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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

wonder that none ever gave an Account of any of them in the space of above One hundred and Forty Years The Sickness of Pantagruel Chapter 33. is his disgust upon this disappointment at Bapaume or some real sickness that seiz'd him There the Author concludes his second Book that was published sometime after the First which we may perceive by what he tells us of the Monks and their bigotted Cullies who had already try'd to find something in it that might render him obnoxious to the Law which caused him to be somewhat more reserved in matters of Religion in that and the following than he was afterwards in the fourth and fifth Yet we find a Prayer in the twenty ninth Chapter which shews that his Pantagruel Anthony de Bourbon was for the Protestant Religion but did not openly profess it Accordingly Historians grant that he was a Calvinist even long before Rabelais dyed And tho for his Interest as he thought he afterwards sided with the French-Court against the Protestant Party yet after he had been mortally wounded at the Siege of Roan he complained of being deceived and ordered one of his Servants who was a Protestant to bring a Minister to him but the other not being able to do it in those persecuting Times he commanded him to pray by him after the manner of the Reformed Church which the other did to that unfortunate King's satisfaction Cardinal de Bourbon his Brother being then present Panurge is the chief actor in the third act of our Pantagruelian Play we find him there much perplexed with uncertainties his mind fluctuating between the desire of entring into a matrimonial Engagement and the fear of having occasion to repent it To be eased of his doubt he consults several Persons all famous for some particular skill in removing Anxieties of mind and there our Learned and Ingenious Satyrist displays his knowledge and his fancy to admiration as has been observed by the Learned Van Dale in the passage which I have given you out of his Book de Oraculis after the Account of our Author's Life But before that we find Pantagruel in the first Chapter transporting a Colony of Vtopians into Dipsodie for which Rabelais gives a very good Reason and proves himself a Master at Politics as well as at other Things To explain that passage we must know that the Duke of Vendosme garrison'd out of Picrady some of the Places that had been taken in Artois fixing also there some of his Vassals and Tenants who were very numerous there abouts and as he was born among them viz. at La Fere in 1518 he had a particular love for them In the second Chapter Panurge is made Laird of salmygondin in Dipsodie and wasteth his Revenue before it comes in I can apply this to nothing but the gift of some Benefice to Montluc by the Duke of Vendosme or the Queen of Navarre afterwards his Mother in Law which Benefice not being sufficient to supply him in his Extravagances something more considerable was bestowed on him which having set him at Ease gave him occasion to reflect on his former ill conduct and grow more thrifty So that afterwards he entertained some thoughts of Marriage and probably was married when Rabelais wrote Among those whom Panurge consults the Sybil of Panzoust is the first whose right name is difficult to be discovered The pretended Key in the French makes her a Court Lady but its Author seems never to have read Rabelais or at least not to have understood him if we may judge of it by the Names which he in spight of Reason has set against some of those in our Author Among four or five short Explanations of as many Passages in Rabelais also printed in the French one of them tells us that by the Sybil of Panzoust our Author means a Gentlewoman of that Place near Chinon who dy'd very old and always lived single tho importuned by her Friends to marry when she was young But Rabelais having in this Book very artfully made his Panurge consult Men of different Professions famous in his Time to be eased of his doubt I do not beleive that he would have begun by a Woman altogether unknown to the learned World Yet not but that he may have made choice of the Name of Panzoust to double the Character if he knew that such an Antiquated She-thing liv'd there I have indeavoured to discover who might be that Sybill but dare not positively fix that Character on any St. Therese a Spanish Nun who liv'd in that Age might come in for a share she has writ several Books and was already famous when Rabelais liv'd she had very odd notions and discover'd perhaps as much madness as sanctity I find another noted crack'd-brain Bigotte who was old at that Time and liv'd at Venice T is one whom several great Men have mentioned by the name of Virgo Venetas Guillaume Postel amongst the rest a very learned Jesuit and very famous in that Age for Philosophy calls her Mother Ioane and had such a veneration for her that he thought the Reparation of the Female Sex not yet perfected and that such a glorious Work was reserved for her but Florimond de Raymond excuses him in this and says that he only designed to praise her for the great services which she had done him in his Travels There is another for whom I would certainly believe the Sybil's Character made were I sure that our Author and she were Contemporaries Her name is Magdelen de la Croix she was a Nun and had so well gained the reputation of being a Saint that she was consulted as a Sybil by the greatest Kings and Princes in Europe but at last she proved a Sorceress and was burn'd If I am not mistaken Dr. Henry More has made mention of her and I have read her History among several others in a Book called Histoires Tragiques But as I am forc'd to quote those Books by memory like many others which I cannot conveniently procure I must refer the Reader to them for further satisfaction In the one and twentieth Chapter Panurge consulteth with Raminagrobis an old French Poet who was almost upon the very last moment of his Life This Poet was William Cretin Treasurer of the King's Chappel who had liv'd under Charles the VIII Lewis the XII and Francis the I. as may be seen by his Works Never was Man more celebrated by the Writers of his Age. Iohn le Maire dedicated to him his three Books of the Illustrations of France and speaks of him as of the Man to whom he owed all things Geoffroy Toré in his Champ fleury says that Cretin in his Chronicles of France had out-done Homer and Virgil. And even Maro● inscribed to him his Epigrams Here are the four first verses of Marot to him L' homme Sotart et non Scavant Comme un Rotisseur qui lave oye La Faute d' autruy nonce avant Qu'il la cognoisse ou qui'l la voye

so many years still hitting the Nail on the Head never missing the Mark and always judging aright by the meer throwing of the Dice and the Chance thereof is that which most astonisheth and amazeth me To answer quoth Epistemon categorically to that which you wonder at I must ingeniously confess and avow that I cannot yet conjecturally to guess at the reason of it I would refer the Cause of that marvelously long continued happy Success in the Judiciary Results of his Definitive Sentences to the favourable Aspect of the Heavens and Benignity of the Intelligences who out of their love to Goodness after having contemplated the pure Simplicity and sincere Unfeignedness of Judge Bridlegoose in the acknowledgment of his Inabilities did regulate that for him by Chance which by the profoundest Act of his maturest Deliberation he was not able to reach unto That likeways which possibly made him to diffide in his own Skill and Capacity notwithstanding his being an expert and understanding Lawyer for any thing that I know to the contrary was the Knowledge and Experience which he had of the Antenomies Contrarieties Antilogies Contradictions Traversings and Thwartings of Laws Customs Edicts Statutes Orders and Ordinances in which dangerous Opposition Equity and Justice being structured and founded on either of the opposite Terms and a Gap being thereby opened for the ushering in of Injustice and Iniquity through the various Interpretations of Self ended Lawyers being assuredly perswaded that the Infernal Calumniator who frequently transformeth himself into the likeness of a Messenger or Angel of Light maketh use of these cross Glosses and Expositions in the Mouths and Pens of his Ministers and Servants the perverse Advocates bribing Judges Law-monging Attorneys prevaricating Counsellors and other such like Law-wrestling Members of a Court of Justice to turn by those means Black to White Green to Grey and what is Streight to a Crooked ply for the more expedient doing whereof these Diabolical Ministers make both the Pleading Parties believe that their Cause is just and righteous for it is well known that there is no Cause how bad soever which doth not find an Advocate to patrocinate and defend it else would there be no Process in the World no Suits at Law nor Pleadings at the Bar. He did in these Extremities as I conceive most humbly recommend the Direction of his Judicial Proceedings to the upright Judge of Judges God Almighty did submit himself to the Conduct and Guideship of the blessed Spirit in the Hazard and Perplexity of the Definitive Sentence and by this Aleatory Lot did as it were implore and explore the Divine Decree of his Good Will and Pleasure in stead of that which we call the Final Iudgment of a Court. To this effect to the better attaining to his purpose which was to judge righteously he did in my Opinion throw and turn the Dice to the end that by the Providence aforesaid the best Chance might fall to him whose Action was uprightest and backed with greatest Reason in doing whereof he did not stray from the Sence of Talmudists who say that there is so little harm in that manner of searching the Truth that in the Anxiety and Perplexedness of Humane Wits God oftentimes manifesteth the Secret Pleasure of his Divine Will Furthermore I will neither think nor say nor can I believe that the unstreightness is so irregular or the Corruption so evident of those of the Parliament of Mirlingois in Mirlingues before whom Bridlegoose was Arraigned for Prevarication that they will maintain it to be a worse Practice to have the Decision of a Suit at Law referred to the Chance and Hazard of a Throw of the Dice hab nab or luck as it will than to have it remitted to and past by the Determination of those whose Hands are full of Blood and Hearts of wry Affections Besides that their principal Direction in all Law-matters comes to their Hands from one Tribonian a wicked miscreant barbarous faithless and perfidious Knave so pernicious injust avaricious and perverse in his ways that it was his ordinary custom to sell Laws Edicts Declarations Constitutions and Ordinances as at an Outroop or Putsale to him who offered most for them Thus did he shape Measures for the Pleaders and cut their Morsels to them by and out of these little Parcels Fragments Bits Scantlings and Shreds of the Law now in use altogether concealing suppressing disannulling and abolishing the remainder which did make for the total Law fearing that if the whole Law were made manifest and laid open to the knowledge of such as are interessed in it and the Learned Books of the Ancient Doctors of the Law upon the Exposition of the Twelve Tables and Praetorian Edicts his villanous Pranks Naughtiness and vile Impiety should come to the publick notice of the World Therefore were it better in my Conceit that is to say less inconvenient that Parties at Variance in any Juridicial Case should in the dark march upon Caltropes then to submit the Determination of what is their Right to such unhallowed Sentences and horrible Decrees As Cato in his time wished and advised that every Judiciary Court should be paved with Caltropes CHAP. XLV How Panurge taketh Advice of Triboulet ON the sixth Day thereafter Pantagruel was returned home at the very same hour that Triboulet was by Water come from Blois Panurge at his Arrival gave him a Hogs Bladder puffed up with Wind and resounding because of the hard Pease that were within it Moreover he did present him with a guilt Wooden Sword a hollow Budget made of a Tortoise shell an Osier Watled Wicker-Bottle full of Briton Wine and Five and Twenty Apples of the Orchard of Blanduc● If he be such a Fool quoth Carpalin as to be won with Apples there is no more Wit in his Pate than in the Head of an ordinary Cabbage Triboulet girded the Sword and Scrip to his●side took the Bladder in his Hand ate some few of the Apples and drunk up all the Wine Panurge very wistly and heedfully looking upon him said I never yet saw a Fool and I have seen ten thousand Franks worth of that kind of Cattle who did not love to drink heartily and by good long Draughts When Triboulet had done with his Drinking Panurge laid out before him and exposed the Sum of the business wherein he was to require his Advice in eloquent and choicely-sorted Terms adorned with Flourishes of Rhetorick But before he had altogether done Triboulet with his Fist gave him a bouncing Whirret between the Shoulders rendred back into his Hand again the empty Bottle filipped and flirted him on the Nose with the Hogs Bladder and lastly for a final resolution shaking and wagging his Head strongly and disorderly he answered nothing else but this By God God mad Fool beware the Monk Buzansay Hornepipe These Words thus finished he slipped himself out of the Company went aside and ratling the Bladder took a huge Delight in the Melody of the rickling crackling