Then the stranger spoke:—
In Arabic—
"Ha! Do you know what he is saying, Master?" cried Pantagruel to Epistemon.
Epistemon's answer was a shake of the head.
Then in Italian—
To which Master Epistemon only said: "As much of one as of the other, and nothing of either."
Then the solitary wanderer spoke:—
In English—
What he said in a very strange English was: "Lord, if you be so vertuous of intelligence, as you be naturally releaved to the body, you should have pity of me; for nature hath made us equal, but fortune hath some exalted, and others deprived; nevertheless is vertue often deprived, and the vertuous men despised; for before the last end none is good."
"Ho! still less," cried poor Pantagruel.