Chestnuts as likewise in all Plants Slips or Sets whatsoever wherein it is plainly and evidently seen that the Sperm and Semenae is more closely veiled overshadowed corroborated and throughly harnessed than any other part portion or parcel of the whole Nature nevertheless did not after that manner provide for the sempiternizing of Human Race but on the contrary created Man naked tender and frail without either offensive or defensive Arms and that in the Estate of Innocence in the first Age of all which was the Golden Season not as a Plant but living Creature born for Peace not War and brought forth into the World with an unquestionable Right and Title to the plenary fruition and enjoyment of all Fruits and Vegetables as also to a certain calm and gentle Rule and Dominion over all Kinds of Beasts Fowls Fishes Reptils and Insects Yet afterwards it hapning in the time of the Iron Age under the Reign of Iupiter when to the multiplication of mischievous Actions wickedness and malice began to take root and footing within the then perverted Hearts of Men that the Earth began to bring forth Nettles Thistles Thorns Bryars and such other stubborn and rebellious Vegetables to the Nature of Man nor scarce was there any Animal which by a fatal disposition did not then revolt from him and tacitly conspire and covenant with one another to serve him no longer nor in case of their ability to resist to do him any manner of Obedience but rather to the uttermost of their power to annoy him with all the hurt and harm they could The Man then that he might maintain his primimitive Right and Prerogative and continue his Sway and Dominion over all both Vegetable and Sensitive Creatures and knowing of a truth that he could not be well accommodated as he ought without the servitude and subjection of several Animals bethought himself that of necessity he must needs put on Arms and make provision of Harness against Wars and Violence By the holy Saint Babingoose cried out Pantagruel you are become since the last Rain a great Lifre lofre Philosopher I should say Take Notice Sir quoth Panurge when Dame Nature had prompted him to his own Arming what part of the Body it was where by her Inspiration he clapped on the first Harness It was forsooth by the double pluck of my little Dog the Ballock and good Senor Don Priapos Stabo-stando which done he was content and sought no more This is certified by the Testimony of the great Hebrew Captain Philosopher Moyses who affirmeth That he fenced that Member with a brave and gallant Codpiece most exquisitely framed and by right curious Devices of a notably pregnant Invention made up and composed of Fig-tree-leaves which by reason of their solid stiffness incisory notches curled frisling sleeked smoothness large ampleness together with their colour smell vertue and faculty were exceeding proper and fit for the covering and arming of the Sachels of Generation the hideously big Lorram Cullions being from thence only excepted which swaggring down to the lowermost bottom of the Breeches cannot abide for being quite out of all order and method the stately fashion of the high and lofty Codpiece as is manifest by the Noble Valentin Viardiere whom I found at Nancie on the First Day of May the more flauntingly to gallantrize it afterwards rubbing his Ballocks spread out upon a Table after the manner of a Spanish Cloak Wherefore it is that none should henceforth say who would not speak improperly when any Country-Bumpkin hyeth to the Wars Have a care my Roysters of the Wine-pot that is the Scull but have a care my Royster of the Milk-pot that is the Testicles By the whole Rabble of the horned Fiends of Hell the Head being cut off that single Person only thereby dieth but if the Ballocks be marred the whole Race of Humane Kind would forthwith perish and be lost for ever This was the motive which incited the goodly Writer Galen Lib. 1. De Spermate to aver with boldness That it â—vere better that is to say a less evil to have no Heart at all than to be quite destitute of Genitories for there is laid up conserved and put in store as in a Secessive Repository and Sacred Warehouse the Semenae and Original Source of the whole Off-spring of Mankind Therefore would I be apt to believe for less than a hundred Franks that those are the very same Stones by means whereof Deucalion and Pyrrha restored the Humane Race in peopling with Men and Women the World which a little before that had been drowned in the overflowing Waves of a Poetical Deluge This stirred up the valiant Iustinian L. 1. 4. De Cagotis tollendis to collocate his Summum Bonum in Braguibus Braguetis For this and other Causes the Lord Humphry de Merville following of his King to a certain Warlike Expedition whilst he was in trying upon his own Person a new Suit of Armour for of his old rusty Harness he could make no more use by reason that some few Years since the Skin of his Belly was a great way removed from his Kidneys his Lady thereupon in the profound musing of a contemplative Spirit very maturely considering that he had but small care of the Staff of Love and Packet of Marriage seeing he did no otherways arm that part of the Body then with Links of Mail advised him to shield fence and gabionate it with a big tilting Helmet which she had lying in her Closet to her otherways utterly unprofitable On this Lady was penned these subsequent Verses which are extant in the Third Book of the Shitbrana of paultry Wenches When Yoland saw her Spouse equipt for Fight And save the Codpiece all in Armour dight My Dear she cry'd Why pray of all the rest Is that expos'd you know I love the best Was she to blame for an ill-manag'd fear Or rather pious conscionable Care Wise Lady She in hurly-burly Fight Can any tell where random Blows may hit Leave off then Sir from being astonished and wonder no more at this new manner of decking and trimming up of my self as you now see me CHAP. IX How Panurge asketh Counsel of Pantagruel whether he should marry Yea or No. TO this Pantagruel replying nothing Panurge prosecuted the Discourse he had already broached and therewithal fetching as far from the bottom of his Heart a very deep sigh said My Lord and Master you have heard the Design I am upon which is to marry if by some disastrous mischance all the Holes in the World be not shut up stopped closed and bush'd I humbly beseech you for the Affection which of a long time you have born me to give me your best Advice therein Then answered Pantagruel seeing you have so decreed taken deliberation thereon and that the matter is fully determined what need is there of any further Taâ—k thereof but forthwith to put it into execution what you have resolved Yea but quoth Panurge I would be loath to
THE THIRD BOOK OF THE WORKS OF Mr. Francis Rabelais Doctor in Physick Containing the Heroick Deeds of Pantagruel the Son of Gargantua Now faithfully Translated into English by the unimitable Pen of Sir Thomas Urwhart K t. Bar. The Translator of the Two First BOOKS Never before Printed LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane 1693. Francis Rabelais to the Soul of the deceased Queen of Navarre ABstracted Soul ravish'd with extasies Gone back and now familiar in the Skies Thy former Host thy Body leaving quite Which to obey thee always took delight Obsequious ready Now from motion free Senseless and as it were in Apathy Wouldst thou not issue forth for a short space From that Divine Eternal Heavenly place To see the third part in this earthy Cell Of the brave Acts of good Pantagruel The Third Book of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the good Pantagruel The AUTHOR's Prologue GOOD People most Illustrious Drinkers and you thrice precious gouty Gentlemen Did you ever see Diogenes the Cynick Philosopher if you have seen him you then had your Eyes in your Head or I am very much out of my Understanding and Logical Sense It is a gallant thing to see the clearness of Wine Gold the Sun I 'll be judged by the blind born so renowned in the Sacred Scriptures who having at his choice to ask whatever he would from him who is Almighty and whose Word in an Instant is effectually performed asked nothing else but that he might see Item you are not young which is a competent Quality for you to Philosophat more than Physically in Wine not in vain and henceforwards to be of the Bacchick Council to the end that opining there you may give your Opinion faithfully of the Substance Colour excellent Odour Eminency Propriety Faculty Vertue and effectual Dignity of the said blessed and desired Liquor If you have not seen him as I am easily induced to believe that you have not at least you have heard some talk of him For through the Air and the whole extent of this Hemisphere of the Heavens hath his Report and Fame even until this present time remained very memorable and renowned Then all of you are derived from the Phrygian Blood if I be not deceived if you have not so many Crowns as Midas had yet have you something I know not what of him which the Persians of old esteemed more of in all their Oâ—acusts and which was more desired by the Emperor Antonine and gave occasion thereafter to the Basilisco at Rohan to be Surnamed Goodly ears If you have not heard of him I will presently tell you a Story to make your Wine relish Drink then so to the purpose hearken now whilst I give you notice to the end that you may not like Infidels be by your simplicity abused that in his time he was a rare Philosopher and the chearfullest of a thousand If he had some Imperfection so have you so have we for there is nothing but God that is perfect Yet so it was that by Alexander the Great although he had Aristotle for his Instructor and Domestick was he held in such Estimation that he wish'd if he had not been Alexander to have been Diogenes the Sinopian When Philip King of Macedon enterprised the Siege and Ruine of Corinth the Corinthians having received certain Intelligence by their Spies that he with a numerous Army in Battel Rank was coming against them were all of them not without cause most terribly afraid and therefore were not neglective of their Duty in doing their best Endeavours to put themselves in a fit posture to resist his Hostile Approach and defend their own City Some from the Fields brought into the Fortify'd Places their Moveables Bestial Corn Wine Fruit Victuals and other necessary Provision Others did fortify and rampire their Walls set up little Fortresses Bastions squared Ravelins digged Trenches cleansed Countermines fenced themselves with Gabions contrived Platforms emptied Casemates barricado'd the false Brayes erected the Cavalliers repaired the Contrescarfes plaister'd the Courtines lengthned Ravelins stopped Parapets mortaised Barbacans assured the Port-culleys fastned the Herses Sarasinesks and Cataracks placed their Centries and doubled their Patrouille Every one did watch and ward and not one was exempted from carrying the Basket Some polish'd Corselets varnished Backs and Breasts clean'd the Head-pieces Mail-Coats Brigandins Salads Helmets Murrions Jacks Gushets Gorgets Hoguines Brassars and Cuissars Corseletts Haubergeons Shields Bucklers Targuets Greves Gantlets and Spurs Others made ready Bows Slings Cross-bows Pellets Catapults Migrames or Fire-balls Firebrands Balists Scorpions and other such Warlike Engines expugnatorie and destructive to the Hellepolists They sharpned and prepared Spears Staves Pikes Brown Bills Halberts Long Hooks Lances Zagages Quarterstaves Eelspears Partisans Troutstaves Clubs Battle-axes Maces Darts Dartlets Glaves Javelins Javelots and Trunchions They set Edges upon Cimeters Cutlasses Badelans Back-swords Tucks Rapiers Bayonets Arrow-heads Dags Daggers Mandousians Poigniards Whinyards Knives Skenes Sables Chipping Knives and Raillons Every Man exercis'd his Weapon every Man scowred off the Rust from his natural Hanger Nor was there a Woman amongst them tho' never so reserv'd or old who made not her Harnish to be well furbished as you know the Corinthian Women of old were reputed very couragious Combatants Diogenes seeing them all so warm at work and himself not employed by the Magistrates in any business whatsoever he did very seriously for many days together without speaking one Word consider and contemplate the Countenance of his Fellow-Citizens Then on a sudden as if he had been roused up and inspired by a Martial Spirit he girded his Cloak scarf-ways about his Left Arm tucked up his Sleeves to the Elbow trussed himself like a Clown gathering Apples and giving to one of his old Acquaintance his Wallet Books and Opistrographs away went he out of Town towards a little Hill or Promontory of Corinth called Cranie and there on the Strand a pretty level place did he roul his Jolly Tub which serv'd him for an House to shelter him from the Injuries of the Weather Theâ—e I say in a great Vehemency of Spirit did he turn it veer it wheel it whirl it frisk it jumble it shuffle it huddle it tumble it hurry it joult it justle it overthrow it evert it invert it subvert it overturn it beat it thwack it bump it batter it knock it thrust it push it jert it shock it shake it toss it throw it overthrow it up-side down topsiturvy arsiturvy tread it trample it stamp it tap it ting it ring it tingle it towl it sound it resound it stop it shut it unbung it close it unstopple it And then again in a mighty bustle he bandy'd it slubber'd it hack'd it whitled it way'd it darted it hurled it stagger'd it reel'd it swing'd it brangled it totter'd it lifted it heaved it transformed it transfigur'd it transpos'd it transplaced it reared it raised it hoised it washed it dighted it cleansed
not thereby have any parcel abated from off the principal Sums which I owe. Let us wave this matter quoth Pantagruel I have told it you over again CHAP. VI. Why new Married Men were priviledged from going to the Wars BUT in the Interim asked Panurge by what Law was it constituted ordained and established that such as should plant a new Vineyard those that should build a new House and the new married Men should be exempted and discharged from the Duty of Warfare for the first year By the Law answered Pantagruel of Moyses Why replyed Panurge the lately married As for the Vine-Planters I am now too old to reflect on them my Condition at this present induceth me to remain satisfied with the care of Vintage finishing and turning the Grapes into Wine Nor are these preâ—ty new Builders oâ— Dead Stones written or pricked down in my Book of Life it is all with Live Stones that I set up and erect the Fabricks of my Architecture to wit Men. It was according to my Opinion quoth Pantagruel to the end First That the fresh married Folks should for the first year reap a full and compleat Fruition of their Pleasures in their mutual exercise of the act of Love in such sort that in waiting more at leisure on the production of Posterity and propagating of their Progeny they might the better encrease their Race and make Provision of new Heirs That if in the years thereafter the Men should upon their undergoing of some Military Adventure happen to be killed their Names and Coats of Arms might continue with their Children in the same Families And next that the Wives thereby coming to know whether they were barren or fruitful for one years Trial in regard of the maturity of Age wherein of old they married was held sufficient for the Discovery they might pitch the more suitably in case of their first Husbands Decease upon a Second Match The fertile Women to be wedded to those who desire to multiply their Issue and the steril ones to such other Mates as misregarding the storing of their own Lineage choose them only for their Vertues Learning Genteel Behaviour Domestick Consolation management of the House and Matrimonial Conveniences and Comforts and such like The Preacher of Varennes saith Panarge detest and abhor the Second Marriages as altogether foolish and dishonest Foolish and dishonest quoth Pantagruel a plague take such Preachers Yea but quoth Panurge the like Mischief also befal the Friar Charmer who in a full Auditory making a Sermon at Perille and therein abominating the Reiteration of Marriage and the entring again in the Bonds of a Nuptial Tie did swear and heartily give himself to the swiftest Devil in Hell if he had not rather choose and would much more willingly undertake the unmaidning or depucelating of a hundred Virgins than the simple Drudgery of one Widow Truly I find your Reason in that point right good and strongly grounded But what would you think if the Cause why this Exemption or Immunity was granted had no other Foundation but that during the whole space of the said first year they so lustily bobbed it with their Female Consorts as both Reason and Equity require they should do that they had drained and evacuated their Spermatick Vessels and were become thereby altogether feeble weak emasculated drooping and flaggingly pithless yea in such sort that they in the day of Battel like Ducks which plunge over Head and Ears would sooner hide themselves behind the Baggage than in the Company of valiant Fighters and daring Military Combatants appear where stern Bellona deals her Blows and moves a bustling Noise of Thwacks and Thumps Nor is it to be thought that under the Standard of Mars they will so much as once strike a fair Stroke because their most considerable Knocks have been already jerked and whirrited within the Curtines of his Sweet-heart Venus In confirmation whereof amongst other Relicks and Monuments of Antiquity we now as yet often see that in all great Houses after the expiring of some few days these young married Blades are readily sent away to visit their Uncles that in the Absence of their Wives reposing themselves a little they may recover their decayed Strength by the Recruit of a fresh Supply the more vigorous to return again and face about to renew the dueling Shock and Conflict of an amorous Dalliance Albeit for the greater part they have neither Uncle nor Aunt to go to Just so did the King Crackart after the Battle of the Cornets not cashier us speaking properly I mean me and the Quailecaller but for our Refreshment remanded us to our Houses and he is as yet seeking after his own My Grandfathers Godmother was wont to say to me when I was a Boy Patonisters Oraisons Sont pour ceux-la qui les retiennent Un fiffre en frenaisons Est plus fort que deux qui en viennent Not Orisons nor Patrenotres Shall ever disorder my Brain One Cadet to the Field as he flutters Is worth two when they end the Campagn That which prompteth me to that Opinion is that the Vine-Planters did seldom eat of the Grapes or drink of the Wine of their Labour till the first year was wholly elapsed During all which time also the Builders did hardly inhabit their new structured Dwelling places for fear of dying suffocated through want of Respiration as Galen hath most learnedly remarked in the Second Book of the Difficulty of Breathing Under favour Sir I have not asked this Question without Cause causing and Reason truly very ratiocinant Be not offended I pray you CHAP. VII How Panurge had a Flea in his Ear and forbore to wear any longer his magnificent Codpiece PAnurge the day thereafter caused pierce his right Ear after the Pewish Fashion and thereto clasped a little Gold Ring of a Fearny-like kind of Workmanship in the Beazil or Collet whereof was set and inchased a Flea and to the end you may be rid of all Doubts you are to know that the Flea was black O what a brave thing it is in every case and circumstance of a matter to be throughly well informed The Sum of the Expence hereof being cast up brought in and laid down upon his Council-board Carpet was found to amount to no more quarterly than the Charge of the Nuptials of a Hircanian Tigress even as you would say 600000 Maravedis At these vast Costs and excessive Disbursements as soon as he perceived himself to be out of Debt he fretted much and afterwards as Tyrants and Lawyers use to do he nourish'd and fed her with the Sweat and Blood of his Subjects and Clients He then took four French Ells of a course brown Russet Cloth and therein apparelling himself as with a long plain-seemed and single-stitched Gown left off the wearing of his Breeches and tied a pair of Spectacles to his Cap. In this Equipage did he present himself before Pantagruel to whom this Disguise appeared the more strange that
wide and broad brimmed Red Hat As also that he had beheld and looked upon the fair and beautiful Pragmatical Sanction his Wife with her huge Rosary or Patenotrian Chapelet of Jeat-beads hanging at a large Sky-coloured Ribbond This honest Man compounded attoned and agreed more Differencies Controversies and Variances at Law than had been determined voided and finished during his time in the whole Palace of Poictiers in the Auditory of Montmorillon and in the Town-house of the old Partenay This amicable Disposition of his rendred him Venerable and of great Estimation Sway Power and Authority throughout all the neighbouring places of Chauvinie Nouaille Vivonne Mezeaux Estables and other bordering and circumjacent Towns Villages and Hamlets All their Debates were pacified by him he put an end to their brabling Suits at Law and wrangling Differences By his Advice and Counsels were Accords and Reconcilements no less firmly made than if the Verdict of a Soveraign Judge had been interposed therein although in very deed he was no Judge at all but a right honest Man as you may well conceive Arg. in L. si Anius F. de Iure jur de verbis obligatorii sit continuus There was not a Hog killed within three Parishes of him whereof he had not some part of the Haslet and Puddings He was almost every day invited either to a Marriage Banket Christning Feast an uprising or Women Churching Treatment a Birth-day's Anniversary Solemnity a merry Frollick Gossiping or otherways to some delicious Entertainment in a Tavern to make some Accord and Agreement between Persons at odds and in debate with one another Remark what I say for he never yet setled and compounded a Difference betwixt any two at variance but he streight made the Parties agreed and pacified to drink together as a sure and infallible Token and Symbol of a perfect and compleatly well cemented Reconciliation sign of a sound and sincere Amity and proper Mark of a new Joy and Gladness to follow thereupon Ut Not. per F. de Peri com rei ven L. 1. He had a Son whose Name was Tenot Dandin a lusty young sturdy frisking Royster so help me God who likewise in imitation of his Peace-making Father would have undertaken and medled with the taking up of Variances and deciding of Controversies betwixt disagreeing and contentious Parties Pleaders as you know Saepe solet similis filius esse patri Et sequitur levitèr filia matris iter Ut ait gloss vi quaest I. C. siquis g. de consdisc v. C. 2. fin est in t per dict cod de impu aliis substit L. vir L. Legitimae F. de stat hom gloss in L. quod si nolit de adi L. quisquis C. ad leg Iure Majest excipio filius à moniali susceptos ex Monacho per gloss in C. impudicas 27 quaestione And such was his Confidence to have no worse Success than his Father he assumed unto himself the Title of Law-strife-setler He was likeways in these pacificatory Negotiations so active and vigilant for Vigilantibus Iura subveniunt ex L. pupillus F. quae in fraud â—red ibi L. non enim instit m. proaem That when he had smelt heard and fully understood ut F. si quando paufec L. Agaso q. in verbo offecit id est nasum ad culum posuit That there was any where in the Country a debatable matter at Law he would incontinently thrust in his Advice and so forwardly intrude his Opinion in the business that he made no Bones of making offer and taking upon him to decide it how difficult soever it might happen to be to the full Contentment and Satisfaction of both Parties It is written Qui non laborat non mandâ—cat And the said Gl. F. de damn infect L. si quamvis And Currere plus que lae pas vetulam compellit egestas Gloss. F. de lib. agnosco L. si quis pro quo facit L. si plures C. de Codd incert But so huge great was his Misfortune in this his Undertaking that he never composed any difference how little soever you may imagine it might have been but that instead of reconciling the Parties at odds he did incense irritate and exasperate them to a higher point of Dissention and Enmity than ever they were at before Your Worships know I doubt not that Sermo datur cunctis animi sapienâ—ia paucis Gl. F. de alien in mun caus fa. lib. 2. This administred unto the Tavern-keepers Wine-drawers and Vintners of Smerva an occasion to say that under him they had not in the space of a whole year so much Reconciliation-Wine for so were they pleased to call the good Wine of Leguge as under his Father they had done in one half hours time It hapned a little while thereafter that he made a most heavy regret thereof to his Father attributing the Causes of his bad Success in pacificatory Enterprizes to the Perversity Stubbornness froward cross and backward Inclinations of the People of his time roundly boldly and irreverently upbraiding that if but a score of Years before the World had been so wayward obstinate pervicacious implacable and out of all Square Frame and Order as it was then his Father had never attained to and acquired the Honour and Title of Strife-appeaser so irrefragably inviolably and irrevocably as he hath done in doing whereof Tenot did heihously transgress against the Law which prohibiteth Children to reproach the Actions of their Parents Per gl Barth L. 3. par agr si quis F. de cond ob caus authent de Nupt. par sed quod sancitum Col. 3. ment To this the honest old Father answered thus My Son Dandin when Don oportet taketh place this is the course which we must trace Gl. C. de Appel L. eos etiam For the Road that you went upon was not the way to the Fullers Mill nor in any part thereof was the Form to be sound wherein the Hare did sit Thou hast not the skill and dexterity of setling and composing Differences Why Because thou takest them at the beginning in the very Infancy and Bud as it were when they are green raw and indigestible yet I know handsomly and featly how to compose and settle them all Why Because I take them at their Decadence in their Weaning and when they are pretty well digested So saith Gl. dulcior est fructus post multa pericula ductus L. non moritturus C. de contrahend comit stip Didst thou ever hear the vulgar Proverb Happy is the Physician whose coming is desired at the declension of a Disease For the Sickness being come to a Crisis is then upon the decreasing hand and drawing towards an end although the Physician should not repair thither for the Cure thereof whereby though Nature wholly do the Work he bears away the Palm and Praise thereof My Pleaders after the same manner before I did interpose my Judgment in the reconciling of them were
the very same which is told us of the recreation of the three fatal Sister Parques or of the nocturnal Exercise of the noble Circe or yet of the Excuse which Penelope made to her fond wooing Youngsters and effeminate Courtiers during the long Absence of her Husband Ulysses By these means is this Herb put into a way to display its inestimable Vertues whereof I will discover a part for to relate all is a thing impossible to do I have already interpreted and exposed before you the Denomination thereof I find that Plants have their Names given and bestowed upon them after several ways Some got the Name of him who first found them out knew them sowed them improved them by Culture qualified them to a tractability and appropriated them to the uses and subseâ—viences they were fit for As the Mercuriale from Mercury Panacee from Panace the Daughter of Esculapius in Armois from Artemis who is Diana Eupatorie from the King Eupator Telephion from Telephus Euphorbium from Euphorbus King Iuba's Physician Clymenos from Clymenus Alchibiadium from Alcibiades Gentiane from Gentius King of Sclavonia and so forth through a great many other Herbs or Plants Truly in ancient Times this Prerogative of imposing the Inventors Name upon an Herb found out by him was held in a so great account and estimation that as a Controversie arose betwixt Neptune and Pallas from which of them two that Land should receive its Denomination which had been equally found out by them both together though thereafter it was called and had the Apellation of Athens from Athene which is Minerva Just so would Lynceus King of Scythia have treacherously slain the young Triptolemus whom Ceres had sent to shew unto Mankind the Invention of Corn which until then had been utterly unknown to the end that after the murther of the Messenger whose Death he made account to have kept secret he might by imposing with the less suspicion of false dealing his own Name upon the said found out Seed acquire unto himself an immortal Honour and Glory for having been the Inventor of a Grain so profitable and necessary to and for the use of Humane Life For the wickedness of which Treasonable Attempt he was by Ceres transformed into that wild Beast which by some is called a Lynx and by others an Oince Such also was the Ambition of others upon the like occasion as appeareth by that very sharp Wars and of a long continuance have been made of old betwixt some Residentary Kings in Capadocia upon this only Debate of whose Name a certain Herb should have the Appellation by reason of which difference so troublesom and expensive to them all it was by them called Polemonion and by us for the same Cause termed Make-bate Other Herbs and Plants there are which retain the Names of the Countries from whence they were transported As the Median Apples from Media where they first grew Punick Apples from Punicia that is to say Carthage Ligusticum which we call Louage from Liguria the Coast of Genoua Rubarb from a Flood in Barbary as Ammianus attesteth called Ru Sautonica from a Region of that Name Fenugreek from Greece Gastanes from a Country so called Persicarie from Persia Sabine from a Territory of that Appellation Staechas from the Staechad Islands Spica Celtica from the Land of the Celtick Gauls and so throughout a great many other which were tedious to enumerate Some others again have obtained their Denominations by way of Antiphrasis or Contrariety as Absinth because it is contrary to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for it is bitter to the taste in drinking Holosteon as if it were all Bones whilst on the contrary there is no frailer tenderer nor britler Herb in the whole Production of Nature than it There are some other sorts of Herbs which have got their Names from their Vertues and Operatious as Aristolochie because it helpeth Women in Child-birth Lichen for that it cureth the Disease of that name Mallow because it mollifieth Callithricum because it maketh the Hair of a bright Colour Alyssum Ephemerum Bechium Nasturtium Aneban and so forth through many more Other some there are which have obtained their Names from the admirable Qualities that are found to be in them as Heliotropium which is the Marigold because it followeth the Sun so that at the Sun rising it displayeth and spreads it self out at his ascending it mounteth at his declining it waineth and when he is set it is close shut Adianton because although it grow near unto watry places and albeit you should let it lie in Water a long time it will nevertheless retain no Moisture nor Humidity Hierachia Eringium and so throughout a great many more There are also a great many Herbs and Plants which have retained the very same Names of the Men and Women who have been metamorphosed and transformed in them as from Daphne the Lawrel is called also Daphne Myrrhe from Myrrha the Daughter of Cinarus Pythis from Pythis Cinara which is the Artichock from one of that name Narcissus with Saffran Similax and divers others Many Herbs likewise have got their Names of those things which they seem to have some Resemblance as Hippuris because it hath the likeness of a Horse's Tail Alopecuris because it representeth in similitude the Tail of a Fox Psyllion from a Flea which it resembleth Delphinium for that it is like a Dolphin Fish Buglosse is so called because it is an Herb like an Oxes Tongue Iris so called because in its Flowers it hath some resemblance of the Rain-bow Myosata because it is like the Ear of a Mouse Coronopus for that it is of the likeness of a Crows Foot A great many other such there are which here to recite were needless Furthermore as there are Herbs and Plants which have had their Names from those of Men so by a reciprocal Denomination have the Surnames of many Families taken their Origin from them as the Fabii à fabis Beans the Pisons à pisis Pease the Lentuli from Lentils the Cicerons à Ciceribus vel Ciceris a sort of Pulse called Cichepeason and so forth In some Plants and Herbs the resemblance or likeness hath been taken from a higher Mark or Object as when we say Venus Navil Venus Hair Venus Tub Iupiter's Beard Iupiter's Eye Mars's Blood the Hermodactyl or Mercury's Fingers which are all of them Names of Herbs as there are a great many more of the like Appellation Others again have received their Denomination from their Forms such as the Trefoil because it is three-leaved Pentaphylon for having five Leaves Serpolet because it creepeth along the ground Helixine Petast Myrobalon which the Arabians call Been as if you would say an Ackorne for it hath a kind of resemblance thereto and withal is very oily CHAP. LI. Why is it called Pantagruelion and of the admirable Vertues thereof BY such like means of attaining to a Denomination the fabulous ways being only from thence excepted for the Lord forbid that we