Note 33 — Chapter VI

Rabelais’ Judge Bridlegoose and famous Oracle. There was a slight difficulty in the Judge’s method of decision, “he was become old, and his sight of late was very much failed, and become dimmer than it was wont to be; by reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points of the dice, as formerly he had been accustomed to do.”