midnight
Whereupon the monk said to him , I never sleep soundly but when I am at sermon or prayers . Let us therefore begin , you and I , the seven penitential psalms , to try whether you shall not quickly fall asleep . The conceit pleased Gargantua very well , and , beginning the first of these psalms , as soon as they came to the words Beati quorum they fell asleep , both the one and the other . But the monk , for his being formerly accustomed to the hour of claustral matins , failed not to awake a little before midnight , and , being up himself , awaked all the rest , in singing aloud , and with a full clear voice , the song : Awake , O Reinian , ho , awake ! Awake , O Reinian , ho ! Get up , you no more sleep must take ; Get up , for we must go . When they were all roused and up , he said , My masters , it is a usual saying , that we begin matins with coughing and supper with drinking .