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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 Verron which seems to be Bearn I might instance more of this but as I know how little we ought to rely upon likeness of Names to find out Places and Colonies I will only insist upon the word Vtopia which is the name of Grangousier's Kingdom and by which the Author means Navarre of which Gargantua was properly only Titular King the best part of that Kingdom with Pampelune its capital City being in the King of Spain's Hands So that State was as it were no more on Earth as to any benefit he enjoyed by it and 't is what the Word Vtopia from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies viz. that is not found or a place not to be found We have therefore here four Actors in the Pantagruelian F●rce three Kings of Navarre and the Bishop of Valence bred up and rais'd in that House we might add two Person● mutae Catherine de Foix Queen of Navarre matried to Iohn d' Albret and she therefore should be Gargam●ll● as Margaret de Valois married to his Son Henry King of Navarre should be Badebec Picrochole is doubtless the King of Spain who depriv'd Iohn d' Albret of that part of Navarre which is on the side of the Pyrene●● Mountains that is next to Spain This appears by the name of Picrochole and by the universal Monarchy of which he thought himself secure The word Picrochole is made up of two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bitter and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 choler bile or gaul to denote the Temper of that King who was nothing but Bitterness and Gaul This doubly fits Charles the Fifth first with Relation to Francis the First against whom ●he conceived an immortal hatred and to Henry d' Albret whose Kingdom he possess'd and whom he lull'd with the hopes of a Restitutition which he never design'd which was one of the chief Causes of the War that was kindled between that Emperor and Charles the Fifth which lasted during both their Reigns Besides Charles the Fifth was troubled from time to time with an overflowing of Bile so that finding himself decaying and not likely to live much longer after he had raised the siege of Mets as he had done that of Marseille before being commonly as unfortunate as his Generals were successful he shut himself up in a 〈◊〉 where that distemper was the chief Cause of his Death The hope of 〈◊〉 Monarchy with which that Emperor flatter'd himself was a Chimaera that possess'd his mind till he resign'd his Crown and which he seem'd to have assign'd with it to Philip the II his Son and Successors This Frenzy which in his Thirst of Empire possessed him wholly is very pleasantly ridicul'd by Rabelais The Duke of Small Thrash The Earl Swa●●●-Buckler and Captain 〈◊〉 make Picrochole in Rodomontados conquer Tall the Nations in the Universe I suppose that our Satyrist means by these three some Grandees of Spain for their King Picrochole bids them be cover'd After many imaginary Victories they speak of erecting two Pillars to perpetuate his Memory at the Streights of Gibraltar by which he ridicules Charles the V.'s Devise which was two Pillars with plus Vltra for the Moto Then they make him go to 〈◊〉 and Algier which Charles the V. did march to Rome and cause the Pope to dye for Fear whereat Picrochole is pleased because he will not then kiss his Pyantoufle and longs to be at Loretto Accordingly we know that in 1527 his Army had taken Rome by storm plundered it and its Churches ravished the Nuns if any would be ravished and having almost starved the Pope at last took him Prisoner which Actions of a Catholic Kings Army Sandoval a Spanish Author only terms opra non Santa Then Picrochole fancying himself Master already of so many Nations most royally gratifies those who so easily made him Conquer them to this he gives Caramania Suria to that and Palestine to the third till at last a wise old Officer speaks to him much as Cyneas did to Pyrrhu● and with as little Success as that Philosopher As it was not our Author's Design to to give us a regular History of all that happened in his Time he did not tye himself up to Chronology and sometimes joyned Events which have but little Relation to each other Many times also the Characters are double as perhaps is that of Picrochole In the Menagiana lately published which is a Collection of Sayings Reparties and Observations by the learned Menage every one of them attested by Men of Leaning and Credit we are told that Messieurs de Sainte Marthe have told him that the Picrochole of Rabelais was their Grand Father who was a Physician at Fron●evaut These M●de St. Marthe are the worthy Sons of the famous Samarthanus who gave so high a Character of Rabelais among the most celebrated Men of France and who themselves have honour'd his Letters with large Notes and shew'd all the Marks of the greatest respect for his Memory so that I am apt to believe that they would not fix such a Character on their Grand-father had there not been some Grounds for it Much less would they have said this to Monsieur Menage who doubtless understood Rabelais very well since I find by the Catalogue of his Works in Manuscript that he has written a Book of Observations on Rabelais which I wish were Printed for they must doubtless be very curious no less ought to be expected from that learned Author of the Origines de la Languo Francoise and of the Origini della Lingua Italiana as also of the curious Observations on the Aminta of Tasso not to speak of his Diogenes Laertius and many others As he was most skill'd in Etymologies and a Man of the greatest Reading and Memory in France he had doub●less made too many discoveries in our Author to have believ'd what Messieurs Sainte Marthe said to him were there not some Grounds for it We may then suppose that Rabelais had the wit so to describe pleasant incidents that past among Men of Learning or his Neighbours in and near Chinon as that at the same time some great Acti●● in Church or State should be represented or satiriz'd just as Monsieur De Benserade in his Verses for the solemn Masks at the French Court has made his King representing Iupiter say what equally might be said of that Heathen God or of that Monarch Thus the Astrea of the Lord D'urfe which has charm'd all the ingenious of both Sexes and is still the admiration of the most knowing meerly as a Romance has been discover'd long ago by some few to have throughout it a foundation of Truth But as it only contains the private Amours of some Persons of the first quality in that Kingdom and even those of its noble Author he had so disguis'd the Truths which he describes that few had the double pleasure of seeing them reconcil'd to the ou●ward Fictions till among the Works of the greatest Orator

there it would howsoever have been evaporated besides that before that time it had never been seen nor heard that Roast-meat Smoak was sold upon the Streets of Paris The Cook hereto replied That he was not obliged nor any way bound to feed and nourish for nought a Porter whom he had never seen before with the Smoak of his Roast-meat and thereupon swore that if he would not forthwith content and satisfie him with present Payment for the Repast which he had thereby got that he would take his crooked Staves from off his Back which instead of having Loads thereafter laid upon them should serve for Fuel to his Kitchin Fires Whilst he was going about so to do and to have pulled them to him by one of the bottom Rungs which he had caught in his Hand the sturdy Porter got out of his Gripes drew forth the knotty Cudgel and stood to his own Defence The Altercation waxed hot in Words which moved the gaping Hoydons of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts to see what the issue would be of that babling Strife and Contention In the interim of this Dispute to very good purpose Seiny Ihon the Fool and Citizen of Paris hapned to be there whom the Cook perceiving said to the Porter Wilt thou refer and submit unto the noble Seiny Ihon the Decision of the Difference and Controversie which is betwixt us Yes by the Blood of a Goose answered the Porter I am content Seiny Ihon the Fool finding that the Cook and Porter had compromised the Determination of their Variance and Debate to the Discretion of his Award and Arbitriment after that the Reasons on either side whereupon was grounded the mutual fierceness of their brawling Jar had been to the full displayed and laid open before him commanded the Porter to draw out of the Fab of his Belt a piece of Money if he had it Whereupon the Porter immediately without delay in Reverence to the Authority of such a Judicious Umpire put the tenth part of a Silver Phillip into his hand This little Phillip Seiny Ihon took then set it on his Left Shoulder to try by feeling if it was of a sufficient weight after that laying it on the palm of his hand he made it ring and tingle to understand by the Ear if it was of a good Alloy in the Metal whereof it was composed Thereafter he put it to the Ball or Apple of his Left Eye to explore by the sight if it was well stamped and marked all which being done in a profound Silence of the whole doltish People who were there Spectators of this Pageantry to the great Hope of the Cooks and Despair of the Porters Prevalency in the Suit that was in agitation he finally caused the Porter to make it sound several times upon the Stall of the Cooks Shop Then with a Presidential Majesty holding his Bable Scepter-like in his Hand muffling his Head with a Hood of Martern Skins each side whereof had the resemblance of an Apes Face sprucified up with Ears of pasted Paper and having about his Neck a bucked Ruff raised furrowed and ridged with Ponting Sticks of the shape and fashion of small Organ Pipes he first with all the force of his Lungs Coughed two or three times and then with an audible Voice pronounced this following Sentence The Court declareth that the Porter who ate his Bread at the Smoak of the roast hath civilly paid the Cook with the sound of his Money And the said Court Ordaineth that every one return to his own home and attend his proper business without Cost and Charges and for a Cause This Verdict Award and Arbitriment of the Parisian Fool did appear so equitable yea so admirable to the aforesaid Doctors that they very much doubted if the matter had been brought before the Sessions for Iustice of the said place or that the Judges of the Rota at Rome had been Umpires therein or yet that the Areopagites themselves had been the Deciders thereof if by any one part or all of them together it had been so judicially sententiated and awarded Therefore advise if you will be counselled by a Fool. CHAP. XXXVIII How Triboulet is set forth and blazed by Pantagruel and Panurge BY my Soul quoth Panurge that Overture pleaseth me exceedingly well I will therefore lay hold thereon and embrace it At the very motioning thereof my very Right Entral seemeth to be widened and enlarged which was but just now hard bound contracted and costive but as we have hitherto made choice of the purest and most refined Cream of Wisdom and Sapience for our Counsel so would I now have to preside and bear the prime Sway in our Consultation as were a Fool in the supream degree Triboulet quoth Pantagruel is compleatly foolish as I conceive Yes truly answered Panurge he is properly and totally a Fool a Pantagruel Panurge Fatal f. Jovial f. Natural f. Mercurial f. Celectial f. Lunatick f. Erratick f. Ducal f. Excentrick f. Common f. Aetherial and Junonian f. Lordly f.   Palatin f. Arctick f. Principal f. Heroick f. Pretorian f. Gemial f. Ellected f. Inconstant f. Courtly f. Earthly f. Primipilary f. Solacious and sporting f. Triumphant f.   Vulgar f. Jocund and wanton f. Domestick f.   Exemplary s. Pimpled f. Rare outlandish f. Freckled f. Satrapal f. Bell-tinging f. Civil f. Laughing and lecherous f. Popular f.   Familiar f. Nimming and filching f. Notable f.   Favourized f. Unpressed f. Latinized f. First broached f. Ordinary f. Augustal f. Transcendent f. Cesarine f. Rising f. Imperial f. Papal f. Royal f. Consistorian f. Patriarchal f. Conclavist f. Original f. Bullist f. Loyal f. Synodal f. Episcopal f. Doting and raving f. Doctoral f. Singular and surpassing f. Monachal f.   Fiscal f. Special and excelling f. Extravagant f.   Writhed f. Metaphysical f. Canonical f. Scatical f. Such another f. Predicamental and Catagorick f. Graduated f.   Commensal f. Predicable and enunciatory f. Primolicentiated f.   Trainbairing f. Decumane and Superlative f. Supererrogating f.   Collateral f. Dutiful and officious f. Haunch and side f.   Nestling ninny and youngling f. Optical and perspective f. Flitting giddy and unsteddy f. Algoristick f.   Algebraical f. Brancher novice and Cockney f. Cabalistical Massoretical f. Hagard cross and froward f. Talmudical f.   Algamalized f. Gentle mild and tractable f. Compendious f.   Abbreviated f. Mail-coated f. Hyperbolical f. Pilfring and purloining f. Anatomastical f.   Allegorical f. Tail-grown f. Tropological f. Gray-peckled f.   Pleonasmical f. Micher pincrust f. Capital f. Heteroclit f. Hair brained f. Summist f. Cordial f. Abbridging f. Intimate f. Morrish f. Hepatick f. Leaden-sealed f. Cushotten and swilling f. Mandatory f.   Compassionate f. Splenetick f. Titulary f. Windy f. Crooching showking ducking f. Ligitimate f.   Azymathal f. Grim stern harsh and wayward f. Almicautarized f.   Proportioned f. Well-hung timbred f. Chinnified f.   Swollen