to destroy their enemies without leaving so much as one to carry home newes of the defeat of his fellowes Open therefore unto your enemies all the gates and wayes and make to them a bridge of silver rather then faile that you may be rid of them Yea but said Gymnast they have the Monk Have they the Monk said Gargantua Upon mine honour then it will prove to their cost but to prevent all dangers let us not yet retreat but halt here quietly as in an ambush for I think I do already understand the policie and judgement of our enemies they are truly more directed by chance and meer fortune then by good advice and counsel In the mean while whilest these made a stop under the walnut-trees the Monk pursued on the chase charging all he overtook and giving quarter to none until he met with a trouper who carried behinde him one of the poor Pilgrims and there would have rifled him The Pilgrim in hope of relief at the sight of the Monk cried out Ha my Lord Prior my good friend my Lord Prior save me I beseech you save me which words being heard by those that rode in the van they instantly faced about and seeing there was no body but the Monk that made this great havock slaughter among them they loded him with blows as thick as they use to do an Asse with wood but of all this he felt nothing especially when they struck upon his frock his skin was so hard Then they committed him to two of the Marshals men to keep and looking about saw no body coming against them whereupon they thought that Gergantua and his Party were fled then was it that they rode as hard as they could towards the walnut-trees to meet with them and left the Monk there all alone with his two foresaid men to guard him Gargantua heard the noise and neighing of the horses and said to his men Camerades I hear the track and beating of the enemies horse-feet and withall perceive that some of them come in a troupe and full body against us let us rallie and close here then set forward in order and by this means we shall be able to receive their charge to their losse and our honour CHAP. XLIV How the Monk rid himself of his Keepers and how Picrocholes forlorne hope was defeated THe Monk seeing them break off thus without order conjectured that they were to set upon Gargantua and those that were with him and was wonderfully grieved that he could not succour them then considered he the countenance of the two keepers in whose custody he was who would have willingly runne after the troops to get some booty and plunder and were alwayes looking towards the valley unto which they were going farther he syllogized saying These men are but badly skilled in matters of warre for they have not required my paroll neither have they taken my sword from me suddenly hereafter he drew his brackmard or horsemans sword wherewith he gave the keeper which held him on the right side such a sound slash that he cut clean thorough the jugularie veins and the sphagitid or transparent arteries of the neck with the fore-part of the throat called the gargareon even unto the two Adenes which are throat-kernels and redoubling the blow he opened the spinal marrow betwixt the second and third vertebrae there fell down that keeper stark dead to the ground Then the Monk reining his horse to the left ranne upon the other who seeing his fellow dead and the Monk to have the advantage of him cried with a loud voice Ha my Lord Prior quarter I yeeld my Lord Prior quarter quarter my good friend my Lord Prior and the Monk cried likewise My Lord Posterior my friend my Lord Posterior you shall have it upon your posteriorums Ha said the keeper my Lord Prior my Minion my Gentile Lord Prior I pray God make you an Abbot By the habit said the Monk which I weare I will here make you a Cardinal what do you use to pay ransomes to religious men you shall therefore have by and by a red hat of my giving and the fellow cried Ha my Lord Prior my Lord Prior my Lord Abbot that shall be my Lord Cardinal my Lord all ha ha hes no my Lord Prior my good little Lord the Prior I yeeld render and deliver my self up to you and I deliver thee said the Monk to all the Devils in hell then at one stroak he struck off his head cutting his scalp upon the temple-bones and lifting up in the upper part of the scul the two triangularie bones called sincipital or the two bones bregmatis together with the sagittal commissure or dart-like seame which distinguisheth the right side of the head from the left as also a great part of the coronal or forehead-bone by which terrible blow likewise he cut the two meninges or filmes which inwrap the braine and made a deep wound in the braines two posterior ventricles and the cranium or skull abode hanging upon his shoulders by the skin of the pericranium behinde in forme of a Doctors bonnet black without and red within Thus fell he down also to the ground stark dead And presently the Monk gave his horse the spurre and kept the way that the enemy held who had met with Gargantua and his companions in the broad high-way and were so diminished of their number for the enormous slaughter that Gargantua had made with his great tree amongst them as also Gymnast Ponocrates Eudemon and the rest that they began to retreat disorderly and in great haste as men altogether affrighted and troubled in both sense and understanding and as if they had seen the very proper species and forme of death before their eyes or rather as when you see an Asse with a brizze or gad-bee under his taile or flie that stings him run hither and thither without keeping any path or way throwing down his load to the ground breaking his bridle and reines and taking no breath nor rest and no man can tell what ailes him for they see not any thing touch him so fled these people destitute of wit without knowing any cause of flying onely pursued by a panick terror which in their mindes they had conceived The Monk perceiving that their whole intent was to betake themselves to their heels alighted from his horse and got upon a big large rock which was in the way and with his great Brackmard sword laid such load upon those runawayes and with maine strength fetching a compasse with his arme without feigning or sparing flew and overthrew so many that his sword broke in two peces then thought he within himself that he had slaine and killed sufficiently and that the rest should escape to carry newes therefore he took up a battle-axe of those that lay there dead and got upon the rock againe passing his time to see the enemy thus flying and to tumble himself amongst the dead bodies only that he suffered
books and Philosophical instruments assoon as he had alighted at Parille he was informed by a farmer of Gouget how Picrochole had fortified himself within the rock Clermond and had sent Captain Tripet with a great army to set upon the wood of Vede and Vaugaudry and that they had already plundered the whole countrey not leaving cock nor hen even as farre as to the wine-presse of Billiard These strange and almost incredible newes of the enormous abuses thus committed over all the land so affrighted Gargantua that he knew not what to say nor do but Ponocrates counselled him to go unto the Lord of Vauguyon who at all times had been their friend and confederate and that by him they should be better advised in their businesse which they did incontinently and found him very willing and fully resolved to assist them and therefore was of opinion that they should send some one of his company to scout along and discover the countrey to learn in what condition and posture the enemy was that they might take counsel and proceed according to the present occasion Gymnast offered himself to go whereupon it was concluded that for his safety and the better expedition he should have with him some one that knew the wayes avenues turnings windings and rivers thereabout Then away went he and Prelingot the Querry or Gentleman of Vauguyons horse who scouted and espied as narrowly as they could upon all quarters without any feare In the mean time Gargantua took a little refreshment ate somewhat himself the like did those who were with him and caused to give to his mare a Picotine of Oats that is threescore and fourteen quarters and three bushels Gymnast and his Camerade rode so long that at last they met with the enemies forces all scattered and out of order plundering stealing robbing and pillaging all they could lay their hands on and as far off as they could perceive him they ran thronging upon the back of one another in all haste towards him to unload him of his money and untrusse his Portmantles Then cried he out unto them My Masters I am a poor devil I desire you to spare me I have yet one Crown left come we must drink it for it is aurum potabile and this horse here shall be sold to pay my welcome afterwards take me for one of your own for never yet was there any man that knew better how to take lard rost and dresse yea by G to teare asunder and devoure a hen then I that am here and for my Proficiat I drink to all good fellowes With that he unscrued his Borracho which was a great dutch leathern bottle and without putting in his nose drank very honestly the marousle Rogues looked upon him opening their throats a foot wide and putting out their tongues like Greyhounds in hopes to drink after him but Captain Tripet in the very nick of that their expectation came running to him to see who it was To him Gymnast offered his bottle saying Hold Captain drink boldly and spare not I have been thy taster it is wine of La fay monjau What said Tripet this fellow gybes and flowts us Who art thou said Tripet I am said Gymnast a poor devil pauvre diable Ha said Tripet seeing thou art a poor devil it is reason that thou shouldest be permitted to go whithersoever thou wilt for all poor devils passe every where without toll or taxe but it is not the custome of poor devils to be so wel mounted therfore Sir devil come down and let me have your horse and if he do not carry me well you Master devil must do it for I love a life that such a devil as you should carry me away CHAP. XXXV How Gymnast very souply and cunningly killed Captain Tripet and others of Picrocholes men WHen they heard these words some amongst them began to be afraid and blest themselves with both hands thinking indeed that he had been a devil disguised insomuch that one of them named good Ihon Captain of the trained bands of the Countrey bumpkins took his Psalter out of his Codpiece and cried out aloud Hagios ho theos If thou be of God speak if thou be of the other spirit avoid hence and get thee going yet he went not away which words being heard by all the souldiers that were there divers of them being a little inwardly terrified departed from the place all this did Gymnast very well remark and consider and therefore making as if he would have alighted from off his horse as he was poysing himself on the mounting side he most nimbly with his short sword by his thigh shifting his feet in the stirrup performed the stirrup-leather feat whereby after the inclining of his body downwards he forthwith lanch't himself aloft in the aire and placed both his feet together on the saddle standing upright with his back turned towards the horses head Now said he my case goes backward Then suddenly in the same very posture wherein he was he fetched a gambole upon one foot and turning to the left hand failed not to carry his body perfectly round just into its former stance without misfing one jot Ha said Tripet I will not do that at this time and not without cause Well said Gymnast I have failed I will undo this leap then with a marvellous strength and agility turning towards the right hand he fetch 't another frisking gambole as before which done he set his right hand thumb upon the hinde bowe of the saddle raised himself up and sprung in the aire poysing and upholding his whole body upon the muscle and nerve of the said thumb and so turned and whirled himself about three times at the fourth reversing his body and overturning it upside down and foreside back without touching any thing he brought himself betwixt the horses two eares springing with all his body into the aire upon the thumb of his left hand and in that posture turning like a windmill did most actively do that trick which is called the Millers Passe After this clapping his right hand flat upon the middle of the saddle he gave himself such a jerking swing that he thereby seated himself upon the crupper after the manner of Gentle-womens sitting on horseback this done he easily past his right leg over the saddle and placed himself like one that rides in croup But said he it were better for me to get into the saddle then putting the thumbs of both hands upon the crupper before him and thereupon leaning himself as upon the only supporters of his body he incontinently turned heels over head in the aire and streight found himself betwixt the bowe of the saddle in a good settlement Then with a summer-sault springing into the aire again he fell to stand with both his feet close together upon the saddle and there made above a hundred frisks turnes and demi-pommads with his armes held out acrosse and in so doing cried out aloud I rage I
and foolish reasons and opinions of Accursius Baldus Bartolus de castro de imola Hippolytus Panormo Bertachin Alexander Curtius and those other old Mastiffs who never understood the least law of the Pandects they being but meer blockheads great tithe-calvs ignorant of all that which was needful for the understanding of the lawes for as it is most certain they had not the knowledge either of the Greek or Latine tongue but only of the Gothick and Barbarian the lawes neverthelesse were first taken from the Greeks according to the testimony of Ulpian l. poster de origine juris which we likewise may perceive by that all the lawes are full of Greek words and sentences and then we finde that they are reduced into a Latine stile the most elegant and ornate that whole language is able to afford without excepting that of any that ever wrote therein nay not of Salust Varo Cicero Seneca Titus Livius nor Quintilian how then could these old dotards be able to understand aright the text of the lawes who never in their time had looked upon a good Latine book as doth evidently enough appear by the rudenesse of their stile which is fitter for a Chimney-sweeper or for a Cook or a Scullion then for a Jurisconsult and Doctor in the Lawes Furthermore seeing the Lawes are excerpted out of the middle of moral and natural Philosophie how should these fooles have understood it that have by G studied lesse in Philosophie then my Mule in respect of humane learning and the knowledge of Antiquities and History they were truly laden with those faculties as a toad is with feathers and yet of all this the Lawes are so full that without it they cannot be understood as I intend more fully to shew unto you in a peculiar Treatise which on that pâ—rpose I am about to publish Therefore if you will that I take any medling in this processe first cause all these papers to be burnt secondly make the two Gentlemen come personally before me and afterwards when I shall have heard them I will tell you my opinion freely without any feignednes or dissimulation whatsoever Some amongst them did contradict this motion as you know that in all companies there are more fooles then wise men and that the greater part alwayes surmounts the better as saith Titus Livius in speaking of the Carthaginians but the foresaid Du Douet held the contrary opinion maintaining that Pantagruel had said well and what was right in affirming that these records bills of inquest replies rejoinders exceptions depositions and other such diableries of truth-intangling Writs were but Engines wherewith to overthrow justice and unnecessarily to prolong such suits as did depend before them and that therefore the devil would carry them all away to hell if they did not take another course and proceeded not in times coming according to the Prescripts of Evangelical and Philosophical equity In fine all the papers were burnt and the two Gentlemen summoned and personally convented at whose appearance before the Court Pantagruel said unto them Are you they that have this great difference betwixt you Yes my Lord said they Which of you said Pantagruel is the Plaintiffe It is I said my Lord Kissebreech Go to then my friend said he and relate your matter unto me from point to point according to the real truth or else by cocks body if I finde you to lie so much as in one word I will make you shorter by the head and take it from off your shoulders to shew others by your example that in justice and judgement men ought to speak nothing but the truth therefore take heed you do not adde nor impare any thing in the Narration of your case Begin CHAP. XI How the Lords of Kissebreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an Atturney THen began Kissebreech in manner as followeth My Lord it is true that a good woman of my house carried egges to the market to sell Be covered Kissebreech said Pantagruel Thanks to you my Lord said the Lord Kissebreech but to the purpose there passed betwixt the two tropicks the summe of three pence towards the zenith and a halfpeny forasmuch as the Riphaean mountaines had been that yeare opprest with a great sterility of counterfeit gudgions and shewes without substance by meanes of the babling tattle and fond fibs seditiously raised between the gibblegablers and Accursian gibberish-mongers for the rebellion of the Swissers who had assembled themselves to the full number of the bum-bees and myrmidons to go a handsel-getting on the first day of the new yeare at that very time when they give brewis to the oxen and deliver the key of the coales to the Countrey-girles for serving in of the oates to the dogs All the night long they did nothing else keeping their hands still upon the pot but dispatch both on foot and horseback leaden-sealed Writs or letters to wit Papal Commissions commonly called Bulls to stop the boats for the Tailors and Seamsters would have made of the stollen shreds and clippings a goodly sagbut to cover the face of the Ocean which then was great with childe of a potfull of cabbidge according to the opinion of the hay-bundle-makers but the Physicians said that by the Urine they could discern no manifest signe of the Bustards pace nor how to eat double-tongued mattocks with mustard unlesse the Lords and Gentlemen of the Court should be pleased to give by B. mol expresse command to the pox not to run about any longer in gleaning up of Coppersmiths and Tinkers for the Jobernolls had already a pretty good beginning in their dance of the Brittishgig called the estrindore to a perfect diapason with one foot in the fire and their head in the middle as good man Ragot was wont to say Ha my Masters God moderates all things and disposeth of them at his pleasure so that against unluckie fortune a Carter broke his frisking whip which was all the winde-instrument he had this was done at his return from the little paultry town even then when Master Amitus of Cresseplots was licentiated and had past his degrees in all dullerie and blockishnesse according to this sentence of the Canonists Beati Dunces quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt But that which makes lent to be so high by St. Fiacre of Bry is for nothing else but that the Pentecost never comes but to my cost yet on afore there hoe a little rain stills a great winde and we must think so seeing that the Serjeant hath propounded the matter so farre above my reach that the Clerks and Secondaries could not with the benefit thereof lick their fingers feathered with gaunders so orbicularly as they were wont in other things to do And we do manifestly see that every one acknowledgeth himself to be in the errour wherewith another hath been charged reserving only those cases whereby we are obliged to take an ocular inspection in a perspective glasse of these things towards the place in the
Chimney where hangeth the signe of the wine of fourty girths which have been alwayes accounted very necessary for the number of twenty pannels and pack-saddles of the bankrupt Protectionaries of five yeares respit howsoever at least he that would not let flie the fowle before the Cheesecakes ought in law to have discovered his reason why not for the memory is often lost with a wayward shooing Well God keep Theobald Mitain from all danger Then said Pantagruel Hold there Ho my friend soft and faire speak at leisure and soberly without putting your self in choler I understand the case go on Now then my Lord said Kissebreech the foresaid good woman saying her gaudez and audinos could not cover her selfe with a treacherous back blow ascending by the wounds and passions of the priviledges of the Universitie unlesse by the vertue of a warming-pan she had Angelically fomented every part of her body in covering them with a hedge of garden-beds then giving in a swift unavoidable thirst very near to the place where they sell the old rags whereof the Painters of Flanders make greatuse when they are about neatly to clap on shoes on grashoppers locusts cigals and such like flie-fowles so strange to us that I am wonderfully astonished why the world doth not lay seeing it is so good to hatch Here the Lord of Suckfist would have interrupted him and spoken somewhat whereupon Pantagruel said unto him St by St. Antonies belly doth it become thee to speak without command I sweat here with the extremity of labour and exceeding toile I take to understand the proceeding of your mutual difference and yet thou comest to trouble and disquiet me peace in the devils name peace thou shalt be permitted to speak thy belly full when this man hath done and no sooner Go on said he to Kissebreech speak calmly and do not over-heat your self with too much haste I perceiving then said Kissebreech that the pragmatical sanction did make no mention of it and that the holy Pope to every one gave liberty to fart at his own ease if that the blankets had no streaks wherein the liars were to be crossed with a ruffian-like crue the rain-bow being newly sharpned at Milan to bring forth larks gave his full consent that the good woman should tread down the heel of the hipgut-pangs by vertue of a solemn protestation put in by the little testiculated or codsted fishes which to tell the truth were at that time very necessary for understanding the syntax and construction of old boots Therefore Iohn Calfe her Cosen gervais once removed with a log from the woodstack very seriously advised her not to put her selfe into the hazard of quagswagging in the Lee to be scowred with a buck of linnen clothes till first she had kindled the paper this counsel she laid hold on because he desired her to take nothing and throw out for Non de ponte vadit qui cum sapientia cadit matters thus standing seeing the Masters of the chamber of Accompts or members of that Committee did not fully agree amongst themselves in casting up the number of the Almanie whistles whereof were framed those spectacles for Princes which have been lately printed at Antwerp I must needs think that it makes a bad return of the Writ and that the adverse Party is not to be beleeved in sacer verbo dotis for that having a great desire to obey the pleasure of the King I armed my self from toe to top with belly furniture of the soles of good venison-pasties to go see how my grape-gatherers and vintagers had pinked and cut full of small holes their high coped-caps to lecher it the better and play at in and in And indeed the time was very dangerous in coming from the Faire in so farre that many trained bowe-men were cast at the muster and quite rejected although the chimney-tops were high enough according to the proportion of the wind-galls in the legs of horses or of the Malaunders which in the esteem of expert Farriers is no better disease or else the story of Ronypatifam or Lamib audichon interpreted by some to be the tale of a tub or of a roasted horse savours of Apocrypha and is not an authentick history and by this means there was that yeare great abundance throughout all the countrey of Artois of tawny buzzing beetles to the no small profit of the Gentlemen-great-stick-faggot-carriers when they did eate without disdaining the cocklicranes till their belly was like to crack with it again as for my own part such is my Christian charity towards my neighbours that I could wish from my heart every one had as good a voice it would make us play the better at the tennis and the baloon And truly my Lord to expresse the real truth without dissimulation I cannot but say that those petty subtile devices which are found out in the Etymologizing of patains would descend more easily into the river of Seine to serve for ever at the Millars bridge upon the said water as it was heretofore decreed by the King of the Canarrians according to the sentence or judgement given thereupon which is to be seen in the Registry and Records within the Clerks office of this house And therefore my Lord I do most humbly require that by your Lordship there may be said and declared upon the case what is reasonable with costs damages and interests Then said Pantagruel My friend is this all you have to say Kissebreech answered Yes my Lord for I have told all the tuautem and have not varied at all upon mine honour in so much as one single word You then said Pantagruel my Lord of Suckfist say what you will and be brief without omitting neverthelesse any thing that may serve to the purpose CHAP. XII How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel THen began the Lord Suckfist in manner as followeth My Lord and you my masters if the iniquity of men were as easily seene in categoricall judgement as we can discerne flies in a milk-pot the worlds four Oxen had not beene so eaten up with Rats nor had so many eares upon the earth beene nibled away so scurvily for although all that my aduersary hath spoken be of a very soft and downy truth in so much as concernes the Letter and History of the factum yet neverthelesse the crafty slights cunning subtilties slie cosenages and little troubling intanglements are hid under the Rose-pot the common cloak and cover of all fraudulent deceits Should I endure that when I am eating my pottage equall with the best and that without either thinking or speaking any manner of ill they rudely come to vexe trouble and perplex my braines with that antick Proverb which saith Who in his pottage-eating drinkâ— will not When he is dead and buri'd see one jot and good Lady how many great Captaines have we seen in the day of battel when in open field the Sacrament was distributed in lunchions of the sanctified bread of the
well be dispossest who drink holy water as one would do a weavers shuttle whereof suppositories are made to those that will not resigne but on the termes of ell and tell and giving of one thing for another Tunc my Lords quid juris pro minoribus for the common custom of the salick law is such that the first incendiarie or fire-brand of sedition that flayes the Cow and wipes his nose in a full consort of musick without blowing in the Coblers stitches should in the time of the night-mare sublimate the penury of his member by mosse gathered when people are like to foundre themselvs at the messe at midnight to give the estrapade to these white-wines of Anjou that do the feat of the leg in lifting it by horsemen called the Gambetta and that neck to neck after the fashion of Britanie concluding as before with costs damages and interests After that the Lord of Suckfist had ended Pantagruel said to the Lord of Kissebreech My friend have you a minde to make any reply to what is said No my Lord answered Kissebreech for I have spoke all I intended and nothing but the truth therefore put an end for Gods sake to our difference for we are here at great charge CHAP. XIII How Pahtagruel gave judgement upon the difference of the two Lords THen Pantagruel rising up assembled all the Presidents Counsellors and Doctors that were there and said unto them Come now my Masters you have heard vivae vocis or aculo the Controversie that is in question what do you think of it They answered him We have indeed heard it but have not understood the devil so much as one circumstance of the case and therefore we beseech you unâ voce and in courtesie request you that you would give sentence as you think good and ex nunc prout ex tunc we are satisfied with it and do ratifie it with our full consents Well my Masters said Pantagruel seeing you are so pleased I will do it but I do not truly finde the case so difficult as you make it your paragraph Caâ—on the law Frater the law Gallus the law Quinque pedum the law Vinum the law Si Dominus the law Mater the law Mulier bona the law Si quis the law Pomponius the law Fundi the law Emptor the law Praetor the law Venditor and a great many others are farre more intricate in my opinion After he had spoke this he walked a turn or two about the hall plodding very profoundly as one may think for he did groan like an Asse whilest they girth him too hard with the very intensivenesse of considering how he was bound in conscience to do right to both parties without varying or accepting of persons Then he returned sate down and began to pronounce sentence as followeth Having seen heard calculated and well considered of the difference between the Lords of Kissebreech and Suckfist the Court saith unto them that in regard of the sudden quaking shivering and hoarinesse of the flickermouse bravely declining from the estival solstice to attempt by private means the surprisal of toyish trifles in those who are a little unwell for having taken a draught too much through the lewd demeanour and vexation of the beetles that inhabit the Diarodal climate of an hypocritical Ape on horseback bending a Crossebowe backwards The Plaintiffe truly had just cause to calfet or with Ockam to stop the chinks of the gallion which the good woman blew up with winde having one foot shod and the other bare reimbursing and restoring to him low and stiffe in his conscience as many bladder-nuts and wilde pistaches as there is of haire in eighteen Cowes with as much for the embroiderer and so much for that He is likewise declared innocent of the case priviledged from the Knapdardies into the danger whereof it was thought he had incurred because he could not jocundly and with fulnesse of freedom untrusse and dung by the decision of a paire of gloves perfumed with the sent of bum-gunshot at the walnut-tree taper as is usual in his countrey of Mirobalois Slacking therefore the top-saile and letting go the boulin with the brazen bullets where with the Mariners did by way of protestation bake in paste-meat great store of pulse interquilted with the dormouse whose hawks bells were made with a puntinaria after the manner of Hungary or Flanders lace and which his brother in law carried in a Panier lying near to three chevrons or bordered gueules whilest he was clean out of heart drooping and crest-fallen by the too narrow sifting canvassing and curious examining of the matter in the angulary dog-hole of nastie scoundrels from whence we shoot at the vermiformal popingay with the flap made of a foxtaile But in that he chargeth the Defendant that he was a botcher cheese-eater and trimmer of mans flesh imbalmed which in the arsiversie swagfall tumble was not found true as by the Defendant was very well discussed The Court therefore doth condemn and amerce him in three porringers of curds well cemented and closed together shining like pearles and Codpieced after the fashion of the Countrey to be payed unto the said Defendant about the middle of August in May but on the other part the Defendant shall be bound to furnish him with hay and stubble for stopping the caltrops of his throat troubled and impulregafized with gabardines garbeled shufflingly and friends as before without costs and for cause Which sentence being pronounced the two Parties departed both contented with the decree which was a thing almost incredible for it never came to passe since the great rain nor shall the like occur in thirteen jubilees hereafter that two Parties contradictorily contending in judgment be equally satisfied and well pleased with the definitive sentence As for the Counsellors other Doctors in the law that were there present they were all so ravished with admiration at the more then humane wisdom of Pantagruel which they did most clearly perceive to be in him by his so accurate decision of this so difficult and thornie cause that their spirits with the extremity of the rapture being elevated above the pitch of actuating the organs of the body they fell into a trance and sudden extasie wherein they stayed for the space of three long houres and had been so as yet in that condition had not some good people fetched store of vineger and rose-water to bring them again unto their former sense and understanding for the which God be praised every where And so be it CHAP. XIV How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks THe great wit and judgement of Pantagruel was immediately after this made known unto all the world by setting forth his praises in print and putting upon record this late wonderful proof he hath given thereof amongst the Rolls of the Crown and Registers of the Palace in such sort that every body began to say that Solomon who by a probable