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A57001 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 Urchard.; Works. English. 1664 Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660. 1664 (1664) Wing R103; ESTC R24488 220,658 520

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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 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 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
well antidoted with pot-proof-armour and sirrup of the Vine-leaf O my friend he that hath winter-boots made of such leather may boldly fish for oysters for they will never take water What is the cause said Gargantua that Friar Ihon hath such a faire nose Because said Grangousier that God would have it so who frameth us in such forme and for such end as is most agreeable with his divine Will even as a Potter fashioneth his vessels Because said Ponocrates he came with the first to the faire of noses and therefore made choice of the fairest and the greatest Pish said the Monk that is not the reason of it but according to the true Monastical Philosophy it is because my Nurse had soft teats by vertue whereof whilest she gave me suck my nose did sink in as in so much butter The hard breasts of Nurses make children short-nosed But hey gay Ad formam nasi cognoscitur ad te levavi I never eat any confections Page whilest I am at the bibbery Item bring me rather some tosts CHAP. XLI How the Monk made Gargantua sleep and of his houres and breviaries SUpper being ended they consulted of the businesse in hand and concluded that about midnight they should fall unawares upon the enemie to know what manner of watch and ward they kept and that in the mean while they should take a little rest the better to refresh themselves But Gargantua could not sleep by any meanes on which side soever he turned him●elf Whereupon the Monk said to him I never sleep soundly but when I am at Sermon or Prayers Let us therefore begin you and I the seven penitential Psalmes to try whether you shall not quickly fall asleep The conceit pleased Gargantua very well and beginning the first of these Psalmes assoon as they came to the words Beati quorum they fell asleep both the one and the other But the Monk for his being formerly accustomed to the houre of Claustral matines failed not to awake a little before midnight and being up himself awaked all the rest in singing aloud and with a full clear voice the song Awake O Reinian Ho awake Awake O Reinian Ho Get up you no more sleep must take Get up for we must go When they were all rowsed and up he said My Masters it is a usual saying that we begin matines with coughing and supper with drinking let us now in doing clean contrarily begin our matines with drinking and at night before supper we shall ●ugh as hard as we can What said Gargantua to drink so soon after sleep this is not to live according to the diet and prescript rule of the Physicians for you ought first to scoure and cleanse your stomack of all its superfluities and excrements O well physicked said the Monk a hundred devils leap into my body if there be not more old drunkards then old Physicians I have made this paction and covenant with my appetite that it alwayes lieth down and goes to bed with my self for to that I every day give very good order then the next morning it also riseth with me and gets up when I am awake Minde you your charges Gentlemen or tend your cures as much as you will I will get me to my Drawer in termes of falconrie my tiring What drawer or tiring do you mean said Gargantua My breviary said the Monk for just as the Falconers before they feed their hawks do make them draw at a hens leg to purge their braines of flegme and sharpen them to a good appetite so by taking this merry little breviary in the morning I scoure all my lungs and am presently ready to drink After what manner said Gargantua do you say these faire houres and prayers of yours After the manner of Whipfield said the Monk by three Psalmes and three Lessons or nothing at all he that will I never tie my self to houres prayers and sacraments for they are made for the man and not the man for them therefore is it that I make my Prayers in fashion of stirrup-leathers I shorten or lengthen them when I think good Brevis oratio penetrat coelos longa potatio evacuat Scyphos where is that written by my faith said Ponocrates I cannot tell my Pillicock but thou art more worth then gold Therein said the Monk I am like you but venite apotemus Then made they ready store of Carbonadoes or rashers on the coales and good fat soupes or brewis with sippets and the Monk drank what he pleased Some kept him company and the rest did forbear for their stomachs were not as yet opened Afterwards every man began to arme and befit himself for the field and they armed the Monk against his will for he desired no other armour for back and breast but his frock nor any other weapon in his hand but the staffe of the Crosse yet at their pleasure was he compleatly armed cap-a-pe and mounted upon one of the best horses in the Kingdome with a good ●lashing sable by his side together with Gargantua Ponocrates Gymnast Eudemon and five and twenty more of the most resolute and adventurous of Grangousiers house all armed at proof with their lances in their hands mounted like St. George and every one of them having a harquebusier behinde him CHAP. XLII How the Monk encouraged his fellow-champions and how he hanged upon a tree THus went out those valiant champions on their adventure in full resolution to know what enterprise they should undertake and what to take heed of and look well to in the day of the great and horrible battel And the Monk encouraged them saying My children do not feare nor doubt I will conduct you safely God and Sanct Benedict be with us If I had strength answerable to my courage by Sdeath I would plume them for you like ducks I feare nothing but the great ordnance yet I know of a charm by way of Prayer which the subsexton of our Abbey taught me that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it Neverthelesse I hope my staffe of the crosse shall this day play devillish pranks amongst them by G whoever of our Party shall offer to play the duck and shrink when blowes are a dealing I give my self to the devil if I do not make a Monk of him in my stead and hamper him within my frock which is a sovereign cure against cowardise Did you never heare of my Lord Meurles his grey-hound which was not worth a straw in the fields he put a frock about his neck by the body of G there was neither hare nor fox that could escape him and which is more he lined all the bitches in the countrey though before that he was feeble-reined and ex frigidis maleficiatis The Monk uttering these words in choler as he past under a walnut-tree in his way towards the Causey he broached the
not amisse before we set forward to advise well what is to be done that we be not like the Athenians who never took counsel until after the fact Are you resolved to live and die with me Yes Sir said they all and be as confident of us as of your own fingers Well said he there is but one thing that keeps my minde in great doubt and suspense which is this that I know not in what order nor of what number the enemie is that layeth siege to the City for if I were certain of that I should go forward and set on with the better assurance Let us therefore consult together and bethink our selves by what meanes we may come to this intelligence whereunto unto they all said Let us go thither and see and stay you here for us for this very day without further respite do we make account to bring you a certain report thereof My self said Panurge will undertake to enter into their camp within the very midst of their guards unespied by their watch and merrily feast and lecher it at their cost without being known of any to see the Artillery and the Tents of all the Captaines and thrust my self in with a grave and magnifick carriage amongst all their troops and compantes without ever being discovered the devill would not be able to peck me out with all his circumventions for I am of the race of Zopyrus And I said Epistemon know all the plots and stratagems of the valiant Captaines and warlike Champions of former ages together with all the tricks and subtilties of the Art of warre I will go and though I be detected and revealed I will escape by making them beleeve of you whatever I please for I am of the race of Sinon I said Eusthenes will enter and set upon them in their trenches in spight of their Centries and all their guards for I will tread upon their bellies and break their legs and armes yea though they were every whit as strong as the devil himself for I am of the race of Hercules And I said Carpalin will get in there if the birds can enter for I am so nimble of body and light withal that I shall have leaped over their trenches and ran clean through all their camp before that they perceive me neither do I feare shot nor arrow nor horse how swift soever were he the Pegasus of Persee or Pacolet being assured that I shall be able to make a safe and sound escape before them all without any hurt I will undertake to walk upon the eares of corne or grasse in the meddows without making either of them do so much as bow under me for I am of the race of Camilla the Amazone CHAP. XXV How Panurge Carpalin Eusthenes and Epistemon the Gentlemen Attendants of Pantagruel vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly AS he was speaking this they perceived six hundred and threescore light horsemen gallantly mounted who made an out-rode thither to see what ship it was that was newly arrived in the harbour and came in a full gallop to take them if they had been able Then said Pantagruel my Lads retire your selves unto the ship here are some of our enemies coming apace but I will kill them here before you like beasts although they were ten times so many in the meane time withdraw your selves and take your sport at it Then answered Panurge No Sir there is no reason that you should do so but on the contrary retire you unto the ship both you and the rest for I alone will here discomfit them but we must not linger come set forward whereunto the others said It is well advised Sir withdr●w your self and we will help Panurge here so shall you know what we are able to do Then said Pantagruel Well I am content but if that you be too weak I will not faile to come to your assistance With this Panurge took two great cables of the ship and tied them to the kemstock or capstane which was on the deck towards the hatches and fastened them in the ground making a long circuit the one further off the other within that Then said he to Epistemon Go aboard the ship and when I give you a call turn about the capstane upon the orlop diligently drawing unto you the two cable-ropes and said to Eusthenes and to Carpalin My Bullies stay you here and offer your selves freely to your enemies do as they bid you and make as if you would yield unto them but take heed you come not within the compasse of the ropes be sure to keep your selves free of them and presently he went aboard the ship and took a bundle of straw and a barrel of gun-powder strowed it round about the compasse of the cordes and stood by with a brand of fire or match lighted in his hand Presently came the horsemen with great fury and the foremost ran almost home to the ship and by reason of the slipperinesse of the bank they fell they and their horses to the number of foure and fourty which the rest seeing came on thinking that resistance had been made them at theit arrival But Panurge said unto them My Masters I beleeve that you have hurt your selves I pray you pardon us for it is not our fault but the slipperinesse of the sea-water that is alwayes flowing we submit our selves to your good pleasure so said likewise his two other fellowes and Epistemon that was upon the deck in the mean time Panurge withdrew himselfe and seeing that they were all within the compasse of the cables and that his two companions were retired making room for all those horses which came in a croud thronging upon the neck of one another to see the ship and such as were in it cried out on a sudden to Epistemon Draw draw then began Epistemon to winde about the capstane by doing whereof the two cables so intangled and impestered the legs of the horses that they were all of them thrown down to the ground easily together with their Riders but they seeing that drew their swords and would have cut them whereupon Panurge set fire to the traine and there burnt them up all like damned souls both men and horses not one escaping save one alone who being mounted on a fleet Turkie courser by meere speed in flight got himself out of the circle of the ropes but when Carpalin perceived him he ran after him with such nimblenesse and celerity that he overtook him in lesse then a hundred paces then leaping close behinde him upon the crupper of his horse clasped him in his armes and brought him back to the ship This exploit being ended Pantagruel was very jovial and wondrously commended the industry of these Gentlemen whom he called his fellow-souldiers and made them refresh themselves and feed well and merrily upon the sea-shore and drink heartily with their bellies upon the ground and their prisoner with them whom they admitted to that familiarity
to fight against them and for Gods sake besought him that he might be permitted so to do whereunto Pantagruel would not give consent but commanded him to depart thence speedily and be gone as he had told him and to that effect gave him a box full of Euphorbium together with some grains of the black chameleon thistle steeped into aqua vitae and made up into the condiment of a wet sucket commanding him to carry it to his King and to say unto him that if he were able to eate one ounce of that without drinking after it he might then be able to resist him without any feare or apprehension of danger The Prisoner then besought him with joynt hands that in the houre of the battel he would have compassion upon him whereat Pantagruel said unto him After that thou hast delivered all unto the King put thy whole confidence in God and he will not forsake thee because although for my part I be mighty as thou mayest see and have an infinite numbe● of men in armes I do neverthelesse trust neither in my force nor in mine industry but all my confidence is in God my Protectour who doth never forsake those that in him do put their trust and confidence This done the Prisoner req●ested him that he would afford him some reasonable composition for his ransome to which Pantagruel answered that his end was not to rob nor ransom men but to enrich them and reduce them to total liberty Go thy way said he in the peace of the living God and never follow evil company lest some mischief befall thee The Prisoner being gone Pantagruel said to his men Gentlemen I have made this Prisoner believe that we have an army at sea as also that we will not assault them till to morrow at noon to the end that they doubting of the great arrival of our men may spend this night in providing and strengthening themselves but in the mean time my intention is that we charge them about the houre of the first sleep Let us leave Pantagruel here with his Apostles and speak of King Anarchus and his army When the Prisoner was come he went unto the King and told him how there was a great Giant come called Pantagruel who had overthrown and made to be cruelly roasted all the six hundred and nine and fifty horsemen and he alone escaped to bring the news besides that he was charged by the said Giant to tell him that the next day about noon he must make a dinner ready for him for at that houre he was resolved to set upon him then did he give him that boxe wherein were those confitures but assoon as he had swallowed down one spoonful of them he was taken with such a heat in the throat together with an ulceration in the flap of the top of the winde-pipe that his tongue peel'd with it in such sort that for all they could do unto him he found no ease at all but by drinking only without cessation for assoon as ever he took the goble● from his head his tongue was on a fire and therefore they did nothing but still poure in wine into his throat with a funnel which when his Captains Bashawes and guard of his body did see they tasted of the same drugs to try whether they were so thirst-procuring and alterative or no but it so befell them as it had done their King and they plied the flaggon so well that the noise ran throughout all the Camp how the Prisoner was returned that the next day they were to have an assault that the King and his Captains did already prepare themselves for it together with his guards and that wiah carowsing lustily and quaffing as hard as they could every man therefore in the army began to tipple ply the pot swill and guzzle it as fast as they could In summe they drunk so much and so long that they fell asleep like pigs all out of order throughout the whole Camp Let us now return to the good Pantagruel and relate how he carried himself in this businesse departing from the place of the Trophies he took the mast of their ship in his hand like a Pilgrims staffe and put within the top of it two hundred and seven and thirty poinsons of white wine of Anjou the rest was of Rowen and tied up to his girdle the bark all full of salt as easily as the Lanskennets carry their little panniers and to set onward on his way with his fellow-souldiers When he was come near to the enemies Camp Panurge said unto him Sir if you would do well let down this white wine of Anjou from the scuttle of the mast of the ship that we may all drink thereof like Britains Hereunto Pantagruel very willingly consented and they drank so neat that there was not so much as one poor drop left of two hundred and seven and thirty punchons except one Boracho or leathern bottle of Tours which Panurge filled for himself for he called that his vade mecum and some scurvie lees of wine in the bottom which served him in stead of vineger After they had whitled and curried the canne pretty handsomely Panurge gave Pantagruel to eate some devillish drugs compounded of Lithotripton which is a stone-dissolving ingredient nephrocatarticon that purgeth the reines the marmalade of Quinces called Codiniac a confection of Cantharides which are green flies breeding on the tops of olive-trees and other kindes of diuretick or pisse-procuring simples This done Pantagruel said to Carpalin Go into the City scrambling like a cat up against the wall as you can well do and tell them that now presently they come out and charge their enemies as rudely as they can and having said so come down taking a lighted torch with you wherewith you shall set on fire all the rents and 〈◊〉 the Camp then cry as loud as you are able with your great voice and then come away from thence Yea but said Carpalin were it not good to cloy all their ordnance No no said Pantagruel only blow up all their powder Carpalin obeying him departed suddenly and did as he was ●●pointed by Pantagruel and all the Combatants came forth that were in the City and when he had set fire in the tents and pavillions he past so lightly through them and so highly and profoundly did they snort and sleep that they never perceived him He came to the place where their Artillery was and set their munition on fire but here was the danger the fire was so sudden that poor Carpalin had almost been burnt and had it not been for his wonderful agility he had been fried like a roasting pig but he departed away so speedily that a bolt or arrow out of a Crossebowe could not have had a swifter motion When he was clear of their trenches he shooted aloud and cried out so dreadfully and with such amazement to the hearers that it seemed all the devils of hell had been let loose at which noise
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 Loupgaro● 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 ●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