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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57030	The second book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick treating of the heroick deeds and sayings of the good Pantagruel. Written originally in the French tongue, and now faithfully translated into English. By S.T.U.C.; Pantagruel. Book 2. English.	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing R108; ESTC R202205	100,489	230

said Thaumast it is very well said begin then Now you must note that Panurge had set at the end of his long Codpiece a pretty tuft of red silk as also of white green and blew and within it had put a faire orange CHAP. XIX How Panurge put to a non-plus the Englishman that argued by signes EVery body then taking heed and hearkening with great silence the Englishman lift up on high into the aire his two hands severally clunching in all the tops of his fingers together after the manner which alachinonnese they call the hens arse and struck the one hand on the other by the nailes foure several times then he opening them struck the one with the flat of the other till it yielded a clashing noise and that only once again in joyning them as before he struck twice and afterwards foure times in opening them then did he lay them joyned and extended the one towards the other as if he 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 Mercurie 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 he 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 then 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 black eben and the other of incarnation brasil and put them betwixt the fingers of that hand in good symmetrie then knocking them together made such a noise as the Lepers of Britanie 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-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 up 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 into his mouth pressing it very hard to the muscles thereof then he drew it out and 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-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 quàm 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

laugh and say How now do you fart Panurge No no Madam said he I do but tune my taile to the plain song of the Musick which you make with your nose In another he had a picklock a pellican a crampiron a crook and some other iron tooles wherewith there was no door nor coffer which he would nor pick open He had another full of little cups wherewith he played very artificially for he had his fingers made to his hand like those of Minerva or Arachne and had heretofore cried Triacle And when he changed a teston cardecu or any other piece of money the changer had been more subtil then a fox if Panurge had not at every time made five or six sols that is some six or seven pence vanish away invisibly openly and manifestly without making any hurt or lesion whereof the changer should have felt nothing but the winde CHAP. XVII How Panurge gained the pardons and married the old women and of the suit in law which he had at Paris ONe day I found Panurge very much out of countenance melancholick and silent which made me suspect that he had no money whereupon I said unto him Panurge you are sick as I do very well perceive by your physiognomie and I know the disease you have a flux in your purse but take no care I have yet seven pence half penny that never saw father nor mother which shall not be wanting no more then the pox in your necessity whereunto he answered me Well well for money one day I shall have but too much for I have a Philosophers stone which attracts money out of mens purses as the adamant doth iron but will you go with me to gaine the pardons said he By my faith said he I am no great pardon-taker in this world if I shall be any such in the other I cannot tell yet let us go in Gods Name it is but one farthing more or lesse But said he lend me then a farthing upon interest No no said I I will give it you freely and from my heart Grates vobis dominos said he So we went along beginning at St. Gervase and I got the pardons at the first boxe only for in those matters very little contenteth me then did I say my small suffrages and the prayers of St. Brigid but he gained them at all the boxes and alwayes gave money to every one of the Pardoners from thence we went to our Ladies Church to St. Iohns to St. Antonies and so to the other Churches where there was a banquet of pardons for my part I gained no more of them but he at all the boxes kissed the relicks and gave at every one to be brief when we were returned he brought me to drink at the Castle-tavern and there shewed me ten or twelve of his little bags full of money at which I blest my self and made the signe of the Crosse saying Where have you recovered so much money in so little time unto which he answered me that he had taken it out of the basins of the pardons For in giving them the first farthing said he I put it in with such slight of hand and so dexterously that it appeared to be a three-pence thus with one hand I took three-pence nine-pence or six-pence at the least and with the other as much and so thorough all the Churches where we have been Yea but said I you damn your self like a snake and are withal a thief and sacrilegious person True said he in your opinion but I am not of that minde for the Pardoners do give me it when they say unto me in presenting the relicks to kisse Centuplum accipies that is that for one penny I should take a hundred for accipies is spoken according to the manner of the Hebrewes who use the future tense in stead of the imperative as you have in the law Diliges Dominum that is dilige even so when the Pardon-bearer sayes to me Centuplum accipies his meaning is centuplum accipe and so doth Rabbi Kimy and Rabbi Aben Ezra expound it and all the Massorets ibi Bartholus Moreover Pope Sixtus gave me fifteen hundred francks of yearly pension which in English money is a hundred and fifty pounds upon his Ecclesiastical revenues and treasure for having cured him of a canckrous botch which did so torment him that he thought to have been a Cripple by it all his life Thus I do pay my self at my owne hand for otherways I get nothing upon the said Ecclesiastical treasure Ho my friend said he if thou didst know what advantage I made and how well I feathered my nest by the Popes bull of the Croisade thou wouldest wonder exceedingly It was worth to me above six thousand florins in English coine six hundred pounds and what a devil is become of them said I for of that money thou hast not one half penny They returned from whence they came said he they did no mote but change their Master But I employed at least three thousand of them that is three hundred pounds English in marrying not young Virgins for they finde but too many husbands but great old sempiternous trots which had not so much as one tooth in their heads and that out of the consideration I had that these good old women had very well spent the time of their youth in playing at the close-buttock-game to all commers serving the foremost first till no man would have any more dealing with them And by G I will have their skin-coat shaken once yet before they die by this meanes to one I gave a hundred florins to another six score to another three hundred according to that they were infamous detestable and abominable for by how much the more horrible and execrable they were so much the more must I needs have given them otherwayes the devil would not have jum'd them Presently I went to some great and fat wood-porters or such like and did my self make the match but before I did shew him the old Hags I made a faire muster to him of the Crownes saying Good fellow see what I will give thee if thou wilt but condescend to dufle dinfredaille or lecher it one good time then began the poor rogues to gape like old mules and I caused to be provided for them a banquet with drink of the best and store of spiceries to put the old women in rut and heat of lust To be short they occupied all like good soules only to those that were horribly ugly and ill-favoured I caused their head to be put within a bag to hide their face Besides all this I have lost a great deal in suits of law And what law-suits couldest thou have said I thou hast neither house norlands My friend said he the Gentlewomen of this City had found out by the instigation of the devil of hell a manner of high-mounted bands and neckerchiefs for women which did so closely cover their bosomes that men could no more