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A57001	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 Urchard.; Works. English. 1664	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1664 (1664)	Wing R103; ESTC R24488	220,658	520

O my pretty little waggish boy said Grangousier what an excellent wit thou hast I will make thee very shortly proceed Doctor in the jovial quirks of gay learning and that by G for thou hast more wit then age now I prethie go on in this torcheculaife orw ipe-bummatory discourse and by my beard I swear for one punche on 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 Iohn of Scotland alias 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 Ihon 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 Iobelin 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 Schoolmasters 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

the earth beareth not more arrant Villains then you are I know it well enough Halt not before the lame I have practised wicked●esse with you by Gods rattle I will inform the King of the enormous abuses that are forged here and carried underhand by you and let me be a Leper if he do not burn you alive like Sodomites Traitors Hereticks and Seducers enemies to God and vertue Upon these words they framed articles against him he on the other side warned them to appear In summe the Processe was retained by the Court and is there as yet Hereupon the Magisters made a vow never to decrott themselvs in rubbing off the dirt of either their shoes or clothes Master Ianotus with his Adherents vowed never to blow or snuffe their noses until judgement were given by a definitive sentence by these vows do they continue unto this time both dirty and snottie for the Court hath not garbeled sifted and fully looked into all the pieces as yet The judgment or decree shall be given out pronounced at the next Greek Calends that is never as you know that they do more then nature and contrary to their own articles the articles of Paris maintain that to God alone belongs infinitie and nature produceth nothing that is immortal for she putteth an end and period to all things by her engendered according to the saying Omnia orta cadunt c. But these thick mist-swallowers make the suits in law depending before them both infinite and immortal in doing whereof they have given occasion to and verified the saying of Chilo the Lacedemonian consecrated to the Oracle at Delphos that misery is the inseparable companion of law-debates and that pleaders are miserable for sooner shall they attain to the end of their lives then to the final decision of their pretended rights CHAP. XXI The Study of Gargantua according to the discipline of his Schoolmasters the Sophisters THe first day being thus spent and the bells put up again in their own place the Citizens of Paris in acknowledgement of this courtesie offered to maintain and feed his Mare as long as he pleased which Gargantua took in good part and they sent her to graze in the forrest of Biere I think she is not there now This done he with all his heart submitted his study to the discretion of Ponocrates who for the beginning appointed that he should do as he was accustomed to the end he might understand by what meanes in so long time his old Masters had made him so sottish and ignorant He disposed therefore of his time in such fashion that ordinarily he did awake betwixt eight and nine a clock whether it was day or not for so had his ancient governours ordained alledging that which David saith Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere Then did he tumble and tosse wag his legs and wallow in the bed sometime the better to stirre up and rouse his vital spirits and apparelled himself according to the season but willingly he would weare a great long gown of thick freeze furred with fox-skins Afterwards he combed his head with an Alman combe which is the foure fingers and the thumb for his Praeceptor said that to comb himself otherwayes to wash and make himself neat was to lose time in this world Then he dung'd pist spued belched cracked yawned spitted coughed yexed sneezed and snotted himself like an Arch-deacon and to suppresse the dew and bad aire went to breakfast having some good fried tripes faire rashers on the coales excellent gamons of bacon store of fine minced meat and a great deal of sippet brewis made up of the fat of the beef-pot laid upon bread cheese and chop 't pursley strewed together Ponocrates shewed him that he ought not to eat so soon after rising out of his bed unlesse he had performed some exercise before-hand Gargantua answered What have not I sufficiently well exercised my self I have wallowed and rolled my self six or seven turnes in my bed before I rose is not that enough Pope Alexander did so by the advice of a Jew his Physician and lived till his dying day in despite of his enemies My first Masters have used me to it saying that to breakfast made a good memory and therefore they drank first I am very well after it and dine but the better and Master Tubal who was the first Licenciat at Paris told me that it was not enough to run apace but to set forth betimes so doth not the total welfare of our humanity depend upon perpetual drinking in a rible rable like ducks but on drinking early in the morning unde versus To rise betimes is no good houre To drink betimes is better sure After that he had throughly broke his fast he went to Church and they carried to him in a great basket a huge impantoufled or thick-covered breviary weighing what in grease clasps parchment and cover little more or lesse then eleven hundred and six pounds There he heard six and twenty or thirty Masses This while to the same place came his orison-mutterer impaletocked or lap 't up about the chin like a tufted whoop and his breath pretty well antidoted with store of the Vine-tree-sirrup with him he mumbled all his Kiriele and dunsical breborions which he so curiously thumbed and fingered that there fell not so much as one graine to the ground as he went from the Church they brought him upon a Dray drawn with oxen a confused heap of Patinotres and Aves of Sante Claude every one of them being of the bignesse of a hatblock and thus walking through the cloysters galleries or garden he said more in turning them over then sixteen Hermites would have done Then did he study some paltry half-houre with his eyes fixed upon his book but as the Comick saith his minde was in the Kitchin Pissing then a full Urinal he sate down at table and because he was naturally flegmatick he began his meale with some dozens of gammons dried neats tongues hard rowes of mullet called Botargos Andouilles or sauciges and such other forerunners of wine in the mean while foure of his folks did cast into his mouth one after another continually mustard by whole shovels full Immediately after that he drank a horrible draught of white-wine for the ease of his kidneys When that was done he ate according to the season meat agreeable to his appetite and then left off eating when his belly began to strout and was like to crack for fulnesse as for his drinking he had in that neither end nor rule for he was wont to say that the limits and bounds of drinking were when the cork of the shoes of him that drinketh swelleth up half a foot high CHAP. XXII The Games of Gargantua THen blockishly mumbling with a set on countenance a piece of scurvie grace he wash't his hands in fresh wine pick't his teeth with the foot of a hog and talked jovially with his Attendants then the Carpet being spred they brought

when the reason hereof was demanded the Chanons of the said place told him that there was no other cause of it but that Pictoribus atque Poetis c. that is to say that Painters and Poets have liberty to paint and devise what they list after their own fancie but he was not satisfied with their answer and said He is not thus painted without a cause and I suspect that at his death there was some wrong done him whereof he requireth his Kinred to take revenge I will enquire further into it and then do what shall be reasonable then he returned not to Poictiers but would take a view of the other Universities of France therefore going to Rochel he took shipping and arrived at Bourdeaux where he found no great exercise only now and then he would see some Marriners and Lightermen a wrestling on the key or strand by the river-side From thence he came to Tholouse where he learned to dance very well and to play with the two-handed sword as the fashion of the Scholars of the said University is to bestir themselves in games whereof they may have their hands full but he stayed not long there when he saw that they did cause bury their Regents alive like red herring saying Now God forbid that I should die this death for I am by nature sufficiently dry already without heating my self any further He went then to Monpellier where he met with the good wives of Mirevaux and good jovial company withal and thought to have set himself to the study of Physick but he considered that that calling was too troublesome and melancholick and that Physicians did smell of glisters like old devils Therefore he resolved he would studie the lawes but seeing that there were but three scauld and one bald-pated Legist in that place he departed from thence and in his way made the Bridge of Gard and the Amphitheater of Neems in lesse then three houres which neverthelesse seems to be a more divine then humane work After that he came to Avignon where he was not above three dayes before he fell in love for the women there take great delight in playing at the close buttock-game because it is Papal ground which his Tutor and Pedagogue Epistemon perceiving he drew him out of that place and brought him to Valence in the Dauphinee where he saw no great matter of recreation only that the Lubbards of the Town did beat the Scholars which so incensed him with anger that when upon a certain very faire Sunday the people being at their publick dancing in the streets and one of the Scholars offering to put himself into the ring to partake of that sport the foresaid lubbardly fellowes would not permit him the admittance into their society He taking the Scholars part so belaboured them with blowes and laid such load upon them that he drove them all before him even to the brink of the river Rhosne and would have there drowned them but that they did squat to the ground and there lay close a full halfe league under the river The hole is to be seen there yet After that he departed from thence and in three strides and one leap came to Angiers where he found himself very well and would have continued there some space but that the plague drove them away So from thence he came to Bourges where he studied a good long time and profited very much in the faculty of the Lawes and would sometimes say that the books of the Civil Law were like unto a wonderfully precious royal and triumphant robe of cloth of gold edged with dirt for in the world are no goodlier books to be seen more ornate nor more eloquent then the texts of the Pandects but the bordering of them that is to say the glosse of Accursius is so scurvie vile base and unsavourie that it is nothing but filthinesse and villany Going from Bourges he came to Orleans where he found store of swaggering Scholars that made him great entertainment at his coming and with whom he learned to play at tennis so well that he was a Master at that game for the Students of the said place make a prime exercise of it and sometimes they carried him unto Cupids houses of commerce in that City termed Islands because of ●heir being most ordinarily environed with other houses and not contiguous to any there to recreate his person at the sport of Poussevant which the wenches of London call the Ferkers in and in As for breaking his head with over-much study he had an especial care not to do it in any case for feare of spoiling his eyes which he the rather observed for that it was told him by one of his Teachers there called Regents that the paine of the eyes was the most hurtful thing of any to the sight for this cause when he one day was made a Licentiate or Graduate in law one of the Scholras of his acquaintance who of learning had not much more then his burthen though in stead of that he could dance very well and play at tennis made the blason and device of the Licentiates in the said University saying So you have in your hand a racket A tennis-ball in your Cod-placket A Pandect law in your Caps tippet And that you have the skill to trip it In a low dance you will b' allow'd The grant of the Licentiates hood CHAP. VI. How Pantagruel met with a Limousin who too affestedly did counterfeit the French Language VPon a certain day I know not when Pantagruel walking after supper with some of his fellow-Students without that gate of the City through which we enter on the rode to Paris encountered with a young spruce-like Scholar that was coming upon the same very way and after they had saluted one another asked him thus My friend from whence comest thou now the Scholar answered him From the alme inclyte and celebrate Academie which is vocitated Lutetia What is the meaning of this said Pantagruel to one of his men It is answered he from Paris Thou comest from Paris then said Pantagruel and how do you spend your time there you my Masters the Students of Paris the Scholar answered We transfretate the Sequan at the dilucul and crepuscul we deambulate by the compites and quadrives of the Urb we despumate the Latial verbocination and like verisimilarie amorabons we captat the benevolence of the omnijugal omniform and omnigenal foeminine sexe upon certain diecules we invisat the Lupanares and in a venerian extase inculcate our veretres into the penitissime recesses of the pudends of these amicabilissim meretricules then do we cauponisate in the meritory taberns of the pineapple the castle the magdalene and the mule goodly vervecine spatules perforaminated with petrocile and if by fortune there be rarity or penury of pecune in our marsupies and that they be exhausted of ferruginean mettal for the shot we dimit our codices and oppugnerat our vestiments whilest we prestolate the coming of