had been devoutly to send up his prayers unto God Panarge suddenly lifted up in the aire his right hand and put the thumb thereof into the nostril of the same side holding his foure fingers streight out and closed orderly in a parallel line to the point of his nose shutting the left eye wholly and making the other wink with a profound depression of the eye-brows and eye-lids Then lifted he up his left hand with hard wringing and stretching forth his foure fingers and elevating his thumb which he held in a line directly correspondent to the situation of his right hand with the distance of a cubit and a halfe between them This done in the same forme he abased towards the ground both the one and the other hand Lastly he held them in the midst as aiming right at the English mans nose And if Merourie said the English man there Panurge interrupted him and said You have spoken Mask Then made the English man this signe his left hand all open the lifted up into the aire then instantly shut into his fist the foure fingers thereof and his thumb extended at length he placed upon the gristle of his nose Presently after he lifted up his right hand all open and all open abased and bent it downwards putting the thumb thereof in the very place where the little finger of the left hand did close in the fist and the foure right hand fingers he softly moved in the aire than contrarily he did with the right hand what he had done with the left and with the left what he had done with the right Panurge being not a whit amazed at this drew out into the aire his Trismegist Codpiece with the left hand and with his right drew forth a trunchion of a white oxe-rib and two pieces of wood of a like forme one of â—lack eben and the other of incarnation brasil and put them betwixt the fingers of that hand in good symmetrie then knocking them togetâ—â—â— made such a noise as the Lepers of Britaâ—â—â— use to do with their clappering clickets yet better resounding and farre more harmonious and with his tongue contracted in his mouth did very merrily warble it alwayes looking fixedly upon the English man The Divines Physicians and Chirurgions that were there thought that by this signe he would have inferred that the English man was a Leper the Counsellors Lawyers and Decretalists conceived that by doing this he would have concluded some kinde of mortal felicity to consist in Leprosie as the Lord maintained heretofore The English man for all this was nothing daunted but holding up his two hands in the aire kept them in such forme that he closed the three master-fingers in his fist and passing his thumbs thorough his indical or foremost and middle fingers his auricularie or little fingers remained extended and stretched out and so presented he them to Panurge then joyned he them so that the right thumb touched the left and the left little finger touched the right Hereat Panurge without speaking one word lift up his hands and made this signe He put the naile of the forefinger of his left hand to the naile of the thumb of the same making in the middle of the distance as it were a buckle and of his right hand shut up all the fingers into his fist except the forefinger which he often thrust in and out through the said two others of the left hand then stretched he out the forefinger and middle finger or medical of his right hand holding them asunder as much as he could and thrusting them towards Thaumast Then did he put the thumb of his left hand upon the corner of his left eye stretching out all his hand like the wing of a bird or the finne of a fish and moving it very daintily this way and that way he did as much with his right hand upon the corner of his right eye Thaumast began then to waxe somewhat pale and to tremble and made him this signe With the middle finger of his right hand he struck against the muscle of the palme or pulp which is under the thumb then put he the forefinger of the right hand in the like buckle of the left but he put it under and not over as Panurge did Then Panurge knocked one hand against another and blowed in his palme and put again the forefinger of his right hand into the overture or mouth of the left pulling it often in and out then held he out his chinne most intentively looking upon Thaumast The people there which understood nothing in the other signes knew very well what therein he demanded without speaking a word to Thaumast What do you mean by that In effect Thaumast then began to sweat great drops and seemed to all the Spectators a man strangely ravished in high contemplation Then he be thought himself and put all the nailes of his left hand against those of his right opening his fingers as if they had been semicircles and with this signe lift up his hands as high as he could Whereupon Panurge presently put the thumb of his right hand under his jawes and the little finger thereof in the mouth of the left hand and in this posture made his teeth to sound very melodiously the upper against the lower With this Thaumast with great toile and vexation of spirit rose up but in rising let a great bakers fart for the bran came after and pissing withal very strong vineger stunk like all the devils in hell the company began to stop their noses for he had conskited himself with meer anguish and perplexity Then lifted he up his right hand clunching it in such sort that he brought the ends of all his fingers to meet together and his left hand he laid flat upon his breast whereat Panurge drew out his long Codpiece with his tuffe and stretched it forth a cubit and a half holding it in the aire with his right hand and with his left took out his orange and casting it up into the aire seven times at the eight he hid it in the fist of his right hand holding it steadily up on high and then began to shake his faire Codpiece shewing it to Thaumast After that Thaumast began to puffe up his two cheeks like a player on a bagpipe and blew as if he had been to puffe np a pigs bladder whereupon Panurge put one finger of his left hand in his nockandrow by some called St. Patricks hole and with his mouth suck't in the aire in such a manner as when one eats oysters in the shell or when we sup up our broth this done he opened his mouth somewhat and struck his right hand flat upon it making therewith a great and a deep sound as if it came from the superficies of the midriffe through the trachiartere or pipe of the lungs and this he did for sixteen times but Thaumast did alwayes keep blowing like a goose Then Panurge put the fore-finger of his right hand
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 VRCHARD K t. LONDON Printed for R. B. and are to be sold by Iohn Starkey at the Mitre betwixt the Middle Temple Gate and Temple Bar in Fleetstreet 1664. To the Reader I Need not to enter into the praises of the Book I present thee it shall suffice to tell you that all men of wit formerly made him their companion plac'd him in their Cabinets and read him in private No man was a good companion who had not Rabelais at his fingers ends and no feast did relish if not seasoned with the witty sayings of this Author and if the Book hath since been in less esteem â—tis that being ignorant of the several particulars in the History we do not so easily perceive the Satyrick wit and the defficulty of understanding many words â—essen's much the pleasure therefore dear Reader to make your divertisment more â—asy in the reading a Book the most faceâ—ious and witty that e're was pen'd I present him such as I found him in the oldâ—st and best impressions together with some observations upon the most remarkable passages of the History of his â—ime I have added the Authors life and some remarks upon the wittiest and â—leasantest tricks of this Gallant Man THE LIFE OF FRANCIS RABELAIS DOCTOR IN PHYSICK FRancis Rabelais was born in a little Town called Chinon in the Country of Touraine and was entâ—r'd a youth in the Convent of the Cordeliers oâ— Fontenay le Coâ—te in the lower Poictou and in a short time became aâ— able man witness Budaeus his Greek Epistles where he commends him for attaining the Master-ship of that Tongue yet deplores his misfortune for being envied by his companions who for a long time conceived ilâ— thoughts of him for his excellency in this language which they esteemed barbarous being not capable of reaching the sweetness thereof The like accident befel the learned Erasmus and the famous Rabanus Magnenâ—ius Maurus Lord Abbot of Fulde and Arch-Bishop of Mayence this man living at his Abbey composed several learned peeces of Poetry which begot the ill will of his Monks accusing him for applying himself too hard to sacred studyes and neglecting the encreasing of his temporal estate which caused him to retire unto the Court of Lewis King of Germany his Protector where his Monks acknowledging their fault and experiencing the loss of so excellent a person came and made him satisfaction humbly requesting him to take upon him the Administration of the Monastery which he refused To pursue Raâ—elais's life as he had a most pleasing humor so many of the great ones at Court were extreamly delighted with his Buffoneries and at their instigation left his Cloister and-obtained leave of Pope Clement the 7th to remove himself from the order of St. Franciâ— to that of St. Bennet at Maillezais in Poitou But after that to the great scandal of the Church he left the regular habit for the secular in which he wandred thorough many places of the world he went to Montpellier in Languedo took all the degrees of the Vniversity profest Physick with much reputation here he read Physick publickly and had many followers as he himself writes to the Bishop of Maillezais his Moecenas here he composed his works upon Hipocrates highly esteemed by the most learned Physitians Since leaving this place he came to Paris during the Reign of Francis the first Father and restorer of all sciences Rabelais by his ingenuity quickly be got the acquaintance and frendship oâ— many able and learned men and of the best quality Amongst the rest Iohn Cardinal du Bellai finding his capacity made him his servant and Companion when he went Ambassador from the most Christian King unto the Popâ— Paul the third in this Voyage to Italy accompanying his Master to audience he put a trick upon his Holiness as thâ— merry report runs of him he lived a pretty while in the Court of Rome contracted friendship with many Cardinals as appears by his letters And at the same time he obtained absolution from the same Pope having incurr'd the Ecclesiastical censures partly by his dissolute and debauch'd life as by his free and drolling humor mocking and jesting at all persons and of all sorts at Lucian's example Soon after this most generous Cardinal took him off from his profession of Physick to make use of him in his most secret negotiations and made him Prebend of the Collegiate Church of St. Maur and Curate of the Church of Meudon near Paris here he did not as 't was believed compose his Pantagruellism but rather at another place called the Deanry near the Abbey of our Lady 's of Seville near Chinon which furnisht matter for this famous Satyre The Conversation Rabelais had with the Monks of the house who at that time lived not in the austerity of their order makes him make use of the Sachristain the Vigneard of Seville Lernans Bacheos and of the Sibillâ— of Pansoust places adjacent to the Abbey he makes mention of This Piece of work was not sooner publisht but he begot the blame and envy of the world which occasion'd him in the year 1552. to write a condoling letter unto his friend Odet Cardinal Chattillon giving the reason that moved him to compose it which was to remove the disquiet and tediousness from sick and languishing persons who were diverted and consolated by this innocent mirth deploring the caâ—umnious envy of some Cannibals so animated against him as to say the Book was stuft with heresies which Francis the first being made acquainted with and having the curiosity to read the Book found it unblameable This satyrick work by the single approbation of the President de Thou is no contemptable piece nor takes off our Author from other works more serious and learned as are Hippocrates his Aphorisms which he purely faithfully put into Latin and several letters both French and Latin which he writ with a neat stile unto the Cardinal Chattillon the Bishop of Maillezais to Andrew Tiragneau and to other persons of great learning he publisht also the Sciomachia and feasts made at Rome in Cardinal Bellay's Pallace at the Birth of the Duke of Orleans and 't is observed by his letters that he was a man of great business having begot the friendship of many Prelats and Cardinals at Rome It is not certain when he dyed yet some say in the year 1553. as relates the Reverend Father Peter St. Romuald of the order of the Feillans in the third part of his Chronological Treasury where he mentions several particulars of his life Ioachim du Bellay Iohn Anthony Baif Peter Bautanger other learned Poets have composed Epitaphs to his memory Stephen Pasquier relates this following one in his Book of Tombs Sive
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
into his mouth pressing it very hard to the muscles thereof then he drew it out aud withal made a great noise as when little boyes shoot pellets out of the pot-canons made of the hollow sticks of the branch of an aulder-tree and he did it nine times Then Thaumast cried out Ha my Masters a great secret with this he put in his hand up to the elbow then drew out a dagger that he had holding it by the point downwards whereat Panurge took his long Codpiece and shook it as hard as he could against his thighes then put his two hands intwined in manner of a combe upon his head laying out his tongue as farre as he was able and turning his eyes in his head like a goat that is ready to die Ha I understand said Thaumast but what making such a signe that he put the haft of his dagger against his breast and upon the point thereof the flat of his hand turning in a little the ends of his fingers whereat Panurge held down his head on the left side and put his middle finger into his right eare holding up his thumb bolt upright then he crost his two armes upon his breast and coughed five times and at the fifth time he struck his right foot against the ground then he lift up his left arme and closing all his fingers into his fist held his thumbe against his forehead striking with his right hand six times against his breast But Thaumast as not content therewith put the thumb of his left hand upon the top of his nose shutting the rest of his said hand whereupon Panurge set his two Master-fingers upon each side of his mouth drawing it as much as he was able and widening it so that he shewed all his teeth and with his two thumbs pluck't down his two eye-lids very low making therewith a very ill-favour'd countenance as it seemed to the company CHAP. XX. How Thaumast relateth the vertues and knowledge of Panurge THen Thaumast rose up and putting off his cap did very kindly thank the said Panurge and with a loud voice said unto all the people that were there My Lords Gentlemen and others at this time may I to some good purpose speak that Evangelical word Et ecce plus quà m Salomon hîc You have here in your presence an incomparable treasure that is my Lord Pantagruel whose great renown hath brought me hither out of the very heart of England to conferre with him about the insoluble problemes both in Magick Alchymie the Caballe Geomancie Astrologie and Philosophie which I had in my minde but at present I am angry even with fame it self which I think was envious to him for that it did not declare the thousandth part of the worth that indeed is in him You have seen how his disciple only hath satisfied me and hath told me more then I asked of him besides he hath opened unto me and resolved other inestimable doubts wherein I can assure you he hath to me discovered the very true Well Fountain and Abysse of the Encyclopedeia of learning yea in such a sort that I did not think I should ever have found a man that could have made his skill appear in so much as the first elements of that concerning which we disputed by signes without speaking either word or half word But in fine I will reduce into writing that which we have said and concluded that the world may not take them to be fooleries and will thereafter cause them to be printed that every one may learne as I have done Judge then what the Master had been able to say seeing the disciple hath done so valiantly for Non est discipulus super Magistrum Howsoever God be praised and I do very humbly thank you for the honour that you have done us at this Act God reward you for it eternally the like thanks gave Pantagruel to all the company and going from thence he carried Thaumast to dinner with him and beleeve that they drank as much as their skins could hold or as the phrase is with unbottoned bellies for in that age they made fast their bellies with buttons as we do now the colars of our doublets or jerkins even till they neither knew where they were nor whence they came Blessed Lady how they did carouse it and pluck as we say at the Kids leather and flaggons to trot and they to toote Draw give page some wine here reach hither fill with a devil so There was not one but did drink five and twenty or thirty pipes can you tell how even Sicut terra sine aqua for the weather was hot and besides that they were very dry In matter of the exposition of the Propositions set down by Thaumast and the signification of the signes which they used in their disputation I would have set them down for you according to their own relation but I have been told that Thaumast made a great book of it imprinted at London wherein he hath set down all without omitting any thing and therefore at this time I do passe by it CHAP. XXI How Panutge was in love with a Lady of Paris PAnurge began to be in great reputation in the City of Paris by means of this disputation wherein he pre vailed against the English man and from thenceforth made his Codpiece to be very useful to him to which effect he had it pinked with pretty little Embroideries after the Romanesca fashion And the world did praise him publickly in so farre that there was a song made of him which little children did use to sing when they went to fetch mustard he was withal made welcome in all companies of Ladies and Gentlewomen so that at last he became presumptuous and went about to bring to his lure one of the greatest Ladies in the City and indeed leaving a rabble of long prologues and protestations which ordinarily these dolent contemplative Lent-lovers make who never meddle with the flesh one day he said unto her Madam it would be a very great benefit to the Common-wealth delightful to you honourable to your progeny and necessary for me that I cover you for the propagating of my race and beleeve it for experience will teach it you the Lady at this word thrust him back above a hundred leagues saying You mischievous foole is it for you to talk thus unto me whom do you think you have in hand be gone never to come in my sight again for if one thing were not I would have your legs and armes cut off Well said he that were all one to me to want both legs and armes provided you and I had but one merry bout together at the brangle buttock-game for here within is in shewing her his long Codpiece Master Iohn Thursday who will play you such an Antick that you shall feel the sweetnesse thereof even to the very marrow of your bones He is a gallant and doth so well know how to finde out all the corners creeks and
preached so that the abuses of a rabble of hypocrites and false prophets who by humane constitutions and depraved inventions have impoisoned all the world shall be quite exterminated from about me This Vow was no sooner made but there W S heard a voice from heaven saying Hoc fac vinces that is to say Do this and thou shalt overcome Then Pantagruel seeing that Loupgaroâ— with his mouth wide open was drawing near to him went against him boldly and cried out as loud as he was able Thou diest villain thou diest purposing by his horrible cry to make him afraid according to the discipline of the Lacedemonians Withal he immediately cast at him out of his bark which he wore at his girdle eighteen cags and foure bushels of salt wherewith he filled both his mouth throat nose and eyes at this Loupgarou was so highly incensed that most fiercely setting upon him he thought even then with a blow of his mace to have beat out his braines but Pantagruel was very nimble and had alwayes a quick foot and a quick eye and therefore with his left foot did he step back one pace yet not so nimbly but that the blow falling upon the bark broke it in foure thousand fourescore and six pieces and threw all the rest of the salt about the ground Pantagruel seeing that most gallantly displayed the vigour of his armes and according to the Art of the axe gave him with the great end of his mast a homethrust a little above the breast then bringing along the blow to the left side with a â—lash struck him between the neck and shoulders After that advancing his right foot he gave him a push upon the couillons with the upper end of his said mast wherewith breaking the scuttle on the top thereof he spilt three or foure punchons of wine that were left therein Upon that Loupgarou thought that he had pierced his bladder and that the wine that came forth had been his urine Pantagruel being not content with this would have doubled it by a side-blow but Loupgarou lifting up his mace advanced one step upon him and with all his force would have dash't it upon Pantagruel wherein to speak the truth he so sprightfully carried himself that if God had not succoured the good Pantagruel he had been cloven from the top of his head to the bottom of his milt but the blow glanced to the right side by the brisk nimblenesse of Pantagruel and his mace sank into the ground above threescore and thirteen foot through a huge rock out of which the fire did issue greater then nine thousand and six tuns Pantagruel seeing him busie about plucking out his mace which stuck in the ground between the rocks ran upon him and would have clean cut off his head if by mischance his mast had not touched a little against the stock of Loupgarous mace which was inchanted as we have said before by this meanes his mast broke off about three handfuls above his hand whereat he stood amazed like a Bell-Founder and cried out Ah Panurge where art thou Panurge seeing that said to the King and the Giants By G they will hurt one another if they be not parted but the Giants were as merry as if they had been at a wedding then Carpalin would have risen from thence to help his Master but one of the Giants said unto him By Golfarin the Nephew of Mahoon if thou stir hence I will put thee in the bottom of my breeches in stead of a Suppository which cannot chuse but do me good for in my belly I am very costive and cannot well cagar without gnashing my teeth and making many filthy faces Then Pantagruel thus destitute of a staffe took up the end of his mast striking athwart and alongst upon the Giant but he did him no more hurt then you would do with a filip upon a Smiths Anvil In the time Loupgarou was drawing his mace out of the ground and having already plucked it out was ready therewith to have struck Pantagruel who being very quick in turning avoided all his blowes in taking only the defensive part in hand until on a sudden he saw that Loupgarou did threaten him with these words saying Now villain will not I faile to chop thee as small as minced meat and keep thee henceforth from ever making any more poor men athirst for then without any more ado Pantagruel struck him such a blow with his foot against the belly that he made him fall backwards his heels over his head and dragged him thus along at flay-buttock above a flight-shot Then Loupgarou cried out bleeding at the throat Mahoon Mahoon Mahoon at which noise all the Giants arose to succour him but Panurge said unto them Gentlemen do not go if you will beleeve me for our Master is mad and strikes athwart and alongst he cares not where he will do you a mischief but the Giants made no account of it seeing that Pantagruel had never a staffe And when Pantagruel saw those Giants approach very near unto him he took Loupgarou by the two feet and lift up his body like a pike in the aire wherewith it being harnished with Anvils he laid such heavy load amongst those Giants armed with free stone that striking them down as a Mason doth little knobs of stones there was not one of them that stood before him whom he threw not flat to the ground and by the breaking of this stony armour there was made such a horrible rumble as put me in minde of the fall of the butter-tower of St. Stephens at Bourge when it melted before the Sunne Punurge with Carpalin and Eusthenes did cut in the mean time the throats of those that were struck down in such sort that there escaped not one Pantagrnel to any mans sight was like a Mower who with his sithe which was Loupgarou cut down the meddow grasse to wit the Giants but with this fencing of Pantagruels Loupgarou lost his head which happened when Pantagruel struck down one whose name was Riftandouille or pudding-plunderer who was armed cap-a-pe with grison stones one chip whereof splintring abroad cut off Epistemons neck clean and faire for otherwise the most part of them were but lightly armed with a kinde of sandie brittle stone and the rest with slaits at last when he saw that they were all dead he threw the body of Loupgarou as hard as he could against the City where falling like a frog upon his belly in the great piazza thereof he with the said fall killed a singed he-cat a wet she-cat a farting duck and a brideled goose CHAP. XXX How Epistemon who had his head cut off was finely healed by Panurge and of the newes which he brought from the devils and the damned people in hell THis Gigantal victory being ended Pantagruel withdrew himself to the place of the flaggons and called for Panurge and the rest who came unto him safe and sound except Eusthenes whom one of the Giants had