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A91655	The first [second] book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds, and sayings of Gargantua, and his sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline prognostication, the oracle of the divine Bachus, and response of the bottle. Hereunto are annexed the navigations unto the sounding isle, and the isle of the Apedests: as likewise the philosophical cream with a Limosm epistle. / All done by Mr. Francis Rabelais, in the French tongue, and now faithfully translated into English.; Gargantua et Pantagruel. English. 1653	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.; Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing R105; Thomason E1429_1; ESTC R202203	215,621	504

I prethie go on in this torcheculaife orw ipe-bummatory discourse and by my beard I swear for one puncheon thou shalt have threescore pipes I mean of the good Breton wine not that which growes in Britain but in the good countrey of Verron Afterwards I wiped my bum said Gargantua with a kerchief with a pillow with a pantoufle with a pouch with a pannier but that was a wicked and unpleasant torchecul then with a hat of hats note that some are shorne and others shaggie some velveted others covered with taffitie's and others with sattin the best of all these is the shaggie hat for it makes a very neat abstersion of the fecal matter Afterwards I wiped my taile with a hen with a cock with a pullet with a calves skin with a hare with a pigeon with a cormorant with an Atturneyes bag with a montero with a coife with a faulconers lure but to conclude I say and maintain that of all torcheculs arsewisps bumfodders tail-napkins bunghole-cleansers and wipe-breeches there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose that is well douned if you hold her head betwixt your legs and beleeve me therein upon mine honour for you will thereby feele in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure both in regard of the softnesse of the said doune and of the temperate heat of the goose which is easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the inwards insofarre as to come even to the regions of the heart and braines 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 judgement that they wipe their tailes with the neck of a goose holding her head betwixt their legs and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland aliàs Scotus CHAP. XIV How Gargantua was taught Latine by a Sophister THe good man Grangousier having heard this discourse was ravished with admiration considering the high reach and marvellous understanding of his sonne Gargantua and said to his governesses Philip King of Macedon knew the great wit of his sonne 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 mans leg braining one and putting another out of his 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 feare he had of his own shadow whereupon getting on his back he run him against the Sun so that the shadow fell behinde and by that meanes tamed the horse and brought him to his hand whereby his father knowing the divine judgement that was in him 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 sonne 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 supreme degree of wisdome 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 A B C so well that he could say it by heart backwards and about this he was five yeares and three moneths Then read he to him Donat facet theodolet and Alanus in parabolis About this he was thirteen years six moneths 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 inkhorne weighing above seven thousand quintals that is 700000 pound weight the penner whereof was as big and as long as the great pillar of Enay and the horne was hanged to it in great iron chaines it being of the widenesse of a tun of merchand ware After that he read unto him the book de modis significandi with the Commentaries of Hurtbise of Fasquin of Tropifeu of Gualhaut of Jhon Calf of Billonio of Berlinguandus and a rabble of others and herein he spent more then eighteen yeares and eleven monethes and was so well versed in it 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 did he reade to him the compost for knowing the age of the Moon the seasons of the year and tides of the sea on which he spent sixteen yeares and two moneths and that justly at the time that his said Praeceptor died of the French Pox which was in the yeare one thousand foure hundred and twenty Afterwards he got an old coughing fellow to teach him named Master Jobelin Bride or muzled doult who read unto him Hugotio Flebard Grecisme the doctrinal the parts the quid est the supplementum Marmoretus de moribus in mensa servandis Seneca de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus Passavantus cum commentar and dormi securè for the holy days and some other of such like mealie stuffe by reading whereof he became as wise as any we 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 in it did neverthelesse profit nothing but which is worse grew thereby foolish simple doted and blockish whereof making a heavie regret to Don Philip of Marays Viceroy or deputie-King of Papeligosse he found that it were better for him to learne nothing at all then to be taught such like books under such School-masters because their knowledge was nothing but brutishnesse and their wisdome but blunt foppish toyes serving only to bastardize good and noble spirits and to corrupt all the flower of youth That it is so take said he any young boy of this time who hath only studied two yeares if he have not a better judgement a better discourse and that expressed in better termes then your sonne 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 Des Marays 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

gallant actions and hast likewise for thy Tutor and Paedagogue the learned Epistemon who by his lively and vocal documents may instruct thee in the Arts and Sciences I intend and will have it so that thou learn the Languages perfectly first of all the Greek as Quintilian will have it secondly the Latine and then the Hebrew for the holy Scripture-sake and then the Chaldee and Arabick likewise and that thou frame thy stilein Greek in imitation of Plato and for the Latine after Cicero let there be no history which thou shalt not have ready in thy memory unto the prosecuting of which designe books of Cosmographie will be very conducible and help thee much Of the liberal Arts of Geometry Arithmetick and Musick I gave thee some taste when thou wert yet little and not above five or six yeares old proceed further in them learn the remainder if thou canst As for Astronomy study all the rules thereof let passe neverthelesse the divining and judicial Astrology and the Art of Lullius as being nothing else but plain abuses and vanities As for the Civil Law of that I would have thee to know the texts by heart and then to conferre them with Philosophie Now in matter of the knowledge of the works of Nature I would have thee to study that exactly and that so there be no sea river nor fountain of which thou doest not know the fishes all the fowles of the aire all the several kindes of shrubs and trees whether in forrests or orchards all the sorts of herbes and flowers that grow upon the ground all the various mettals that are hid within the bowels of the earth together with all the diversity of precious stones that are to be seen in the Orient South-parts of the world let nothing of all these be hidden from thee Then faile not most carefully to peruse the books of the Greek Arabian and Latine Physicians not despising the Talmudists and Cabalists and by frequent Anatomies get thee the perfect knowledge of the other world called the Microcosme which is man and at some houres of the day apply thy minde to the study of the holy Scriptures first in Greek the New Testament with the Epistles of the Apostles and then the Old Testament in Hebrew In brief let me see thee an Abysse and bottomlesse pit of knowledge for from hence forward as thou growest great and becomest a man thou must part from this tranquillity and rest of study thou must learn chivalrie warfare and the exercises of the field the better thereby to defend my house and our friends and to succour and protect them at all their needs against the invasion and assaults of evil doers Furthermore I will that very shortly thou try how much thou hast profited which thou canst not better do then by maintaining publickly Theses and Conclusions in all Arts against all persons whatsoever and by haunting the company of learned men both at Paris and otherwhere But because as the wise man Solomon saith Wisdome entereth not into a malicious minde and that knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule it behooveth thee to serve to love to feare God and on him to cast all thy thoughts and all thy hope and by faith formed in charity to cleave unto him so that thou mayest never be separated from him by thy sins Suspect the abuses of the world set not thy heart upon vanity for this life is transitory but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever Be serviceable to all thy neighbours and love them as thy self reverence thy Praeceptors shun the conversation of those whom thou desirest not to resemble and receive not in vaine the graces which God hath bestowed upon thee and when thou shalt see that thou hast attained to all the knowledge that is to be acquired in that part return unto me that I may see thee and give thee my blessing before I die My sonne the peace and grace of our Lord be with thee Amen From Vtopia the 17. day of the moneth of March. Thy father Gargantua These letters being received and read Pantagruel pluck't up his heart took a fresh courage to him and was inflamed with a desire to profit in his studies more then ever so that if you had seen him how he took paines and how he advanced in learning you would have said that the vivacity of his spirit amidst the books was like a great fire amongst dry wood so active it was vigorous and indefatigable CHAP. IX How Pantagruel found Panurge whom he loved all his life-time ONe day as Pantagruel was taking a walk without the City towards St. Antonies Abbey discoursing and philosophating with his own servants and some other Scholars met with a young man of a very comely stature and surpassing handsome in all the lineaments of his body but in several parts thereof most pitifully wounded in such bad equipage in matter of his apparel which was but totters and rags and every way so far out of order that he seemed to have been a fighting with mastiffe-dogs from whose fury he had made an escape or to say better he looked in the condition wherein he then was like an Apple-gatherer of the countrey of Perche As farre off as Pantagruel saw him he said to those that stood by Do you see that man there who is a coming hither upon the road from Charanton-bridge by my faith he is only poor in fortune for I may assure you that by his Physiognomie it appeareth that nature hath extracted him from some rich and noblerace and that too much curiosity hath thrown him upon adventures which possibly have reduced him to this indigence want and penurie Now as he was just amongst them Pantagruel said unto him Let me intreat you friend that you may be pleased to stop here a little and answer me to that which I shall ask you and I am confident you will not think your time ill bestowed for I have an extream desire according to my ability to give you some supply in this distresse wherein I see you are because I do very much commiserate your case which truly moves me to great pity Therefore my friend tell me who you are whence you come whither you go what you desire and what your name is the companion answered him in the Dutch tongue thus Yunker gott geb euch gluck und heil surwar lieber yunker ich las euch wissen das dar mich wungraft ist ein arm und erbamlich ding und wer wol darvon Zusagen welches euch verdrusflich Zuceten und mer Zuerzelen wer wiewol die Poeten und Oratores vortzeiten habengesagt in item sprichen und sentenzen das die gedecktnus des ellendzund armut vortangs erlitten ist ein grosser lust My friend said Pantagruel I have no skill in that gibberish of yours therefore if you would have us to understand you speak to us in some other language then did the drole answer him thus Albarildim