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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

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 to●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