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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

Greek et Latin speaking Greek and Latin in French thought to have refin'd his Mother Tongue So Rabelais to prevent the spreading of that Contagion has not only brought that Limousin Author on his Pantagruelian Stage but wrote a Letter in Verse all in that Style in the name of the Limousin Scholar printed at the end of the Pantagruelian Prognostication Pasquier who liv'd at that time has made the like Observation on that Chapter when in his second Book of Letters p. 53. he says pour l'ornement de nostre langue et nous aider mesmes du Grec et du Latin non pour les escorcher ineptement comme fit sur nostre jeune age Helisaine dont nostre gentil Rabelais s'est mocqué fort a propos en la personne de l'escolier Limosin qu'il introduct parlan● a Pantagruel en un language escorche Latin The 7th Chapter wherein he gives a Catalogue of the Books in St. Victor's Library is admirable and would require a large Comment it being a Satyr against many Writers and great Affairs in that Age as well as against those who either make Collections of bad Books or seek no others in Libraries but I have not leasure to read over a great number of Books that ought to be consulted for such a Task The Cause which was pleaded before Pantagruel by the Lords Suck-fizle and Kiss-Breech seems to be a Mock of the famous Tryal concerning two Dutchies four Counties two Vi-counties and many Baronies and Lordships to which Loyse de Savoye the Mother of Francis the first laid Claim Charles de Bourbon Constable of France was possest of them but because he had refus'd to marry her she made use of some Titles which she had to them to perplex him and though she could not even with the King her Son's Favour cast the Constable yet they were sequestred into the King's Hands and the final determination put off Pasquier in his Recherches observes that when Guillaume Poyet afterwards Chancellor and Francois de Monthelon afterwards Lord-Keeper then the two most famous Councellors of the Age pleaded the Cause the first for Plantiff the other for Defendant They armed themselves with a pedantic Iuris prudence borrowed from a parcel of Italian School Boys whom some call Doctors at Laws true Hatchers of Law Suits such was the Rhetoric of that Time and as it is easie to stray in a thick Wood so with a confused heap of various Quotations instead of explaining the Cause they perplexed it and filled it with darkness Upon this by the united Voice of the People the Name of the Plantiff was owned to contain the Truth of the Case that is Loyse de Savoye Loy se desavoye The Law goes astray which is perhaps the happiest Anagram tha● e●er was fot 't is made without changing the Order of the Letters and only by dividing the Words otherwise than they are in the Name The 18 19 and 20th Chapters treat of a great Scholar of England who came to argue by Signs with Pantagruel and was overcome by Panurge I do not well know on whom to fix the Character of Thaumast that Scholar whose Name may not only signifie an Admirer an admirable Person or one of those School-men who follow the Doctrin of Thomas Aquinas in opposition to that of Scotus And I find as little Reason to think that any would have come to confer with Anthony de Bourbon of Geomancy Philosophy and the Cabalistic Art Indeed Sir Thomas Moore went Ambassador to Francis the First and Erasmus who lived some time in England also came to Paris but I cannot think that either may pass for the Thaumast of Rabelais Perhaps he hath made him an English Man merely on purpose to disguise the Story and I would have had some thoughts of Henricus Cornelius Agrippa who came to France and died there but I will prove when I examin the Third Book that he has brought him on the Stage by the Name of Her-trippa So 't is not impossible but that he may have meant Hieronimus Cardan of Milan who flourish'd in that Age and was another dark Cabalistic Author The first has said Occult. Philos. l. 1. c. 6. That he knew how to communicate his Thoughts by the species of Sight in a magical Way as Pythagoras was said to do by writing any thing in the Body of the Moon so as it should be legible to another at a vast distance and he pretends to tell us the method of it in his Book De vanitate Scientiarum Cardan also has writ concerning private Ways of imparting our Thoughts Sub●ilit l. 17. and De Variet Rerum lib. 12. but these ways of signifying our Thoughts by Gestures called by the Learned Bishop Wilkins Semaeology are almost of infinite Variety according as the several Fancies of Men shall impose Significations upon such Signs as are capable of sufficient difference And the Venerable Bede has made a Book only of that commonly stiled Arthrologia or Dactylologia which he calls Lib. de loquelâ per gestum digitorum sive de indigitatione So that perhaps our Author made his Thaumast an English Man not to reflect on Beda but because that Learned Father is the most Ancient and Famous Author that has written a Book on that Subject I have Read of a public Debate much like that of Thaumast and Panurge and as probable said to have been held at Geneva The Agressor lifted up his Arm and closed three of his Fingers and his Thumb and pointed with the remaining Finger at his Opponent who immediately pointed at him again with two Then the other shewed him two Fingers and one Thumb whereupon his Antagonist shook his closed Fist at him Upon this the Aggressor showed him an Apple and the other looking into his Pocket found a bit of Bread and in a scornful way let him see it which made him that began the Dispute yield himself vanquished Now when the Conqueror was desired to relate what their Signs signified He with whom I disputed said he threatned first to put out one of my Eyes and I gave him to understand that I would put out both his Then he threatned to tear both mine and take off my Nose upon which I shewed him my Fist to let him know that I would knock him down And as he perceived that I was angry he offered me an Apple to pacifie me as they do Children but I showed him that I scorn'd his Present and that I had Bread which was fitter for a Man After all Montluc who is our Panurge may have had some Dispute about the Signs of the true Religion or the two Sacraments of the Protestants and the seven of the Romans they being properly called Signs and such a thing not being recorded by Historians like many others that relate to this Work it may not be possible to discover it The Dipsodes that had besieged the City of the Amaurots are the Flemings and other Subjects of the Emperor Charles the