dangerous Conspiration than that which Esope exposed in his Apologue Such a World will perish undoubtedly and not only perish but perish very quickly Were it Asculapius himself his Body would immediately rot and the chasing Soul full of Indignation take its Flight to all the Devils of Hell after my Money CHAP. IV. Panurge continueth his Discourse in the praise of Borrowers and Lenders ON the contrary be pleased to represent unto your Fancy another World wherein every one lendeth and every one oweth all are Debtors and all Creditors O how great will that Harmony be which shall thereby result from the regular Motions of the Heavens Me thinks I hear it every whit as well as ever Plato did What Sympathy will there be amongst the Elements O how delectable then unto Nature will be our own Works and Productions Whilst Ceres appeareth loaden with Corn Bacchus with Wines Flora with Flowers Pomona with Fruits and Iuno fair in a clear Air wholsom and pleasant I lose my self in this high Contemplation Then will among the Race of Mankind Peace Love Benevolence Fidelity Tranquility Rest Banquets Feastings Joy Gladness Gold Silver single Money Chains Rings with other Ware and Chaffer of that nature be found to trot from hand to hand no Suits at Law no Wars no Strife Debate nor wrangling none will be there an Usurer none will be there a Pinch-penny a Scrape-good Wretch or churlish hard-hearted Refuser Good God! Will not this be the Golden Age in the Reign of Saturn The true Idea of the Olympick Regions wherein all Vertues cease Charity alone ruleth governeth domineereth and triumpheth All will be fair and goodly People there all just and vertuous O happy World O People of that World most happy Yea thrice and four times blessed is that People I think in very deed that I am amongst them and swear to you by my good Forsooth that if this glorious aforesaid World had a Pope abounding with Cardinals that so he might have the Association of a Sacred Colledge in the space of very few years you should be sure to see the Sancts much thicker in the Roll more numerous wonder-working and mirifick more Services more Vows more Staves and Wax-Candles than are all those in the Nine Bishopricks of Britany St. Yves only excepted Consider Sir I pray you how the noble Patelin having a mind to Deity and extol even to the Third Heavens the Father of William Iosseaume said no more but this And he did lend his Goods to those who were desirous of them O the fine Saying Now let our Microcosm be fancied conform to this Model in all its Members lending borrowing and owing that is to say according to its own Nature For Nature hath not to any other end created Man but to owe borrow and lend no greater is the Harmony amongst the Heavenly Spheres than that which shall be found in its well-ordered Policy The Intention of the Founder of this Microcosm is to have a Soul therein to be entertained which â—â— lodged there as a Guest with its Host it may live there for a while Life consisteth in Blood Blood is the Seat of the Soul therefore the chiefest Work of the Microcosm is to be making Blood continually At this Forge are exercised all the Members of the Body none is exempted from Labour each operates apart and doth its proper Office And such is their Hierarchy that perpetually the one borrows from the other the one lends the other and the one is the others Debtor The stuff and matter convenient which Nature giveth to be turned into Blood is Bread and Wine All kind of nourishing Victuals is understood to be comprehended in these two and from hence in the Gothish Tongue is called Companage To find out this Meat and Drink to prepare and boil it the Hands are put to Work the Feet do walk and bear up the whole Bulk of the Corporal Mass the Eyes guide and conduct all the Appetite in the Orifice of the Stomach by means of little sowrish black Humour called Melancholy which is transmitted thereto from the Milt giveth warning to shut in the Food The Tongue doth make the first Essay and tastes it the Teeth do chaw it and the Stomach doth receive digest and chylifie it the Mesaraick Veins suck out of it what is good and fit leaving behind the Excrements which are through special Conduits for that purpose voided by an expulsive Faculty thereafter it is carried to the Liver where it being changed again it by the vertue of that new Transmutation becomes Blood What Joy conjecture you will then be found amongst those Officers when they see this Rivolet of Gold which is their sole Restorative No greater is the Joy of Alchimists when after long Travel Toil and Expence they see in their Furnaces the Transmutation Then is it that every Member doth prepare it self and strive a-new to purifie and to refine this Treasure The Kidneys through the emulgent Veins draw that Aquosity from thence which you call Urine and there send it away through the Ureters to be slipt downwards where in a lower Recepticle and proper for it to wit the Bladder it is kept and stayeth there until an opportunity to void it out in his due time The Spleen draweth from the Blood its Terrestrial part viz. The Grounds Lees or thick Substance setled in the bottom thereof which you term Melancholy The Bottle of the Gall substracts from thence all the superfluous Choler whence it is brought to another Shop or Work-house to be yet better purified and fined that is the Heart which by its agitation of Diastolick and Systolick Motions so neatly subtilizeth and inflames it that in the right side Ventricle it is brought to perfection and through the Veins is sent to all the Members each parcel of the Body draws it then unto its self and after its own fashion is cherished and alimented by it Feet Hands Thighs Arms Eyes Ears Back Breast yea all and then it is that who before were Lenderâ— now become Debtors The Heart doth in its left side Ventricle so thinnifie the Blood that it thereby obtains the Name of Spiritual which being sent through the Arteries to all the Members of the Body serveth to warm and winnow the other Blood which runneth through the Veins The Lights never cease with its Lappets and Bellows to cool and refresh it in acknowledgment of which good the Heart through the Arterial Vein imparts unto it the choicest of its Blood At last it is made so fine and subtle within the Rete Mirabilis that thereafter those Animal Spirits are framed and composed of it by means whereof the Imagination Discourse Judgment Resolution Deliberation Ratrocination and Memory have their Rise Actings and Operations Cops body I sink I drown I perish I wander astray and quite fly out of my self when I enter into the Consideration of the profound Abyss of this World thus lending thus owing Believe me it is a Divine thing
another the Fellow thereupon buildeth a Conceit that he shall be the first Dispatched and the foremost in the Date of Payment and he valueth my Smiles at the rate of ready Money It seemeth unto me that I then act and personate the God of the Passion of Saumure accompanied with his Angels and Cherubims These are my Flatterers my Soothers my Claw backs my Smoothers my Parasites my Saluters my Givers of good Morrows and perpetual Orators which makes me verily think that the supreamest Height of Heroick Vertue described by Hesiode consisteth in being a Debtor wherein I held the first degree in my Commencement Which Dignity though all Humane Creatures seem to aim at and aspire thereto few nevertheless because of the difficulties in the way and incumbrances of hard Passages are able to reach it as is easily perceivable by the ardent desire and vehement longing harboured in the Breast of every one to be still creating more Debts and the new Creditors Yet doth it not lie in the power of every one to be a Debtor To acquire Creditors is not at the Disposure of each Man's Arbitriment You nevertheless would deprive me of this sublime Felicity You ask me when I will be out of Debt Well to go yet further on and possibly worse in your Conceit may Sanct Bablin the good Sanct snatch me if I have not all my Life-time held Debt to be as an Union or Conjunction of the Heavens with the Earth and the whole Cement whereby the Race of Mankind is kept together yea of such Vertue and Efficacy that I say the whole Progeny of Adam would very suddenly perish without it Therefore perhaps I do not think amiss when I repute it to be the great Soul of the Universe which according to the Opinion of the Academicks vivifyeth all manner of things In Confirmation whereof that you may the better believe it to be so represent unto your self without any prejudicacy of Spirit in a clear and serene Fancy the Idea and Form of some other World than this take if you please and lay hold on the thirtieth of those which the Philosopher Methrodorus did enumerate wherein it is to be supposed there is no Debtor or Creditor that is to say a World without Debts There amongst the Planets will be no regular Course all will be in Disorder Iupiter reckoning himself to be nothing indebted unto Saturn will go near to detrude him out of his Sphere and with the Homerick Chain will be like to hang up the Intelligences Gods Heavens Demons Heroes Devils Earth and Sea together with the other Elements Saturn no doubt combining with Mars will reduce that so disturbed World into a Chaos of Confusion Mercury then would be no more subjected to the other Planets he would scorn to be any longer their Camillus as he was of old termed in the Hetrurian Tongue for it is to be imagined that he is no way a Debtor to them Venus will be no more Venerable because she shall have lent nothing The Moon will remain bloody and obscure For to what end should the Sun impart unto her any of his Light He owed her nothing Nor yet will the Sun shine upon the Earth nor the Stars send down any good Influence because the Terrestrial Globe hath desisted from sending up their wonted Nourishment by Vapours and Exhalations wherewith Heraclitus said the Stoicks proved Cicero maintained they were cherished and alimented There would likeways be in such a World no manner of Symbolization Alteration nor Transmutation amongst the Elements for the one will not esteem it self obliged to the other as having borrowed nothing at all from it Earth then will not become Water Water will not be changed into Air of Air will be made no Fire and Fire will afford no Heat unto the Earth the Earth will produce nothing but Monsters Titans Giants no Rain will descend upon it nor Light shine thereon no Wind will blow there nor will there be in it any Summer or Harvest Lucifer will break loose and issuing forth of the depth of Hell accompanied with his Furies Fiends and Horned Devils will go about to unnestle and drive out of Heaven all the Gods as well of the greater as of the lesser Nations Such a World without lending will be no better than a Dog-kennel a place of Contention and Wrangling more unruly and irregular than that of the Rector of Paris a Devil of an Hurly-burly and more disordered Confusion than that of the Plagues of Doâ—ay Men will not then salute one another it will be but lost labour to expect Aid or Succour from any or to cry Fire Water Murther for none will put to their helping Hand Why He lent no Money there is nothing due to him No body is concerned in his Burning in his Shipwrack in his Ruine or in his Death and that because he hitherto had lent nothing and would never thereafter have lent any thing In short Faith Hope and Charity would be quite banish'd from such a World for Men are born to relieve and assist one another and in their stead should succeed and be introduced Defiance Disdain and Rancour with the most execrable Troop of all Evils all Imprecations and all Miseries Whereupon you will think and that not amiss that Pandora had there spilt her unlucky Bottle Men unto Men will be Wolves Hobthrushers and Goblins as were Lycaon Bellorophon Nebuchodonosor Plunderers High-way Robbers Cut-throats Rapporees Murtherers Payloners Assassâ—nators lewd wicked malevolent pernicious Haters set against every body like to Ismael Metabus or Timon the Athenian who for that cause was named Misanthropos in such sort that it would prove much more easie in Nature to have Fish entertained in the Air and Bullocks fed in the bottom of the Ocean than to support or tolerate a rascally Rabble of People that will not Lend These Fellows I vow do I hate with a perfect Hatred and if conform to the pattern of this grievous peevish and perverse World which lendeth nothing you figure and liken the little World which is Man you will find in him a terrible justling Coyle and Clutter The Head will not lend the sight of his Eyes to guide the Feet and Hands the Legs will refuse to bear up the Body the Hands will leave off working any more for the rest of the Members the Heart will be weary of its continual Motion for the beating of the Pulse and will no longer lend his Assistance the Lungs will withdraw the use of their Bellows the Liver will desist from convoying any more Blood through the Veins for the good of the whole the Bladder will not be indebted to the Kidneys so that the Urine thereby will be totally stopped The Brains in the interim considering this unnatural course will fall into a raving Dotage and with-hold all feeling from the Sinews and Motion from the Muscles Briefly in such a World without Order and Array owing nothing lending nothing and borrowing nothing you would see a more
devotely vertuously and chastly as you would have her on her side to deport and demean her self towards you as becomes a Godly Loyal and Respectful Wife who maketh Conscience to keep inviolable the Tie of a Matrimonial Oath For as that Looking-glass is not the best which is most deck'd with Gold and Precious Stones but that which representeth to the Eye the liveliest shapes of Objects set before it Even so that Wife should not be most esteemed who richest is and of the noblest Race but she who fearing God conforms her self nearest unto the Humour of her Husband Consider how the Moon doth not borrow her Light from Iupiter Mars Mercury or any other of the Planets nor yet from any of those Splendid Stars which are set in the spangled Firmament but from her Husband only the bright Sun which she receiveth from him more or less according to the manner of his Aspect and variously bestowed Eradiations Just so should you be a Pattern to your Wife in Vertue goodly Zeal and true Devotion that by your Radiance in darting on her the Aspect of an Exemplary Goodness she in your imitation may outshine the Luminaries of all other Women To this effect you daily must implore God's Grace to the Protection of you both You would have me then quoth Panurge twisting the Whiskers of his Beard on either side with the Thumb and Fore-finger of his Left Hand to espouse and take to Wife the prudent frugal Woman described by Solomon Without all doubt she is clead and truly to my best remembrance I never saw her the Lord forgive me Nevertheless I thank you Father eat this slice of Marchpane it will help your Disgestion then shall you be presented with a Cup of Claret Hypocras which is right healthful and stomached Let us proceed CHAP. XXXI How the Physician Rondibilis counselleth Panurge PAnurge continuing his Discourse said The first word which was spoken by him who guelded the Lubbardly quaffing Monks of Saussiniac after that he had unstoned Friar Corcil was this To the rest In like manner I say to the rest Therefore I beseech you my good Master Rondibilis should I marry or not By the raking pace of my Mule quoth Rondibilis I know not what Answer to make to this Problem of yours You say that you feel in you the pricking Stings of Sensuality by which you are stirred up to Venery I find in our Faculty of Medicine and we have founded our Opinion therein upon the deliberate Resolution and final Decision of the ancient Platonicks that Carnal Concupiscence is cooled and quelled five several ways First By the means of Wine I shall easily believe that quoth Friar Ihon for when I am well whitled with the Juyce of the Grape I care for nothing else so I may sleep When I say quoth Rondibilis that Wine abateth Lust my meaning is Wine immoderately taken for by Intemperancy proceeding from the excessive drinking of Strong Liquor there is brought upon the Body of such a Swill-down Bouser a chilness in the Blood a slackening in the Sinews a Dissipation of the Generative Seed a numbness and hebetation of the Senses with a perversive wriness and Convulsion of the Muscles all which are great Lâ—ts and Impediments to the Act of Generation Hence it is that Bacchus the God of Bibbers Tiplers and Drunkards is most commonly painted Beardless and clad in a Womans Habit as a Person altogether Effeminate or like a libbed Eunuch Wine nevertheless taken moderately worketh quite contrary Effects as is implied by the old Proverb which saith That Venus takes cold when not accompanied with Ceres and Bacchus This Opinion is of great Antiquity as appeareth by the Testimony of Diodorus the Sicilian and confirmed by Pausanias and universally held amongst the Lampsacians that Don Priapos was the Son of Baceâ—us and Venus Secondly The Fervency of Lust is abated by certain Drugs Plants Herbs and Roots which make the Taker cold maleficiated unfit for and unable to perform the Act of Generation as hath been often experimented in the Water-Lilly Heraclea Agnus Castus Willow-twigs Hemp-stalks Woodbind Honey â—uckle Tamarisk Chastree Mandrake Bennet Kecbuglosse the Skin of a Hippopatam and many other such which by convenient Doses proportioned to the peccant Humour and Constitution of the Patient being duly and seasonably received within the Body what by their Elementary Vertues on the one side and peculiar Properties on the other do either benumb mortifie and beclumpse with Cold the prolifick Semence or scatter and disperse the Spirits which ought to have gone along with and conducted the Sperm to the places destinated and appointed for its reception Or lastly Shut up stop and obstruct the ways passages and conduits through which the Seed should have been expelled evacuated and ejected We have nevertheless of those Ingredients which being of a contrary Operation heat the Blood bend the Nerves unite the Spirits quicken the Senses strengthen the Muscles and thereby rouze up provoke excite and inable a Man to the vigorous Accomplishment of the Feat of Amorous Dalliance I have no need of those quoth Panurge God be thanked and you my good Master Howsoever I pray you take no exception or offence at these my words for what I have said was not out of any ill Will I did bear to you the Lord he knows Thirdly The Ardour of Lechery is very much subdued and mated by frequent Labour and continual Toiling For by painful Exercises and laborious working so great a Dissolution is brought upon the whole Body that the Blood which runneth alongst the Channels of the Veins thereof for the Nourishment and Alimentation of each of its Members hath neither time leisure nor power to afford the Seminal Resudation or superfluity of the third Concoction which Nature most carefully reserves for the conservation of the Individual whose Preservation she more heedfully regardeth than the propagating of the Species and the multiplication of Humane Kind VVhence it is that Diana is said to be chast because she is never idle but always busied about her Hunting For the same reason was a Camp or Leaguer of old called Castrum as if they would have said Castum because the Soldiers Wrestlers Runners Throwers of the Bar and other such-like Athletick Champions as are usually seen in a Military Circumvallation do uncessantly travel and turmoil and are in a perpetual stir and agitation To this purpose Hippocrates also writeth in his Book De Aere Aqua locis That in his time there were People in Scythia as impotent as Eunuchs in the discharge of a Venerian Exploit because that without any cessation pause or respit they were never from off Horseback or otherways assiduously employed in some troublesome and molesting Drudgery On the other part in opposition and repugnancy hereto the Philosophers say That Idleness is the Mother of Luxury When it was asked Ovid Why Egistus became an Adulterer he made no other Answer but this Because he was idle Who were able to rid
the World of Loytring and Laziness might easily frustrate and disappoint Cupid of all his Designs Aims Engines and Devices and so disable and appall him that his Bow Quiver and Darts should from thenceforth be a meer needless Load and Burthen to him for that it could not then lie in his power to strike or wound any of either Sex with all the Arms he had He is not I believe so expert an Archer as that he can hit the Cranes flying in the Air or yet the young Stags skipping through the Thickets as the Parthians knew well how to do that is to say People moyling sinking and hurrying up and down restless and without repose He must have those husht still quiet lying at a stay lither and full of ease whom he is able though his Mother help him to touch much less to pierce with all his Arrows in confirmation hereof Theophrastus being asked on a time What kind of Beast or Thing he judged a toyish wanton Love to be he made Answer That it was a Passion of idle and sluggish Spirits From which pretty Description of ticking Love-tricks that of Diogenes's hatching was not very discrepant when he defined Leachery Occupation of Folks destitute of all other Occupation For this cause the Syconian Engraver Canachus being desirous to give us to understand that Sloath Drouziness Negligence and Laziness were the prime Guardians and Governesses of Ribaldry made the Statue of Venus not standing as other Stone-Cutters had used to do but sitting Fourthly The tickling pricks of Incontinency are blunted by an eager Study for from thence proceedeth an incredible resolution of the Spirits that oftentimes there do not remain so many behind as may suffice to push and thrust forwards the Generative Resudation to the places thereto appropriated and therewithal inâ—â—ate the Cavernous Nerve whose office is to ejaculate the Moisture for the Propagation of Humane Progeny Least you should think it is not so be pleased but to contemplate a little the Form Fashion and Carriage of a Man exceeding earnestly set upon some Learned Meditation and deeply plunged therein and you shall see how all the Arteries of his Brains are stretched forth and bent like the String of a Cross-bow the more promptly dexterously and copiously to suppeditate furnish and supply him with store of Spirits sufficient to replenish and fill up the Ventricles Seats Tunnels Mansions Receptacles and Celluls of the common Sense of the Imagination Apprehension and Fancy of the Ratiocination Arguing and Resolution as likewise of the Memory Recordation and Remembrance and with great alacrity nimbleness and agility to run pass and course from the one to the other through those Pipes Windings and Conduits which to skilful Anatomists are perceivable at the end of the Wonderful Net where all the Arteries close in a terminating Point which Arteries taking their rise and origine from the left Capsul of the Heart bring through several Circuits Ambages and Anfractuosities the Vital to subtilize and refine them to the Aetherial Purity of Animal Spirits Nay in such a studiously musing Person you may espy so extravagant Raptures of one as it were out of himself that all his Natural Faculties for that time will seem to be suspended from each their proper charge and office and his exteriour Senses to be at a stand In a word you cannot otherways choose then think that he is by an extraordinary Extasie quite transported out of what he was or should be and that Socrates did not speak improperly when he said That Philosophy was nothing else but a Meditation upon Death This possibly is the reason why Democritus deprived himself of the Sense of Seeing prizing at a much lower rate the loss of his Sight than the diminution of his Contemplations which he frequently had found disturbed by the vagrant flying-out strayings of his unsetled and roving Eyes Therefore is it that Pallas the Goddess of Wisdom Tutress and Guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious is and hath been still accounted a Virgin The Muses upon the same consideration are esteemed perpetual Maids and the Graces for the like reason have been held to continue in a sempiternal Pudicity I remember to have read that Cupid on a time being asked of his Mother Venus why he did not assault and set upon the Muses his Answer was That he found them so fair so sweet so fine so neat so wise so learned so modest so discreet so courteous so vertuous and so continually busied and employed One in the Speculation of the Stars another in the Supputation of Numbers the Third in the Dimension of Geometrical Quantities the Fourth in the Composition of Heroick Poems the Fifth in the jovial Interludes of a Comick Strain the Sixth in the stately Gravity of a Tragick Vein the Seventh in the Melodious Disposition of Musical Airs the Eighth in the compleatest manner of Writing Histories and Books on all sorts of Subjects and the Ninth in the Mysteries Secrets and Curiosities of all Sciences Faculties Disciplines and Arts whatsoever whether Liberal or Mechanick that approaching near unto them he unbended his Bow shut his Quiver and extinguished his Torch through meer shame and fear that by mischance he might do them some hurt or prejudice which done he thereafter put off the Fillet wherewith his Eyes were bound to look them in the Face and to hear their Melody and Poetick Odes There took he the greatest pleasure in the World that many times he was transported with their Beauty and pretty Behaviour and charmed asleep by the Harmony so far was he from assaulting them or interrupting their Studies Under this Article may be comprised what Hippocrates wrote in the aforecited Treatise concerning the Scythians as also that in a Book of his entituled Of Breeding and Production where he hath affirmed all such Men to be unfit for Generation as have their Parotid Arteries cut whose Situation is beside the Ears for the reason given already when I was speaking of the resolution of the Spirits and of that Spiritual Blood whereof the Arteries are the sole and proper Receptacles and that likewise he doth maintain a large portion of the Parastatick Liquor to issue and descend from the Brains and Back-bone Fifthly By the too frequent reiteration of the Act of Venery There did I waiâ— for you quoth Panurge and shall willingly apply it to my self whilst any one thaâ— pleaseth may for me make use of any of the four preceding That is the very same thing quoth Fryar Ihon which Father Scyllino Prior of Saint Victor at Marseilles calleth by the Name of Maceration and taming of the Flesh. I am of the same Opinion and so was the Hermite of Saint Radegonde a little above Chinon for quoth he the Hermites of Thebaida can no more aptly or expediently macerate and bring down the Pride of their Bodies daunt and mortifie their leacherous Sensuality or depress and overcome the stubbornness and rebellion of the Flesh
likelyhood therein Panurge But if I do not marry Trouil. I see in that no Inconvenience Pan. You do not Trouil. None truly if my Eyes deceive me not Pan. Yea but I find more than Five Hundred Trouil. Reckon them Pan. This is an Impropriety of Speech I confess for I do no more thereby but take a certain for an uncertain Number and posit the determinate Term for what is indeterminate When I say therefore Five Hundred my meaning is many Trouil. I hear you Pan. Is it possible for me to live without a Wife in the Name of all the Subterranean Devils Trouil. Away with these filthy Beasts Pan. Let it be then in the Name of God for my Salmigondinish People use to say To lie alone without a Wife is certainly a bruitish Life And such a Life also was it assevered to be by Dido in her Lamentations Trouil. At your Command Pan. By the Pody Cody I have fished fair where are we now But will you tell me Shall I marry Trouil. Perhaps Pan. Shall I thrive or speed well withall Trouil. According to the Encounter Pan. But if in my Adventure I encounter aright as I hope I will shall I be fortunate Trouil. Enough Pan. Let us turn the clean contrary way and brush our former Words against the Wool what if I encounter ill Trouil. Then blame not me Pan. But of Courtesie be pleased to give me some Advice I heartily beseech you what must I do Trouil. Even what thou wilt Pan. Wishy washy Trolly trolly Trouil. Do not Invocate the Name of any thing I pray you Pan. In the Name of God let it be so my Actions shall be regulated by the Rule and Square of your Counsel What is it that you advise and counsel me to do Trouil. Nothing Pan. Shall I maâ—â—â— Trouil. I have no hand in it Pan. Then shall I not marry Trouil. I cannot help it Pan. If I never marry I shall never be a Cuckold Trouil. I thought so Pan. But put the case that I be married Trouil. Where shall we put it Pan. Admit it be so then and take my meaning in that sence Trouil. I am otherways employed Pan. By the Death of a Hog and Mother of a Toad O Lord if I durst hazard upon a little Fling at the swearing Game though privily and under Thumb it would lighten the Burthen of my Heart and ease my Lights and Reins exceedingly a little Patience nevertheless is requisite Well then if I marry I shall be a Cuckold Trouil. One would say so Pan. Yet if my Wife prove a vertuous wise discreet and chaste Woman I shall never be Cuckolded Trouil. I think you speak congruously Pan. Hearken Trouil. As much as you will Pan. Will she be discreet and chaste This is the only Point I would be resolved in Trouil. I question it Pan. You never saw her Trouil. Not that I know of Pan. Why do you then doubt of that which you know not Trouil. For a Cause Pan. And if you should know her Trouil. Yet more Pan. Page my pretty little Darling take here my Cap I give it thee Have a care you do not break the Spectacles that are in it go down to the lower Court Swear there half an hour for me and I shall in compensation of that Favour swear hereafter for thee as much as thou wilt But who shall Cuckold me Trouil. Some body Pan. By the Belly of the wooden Horse at Troy Master Somebody I shall bang belam thee and claw thee well for thy labour Trouil. You say so Pan. Nay nay that Nick in the dark Celler who hath no White in his Eye carry me quite away with him if in that case whensoever I go abroad from the Palace of my Domestick Residence I do not with as much Circumspection as they use to ring Mares in our Country to keep them from being sallied by Stoned Horses clap a Bergamasco Lock upon my Wife Trouillogan Talk better Panurge It is Bien chien chié chanté well cacked and cackled shitten and sung in matter of Talk Let us resolve on somewhat Trouillogan I do not gainsay it Panurge Have a little patience seeing I cannot on this side draw any Blood of you I will try if with the Launcet of my Judgment I be able to bleed you in another Vein Are you married or are you not Trouillogan Neither the one nor the other and both together Panurge O the good God help us by the Death of a Buffle-ox I sweat with the toyl and travel that I am put to and find my Digestion broke off disturbed and interrupted for all my Phrenes Metaphrenes and Diaphragmes Back Belly Midâ—iâ— Muscles Veins and Sinews are held in a suspence and for a while discharged from their proper Offices to stretch forth their several Powers and Abilities for Incornifistibulating and laying up into the Hamper of my Understanding your various Sayings and Answers Trouillogan I shall be no hinderer thereof Panurge Tush for shame our faithful Friend speak Are you married Trouillogan I think so Panurge You were also married before you had this Wife Trouillogan It is possible Panurge Had you good Luck in your First Marriage Trouillogan It is not impossible Panurge How thrive you with this Second Wise of yours Trouillogan Even as it pleaseth my Fatal Destiny Panurge But what in good earnest tell me Do you prosper well with her Trouillogan It is likely Panurge Come on in the Name of God I vow by the Burthen of Saint Christopher that I had rather undertake the fetching of a Fart forth of the Belly of a dead Ass then to draw out of you a positive and determinate Resolution yet shall I be sure at this time to have a snatch at you and get my Claws over you Our trusty Friend let us shame the Devil of Hell and confess the verity Were you ever a Cuckold I say you who are here and not that other you who playeth below in the Tennis-Court Trouillogan No if it was not predestinated Panurge By the Flesh Blood and Body I swear reswear forswear abjure and renounce he evades and avoids shifts and escapes me and quite slips and winds himself out of my Gripes and Clutches At these words Gargantua arose and said Praised be the good God in all things but especially for bringing the World into that heighth of Refinedness beyond what it was when I first came to be acquainted therewith that now the Learnedst and most Prudent Philosophers are not ashamed to be seen entring in at the Porches and Frontispieces of the Schools of the Pyrronian Aporetick Sceptick and Ephectick Sects Blessed be the Holy Name of God veritably it is like henceforth to be found an Enterprize of much more easie undertaking to catch Lvons by the Neck Horses by the Main Oxen by the Horns Bulls by the Muzzle Wolves by the Tail Goats by the Beard and flying Birds by the Feet then to intrap such Philosophers in their words Farewel my worthy dear and