1. Francois Rabelais But, if the Ballocks be marred, the whole race of human kind would forthwith perish, and be lost for ever.

2. This is the portrait according to François Rabelais of the Graoully, the dragon of Metz, who lived long in the ruins of the Roman amphitheatre until Saint Clément, come to convert the city to Christianism, ordered it to leave the place immediately!