THE WORKS Of the Famous Mr. FRANCIS RABELAIS DOCTOR in PHYSICK Treating of the Lives Heroick Deeds and Sayings of GARGANTUA And his Son PANTAGRUEL To which is newly added the Life of the AUTHOR Written Originally in French and Translated into English by Sr THOMAS VRCHARD K t. LONDON Printed for R. B. and are to be sold by Iohn Starkey at the Mitre betwixt the Middle Temple Gate and Temple Bar in Fleetstreet 1664. To the Reader I Need not to enter into the praises of the Book I present thee it shall suffice to tell you that all men of wit formerly made him their companion plac'd him in their Cabinets and read him in private No man was a good companion who had not Rabelais at his fingers ends and no feast did relish if not seasoned with the witty sayings of this Author and if the Book hath since been in less esteem â—tis that being ignorant of the several particulars in the History we do not so easily perceive the Satyrick wit and the defficulty of understanding many words â—essen's much the pleasure therefore dear Reader to make your divertisment more â—asy in the reading a Book the most faceâ—ious and witty that e're was pen'd I present him such as I found him in the oldâ—st and best impressions together with some observations upon the most remarkable passages of the History of his â—ime I have added the Authors life and some remarks upon the wittiest and â—leasantest tricks of this Gallant Man THE LIFE OF FRANCIS RABELAIS DOCTOR IN PHYSICK FRancis Rabelais was born in a little Town called Chinon in the Country of Touraine and was entâ—r'd a youth in the Convent of the Cordeliers oâ— Fontenay le Coâ—te in the lower Poictou and in a short time became aâ— able man witness Budaeus his Greek Epistles where he commends him for attaining the Master-ship of that Tongue yet deplores his misfortune for being envied by his companions who for a long time conceived ilâ— thoughts of him for his excellency in this language which they esteemed barbarous being not capable of reaching the sweetness thereof The like accident befel the learned Erasmus and the famous Rabanus Magnenâ—ius Maurus Lord Abbot of Fulde and Arch-Bishop of Mayence this man living at his Abbey composed several learned peeces of Poetry which begot the ill will of his Monks accusing him for applying himself too hard to sacred studyes and neglecting the encreasing of his temporal estate which caused him to retire unto the Court of Lewis King of Germany his Protector where his Monks acknowledging their fault and experiencing the loss of so excellent a person came and made him satisfaction humbly requesting him to take upon him the Administration of the Monastery which he refused To pursue Raâ—elais's life as he had a most pleasing humor so many of the great ones at Court were extreamly delighted with his Buffoneries and at their instigation left his Cloister and-obtained leave of Pope Clement the 7th to remove himself from the order of St. Franciâ— to that of St. Bennet at Maillezais in Poitou But after that to the great scandal of the Church he left the regular habit for the secular in which he wandred thorough many places of the world he went to Montpellier in Languedo took all the degrees of the Vniversity profest Physick with much reputation here he read Physick publickly and had many followers as he himself writes to the Bishop of Maillezais his Moecenas here he composed his works upon Hipocrates highly esteemed by the most learned Physitians Since leaving this place he came to Paris during the Reign of Francis the first Father and restorer of all sciences Rabelais by his ingenuity quickly be got the acquaintance and frendship oâ— many able and learned men and of the best quality Amongst the rest Iohn Cardinal du Bellai finding his capacity made him his servant and Companion when he went Ambassador from the most Christian King unto the Popâ— Paul the third in this Voyage to Italy accompanying his Master to audience he put a trick upon his Holiness as thâ— merry report runs of him he lived a pretty while in the Court of Rome contracted friendship with many Cardinals as appears by his letters And at the same time he obtained absolution from the same Pope having incurr'd the Ecclesiastical censures partly by his dissolute and debauch'd life as by his free and drolling humor mocking and jesting at all persons and of all sorts at Lucian's example Soon after this most generous Cardinal took him off from his profession of Physick to make use of him in his most secret negotiations and made him Prebend of the Collegiate Church of St. Maur and Curate of the Church of Meudon near Paris here he did not as 't was believed compose his Pantagruellism but rather at another place called the Deanry near the Abbey of our Lady 's of Seville near Chinon which furnisht matter for this famous Satyre The Conversation Rabelais had with the Monks of the house who at that time lived not in the austerity of their order makes him make use of the Sachristain the Vigneard of Seville Lernans Bacheos and of the Sibillâ— of Pansoust places adjacent to the Abbey he makes mention of This Piece of work was not sooner publisht but he begot the blame and envy of the world which occasion'd him in the year 1552. to write a condoling letter unto his friend Odet Cardinal Chattillon giving the reason that moved him to compose it which was to remove the disquiet and tediousness from sick and languishing persons who were diverted and consolated by this innocent mirth deploring the caâ—umnious envy of some Cannibals so animated against him as to say the Book was stuft with heresies which Francis the first being made acquainted with and having the curiosity to read the Book found it unblameable This satyrick work by the single approbation of the President de Thou is no contemptable piece nor takes off our Author from other works more serious and learned as are Hippocrates his Aphorisms which he purely faithfully put into Latin and several letters both French and Latin which he writ with a neat stile unto the Cardinal Chattillon the Bishop of Maillezais to Andrew Tiragneau and to other persons of great learning he publisht also the Sciomachia and feasts made at Rome in Cardinal Bellay's Pallace at the Birth of the Duke of Orleans and 't is observed by his letters that he was a man of great business having begot the friendship of many Prelats and Cardinals at Rome It is not certain when he dyed yet some say in the year 1553. as relates the Reverend Father Peter St. Romuald of the order of the Feillans in the third part of his Chronological Treasury where he mentions several particulars of his life Ioachim du Bellay Iohn Anthony Baif Peter Bautanger other learned Poets have composed Epitaphs to his memory Stephen Pasquier relates this following one in his Book of Tombs Sive
your body and profit of your reines but hearken joltheads you viedazes or dickens take ye remember to drink a health to me for the like favour again and I will pledge you instantly Tout ares metys RABELAIS TO THE Reader GOod friends my Readers who peruse this Book Be not offended whil'st on it you look Denude your selves of all deprav'd affection For it containes no badnesse nor infection 'T is true that it brings forth to you no birth Of any value but in point of mirth Thinking therefore how sorrow might your minde Consume I could no apter subject finde One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span Because to laugh is proper to the man CHAP. I. Of the Genealogy and Antiquity of GARGANTUA I Must referre you to the great Chronicle of Pantagruel for the knowledge of that Genealogy and Antiquity of race by which Gargantua is come unto us in it you may understand more at large how the Giants were born in this world and how from them by a direct line issued Gargantua the father of Pantagruel and do not take it ill if for this time I passe by it although the subject be such that the oftener it were remembered the more it would please your worshipfull Seniorias according to which you have the authority of Plato in Philebo and Gorgias and of Flaccus who saies that there are some kindes of purposes such as these are without doubt which the frequentlier they be repeated still prove the more delectable Would to God every one had as certaine knowledge of his Genealogy since the time of the Arke of Noah untill this age I think many are at this day Emperours Kings Dukes Princes and Popes on the earth whose extraction is from some porters and pardon-pedlars as on the contrary many are now poor wandring beggars wretched and miserable who are descended of the blood and lineage of great Kings and Emperours occasioned as I conceive it by the transport and revolution of Kingdomes and Empires from the Assyrians to the Medes from the Medes to the Persians from the Persians to the Macedonians from the Macedonians to the Romans from the Romans to the Greeks from the Greeks to the French c. And to give you some hint concerning my self who speaks unto you I cannot think but I am come of the race of some rich King or Prince in former times for never yet saw you any man that had a greater desire to be a King and to be rich then I have and that onely that I may make good chear do nothing nor care forany thing and plentifully enrich my friends and all honest and learned men but herein do I comfort my self that in the other world I shall be so yea and greater too then at this present I dare wish as for you with the same or a better conceit consolate your selves in your distresses and drink fresh if you can come by it To returne to our weathers I say that by the sovereign gift of heaven the Antiquity and Genealogy of Gargantua hath been reserved for our use more full and perfect then any other except that of the Messias whereof I mean not to speak for it belongs not unto my purpose and the Devils that is to say the false accusers and dissembled gospellers will therein oppose me This Genealogy was found by Iohn Andrew in a meadow which he had near the Pole-arch under the Olive-tree as you go to Marsay where as he was making cast up some ditches the diggers with their mattocks struck against a great brazen tomb and unmeasurably long for they could never finde the end thereof by reason that it entered too farre within the Sluces of Vienne opening this Tomb in a certain place thereof sealed on the top with the mark of a goblet about which was written in Hetrurian letters HIC BIBITUR They found nine Flaggons set in such order as they use to ranke their kyles in Gasconie of which that which was placed in the middle had under it a big fat great gray pretty small mouldy little pamphlet smelling stronger but no better then Roses In that book the said Genealogy was found written all at length in a Chancery hand not in paper not in parchment nor in wax but in the bark of an elme-tree yet so worne with the long tract of time that hardly could three letters together be there perfectly discerned I though unworthy was sent for thither and with much help of those Spectacles whereby the art of reading dim writings and letters that do not clearly appear to the sight is practised as Aristotle teacheth it did translate the book as you may see in your pantagruelising that is to say in drinking stifly to your own hearts desire and reading the dreadful and horrifick acts of Pantagruel at the end of the book there was a little Treatise entituled the Antidoted Fanfreluches or a Galimatia of extravagant conceits The rats and mothes or that I may not lie other wicked beasts had nibled off the beginning the rest I have hereto subjoyned for the reverence I beare to antiquity THE Antidoted Fanfreluches Or A Galimatia of extravagant conceits found in an ancient Monument NO sooner did the Cymbrians overcommer Pass through the air to shun the dew of summer But at his coming streight great tubs were fill'd With pure fresh Butter down in showers distill'd Wherewith when water'd was his Grandam heigh A loud he cryed Fish it Sir I pray ye Because his beard is almost all beray'd Or that he would hold toâ—m a scale he pray'd To lick his slipper some told was much better Then to gaine pardons and the merit greater In th' interim a crafty chuff approaches From the depth issued where they fish for Roches Who said Good sirs some of them let us save The Eele is here and in this hollow cave You 'll finde if that our looks on it demurre A great wast in the bottome of his furre To read this Chapter when he did begin Nothing but a calves hornes were found therein I feel quoth he the Miter which doth hold My head so chill it makes my braines take cold Being with the perfume of a Turnup warm'd To stay by chimney hearths himself he arm'd Provided that a new thill horse they made Of every person of a hair-braind head They talked of the bunghole of Saint Knowles Of Gilbathar and thousand other holes If they might be reduc'd t' a scarry stuffe Such as might not be subject to the cough Since ev'ry man unseemly did it finde To see them gaping thus at ev'ry winde For if perhaps they handsomely were clos'd For pledges they to men might be expos'd In this arrest by Hercules the Raven Was flayd at her returne from Lybia haven Why am not I said Minos there invited Unlesse it be my self not one 's omitted And then it is their minde I do no more Of Frogs and Oysters send them any store In case they spare my life and prove but civil I
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 to it but besides I know not what I should rather admire in him his presumption or his sottishnesse his presumption and overweening for that he should without reason without cause or without any appearance of truth have dared to prescribe by his private authority what things should be denotated and signified by the colour which is the custome of Tyrants who will have their will to bear sway in stead of equity and not of the wise and learned who with the evidence of reason satisfie their Readers His sottishnesse and want of spirit in that he thought that without any other demonstration or sufficient argument the world would be pleased to make his blockish and ridiculous impositions the rule of their devices In effect according to the Proverb To a shitten taile failes never ordurre he hath found it seems some simple Ninnie in those rude times of old when the wearing of high round Bonnets was in fashion who gave some trust to his writings according to which they carved and ingraved their apophthegms and motto's trapped and caparisoned their Mules and Sumpter-horses apparelled their Pages quartered their breeches bordered their gloves fring'd the courtains and vallens of their beds painted their ensignes composed songs and which is worse placed many deceitful juglings and unworthy base tricks undiscoveredly amongst the very chastest Matrons and most reverend Sciences In the like darknesse and mist of ignorance are wrapped up these vain-glorious Courtiers and name-transposers who going about in their impresa's to signifie esperance that is hope have portrayed a sphere and birds pennes for peines Ancholie which is the flower colombine for melancholy A waning Moon or Cressant to shew the increasing or rising of ones fortune A bench rotten and broken to signifie bankrout non and a corslet for non dur habit otherwise non durabit it shall not last un lit sanc ciel that is a bed without a testerne for un lìcencìé a graduated person as Batchelour in Divinity or utter Barrester at law which are aequivocals so absurd and witlesse so barbarous and clownish that a foxes taile should be fastened to the neck-piece of and a Vizard made of a Cowsheard given to every one that henceforth should offer after the restitution of learning to make use of any such fopperies in France by the same reasons if reasons I should call them and not ravings rather and idle triflings about words might I cause paint a panier to signifie that I am in peine a Mustard-pot that my heart tarries much for 't one pissing upwards for a Bishop the bottom of a paire of breeches for a vessel full of farthings a Codpiece for the office of the Clerks of the sentences decrees or judgements or rather as the English beares it for the taile of a Cod-fish and a dogs turd for the dainty turret wherein lies the love of my sweet heart Farre otherwise did heretofore the Sages of Egypt when they wrote by letters which they called Hieroglyphicks which none understood who were not skilled in the vertue propertie and nature of the things represented by them of which Orus Apollon hath in Greek composed two books and Polyphïlus in his dream of love set down more In France you have a taste of them in the device or impresa of my Lord Admiral which was borne before that time by Octavian Augustus But my little skiffe alongst these unpleasant gulphs and sholes will faile no further therefore must I return to the Port from whence I came yet do I hope one day to write more at large of these things and to shew both by Philosophical arguments and authorities received and approved of by and from all antiquity what and how many colours there are in nature and what may be signified by every one of them if God save the mould of my Cap which is my best Wine-pot as my Grandame said CHAP. X. Of that which is signified by the Colours white and blew THe white therefore signifieth joy solace and gladnesse and that not at random but upon just and very good grounds which you may perceive to be true if laying aside all prejudicate affections you will but give eare to what presently I shall expound unto you Aristotle saith that supposing two things contrary in their kinde as good and evill vertue and vice heat and cold white and black pleasure and pain joy and grief And so of others if you couple them in such manner that the contrary of one kinde may agree in reason with the contrary of the other it must follow by consequence that the other contrary must answer to the remanent opposite to that wherewith it is conferred as for example vertue and vice are contrary in one kinde so are good and evil if one of the contraries of the first kinde be consonant to one of those of the second as vertue and good nesse for it is clear that vertue is good so shall the other two contraries which are evil and vice have the same connexion for vice is evil This Logical rule being understood take these two contraries joy and sadnesse then these other two white and black for they are Physically contrary if so be then that black do signifie grief by good reason then should white import joy Nor is this signification instituted by humane imposition but by the universal consent of the world received which Philosophers call Ius Gentium the Law of Nations or an uncontrolable right of force in all countreyes whatsoever for you know well enough that all people and all languages and nations except the ancient Syracusans and certain Argives who had crosse and thwarting soules when they mean outwardly to give evidence of their sorrow go in black and all mourning is done with black which general consent is not without some argument and reason in nature the which every man may by himself very suddenly comprehend without the instruction of any and this we call the Law of nature By vertue of the same natural instinct we know that by white all the world hath understood joy gladnesse mirth pleasure and delight In former times the Thracians and Crecians did mark their good propitious and fortunate dayes with white stones and their sad dismal and unfortunate ones with black is not the night mournful sad and melancholick it is black and dark by the privation of light doth not the light comfort all the world and it is more white then any thing else which to prove I could direct you to the book of Laurentius Valla against Bartolus but an Evangelical
Confraternity the more honestly to nod their heads play on the lute and crack with their tailes to make pretty little platforme leaps in keeping level by the ground but now the world is unshackled from the corners of the packs of Leycester One flies out lewdly and becomes debauch't another likewise five four and two and that at such randome that if the Court take not some course therein it will make as bad a season in matter of gleaning this yeare as ever it made or it will make goblets If any poor creature go to the stoves to illuminate his muzzle with a Cow-shard or to buy winter-boots and that the Serjeants passing by or those of the watch happen to receive the decoction of a clystere or the fecal matter of a close-stool upon their rustling-wrangling-clutter-keeping masterships should any because of that make bold to clip the shillings and testers and fry the wooden dishes sometimes when we think one thing God does another and and when the Sunne is wholly set all beasts are in the shade let me never be beleeved again if I do not gallantly prove it by several people that have seen the light of the day In the yeare thirty and six buying a Dutch curtail which was a middle sized horse both high and short of a wool good enough and died in graine as the Goldsmiths assured me although the Notarie put an c. in it I told really that I was not a Clerk of so much learning as to snatch at the Moon with my teeth but as for the Butter-firkin where Vulcanian deeds and evidences were sealed the rumour was and the report thereof went currant that salt-beefe will make one finde the way to the wine without a candle though it were hid in the bottom of a Colliers sack and that with his drawers on he were mounted on a barbed horse furnished with a fronstal and such armes thighs and leg-pieces as are requisite for the well frying and broyling of a swaggering sawcinesse Here is a sheeps head and it is well they make a proverb of this that it is good to see black Cowes in burnt wood when one attains to the enjoyment of his love I had a consultation upon this point with my Masters the Clerks who for resolution concluded in frisesomorum that there is nothing like to mowing in the summer and sweeping clean away in water well garnished with paper ink pens and penknives of Lyons upon the river of Rosne dolopym dolopof tarabin tarabas tuâ— prut pish for incontinently after that armour begins to smell of garlick the rust will go near to eat the liver not of him that weares it and then do they nothing else but withstand others courses and wry-neckedly set up their bristles 'gainst one another in lightly passing over their afternoons sleep and this is that which maketh salt so dear My Lords beleeve not when the said good woman had with bird-lime caught the shovelar fowle the better before a Serjeants witnesse to deliver the younger sons portion to him that the sheeps pluck or hogs haslet did dodge and shrink back in the Usurers purses or that there could be any thing better to preserve one from the Cannibals then to take a rope of onions knit with three hundred turneps and a little of a Calves Chaldern of the best allay that the Alchymists have provided that they daub and do over with clay as also calcinate and burne to dust these pantoffles muf in muf out Mouflin mouflard with the fine sauce of the juice of the rabble rout whilest they hide themselves in some petty moldwarphole saving alwayes the little slices of bacon Now if the dice will not favour you with any other throw but ambesace and the chance of three at the great end mark well the ace then take me your dame settle her in a corner of the bed and whisk me her up drille-trille there there tourelouralala which when you have done take a hearty draught of the best despicando grenovillibus in despight of the frogs whose faire course bebuskined stockins shall be set apart for the little green geese or mued goslings which fatned in a coope take delight to sport themselves at the wagtaile game waiting for the beating of the mettal and heating of the waxe by the slavering drivellers of consolation Very true it is that the foure oxen which are in debate and whereof mention was made were somewhat short in memory neverthelesse to understand the gamme aright they feared neither the Cormorant nor Mallard of Savoy which put the good people of my countrey in great hope that their children sometime should become very skilful in Algorisme therefore is it that by a law rubrick and special sentence thereof that we cannot faile to take the wolfe if we make our hedges higher then the wind-mill whereof somewhat was spoken by the Plaintiffe But the great Devil did envie it and by that means put the high Dutches farre behinde who played the devils in swilling down and tipling at the good liquour trink meen herr trink trink by two of my table-men in the corner-point I have gained the lurch for it is not probable nor is there any appearance of truth in this saying that at Paris upon a little bridge the hen is proportionable and were they as copped and high-crested as marish whoops if veritably they did not sacrifice the Printers pumpet-balls at Moreb with a new edge set upon them by text letters or those of a swift-writing hand it is all one to me so that the head-band of the book breed not moths or wormes in it And put the case that at the coupling together of the buck-hounds the little puppies should have waxed proud before the Notarie could have given an account of the serving of his Writ by the Cabalistick Art it will necessarily follow under correction of the better judgement of the Court that six acres of medow ground of the greatest breadth will make three butts of fine ink without paying ready money considering that at the Funeral of King Charles we might have had the fathom in open market for one and two that is deuce aâ—e this I may affirm with a safe conscience upon my oath of wooll And I see ordinarily in all good bagpipes that when they go to the counterfeiting of the chirping of small birds by swinging a broom three times about a chimney and putting his name upon record they do nothing but bend a Crossebowe backward and winde a horne if perhaps it be too hot and that by making it fast to a rope he was to draw immediately after the sight of the letters the Cowes were restored to him Such another sentence after the homeliest manner was pronounced in the seventeenth yeare because of the bad government of Louzefougarouse whereunto it may please the Court to have regard I desire to be rightly understood for truly I say not but that in all equity and with an upright conscience those may very
in the midst and shut with a spring Into one of them entered one of his men carrying a Lanterne and a torch lighted and so Pantagruel swallowed him down like a little pill into seven others went seven Countrey-fellows having every one of them a shovel on his neck into nine others entred nine wood-carriers having each of them a basket hung at his neck and so were they swallowed down like pills when they were in his stomack every one undid his spring and came out of their cabins the first whereof was he that carried the Lantern and so they fell more then half a league into a most horrible gulph more stinking and infectious then ever was Mephitis or the marishes of Camerina or the abominably unsavoury lake of Sorbona whereof Strabo maketh mention And had it not been that they had very well antidoted their stomach heart and wine-pot which is called the noddle they had been altogether suffocated and choaked with these detestable vapours O what a perfume O what an evaporation wherewith to beray the masks or musters of young mangie queans after that with groping and smelling they came near to the fecal matter and the corrupted humours finally they found a montjoy or heap of ordure and filth then fell the Pioneers to work to dig it up and the rest with their shovels filled the baskets and when all was cleansed every one retired himself into his ball This done Pantagruel enforcing himself to a vomit very easily brought them out and they made no more shew in his mouth then a fart in yours but when they came merrily out of their pills I thought upon the Grecians coming out of the Trojan horse by this meanes was he healed and brought unto his former state and convalescence and of these brazen pills or rather copper-balls you have one at Orleans upon the steeple of the Holy Crosse Church CHAP. XXXIV The Conclusion of this present Book and the excuse of the Author NOw my Masters you have heard a beginning of the horrifick history of my Lord and Master Pantagruel Here will I make an end of the first book My head akes a little and I perceive that the Registers of my braine are somewhat jumbled and disordered with this septembral juice You shall have the rest of the history at Franckfort mart next coming and there shall you see how Panurge was married and made a Cuckold within a moneth after his wedding how Pantagruel found out the Philosophers stone the manner how he found it and the way how to use it how he past over the Caspian mountaines and how he sailed thorough the Atlantick sea defeated the Cannibals and conquered the isles of Perles how he married the daughter of the King of India called Presian how he fought against the devil and burnt up five chambers of hell ransacked the great black chamber threw Proserpina into the fire broke five teeth to Lucifer and the horne that was in his arse How he visited the regions of the Moon to know whether indeed the Moon were not entire and whole or if the women had three quarters of it in their heads and a thousand other little merriments all veritable These are brave things truly Good night Gentlemen Perdonate mi and think not so much upon my faults that you forget your own If you say to me Master it would seem that you were not very wise in writing to us these flimflam stories and pleasant fooleries I answer you that you are not much wiser to spend your time in reading them neverthelesse if you read them to make your selves merry as in manner of pastime I wrote them you and I both are farre more worthy of pardon then a great rabble of squint-minded fellowes dissembling and counterfeit Saints demure lookers hypocrites pretended zealots tough Fryars buskin-Monks and other such sects of men who disguise themselves like Maskers to deceive the world for whilest they give the common people to understand that they are busied about nothing but contemplation and devotion in fastings and maceration of their sensuality and that only to sustain and aliment the small frailty of their humanity It is so far otherwise that on the contrary God knows what cheer they make Et Curios simulant sed bacchanalia vivunt You may reade it in great letters in the colouring of their red snowts and gulching bellies as big as a tun unlesse it be when they perfume themselves with sulphur as for their study it is wholly taken up in reading of Pantagruelin books not so much to passe the time merrily as to hurt some one or other mischievously to wit in articling sole-articling wry-neckifying buttock-stirring ballocking and diabliculating that is calumniating wherein they are like unto the poor rogues of a village that are busie in stirring up and scraping in the ordure and filth of little children in the season of cherries and guinds and that only to finde the kernels that they may sell them to the druggists to make thereof pomander-oile Fly from these men abhorre and hate them as much as I do and upon my faith you will finde your selves the better for it And if you desire to be good Pantagruelists that is to say to live in peace joy health making your selves alwayes merry never trust those men that alwayes peep out at one hole The End of the Second Book of Rabelais FINIS THE TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS Contained in the First and Second Book of Rabelais Of the First book THE Authors Prologue Page 1. Of the Genealogie and Antiquity of Gargantua ch 1. p. 9 A galimatia of extravagant conceits ch 2. p. 13 How Gargantua was carried eleven moneths in his mothers belly ch 3. p. 18 How Gargamelle being great with Gargantua did eat a huge deal of tripes ch 4. p. 22 The Discourse of the Drinkers ch 5. p. 24 How Gargantua was borne in a strange manner ch 6. p. 30 After what manner Gargantua had his name given him and how he tipled bibbed and eurried the Canne ch 7. p. 34 How they apparelled Gargantua ch 8. p. 37 The Colours and Liveries of Gargantua ch 9. p. 43 Of that which is signified by the Colours white and blew ch 10. p. 47 Of the youthful age of Gargantua ch 11. p. 53 Of Gargantua's wooden horses ch 12. p. 57 How Gargantua's wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier by the invention of a torchecul c. ch 13. p. 61 How Gargantua was taught Latine by a Sophister ch 14. p. 67 How Gargantua was put under other Schoolmasters ch 15. p. 70 How Gargantua was sent to Paris and of the huge great mare that he rode on how she destroyed the oxe-flies of the Beauce ch 16. p. 73 How Gargantua payed his welcome to the Parisians and how he took away the great Bells of our Ladies Church ch 17. p. 76 How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to Gargantua to recover the great bells ch 18. p. 80 The Oration of Master Janotus