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‘Signor mio, voi vedete per essempio, che la cornamusa non suona mai, s’ella non ha il ventre pieno.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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‘Signor mio, voi vedete per essempio, che la cornamusa non suona mai, s’ella non ha il ventre pieno.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The probabilities are that the music in the case of the first mentioned of the above classes will be found to consist of a fiddle -- in that of the latter, of a bagpipe, the old classical _cornamusa_, which has been the national instrument of the hill-country around the Campagna for it would be dangerous to say how many generations.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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'Signor mio, voi vedete per essempio, che la cornamusa non suona mai, s'ella non ha il ventre pieno.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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