Excerpt from The Works of François Rabelais, Vol. 5
Indefatigable topers, and you thrice precious martyrs of the smock, give me leave to put a serious question to your worships, while you are idly striking your codpieces, and I myself not much better employed: Pray, why is it that people say that men are not such sots nowadays as they were in the days of yore? Sot is an old word, that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or nod...