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A57009	The works of F. Rabelais, M.D., or, The lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel with a large account of the life and works of the author, particularly an explanation of the most difficult passages in them never before publish'd in any language / done out of French by Sir Tho. Urchard, Kt., and others.	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.	1694 (1694)	Wing R104; ESTC R29255	455,145	1,095

it presently fall to railing and reviling adding after a whole Litany of comical though defamatory Epithetes that course unraung'd Bread or some of the great brown Houshold Loaf was good enough for such Shepherds meaning that the gross Notions of Transubstantiation ought ●o satisfie the Vulgar The Shepherds reply modestly enough and say that the others us'd formerly to let them have Cakes by which must be understood the times that preceded the Doctrin of Transubstantion Then Marquet one of the Cake-Merchants treacherously invites Forgier to come to him for Cakes but instead of them only gives him a swindging Lash with his Whip over-thwart the Legs whereupon he is rewarded by the other with a broken Pate and falls down from his Mare more like a dead then like a living Man wholly unfit to strike another blow These two Combatants are the Controverstists of both parties the Papist immediately begins to rail and abuse his Adversary The Lutheran confounds him in his replys and for a blow with a Whip treacherously given very fairly disables his Enemy This is the Judgment that Rabelais a Man of Wit and Learning impartially passes on the Writers of both Parties If any would seek a greater Mystery in that Grand Debate as Rabelais calls it which term I believe he would hardly have used for a real Fight let them imagin that he there describes the Conference at Reinburgh where Melancthon Bucer and Pistorius debated of Religion against Eccius Iulius Pflug and Iohn Gropper and handled them much as Forgier did Marquet But this Exploit of Forgier being inconsiderable if compared to those of Fryar Ihon des Entomeures or of the Funnels as some corruptly call him we should endeavour to discover who is that brave Monk that makes such rare Work with those that took away the Grapes of the Vineyard By the pretended Key which I think fit to give you after this since it will hardly make up a Page we are told that our Fryar Ihon is the Cardinal of Lorraine Brother to the Duke of Guise but that Conjecture is certainly groundless for though the Princes of his House were generally very brave yet that Cardinal never affected to show his Courage in martial Atchievements and was never seen to girt himself for War or to fight for the Cause which he most espoused besides had he been to have fought it would have been for Picrochole It would be more reasonable to believe that Fryar Ihon is Odet de Coligny Cardinal de Chastillon Archbishop of Tholouse Bishop and Earl of Beauuais Abbot of St. Benign of Dijon of Fleury of Ferrieres and of Vaux de Cernay For that Prelate was a Man of Courage no ways inferior to his Younger Brothers the Admiral and the Lord d' Andelot Besides he was an Enemy to Spain and a Friend to Navarre then he was a Protestant and helped his Brothers doing great Service to those of his Party and was married to Elizabeth de Hauteville Dame de Thoré a Lady of great Quality Pope Pius IV. in a private Consistory deprived him for adhering to his Brothers but he neither valued the Pope nor his Censures he died in England in 1571 and lies interr'd in Canterbury Cathedral having been made a Cardinal by Clement VII at his and Francis I.'s Interview at Marseilles in 1533. I own that what he did for the Protestant Cause was chiefly after the Death of Rabelais and that some have represented him as a Man wholly given to his Ease but Rabelais whose best Friend he was knew his Inclinations even when he composed this Work which made him dedicate the Fourth part of it to him And 't is chiefly to that brave Cardinal that we are obliged for that Book and the last of this mysterious History since without the King's Protection which he obtained for Rabelais he had resolved to write no more as I have already observed And for his being addicted to his Pleasures that exactly answers the Name of his Abbey of Theleme of which those that are Members do what they please according to their only Rule Do what thou wilt and to the Name of the Abbey 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Volontas Perhaps Rabelais had also a regard to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which often signifies a Nuptial Chamber to shew that our valiant Monk was married thus the Description of the Abbey shows us a model of a Society free from all the Tyes of others yet more honest by the innate Vertues of its Members therefore its Inscription excludes all Monks and Fryars inviting in all those that expound the holy Gospel faithfully though others murmur against them Indeed I must confess that he makes his Fryar swear very much but this was to expose that Vice which as well as many others reigned among Ecclesiastics in his Age. Besides the Cardinal had been a Souldier and the Men of that Profession were doubtless not more reserv'd then than they are now I will give an instance of it that falls naturally into this Subject and is the more proper being of one who was also a Cardinal a Bishop a Lord an Abbot Married a Soldier a Friend to the House of Navarre engaged in its Wars and who perhaps may come in for his share of Friar Ihon. I speak this of Caesar Borgia the Son of Pope Alexander VI. who having made his escape out of Prison at Medina del Campo came in 1506 to his Brother in Law Iohn d' Albret King of Navarre Being Bishop of Pampeluna its Capital he resign'd it as well as his Cardinal's Cap and other Benefices to lead a Military Life and after many Engagements in other Countries was killed being with King Iohn at the Siege of the Castle of Viane which held for Lewis de Beaumont Earl of Lerins Constable of Navarre who had rebelled against King Iohn That Earl having thrown a Convoy into the Castle Caesar Borgia who desir'd to fight him at the Head of his Men cryed Où est où est ce C●mtereau Ie jure Dieu qu'aujourd'huy ●e le feray mourir ou le prendray prisonier Ie ne cesseray ●usques á ce qu'il soit entierement destruit ne pardonneray ny sauveray la vie à aucun des siens Tout passera par l' epeé jusques aux chiens aux chats That is Where is where is this petty Earl By G I will this day kill or take him I will not rest till I have wholly destroyed him Nor will I spare one Creature that is his all to the very Dogs and Cats shall die by the Sword It cannot be supposed that Rabelais drew his Friar Ihon by this Man but 't is not unlikely that he had a mind to bring him in by giving some of his Qualifications to his Monk for there is no doubt that our Author made his Characters double as much as he could as it were stowing three and perhaps five in the place of one for want of Room not altogether like an Actor who

and runs on in a long Antithesis to prove that Bells are the signs of the true Church and Guns the mark of the bad all Bells says he sound but all Guns thunder all Bells have a melodious Sound all Guns make a dreadful Noise Bells open Heaven Guns open Hell Bells drive away Clouds and Thunder Guns raise Clouds and mock the Thunder He has a great deal more such Stuff to prove that the Church of Rome is the true Church because forsooth it has Bells which the other had not The taking away the Bells of a Place implys its Conquest and even Towns that have Articled are oblig'd to redeem their Bells perhaps the taking away the great Bells at Paris was the taking away the Privileges of its University or some other for Paris may only be nam'd for a Blind Thus the Master Beggar of the Fryars of St. Anthony coming for some Hog's Purtenance St. Anthony's Hog is always pictur'd with a Bell at its Neck who to be heard afar off and to make the Beacon shake in the very Chimneys had a mind to filch and carry those Bells away privily but was hindered by their weight that Master Beggar I say must be the head of some Monks perhaps of that Order in the Fauxbourg St. Antoine who would have been substituted to those that had been deprived and the Petition of Master Ianotus is the pardon which the University begs perhaps for some affront resented by the Prince for those that escap'd the Flood cry'd we are wash'd Par ris that is for having laugh'd Rabelais en passant there severely inveighs against the grumblers and factious Spirits at Paris Which makes me think that whether the Scene lies there or elsewhere as in Gascoigny some people of which Country were Henry d' Albret's Subjects still this was a remarkable Event In the Prologue to the fourth Book Iupiter busied about the Affairs of Mankind crys Here are the Gascons Cursing Damning and Renouncing demanding the re-establishment of their Bells I suppose that more is meant than Bells or he would not have us'd the word Re-establishment But 't is time to speak of the great strife and debate raised betwixt the Cake-bakers of Lerné and those of Gargantua 's Country whereupon were wag'd great Wars We may easily apply many things concerning these Wars to those of Navarre between the House of d'Albret and King Ferdinand and Charles the fifth Thus Les Truans or as this Translation renders it the Inhabitants of Lerné who by the command of Picrochole their King invaded and plunder'd Vtopia Gargantua's Country are the Spanish Soldiers and Lerné is Spain The word Truand in old French signifies an idle lazy Fellow which hits pretty well the Spaniards Character the Author having made choice of that name of a place near Chinon because it alludes to the Lake Lerna where Hercules destroyed the Lernaean Hydra which did so much hurt in the Country of Argos that thence came the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malorum Lerna Thus Spain was a Lerna of Ills to all Europe while like France now it aspir'd to universal Monarchy but it was so more particularly to Navarre in Iuly 1512 when King Iohn d' Albret and Queen Catharine de Foix the lawful Sovereign were dispossess'd by Ferdinand King of Arragon almost without any resistance The said King Iohn desirous of Peace sent Don Alphonso Carillo Constable of Navarre in the quality of his Embassador to Ferdinand to prevent the approaching mischief but he was so ill receiv'd says the History of Navarre Dedicated to King Henry IV. and printed with his Privilege that he was glad to return to his King with speed and related to him that there was no hope left to persuade the King of Arragon to a Peace and that Lewis de Beaumont Earl of Lerins who had forsaken Navarre daily incourag'd Ferdinand to attack that Kingdom So that this Embassie resembles much that of Vlric Gallet to Picrochole who swears by St. Iames the Saint of the Spaniards In November 1512. Francis Duke of Angoulesme afterwards King was sent with King Iohn d' Albret by Lewis XII to recover Navarre having with him several of the greatest Lords in France and a great Army which possess'd it self of many Places but the rigour of the Season oblig'd them to raise the Siege of Pampelune And in 1521. another Army under the Command of Andrew de Foix Lord of Asperault enter'd Navarre and wholly regain'd it but it was lost again soon after by the imprudence of that General and the Avarice of St. Colombe one of his chief Officers Those that will narrowly examin History will find that many particulars of the Wars in the first Book of Rabelais may be reconcil'd to those of Navarre but I believe that he means something more than a Description of the Fights among the Soldiers by the debate rais'd betwixt the Cake-sellers or Fouassiers of Lerné and the Shepherds of Gargantua Those Shepherds or Pastors should be the Lutheran and Calvinist Ministers whom Iohn and Henry d' Albert favour'd being the more dispos'd to adhere to the reviving Gospel which they preach'd by the provoking Remembrance of the Pope's and King of Spain's injurious usage and for that Reason Queen Margarite did not only profess the Protestant Religion but after the Death of Henry d' Albert Queen Iane their Daughter Married to Anthony de Bourbon was a Zealous Defender of it till she dy'd and her Son Henry afterwards rais'd to the Throne of France publickly own'd himself a Protestant till his impatient desire of being peaceably seated on it made him leave the better Party to pacifie the worse The Cake sellers of Lerné are the Priests and other Ecclesiastics of Spain as also all the Missificators of the Church of Rome Rabelais calls them Cake-mongers or Fouassiers by reason of the Host or Sacramental Wafer which is made of Dough between a pair of Irons like the Cakes or Fouasses in Poitou where Rabelais liv'd and is said to be transubstantiated into the Corpus-Christi when consecrated by the Priest The Subject of the Debate as Rabelais terms it between those Cake-sellers and the Shepherds is the first 's refusal to supply the latter with Cakes to eat with the Grapes which they watch'd For as Rabelais observes 'T is a Celestial Food to eat for Break-fast fresh Cakes with Grapes by which he alludes to the way of receiving the Communion among the Protestants who generally take that Celestial Food fasting and always with the juice of the Grape that is with Wine according to the Evangelical Institution Now the Cake-mongers or Popish Priests would not consent to give Cakes that is to say Bread but would only give the accidents of the Cakes or to speak in their own Phrase the accidents of the Bread and it is well known that this was the chief occasion of our separation from the Church of Rome Upon the reasonable request of the Shepherds the Cake-sellers instead of granting

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 were 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 Shi●brana 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 Talk thereof but forthwith to put it into execution what you have resolved Yea but quoth Panurge I would be loath to act any thing therein without your Counsel had thereto It is my Judgment also quoth Pantagruel and I advise you to it Nevertheless quoth Panurge if I understood aright that it were much better for me to remain a Batchellor as I am than to run headlong upon new hair-brain'd Undertakings of Conjugal Adventure I would rather choose not to marry quoth Pantagruel Then do not marry Yea but quoth Panurge would you have me so solitarily drive out the whole Course of my Life without the Comfort of a Matrimonial Consort You know it is written Vae soli and a single Person is never seen to reap the Joy and Solace that is found with married Folks Then marry in the Name of God quoth Pantagruel But if quoth Panurge my Wife should make me a Cuckold as it is not unknown unto you how this hath been a very plentiful Year in the production of that kind of Cattel I would fly out and grow impatient beyond all measure and mean I love Cuckolds with my Heart for they seem unto me to be of a right honest Conversation and I truly do very willingly frequent their Company but should I die for it I would not be one of their number that is a Point for me of a two-sore prickling Point Then do not marry quoth Pantagruel for without all controversie this Sentence of Seneca is infallibly true What thou to others shalt have done others will do the like to thee Do you quoth Panurge aver that without all exceptions Yes truly quoth Pantagruel without all exception Ho ho says Panurge by the Wrath of a little Devil his meaning is either in this World or in the other which is to come Yet seeing I can no more want

a full Gorge but let them on a Pearch abide a little that they may rouse bait tour and soar the better That good Pope who was the first Instituter of Fasting understood this well enough for he ordained that our Fast should reach but to the hour of Noon all the remainder of that day was at our disposure freely to eat and feed at any time thereof In ancient times there were but few that dined as you would say some Church men Monks and Canons for they have little other Occupation each day is a Festival unto them who diligently heed the Claustral Proverb De missa ad mensam They do not use to linger and defer their sitting down and placing of themselves at Table only so long as they have a mind in waiting for the coming of the Abbot so they fell to without Ceremony Terms or Conditions and every body supped unless it were some vain conceited dreaming Dotard Hence was a Supper called Caena which sheweth that it is common to all sorts of People Thou knowest it well Friar Iohn Come let us go my dear Friend in the name of all the Devils of the Infernal Regions let us go The Gnawings of my Stomach in this rage of Hunger are so taring that they make it bark like a Mastiff Let us throw some Bread and Beef into his Throat to pacifie him as once the Sibyl did to Cerberus Thou likest best Monastical Browess the prime the flower of the Pot. I am for the solid principal Verb that comes after The good brown Loaf always accompany'd with a round slice of the Nine-lecture-poudred Labourer I know thy meaning answered Friar Iohn this Metaphor is extracted out of the Claustral Kettle the Labourer is the Ox that hath wrought and done the Labour after the fashion of Nine Lectures that is to say most exquisitely well and throughly boil'd These holy Religious Fathers by a certain Cabalistick Institution of the Ancients not written but carefully by Tradition conveyed from hand to hand rising betimes to go to Morning Prayers were wont to flourish that their matutinal Devotion with some certain notable Preambles before their entry into the Church viz. They dunged in the Dungeries pissed in the Pisseries spit in the Spitteries melodiously coughed in the Cougheries and doted in their Doteries that to the Divine Service they might not bring any thing that was unclean or foul These things thus done they very zealously made their repair to the Holy Chappel for so was in their canting Language termed the Covent Kitchin where they with no small earnestness had Care that the Beef Pot should be put on the Crook for the Breakfast of the Religious Brothers of our Lord and Saviour and the Fire they would kindle under the Pot themselves Now the Matines consisting of Nine Lessons was so incumbent on them that they must have risen the rather for the more expedite dispatching of them all The sooner that they rose the sharper was their Appetite and the Barkings of their Stomachs and the Gnawings increase in the like proportion and consequently made these Godly Men thrice more a hungred and a-thirst than when their Matines were hem'd over only with three Lessons The more betimes they rose by the said Cabal the sooner was the Beef Pot put on the longer that the Beef was on the Fire the better it was boiled the more it boiled it was the tenderer the tenderer that it was the less it troubled the Teeth delighted more the Palats less charged the Stomach and nourished our good Religious Men the more substantially which is the only end and prime intention of the first Founders as appears by this That they eat not to live but live to eat and in this World have nothing but their Life Let us go Panurge Now have I understood thee quoth Panurge my Plushcod Friar my Caballine and Claustral Ballock I freely quit the Costs Interest and Charges seeing you have so egregiously commented upon the most especial Chapter of the Culinary and Monastick Cabal Come along my Garpalin and you Friar Iohn my Leather-dresser Good morrow to you all my good Lords I have dreamed too much to have so little Let us go Panurge had no sooner done speaking than Epistemon with a loud Voice said these Words It is a very ordinary and common thing amongst Men to conceive foresee know and presage the misfortune bad luck or disaster of another but to have the understanding providence knowledge and prediction of a Man 's own mishap is very scarce and rare to be found any where This is exceeding judiciously and prudently deciphered by Esop in his Apologues who there affirmeth That every Man in the World carrieth about his Neck a Wallet in the Fore-bag whereof were contained the Faults and Mischances of others always exposed to his view and knowledge and in the other Scrip thereof which hangs behind are kept the Bearers proper Transgressions and inauspicious Adventures at no time seen by him nor thought upon unless he be a person that hath a favourable Aspect from the Heavens CHAP. XVI How Pantagruel adviseth Panurge to consult with the Sibyl of Panzoust A Little while thereafter Pantagruel sent for Panurge and said unto him The Affection which I bear you being now inveterate and setled in my Mind by a long continuance of time prompteth me to the serious consideration of your Welfare and Profit in order whereto remark what I have thought thereon It hath been told me that at Panzoust near Crouly dwelleth a very famous Sibyl who is endowed with the skill of foretelling all things to come Take Epestimon in your Company repair towards her and hear what she will say unto you She is possibly quoth Epistemon she is some Canidia Sagane or Pythonisse either whereof with us is vulgarly called a Witch I being the more easily induced to give Credit to the truth of this Character of her that the place of her Abode is vilely stained with the abominable repute of abounding more with Sorcerers and Witches than ever did the Plains of Thessaly I should not to my thinking go thither willingly for that it seems to me a thing unwarrantable and altogether forbidden in the Law of Moyses We are not Iews quoth Pantagruel nor is it a matter judiciously confess'd by her nor authentically proved by others that she is a Witch Let us for the present suspend our Judgment and defer till after your return from thence the sifting and garbeling of those Niceties Do we know but that she may be an Eleventh Sibyl or a Second Cassandra But although she were neither and she did not merit the Name or Title of any of these Renowned Prophetesses what Hazard in the Name of God do you run by offering to talk and confer with her of the instant Perplexity and Perturbation of your Thoughts Seeing especially and which is most of all she is in the Estimation of those that are acquainted with her held to know more and to

Then shall I not marry Trouil. I cannot help it Pan. If I never marry I shall never be a Cuckold Trouil. I thought so Pan. But put the case that I be married Trouil. Where shall we put it Pan. Admit it be so then and take my meaning in that sence Trouil. I am otherways employed Pan. By the Death of a Hog and Mother of a Toad O Lord if I durst hazard upon a little Fling at the swearing Game though privily and under Thumb it would lighten the Burthen of my Heart and ease my Lights and Reins exceedingly a little Patience nevertheless is requisite Well then if I marry I shall be a Cuckold Trouil. One would say so Pan. Yet if my Wife prove a vertuous wise discreet and chaste Woman I shall never be Cuckolded Trouil. I think you speak congruously Pan. Hearken Trouil. As much as you will Pan. Will she be discreet and chaste This is the only Point I would be resolved in Trouil. I question it Pan. You never saw her Trouil. Not that I know of Pan. Why do you then doubt of that which you know not Trouil. For a Cause Pan. And if you should know her Trouil. Yet more Pan. Page my pretty little Darling take here my Cap I give it thee Have a care you do not break the Spectacles that are in it go down to the lower Court Swear there half an hour for me and I shall in compensation of that Favour swear hereafter for thee as much as thou wilt But who shall Cuckold me Trouil. Some body Pan. By the Belly of the wooden Horse at Troy Master Somebody I shall bang belam thee and claw thee well for thy labour Trouil. You say so Pan. Nay nay that Nick in the dark Celler who hath no White in his Eye carry me quite away with him if in that case whensoever I go abroad from the Palace of my Domestick Residence I do not with as much Circumspection as they use to ring Mares in our Country to keep them from being sallied by Stoned Horses clap a Bergamasco Lock upon my Wife Trouillogan Talk better Panurge It is Bien chien chié chanté well cacked and cackled shitten and sung in matter of Talk Let us resolve on somewhat Trouillogan I do not gainsay it Panurge Have a little patience seeing I cannot on this side draw any Blood of you I will try if with the Launcet of my Judgment I be able to bleed you in another Vein Are you married or are you not Trouillogan Neither the one nor the other and both together Panurge O the good God help us by the Death of a Buffle-ox I sweat with the toyl and travel that I am put to and find my Digestion broke off disturbed and interrupted for all my Phrenes Metaphrenes and Diaphragmes Back Belly Midrif Muscles Veins and Sinews are held in a suspence and for a while discharged from their proper Offices to stretch forth their several Powers and Abilities for Incornifistibulating and laying up into the Hamper of my Understanding your various Sayings and Answers Trouillogan I shall be no hinderer thereof Panurge Tush for shame our faithful Friend speak Are you married Trouillogan I think so Panurge You were also married before you had this Wife Trouillogan It is possible Panurge Had you good Luck in your First Marriage Trouillogan It is not impossible Panurge How thrive you with this Second Wife of yours Trouillogan Even as it pleaseth my Fatal Destiny Panurge But what in good earnest tell me Do you prosper well with her Trouillogan It is likely Panurge Come on in the Name of God I vow by the Burthen of Saint Christopher that I had rather undertake the fetching of a Fart forth of the Belly of a dead Ass then to draw out of you a positive and determinate Resolution yet shall I be sure at this time to have a snatch at you and get my Claws over you Our trusty Friend let us shame the Devil of Hell and confess the verity Were you ever a Cuckold I say you who are here and not that other you who playeth below in the Tennis-Court Trouillogan No if it was not predestinated Panurge By the Flesh Blood and Body I swear reswear forswear abjure and renounce he evades and avoids shifts and escapes me and quite slips and winds himself out of my Gripes and Clutches At these words Gargantua arose and said Praised be the good God in all things but especially for bringing the World into that heighth of Refinedness beyond what it was when I first came to be acquainted therewith that now the Learnedst and most Prudent Philosophers are not ashamed to be seen entring in at the Porches and Frontispieces of the Schools of the Pyrronian Aporetick Sceptick and Eph●ctick Sects Blessed be the Holy Name of God veritably it is like henceforth to be found an Enterprize of much more easie undertaking to catch Lyons by the Neck Horses by the Main Oxen by the Horns Bulls by the Muzzle Wolves by the Tail Goats by the Beard and flying Birds by the Feet then to intrap such Philosophers in their words Farewel my worthy dear and honest Friends When he had done thus speaking he withdrew himself from the Company Pantagruel and others with him would have followed and accompanied him but he would not permit them so to do No sooner was Gargantua departed out of the Banquetting-Hall then that Pantagruel said to the invited Guests Plato's Timee at the Beginning always of a solemn Festival Convention was wont to count those that were called thereto we on the contrary shall at the Closure and End of this Treatment reckon up our Number One Two Three Where is the Fourth I miss my Friend Bridlegoose Was not he sent for Epistemon answered That he had been at his House to bid and invite him but could not meet with him for that a Messenger from the Parliament of Mirlingois in Mirlingues was come from him with a Writ of Summons to cite and warn him personally to appear before the Reverend Senators of the High Court there to vindicate and justifie himself at the Bar of the Crime of Prevarication laid to his charge and to be peremptorily instanced against him in a certain Decree Judgment or Sentence lately awarded given and pronounced by him and that therefore he had taken Horse and departed in great hast from his own House to the end that without peril or danger of falling into a default or contumacy he might be the better able to keep the prefixed and appointed time I will quoth Pantagruel understand how that matter goeth it is now above Forty Years that he hath been constantly the Judge of Fonsbeton during which space of time he hath given Four thousand Definitive Sentences of Two thousand three hundred and nine whereof although Appeal was made by the Parties whom he had judicially condemned from his inferiour Judicatory to the Supream Court of the Parliament of Mirlingois in Mirlingues they were all of