about noon
Eusthenes did so , and the staff broke in two pieces , and not one drop of the water fell out of the glasses . Then said he , I know a great many such other tricks ; let us now therefore march boldly and with assurance . How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants . After all this talk , Pantagruel took the prisoner to him and sent him away , saying , Go thou unto thy king in his camp , and tell him tidings of what thou hast seen , and let him resolve to feast me to-morrow about noon ; for , as soon as my galleys shall come , which will be to-morrow at furthest , I will prove unto him by eighteen hundred thousand fighting-men and seven thousand giants , all of them greater than I am , that he hath done foolishly and against reason thus to invade my country . Wherein Pantagruel feigned that he had an army at sea . But the prisoner answered that he would yield himself to be his slave , and that he was content never to return to his own people , but rather with Pantagruel to fight against them , and for God 's sake besought him that he might be permitted so to do . Whereunto Pantagruel would not give consent , but commanded him to depart thence speedily and begone as he had told him , and to that effect gave him a boxful of euphorbium , together with some grains of the black chameleon thistle , steeped into aqua vitae , and made up into the condiment of a wet sucket , commanding him to carry it to his king , and to say unto him , that if he were able to eat one ounce of that without drinking after it , he might then be able to resist him without any fear or apprehension of danger .