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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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