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A57009	The works of F. Rabelais, M.D., or, The lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel with a large account of the life and works of the author, particularly an explanation of the most difficult passages in them never before publish'd in any language / done out of French by Sir Tho. Urchard, Kt., and others.	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1694 (1694)	Wing R104; ESTC R29255	455,145	1,095

of the softness of the said Doun and of the temperate heat of the Goose which is easily communicated to the Bumgut and the rest of the Intestines insofar as to come even to the Regions of the Heart and Brains And think not that the Felicity of the Heroes and Demigods in the Elysian Fields consisteth either in their Asphodele Ambrosia or Nectar as our old Women here use to say but in this according to my judgment that they wipe their Tails with the Neck of a Goose holding her Head betwixt their Legs and such is the Opinion of Master Iohn of Scotland CHAP. XIV How Gargantua was taught Latin by a Sophister THE good Man Grangousier having heard this discourse was ravish'd with Admiration considering the high reach and marvellous understanding of his Son Gargantua and said to his Governesses Philip King of Macedon knew the great Wit of his Son Alexander by his skilful managing of a Horse for his Horse Bucephalus was so fierce and unruly that none durst adventure to ride him after that he had given to his Riders such devillish falls breaking the Neck of this Man the other Man's Leg braining one and cracking another's Jaw-bone This by Alexander being considered one day in the Hippodrome which was a place appointed for the breaking and managing of great Horses he perceived that the fury of the Horse proceeded meerly from the fear he had of his own shadow whereupon getting on his back he run him against the Sun so that the shadow fell behind and by that means tamed the Horse and brought him to his hand Whereby his Father perceiving his marvellous Capacity and divine Insight caused him most carefully to be instructed by Aristotle who at that time was highly renowned above all the Philosophers of Greece After the same manner I tell you that by this only discourse which now I have here had before you with my Son Gargantua I know that his Understanding doth participate of some Divinity and that if he be well taught and have that Education which is fitting he will attain to a supream degree of Wisdom Therefore will I commit him to some learned Man to have him indoctrinated according to his Capacity and will spare no cost Presently they appointed him a great Sophister-Doctor called Master Tubal Holophernes who taught him his ABC so well that he could say it by heart backwards and about this he was Five Years and three Months Then read he to him Donat facet theodolet and Alanus in parabolis About this he was Thirteen Years six Months and two Weeks But you must remark that in the mean time he did learn to write in Gottish Characters and that he wrote all his Books for the Art of Printing was not then in use And did ordinarily carry a great Pen and Inkhorn weighing above Seven thousand Quintals the Pen-case vvhereof vvas as big and as long as the great Pillar of Enay and the Horn vvas hanged to it in great Iron Chains it being of the vvideness to hold a Tun of Merchand Ware After that vvas read unto him the Book de modis significandi with the Commentaries of Hurtbise of Fasquin of Tropifeu of Gaulhaut of Iohn Calf of Billonio of Berlinguandus and a rabble of others and herein he spent more then Eighteen Years and eleven Months and was so well versed therein that to try Masteries in School-disputes with his Condisciples he would recite it by heart backwards And did sometimes prove on his Fingers ends to his Mother Quod de modis significandi non erat scientia Then was read to him the Compost on which he spent Sixteen Years and two Months And at that very time which was in the Year 1420 his said Praeceptor died of the Pox. Afterwards he got an old coughing Fellow to teach him named Master Iobelin Bridé vvho read unto him Hugotio Flebard Grecism the Doctrinal the Pars the Quid est the Supplementum Marmoretus de moribus in mensa servandis Seneca de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus Passaventus cum commento and Dormi securè for the Holy-days and other such llke stuff by reading vvhereof he became as vvise as any vve ever since baked in an Oven CHAP. XV. How Gargantua was put under other School-masters AT the last his Father perceived that indeed he studied hard and that although he spent all his time therein yet for all that did he profit nothing but vvhich is worse grew thereby a Fool a Sot a Doult and Block-head whereof making a heavy complaint to Don Philip of Marays Viceroy of Papeligosse he found that it were better for his Son to learn nothing at all then to be taught such like Books under such School-masters because their Knowledge was nothing but all Trifle and their Wisdom Foppery serving only to basterdize good and noble Spirits and to corrupt the Flower of Youth That it is so take said he any Young Boy of this time who hath only studied two Years if he have not a better Judgment a better Discourse and that expressed in better Terms then your Son with a compleater Carriage and Civility to all manner of persons account me for ever hereafter a very clounch and baconslicer of Brene This pleased Grangousier very well and he commanded that it should be done At night at supper the said Don Philip brought in a young Page of his of Ville-gouges called Eudemon so neat so trim so handsom in his Apparel so spruce with his Hair in so good Order and so sweet and comely in his behaviour that he had the resemblance of a little Angel more than of a human Creature Then he said to Grangousier Do you see this young Boy He is not as yet full twelve years old let us try if it like you what difference there is betwixt the knowledge of the Dunces Mateologian of old time and the young Lads that are now The Tryal pleased Grangousier and he commanded the Page to begin Then Eudemon asking leave of the Vice-Roy his Master so to do vvith his Cap in his hand a clear and open countenance beautiful and ruddy Lips his Eyes steady and his Looks fixed upon Gargantua with a youthful modesty standing up strait on his feet began to commend him first for his Vertue and good Manners secondly for his knowledg thirdly for his Nobility fourthly for his bodily accomplishments and in the fifth place most sweetly exhorted him to reverence his Father with all due observancy vvho was so careful to have him well brought up in the end he prayed him that he vvould vouchsafe to admit of him amongst the least of his Servants for other Favour at that time desired he none of Heaven but that he might do him some grateful and acceptable Service all this was by him delivered vvith such proper gestures such distinct Pronunciation so pleasant a Delivery in such exquisite fine Terms and so good Latin that he seemed rather a Gracchus a Cicero an Aemilius of the time past then a

what may be blameable in this Book bears no proportion with the almost infinite number of admirable and useful Things which are to be found in it the Ingenious ought not to be deprived of it Lucian's works notwithstanding a Thousand Passages in them against Modesty and Religion have been handed down to us by the Primitive Christians which they would not have done had they not been sensible that they could do much more good than harm The Art of Writing has caused much Mischief which made the Ancients say that its Inventor had sown Serpent's Teeth yet who would be without the use of Letters We may as well cut out our Tongue that World of Wickedness as it is called in Scripture Weak Minds may turn good things to the worst use and even sacred Writings have produced ill Effects Readers are often more blameable than Authors and should like Bees gather Honey out of Poetical Flowers instead of sucking the Poison like Spiders The cause of the ill Actions of most Men is not in Books but in the wicked Disposition of their Hearts And the soft Melancholy with which the most chaste Romances often cloud the Mind thus making way for violent Passions is much more to be feared than a work of this Nature As long as those and some of our Plays are in the Hands of the weaker Sex that Catullus Ovid Iuvenal and Martial are learned by Heart in Schools by Men-Children and a thousand other Books more dangerous prostituted to the ignorant Vulgar Rabelais's Works in which there is more Morality as well as more Wit and Learning than in most that are read may be allowed a place among the Best Verbis offendi morbi aut imbecillitatis argumentum est saith Cicero And we may say for our Author like Ausonius Cui hic Ludus noster non placet ne legerit aut cum legerit obliviscatur Aut non oblitus ignoscat A learned and pious English Man who was a Bishop in France in the old Times and wrote almost as freely as Rabelais says Multitudinis imperitae non formido judicia meis tamen rogo parcant opusculis In quibus fuit propos●ti semper à nugis ad bona transire seria Solomon bids us not speak in the Ears of a Fool for he will despise the wisdom of our words A● our Author speaks to none of those his Book may be as useful as it is diverting provided as I have said that a Reader curb his Thoughts in some few Passages which a Man of Sense will easily do and I recommend it to no others PETER MOTTEUX At the end of the late French Edi●ions of Rabelais without the least reason the Dipsodes were said to be Lorains Fryar-Ihon was said to be Cardinal de Lorraine Gargantua was said to be Francis I. Grangousier was said to be Lo●is XII Great Mare of Gargantua Madam de Estampes Hertrippa a great Magician Hippothadeus the King's Confessor Lerné Bresse Loupgarou Amiens Pantagruel Henry II. Sybil of Panzoust a Court Lady Panurge Cardinal de Amboise Pichrocole Piedmont Salmygondin Benefices Theleme Protocole of the Council of Trent Xenomanes the Chancellor These are all the Names said to belong to these three Books and unjustly call'd a Key to them ERRATA In the Life and Preface PAge 4. l. 32 For near read to Page 22. l. 7. For laeus read laesus Page 38. l. 12. For Falsè read Salsè Page 56 which should be 57 Line 17. And our World with thy presence grace again read And with thy presence grace our World again A Familiar Epistle To Mr. Baldwin On his publishing the Translation OF RABELAIS WHat 's here Plain-dealing Rabelais come abroad Spruc'd up with Cost and in the newest Mode Dick art thou mad hast no Consideration Still playing ' th' honest Wight in thy Vocation And Printing dang'rous Truths to serve the Nation The Times need such a Satyrist you 'll Say As do's impartially about him lay And Rablais spares no Knave that comes in 's Way Dick thou meanst well and well thy Author meant He lash't the former Age but what 's th' Event Has Reformation of one Vice ensu'd No! Whipping makes old Lechers but more lewd Have public Cheats or private since been found To lose or Truth to get an Inch of Ground Thy Rabelais Quixot's hum'rous Author too Have done what ridiculing Wit cou'd do Have Vanity expos'd in true Grotesque But might as well have preach't as writ Burlesque Quevedo to the former Pair admit To make a great Triumvirate of Wit One Convert shew by what all Three have writ Is banish't Justice since to Earth arriv'd Religion or Morality reviv'd Havock in Field encroaching Tyrants make With Drum and Trumpet keep the World awake Repair to th' Hall and There the clam'rous Bar Presents you with another Scene of War As Conjur'd up by some infernal Charm Attornies Petti-foggers Pleaders swarm A Block-head must be fee'd and waited on For that Advice by which you are Undone While Plaintiff and Defendant madly strive Both Parties starve to make the Locusts thrive They who belong to th' Lott'ry of the Law Are only safe while Blanks the Clients draw Or Tell me is our Tribe of Quacks decreas'd Or less the Catalogue of the Deceas'd Are Bullets more destructive than the Pill Therefore Add Doctor to the Weekly-Bill Has Biggottry to make a Man turn Sot Or Priest-craft how to menage Fools forgot Or is not when a Pastor shifts his Place A fatter Benefice the Call of Grace Have ye ne'r seen a Drone possess at ease What would provide for Ten Industrious Bees The Plodding Citt grows Rich his graceless Son Turns Wit and Beau drinks whores and is is undone What Rank or Sex for Dick thou lov'st to speak The best of Matters their old Measures break How very Few quit their accustom'd Round That first do's others then Themselves confound Towns Countries are but Copies of each other One half 's Impertinence and what is t'other But Speech and Mode's refin'd Ay to our Cost Breeding's improv'd Integrity is lost Your humble Servant Sir The Courtiers Note That 's in plain English Sir I 'll cut your Throat Believe me Sir your Friend or y' are unjust An Ass you are if you believe or trust He calls you back Depend upon 't as done His next Words are The Credulous Coxcomb 's gone Say is the very Sphere of Learning free Still old Abuses reign and still we see Science made Cant and Nonsense Mystery Blind Form and Custom in the Van appear Of ev'ry Order Int'rest in the Rear Pimps Pandars Stallions Buffoons Parasites Setters Suborners Sharpers Pillory-Knights Cheats Cullies Bravoes Cowards Hypocrites This Spawn with more that of their Rank you 'll find Make half the Gallamaufry of Mankind Unjust or vain Desires our Minds employ But sensless Cares the Miser's Rest destroy Who fears to lose what he can ne'er enjoy Why starv'st thou Wretch I 'm Thrif●y and would save For whom For those will Piss upon the

as an Orange for as says Orpheus lib. de lapidibus and Plinius lib. ultimo it hath an erective Vertue and comfortative of the natural Member The J●ct or out-standing of his Codpiece was of the length of a yard jagged and pinked and withal bagging and strouting out with the blew damask Lining after the manner of his Breeches but had you seen the fair Embroidery of the small Needle-work purl and the curiously interlaced Knots by the Goldsmiths Art set out and trimmed with rich Diamonds precious Rubies fine Turquoises costly Emeraulds and Persian Pearls You would have compared it to a fair Cornucopia or Horn of abundance such as you see in Antics or as Rhea gave to the two Nymphs Amalthea and Ida the Nurses of Iupiter And like to that Horn of Abundance it was still gallant succulent droppy sappy pithy lively always flourishing always fructifying full of Juice full of Flower full of Fruit and all manner of delight Blessed Lady 'T would have done one good to have seen it But I will tell you more of it in the Book which I have made of the Dignity of Codpieces One thing I will tell you that as it was both long and large so was it well furnished and provided within nothing like unto the Hypocritical Codpieces of some fond Wooers and Wench-courters which are stuffed only with wind to the great prejudice of the female Sex For his Shooes were taken up four hundred and six Ells of blew Crimson-velvet and were very neatly cut by parallel Lines joyned in uniform Cylinders For the soling of them were made use of Eleven hundred Hides of brown Cows shapen like the tail of a Keeling For his Coat were taken up Eighteen hundred Ells of blew Velvet died in grain embroidered in its Borders with fair Gilliflowers in the middle decked with silver Purle intermixed with plates of Gold and store of Pearls hereby shewing that in his time he would prove an especial good Fellow and singular Whip can His Girdle was made of Three hundred Ells and a half of silken Serge half white and half blew if I mistake it not His Sword was not of Valentia nor his Dagger of Saragosa for his Father could not endure these Hidalgos borrachos maranisados como diablos but he had a fair Sword made of Wood and the Dagger of boiled Leather as well painted and gilded as any Man could wish His Purse was made of the Cod of an Elephant which was given him by Herre Praecontal Proconsul of Lybia For his Gown were employed Nine thousand six hundred Ells wanting two thirds of blew Velvet as before all so diagonally purled that by true perspective issued thence an unnamed Colour like that you see in the Necks of Turtle-doves or Turkey-cocks which wonderfully rejoyceth the Eyes of the Beholders For his Bonnet or Cap were taken up Three hundred two Ells and a Quarter of white Velvet and the form thereof was wide and round of the bigness of his Head for his Father said that the Caps of the Mirabaise fashion made like the Cover of a Pasty would one time or other bring a mischief on those that wore them For his Plume he wore a fair great blew Feather plucked from an Onocrotal of the Country of Hircania the wild very prettily hanging down over his right Ear For the Jewel or broach which in his Cap he carried he had in a Cake of Gold weighing threescore and eight Marks a fair piece of Enamell'd wherein was portrayed a Man's Body with two Heads looking towards one another four Arms four Feet two Arses such as Plato in Symposio says was the mystical beginning of Man's Nature and about it was written in Ionic Letters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To wear about his Neck he had a golden Chain weighing Twenty five thousand and sixty three Marks of Gold the link thereof being made after the manner of great Berries amongst which were set in work green Jaspers ingraven and cut Dragon like all invironed with Beams and Sparks as King Nicepsos of old was wont to wear them and it reached down to the very bust of the rising of his Belly whereby he reaped great benefit all his life long as the Greek Physicians knew well enough For his Gloves were put in work sixteen Otters Skins and three of Laugarous or Men-eating Wolves for the bordering of them And of this stuff were they made by the appointment of the Cabalists of Sanlono As for the Rings which his Father would have him to wear to renew the ancient mark of Nobility He had on the fore-finger of his left hand a Carbuncle as big as an Ostrige's Egg inchased very daintily in Gold of the fineness of a Turkie Seraph Upon the middle finger of the same hand he had a Ring made of four Metals together of the strongest fashion that ever was seen so that the steel did not crash against the Gold nor the Silver crush the Copper All this was made by Captain Chappins and Alcofribas his Operator On the Medical Finger of his Right-hand he had a Ring made Spire-ways wherein was set a perfect baleu Ruby a pointed Diamond and a Poison Emerauld of an inestimable Value for Hans-carvel the King of Milinda's Jeweller esteemed them at the rate of Threescore nine Millions eight hundred ninety four thousand and eighteen French Crowns of Berrie and at so much did the Iews of Auspurg prize them CHAP. IX The Colours and Liveries of Gargantua GArgantua's Colours were White and Blew as I have shewed you before by which his Father would give us to understand that his Son to him was a heavenly Joy for the White did signifie Gladness Pleasure Delight and Rejoicing and the Blew Celelestial things I know well enough that in reading this you laugh at the old Toaper and hold this Exposition of Colours to be very extravagant and utterly disagreeable to reason because White is said to signifie Faith and Blew Constancy But without moving vexing heating or putting you in a chase for the Weather is dangerous answer me if it please you for no other compulsory way of arguing will I use towards you or any else only now and then I will mention a word or two of my Bottle What is it that induceth you What stirs you up to believe or who told you that White signifieth Faith and Blew Constancy An old paultry Book say you sold by the hawking Pedlars and Balladmongers Entituled The Blason of Colours Who made it Whoever it was he was wise in that he did not set his Name to it I know not what I should rather admire in him his Presumption or his Folly His Presumption for that he should without Reason without Cause or without any appearance of Truth have dared to prescribe by private Authority what things should be denoted and signified by the Colour Which is the Custom of Tyrants who will have their Will to bear sway instead of Equity and not of the Wise and Learned who with the