Panurge is one of the principal characters in the Pantagruel (especially the thrid and fourth books) of Rabelais, an exceedingly crafty knave, a libertine, and a coward. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... François Rabelais (ca. ...
At some point, he shows he can talk several languages, including some of the first examples of a constructed language. An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture the way natural languages do. ...
In French, he appears in the set phrase mouton de Panurge, after a story in which he buys a sheep from merchant Dindenault and then, in revenge, makes the sheep jump off a cliff. The rest of the sheep in the herd stupidly jump after it in spite of the sheepherd.
Panurge was still feeding his eyes with the sight of the pope-hawk and his attendants, when somewhere under his cage he perceived a madge-howlet.
Panurge did so sweeten up the syndics of the place that they blessed us with the sight of 't; but it was with three times more pother and ado, with more formalities and antic tricks, than they show the pandects of Justinian at Florence, or the holy Veronica at Rome.
Panurge was so overjoyed, seeing this, and laughed so heartily, that he was forced to hold his sides, and it set him into a fit of the colic for two hours and more.
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