Panurge

'ready for anything', used to mean "knave, rogue") is one of the principal characters in Gargantua and Pantagruel, a series of five novels by François Rabelais.

Especially important in the third and fourth books, he is an exceedingly crafty knave, libertine, and coward.

The rest of the sheep in the herd follow the first over the side of the boat despite the best efforts of the shepherd.

Suddenly, I do not know how, it happened, I did not have time to think, Panurge, without another word, threw his sheep, crying and bleating, into the sea.

All the other sheep, crying and bleating in the same intonation, started to throw themselves in the sea after it, all in a line.