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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

me from Point to Point according to the real Truth or else by Cocks Body if I find you to lie so much as in one word I will make you shorter by the Head and take it from off your Shoulders to shew others by your Example that in Justice and Judgment Men ought to speak nothing but the Truth therefore take heed you do not add nor impair any thing in the Narration of your Case Begin CHAP. XI How the Lords of Kissebreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without Advocates THen began Kissebreech in manner as followeth My Lord it is true that a good Woman of my House carried Eggs to the Market to sell. Be covered Kissebreech said Pantagruel Thanks to you my Lord said the Lord Kissebreech But to the purpose There passed betwixt the two Tropicks the Sum of three Pence towards the Zenith and a half-penny forasmuch as the Riph●an Mountains had been that Year opprest with a great Sterility of counterfeit Gudgions and shews without Substance by means of the babling Tattle and fond Fibs seditiously raised between the Gibblegablers and Accursian Gibberish-mongers for the Rebellion of the Swissers who had assembled themselves to the full number of the Bum-bees and Myrmidons to go a handsel-getting on the first Day of the new Year at that very time when they give Brewis to the Oxen and deliver the Key of the Coals to the Country-girls for serving in of the Oats to the Dogs All the Night long they did nothing else keeping their Hands still upon the Pot but dispatch Bulls a-foot and Bulls a-horseback to stop the Boats for the Tailors and Sales-men would have made of the stollen Shreds a goodly Sagbut to cover the face of the Ocean which then was great with Child of a Potful of Cabbidge according to the Opinion of the Hay-bundle-makers but the Physicians said that by the Urine they could discern no manifest Sign of the Bustard's Pace nor how to eat double-tongued Mattocks with Mustard unless the Lords and Gentlemen of the Court should be pleased to give by B. mol express command to the Pox not to run about any longer in gleaning up of Copper-smiths and Tinkers for the Jobernolls had already a pretty good beginning in their Dance of the British Gig called the Estrindore to a perfect Diapason with one Foot in the Fire and their Head in the middle as good Man Ragot was wont to say Ha my Masters God moderates all things and disposeth of them at his Pleasure so that against unlucky Fortune a Carter broke his frisking Whip which was all the Wind-Instrument he had this was done at his return from the little paultry Town even then when Master Amitus of Cresseplots was licentiated and had past his Degrees in all Dullery and Blockishness according to this Sentence of the Canonists Beati Dunces quoniam ipsi stumblaverunt But that which makes Lent to be so high by St. Fiacre of Bry is for nothing else but that the Pentecost never comes but to my cost yet on afore there hoe a little Rain stills a great Wind and we must think so seeing that the Serjeant hath propounded the Matter so far above my reach that the Clerks and Secondaries could not with the Benefit thereof lick their Fingers feathered with Gaunders so orbicularly as they were wont in other things to do And we do manifestly see that every one acknowledgeth himself to be in the Error wherewith another hath been charged reserving only those Cases whereby we are obliged to take an ocular Inspection in a prospective Glass of these things towards the place in the Chimney where hangeth the Sign of the Wine of forty Girths which have been always accounted very necessary for the number of twenty Panels and Pack-saddles of the bankrupt Protectionaries of five Years respit howsoever at least he that would not let fly the Fowl before the Cheese-cakes ought in Law to have discovered his Reason why not for the Memory is often lost with a wayward Shooing Well God keep Theobald Mitain from all danger Then said Pantagruel Hold there Ho my Friend soft and fair speak at leisure and soberly without putting your self in choler I understand the Case go on Now then my Lord said Kissebreech the foresaid good Woman saying her gaudez and audinos could not cover her self with a treacherous Back-blow ascending by the Wounds and Passions of the Privileges of the University unless by the Virtue of a Warming-pan she had angelically fomented every part of her Body in covering them with a Hedg of Garden-Beds then giving in a swift unavoidable Thrust very near to the place where they sell the old Rags whereof the Painters of Flanders make great use when they are about neatly to clap on Shoes on Grashoppers Locusts Cigals and such like Fly-fowls so strange to us that I am wonderfully astonished why the World doth not lay seeing it is so good to hatch Here the Lord of Suckfist would have interrupted him and spoken somewhat whereupon Pantagruel said unto him St by St. Anthony's Belly doth it become thee to speak without Command I sweat here and crack my Brain to understand the Proceeding of your mutual Difference and yet thou comest to trouble and disquiet me Peace in the Devil's Name Peace thou shalt be permitted to speak thy Belly-full when this Man hath done and no sooner Go on said he to Kissebreech speak calmly and do not over-heat your self with too much haste I perceiving then said Kissebreech that the pragmatical Sanction did make no mention of it and that the holy Pope to every one gave liberty to fart at his own ease if that the Blankets had no Streaks wherein the Liars were to be crossed with a Ruffian-like Crew and the Rain-bow being newly sharpned at Milan to bring forth Larks gave his full consent that the good Woman should tread down the Heel of the Hipgut-pangs by virtue of a solemn Protestation put in by the little testiculated or codsted Fishes which to tell the truth were at that time very necessary for understanding the Syntax and Construction of old Boots Therefore Iohn Calfe her Cousin-gervais once removed with a Log from the Woodstack very seriously advised her not to put her self into the hazard of quagswagging in the Lee to be scoured with a buck of Linen Clothes till first she had kindled the Paper this Counsel she laid hold on because he desired her to take nothing and throw out for Non de ponte vadit qui cum sapientia cadit Matters thus standing seeing the Members of that Committee did not fully agree amongst themselves in casting up the number of the Almany Whistles whereof were framed those Spectacles for Princes which have been lately printed at Antwerp I must needs think that it makes a bad return of the Writ and that the adverse Party is not to be believed in sacer verbo dotis For that having a great Desire to obey the Pleasure of the King I armed my self

the position of the Horns of Bulls The wanton toying Girl notwithstanding any remonstrance of mine to the contrary did always drive and thrust them further in yet thereby which to me seemed wonderful she did not do me any hurt at all A little after though I know not how I thought I was transform'd into a Tabor and she into a Chough My sleeping there being interrupted I awaked in a start angry displeased perplexed chafing and very wroth There have you a large-Platter-full of Dreams make thereupon good Chear and if you please spare not to interpret them according to the Understanding which you may have in them Come Carpalin let us to Breakfast To my sence and meaning quoth Pantagruel if I have skill or knowledge in the Art of Divination by Dreams your Wife will not really and to the outward appearance of the World plant or set Horns and stick them fast in your Forehead after a visible manner as Satyrs use to wear and carry them but she will be so far from preserving herself Loyal in the discharge and observance of a Conjugal Duty that on the contrary she will violate her plighted Faith break her Marriage-Oath infringe all Matrimonial Tyes prostitute her Body to the Dalliance of other Men and so make you a Cuckold This point is clearly and manifestly explained and expounded by Artemidorus just as I have related it Nor will there be any metamorphosis or transmutation made of you into a Drum or Tabor but you will surely be as soundly beaten as e're was Tabor at a merry Wedding nor yet will she be changed into a Chough but will steal from you chiefly in the Night as is the nature of that thievish Bird. Hereby may you perceive your Dreams to be in every jot conform and agreeable to the Virgilian Lots A Cuckold you will be beaten and robbed Then cryed out Father Iohn with a loud Voice He tells the truth upon my Conscience thou wilt be a Cuckold an honest one I warrant thee O the brave Horns that will be born by thee Ha ha ha Our good Master De Cornilius God save thee and shield thee Wilt thou be pleased to preach but two words of a Sermon to us and I will go through the Parish-Church to gather up Alms for the poor You are quoth Panurge very far mistaken in your Interpretation for the matter is quite contrary to your sence thereof my Dream presageth that I shall by Marriage be stored with plenty of all manner of Goods the hornifying of me shewing that I will possess a Cornucopia that Amalthaean Horn which is called The Horn of Abundance whereof the fruition did still portend the Wealth of the Enjoyer You possibly will say that they are rather like to be Satyrs Horns for you of these did make some mention Amen Amen Fiat siat ad differentiam papae Thus shall I have my Touch-her-home still ready my Staff of Love sempiternally in a good case will Satyr-like be never toyled out a thing which all Men wish for and send up their Prayers to that purpose but such a thing as nevertheless is granted but to a few hence doth it follow by a consequence as clear as the Sun-beams that I will never be in the danger of being made a Cuckold for the defect hereof is Causa sine qua non yea the sole cause as many think of making Husbands Cuckolds What makes poor scoundrel Rogues to beg I pray you Is it not because they have not enough at home wherewith to fill their Bellies and their Poaks What is it makes the Wolves to leave the Woods Is it not the want of Flesh Meat What maketh Women Whores you understand me well enough And herein may I very well submit my Opinion to the Judgment of learned Lawyers Presidents Counsellors Advocates Procurers Attorneys and other Glossers and Commentators on the venerable Rubrick De Frigidis maleficiatis You are in truth Sir as it seems to me excuse my boldness if I have transgressed in a most palpable and absurd Error to attribute my Horns to Cuckoldry Diana wears them on her Head after the manner of a Cressant is she a Cuequean for that How the Devil can she be cuckolded who never yet was married Speak somewhat more correctly I beseech you least she being offended furnish you with a pair of Horns shapen by the Pattern of those which she made for Actaeon The goodly Bacchus also carries Horns Pan Iupiter Hammon with a great many others are they all Cuckolds If Iove be a Cuckold Iuno is a Whore this follows by the Figure Metalepsis As to call a Child in the presence of his Father and Mother a Bastard or Whore's Son is tacitly and under-board no less than if he had said openly the Father is a Cuckold and his Wife a Punk Let our Discourse come nearer to the purpose The Horns that my Wife did make me are Horns of Abundance planted and grafted in my Head for the increase and shooting up of all good things this will I affirm for truth upon my Word and pawn my Faith and Credit both upon it as for the rest I will be no less joyful frolick glad cheerful merry jolly and gamesome then a well-bended Tabor in the Hands of a good Drummer at a Nuptial Feast still making a noise still rowling still buzzing and cracking Believe me Sir in that consisteth none of my least good Fortunes And my Wife will be jocund feat compt neat quaint dainty trim trick'd up brisk smirk and smug even as a pretty little Cornish Chough who will not believe this let Hell or the Gallows be the Burden of his Christmas Carol. I remark quoth Pantagruel the last point or particle which you did speak of and having seriously conferred it with the first find that at the beginning you were delighted with the sweetness of your Dream but in the end and final closure of it you startingly awaked and on a sudden were forthwith vexed in Choler and annoyed Yea quoth Panurge the reason of that was because I had fasted too long Flatter not your self quoth Pantagruel all will go to ruine know for a certain truth that every Sleep that endeth with a starting and leaves the Person irksome grieved and fretting doth either signifie a present evil or otherways presageth and portendeth a future imminent mishap To signifie an Evil that is to say to shew some Sickness hardly curable a kind of pestilentious or malignant Bile Botch or Sore lying and lurking hid occult and latent within the very Center of the Body which many times doth by the means of Sleep whose nature is to reinforce and strengthen the Faculty and Vertue of Concoction begin according to the Theorems of Physick to declare itself and moves toward the outward Superficies At this sad stirring is the Sleeper's rest and ease disturbed and broken whereof the first feeling and stinging smart admonisheth that he must patiently endure great pain and trouble and thereunto provide some

Greek et Latin speaking Greek and Latin in French thought to have refin'd his Mother Tongue So Rabelais to prevent the spreading of that Contagion has not only brought that Limousin Author on his Pantagruelian Stage but wrote a Letter in Verse all in that Style in the name of the Limousin Scholar printed at the end of the Pantagruelian Prognostication Pasquier who liv'd at that time has made the like Observation on that Chapter when in his second Book of Letters p. 53. he says pour l'ornement de nostre langue et nous aider mesmes du Grec et du Latin non pour les escorcher ineptement comme fit sur nostre jeune age Helisaine dont nostre gentil Rabelais s'est mocqué fort a propos en la personne de l'escolier Limosin qu'il introduct parlan● a Pantagruel en un language escorche Latin The 7th Chapter wherein he gives a Catalogue of the Books in St. Victor's Library is admirable and would require a large Comment it being a Satyr against many Writers and great Affairs in that Age as well as against those who either make Collections of bad Books or seek no others in Libraries but I have not leasure to read over a great number of Books that ought to be consulted for such a Task The Cause which was pleaded before Pantagruel by the Lords Suck-fizle and Kiss-Breech seems to be a Mock of the famous Tryal concerning two Dutchies four Counties two Vi-counties and many Baronies and Lordships to which Loyse de Savoye the Mother of Francis the first laid Claim Charles de Bourbon Constable of France was possest of them but because he had refus'd to marry her she made use of some Titles which she had to them to perplex him and though she could not even with the King her Son's Favour cast the Constable yet they were sequestred into the King's Hands and the final determination put off Pasquier in his Recherches observes that when Guillaume Poyet afterwards Chancellor and Francois de Monthelon afterwards Lord-Keeper then the two most famous Councellors of the Age pleaded the Cause the first for Plantiff the other for Defendant They armed themselves with a pedantic Iuris prudence borrowed from a parcel of Italian School Boys whom some call Doctors at Laws true Hatchers of Law Suits such was the Rhetoric of that Time and as it is easie to stray in a thick Wood so with a confused heap of various Quotations instead of explaining the Cause they perplexed it and filled it with darkness Upon this by the united Voice of the People the Name of the Plantiff was owned to contain the Truth of the Case that is Loyse de Savoye Loy se desavoye The Law goes astray which is perhaps the happiest Anagram tha● e●er was fot 't is made without changing the Order of the Letters and only by dividing the Words otherwise than they are in the Name The 18 19 and 20th Chapters treat of a great Scholar of England who came to argue by Signs with Pantagruel and was overcome by Panurge I do not well know on whom to fix the Character of Thaumast that Scholar whose Name may not only signifie an Admirer an admirable Person or one of those School-men who follow the Doctrin of Thomas Aquinas in opposition to that of Scotus And I find as little Reason to think that any would have come to confer with Anthony de Bourbon of Geomancy Philosophy and the Cabalistic Art Indeed Sir Thomas Moore went Ambassador to Francis the First and Erasmus who lived some time in England also came to Paris but I cannot think that either may pass for the Thaumast of Rabelais Perhaps he hath made him an English Man merely on purpose to disguise the Story and I would have had some thoughts of Henricus Cornelius Agrippa who came to France and died there but I will prove when I examin the Third Book that he has brought him on the Stage by the Name of Her-trippa So 't is not impossible but that he may have meant Hieronimus Cardan of Milan who flourish'd in that Age and was another dark Cabalistic Author The first has said Occult. Philos. l. 1. c. 6. That he knew how to communicate his Thoughts by the species of Sight in a magical Way as Pythagoras was said to do by writing any thing in the Body of the Moon so as it should be legible to another at a vast distance and he pretends to tell us the method of it in his Book De vanitate Scientiarum Cardan also has writ concerning private Ways of imparting our Thoughts Sub●ilit l. 17. and De Variet Rerum lib. 12. but these ways of signifying our Thoughts by Gestures called by the Learned Bishop Wilkins Semaeology are almost of infinite Variety according as the several Fancies of Men shall impose Significations upon such Signs as are capable of sufficient difference And the Venerable Bede has made a Book only of that commonly stiled Arthrologia or Dactylologia which he calls Lib. de loquelâ per gestum digitorum sive de indigitatione So that perhaps our Author made his Thaumast an English Man not to reflect on Beda but because that Learned Father is the most Ancient and Famous Author that has written a Book on that Subject I have Read of a public Debate much like that of Thaumast and Panurge and as probable said to have been held at Geneva The Agressor lifted up his Arm and closed three of his Fingers and his Thumb and pointed with the remaining Finger at his Opponent who immediately pointed at him again with two Then the other shewed him two Fingers and one Thumb whereupon his Antagonist shook his closed Fist at him Upon this the Aggressor showed him an Apple and the other looking into his Pocket found a bit of Bread and in a scornful way let him see it which made him that began the Dispute yield himself vanquished Now when the Conqueror was desired to relate what their Signs signified He with whom I disputed said he threatned first to put out one of my Eyes and I gave him to understand that I would put out both his Then he threatned to tear both mine and take off my Nose upon which I shewed him my Fist to let him know that I would knock him down And as he perceived that I was angry he offered me an Apple to pacifie me as they do Children but I showed him that I scorn'd his Present and that I had Bread which was fitter for a Man After all Montluc who is our Panurge may have had some Dispute about the Signs of the true Religion or the two Sacraments of the Protestants and the seven of the Romans they being properly called Signs and such a thing not being recorded by Historians like many others that relate to this Work it may not be possible to discover it The Dipsodes that had besieged the City of the Amaurots are the Flemings and other Subjects of the Emperor Charles the

I will reduce them into Writing and to Morrow publish them to all the learned Men in the City that we may dispute publickly before them But see in what manner I mean that we shall dispute I will not argue pro contra as do the sottish Sophisters of this Town and other Places Likewise I will not dispute after the manner of the Academicks by Declamation Nor yet by Numbers as Pythagoras was wont to do and as Picus de la mirandula did of late at Rome But I will dispute by Signs only without speaking for the Matters are so abstruse hard and arduous that Words proceeding from the Mouth of Man will never be sufficient for unfolding of them to my liking May it therefore please your Magnificence to be there it shall be at the great Hall of Navarre at seven a Clock in the Morning When he had spoke these Words Pantagruel very honourably said unto him Sir of the Graces that God hath bestowed upon me I would not deny to communicate unto any Man to my Power for whatever comes from him is good and his Pleasure is that it should be increased when we come amongst Men worthy and fit to receive this celestial Manna of honest Literature In which Number because that in this Time as I do already very plainly perceive thou holdest the first Rank I give thee Notice that at all Hours thou shalt find me ready to condescend to every one of thy Requests according to my poor Ability although I ought rather to learn of thee than thou of me but as thou hast protested we will confer of these Doubts together and will seek out the Resolution even unto the bottom of that undrainable Well where Heraclitus says the Truth lies hidden And I do highly commend the manner of arguing which thou hast proposed to wit by Signs without speaking for by this Means thou and I shall understand one another well enough and yet shall be free from this clapping of Hands which these blockish Sophisters make when any of the Arguers hath gotten the better of the Argument Now to Morrow I will not fail to meet thee at the Place and Hour that thou hast appointed but let me intreat thee that there be not any Strife or Uproar between us and that we seek not the Honour and Applause of Men but the Truth only To which Thaumast answered The Lord God maintain you in his Favour and Grace and instead of my Thankfulness to you pour down his Blessings upon you for that your Highness and magnificent Greatness hath not d●sdained to descend to the Grant of the Request of my poor Baseness so farewel till to Morrow Farewel said Pantagruel Gentlemen you that read this present Discourse think not that ever Men were more elevated and transported in their Thoughts than all this Night were both Thaumast and Pantagruel for Thaumast said to the Keeper of the House of Cluny where he was lodged that in all his Life he had never known himself so dry as he was that Night I think said he that Pantagruel held me by the Throat Give Order I pray you that we may have some Drink and see that some fresh Water be brought to us to gargle my Palat. On the other side Pantagruel stretched his Wits as high as he could entring into very deep and serious Meditations and did nothing all that Night but plod upon and turn over the Book of Beda de Numeris Signis Plotius's Book de Inenarrabilibus The Book of Proclus de Magia The Book of Artemidorus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of Anaxagaras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dinatius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Books of Philistion Hipponax 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a Rabble of others so long that Panurge said unto him My Lord leave all these Thoughts and go to Bed for I perceive your Spirits to be so troubled by a too intensive bending of them that you may easily fall into some Quotidian Fever with this so excessive thinking and plodding but having first drank twenty five or thirty good Draughts retire your self and sleep your fill for in the Morning I will argue against and answer your Monsieur the Englishman and if I drive him not ad metam non loqui then call me Knave Yea but said he my Friend Panurge he is marvellously learned how wilt thou be able to answer him Very well answered Panurge I pray you talk no more of it but let me alone is any Man so learned as the Devils are No indeed said Pantagruel without God's especial Grace Yet for all that said Panurge I have argued against them gravelled and blanked them in Disputation and laid them so squat upon their Tails that I have made them look like Monkies therefore be assured that to Morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite Vinegar before all the World So Panurge spent the Night with tipling amongst the Pages and played away all the Points of his Breeches at primus secundus and at Peck-point Yet when the appointed Time was come he failed not to conduct his Master Pantagruel to the Place unto which believe me there was neither great nor small in Paris but came thinking with themselves that this devilish Pantagruel who had overthrown and vanquished in Dispute all these doting fresh-water Sophisters would now get full Payment and be tickled to some purpose for this Englishman is another Devil of a Disputant we will see who will be Conqueror Thus all being assembled Thaumast stayed for them and then when Pantagruel and Panurge came into the Hall all the School-boys Professors of Arts Senior-Sophisters and Batchelors began to clap their Hands as their scurvy Custom is but Pantagruel cried out with a loud Voice as if it had been the Sound of a double Cannon saying Peace with a Devil to you Peace by G you Rogues if you trouble me here I will cut off the Heads of every one of you At which Words they remained all daunted and astonished like so many Ducks and durst not do so much as cough although they had swallowed fifteen Pounds o● Feathers withal they grew so dry with this only Voice that they laid out their Tongues a full half Foot beyond their Mouths as if Pantagruel had salted all their Throats Then began Panurge to speak saying to the Englishman Sir are you come hither to dispute contentiously in those Propositions you have set down or otherways but to learn and know the Truth To which answered Thaumast Sir no other thing brought me hither but the great Desire I had to learn and to know that of which I have doubted all my Life long and have neither found Book nor Man able to content me in the Resolution of those Doubts which I have proposed And as for disputing contentiously I will not do it for it is too base a thing and therefore leave it to those sottish Sophisters who in their Disputes do not search for the Truth but for Contradiction only

Head cut off was finely healed by Panurge and of the News which he brought from the Devils and damned People in Hell THis Gigantal Victory being ended Pantagruel withdrew himself to the place of the Flagons and called for Panurge and the rest who came unto him safe and sound except Eusthenes whom one of the Giants had scratched a little in the Face whilst he was about the cutting of his Throat and Epistemon who appeared not at all Whereat Pantagruel was so aggrieved that he would have killed himself But Panurge said unto him Nay Sir stay a while and we will search for him amongst the Dead and find out the truth of all Thus as they went seeking after him they found him stark dead with his Head between his Arms all bloody Then Eusthenes cried out Ah cruel Death hast thou taken from me the perfectest amongst Men At which words Pantagruel rose up with the greatest Grief that ever any Man did see and said to Panurge Ha my Friend the Prophecy of your two Glasses and the Javelin Staff was a great deal too deceitful But Panurge answered My dear Bullies all weep not one drop more for he being yet all hot I will make him as sound as ever he was In saying this he took the Head and held it warm fore-gainst his Cod-piece that the Wind might not enter into it Eusthenes and Carpalin carried the Body to the place where they had banqueted not out of any hope that ever he would recover but that Pantagruel might see it Nevertheless Panurge gave him very good comfort saying If I do not heal him I will be content to lose my Head which is a Fool 's Wager leave off therefore crying and help me Then cleansed he his Neck very well with pure White-wine and after that took his Head and into it synapised some Powder of Diamerdis which he always carried about him in one of his Bags Afterwards he anointed it with I know not what Ointment and set it on very just Vein against Vein Sinew against Sinew and Spondyle against Spondyle that he might not be Wry-necked for such People he mortally hated this done he gave it round about some fifteen or sixteen Stitches with a Needle that it might not fall off again then on all sides and every where he put a little Ointment on it which he called Resuscitative Suddenly Epistemon began to breath then opened his Eyes yawned sneezed and afterwards let a great Houshold-Fart Whereupon Panurge said Now certainly he is healed and therefore gave him to drink a large full Glass of strong White-wine with a sugred Toast In this Fashion was Epistemon finely healed only that he was somewhat hoarse for above three Weeks together and had a dry Cough of which he could not be rid but by the force of continual drinking And now he began to speak and said that he had seen the Devil had spoken with Lucifer familiarly and had been very merry in Hell and in the Elysian Fields affirming very seriously before them all that the Devils were boon Companions and merry Fellows but in respect of the Damned he said he was very sorry that Panurge had so soon called him back into this World again for said he I took wonderful delight to see them How so said Pantagruel because they do not use them there said Epistemon so badly as you think they do Their Estate and Condition of living is but only changed after a very strange manner For I saw Alexander the Great there mending old Stockins whereby he got but a very poor Living Xerxes was a Crier of Mustard Romulus a Salter and Patcher of Patins Numa a Nail-smith Tarquin a Porter Piso a clownish Swaine Sylla a Ferry-man Cyrus a Cowheard Themistocles a Glass-maker Epaminondas a Maker of Looking-glasses Brutus and Cassius Surveyors of Land Demosthenes a Vine-dresser Cicero a Fire-kindler Fabius a Threader of Patenotres Artaxerxes a Rope-maker Aeneas a Miller Achilles was a scauld-pated Maker of Hay-bundles Agamemnon a Lick-box Vlysses a Hay-mower Nestor a Forester Darius a Gold-finder Ancus Martius a Ship-trimmer Camillus a Foot-post Marcellus a Sheller of Beans Drusus a Taker of Money at the Doors of Play-houses Scipio Africanus a Crier of Lee in a Wooden-slipper Asdrubal a Lantern-maker Hannibal a Kettle-maker and Seller of Egg-shells Priamus a Seller of old Clouts Lancelot of the Lake was a Flayer of dead Horses All the Knights of the Round-table were poor Day-labourers employed to row over the Rivers of Cocytus Phlegeton Styx Acheron and Lethe when Messieurs the Devils had a mind to recreate themselves upon the Water as in the like Occasion are hired the Boat-men at Lions the Gonde●eers of Venice and Oars at London but with this Difference that these poor Knights have only for their Fare a Bob or Flirt on the Nose and in the Evening a Morsel of coarse mouldy Bread Trajan was a Fisher of Frogs Antoninus a Lacquey Commodus a Jeat-maker Pertinax a Peeler of Wall-nuts Lucullus a Maker of Rattles and Hawks-Bells Iustinian a Pedlar Hector a Snap-sauce Scullion Paris was a poor Beggar Camlyses a Mule-driver Nero a base blind Fidler Fierabras was his Serving-man who did him a thousand mischievous Tricks and would make him eat of the brown Bread and drink of the turned Wine when himself did both eat and drink of the best Iulius Caesar and Pompey were Boat-wrights and Tighters of Ships Valentine and Orson did serve in the Stoves of Hell and were Sweat-Rubbers in Hot-houses Giglan and Govian were poor Swineherds Iafrey with the great Tooth was a Tinder-maker and Seller of Matches Godfrey de Bullion a Hood-maker Iason was a Bracelet-maker Don Pietro de Castille a Carrier of Indulgences Morgan a Beer-brewer Huon of Bourdeaux a Hooper of Barrels Pyrrhus a Kitchin-scullion Antiochus a Chimney-sweeper Octavian a Scraper of Parchment Nerva a Mariner Pope Iulius was a Crier of Pudding-pies but he left off wearing there his great buggerly Beard Iohn of Paris was a Greaser of Boots Arthur of Britain an Ungreaser of Caps Pierce Forrest a Carrier of Faggots Pope Boniface the Eighth a Scummer of Pots Pope Nicholas the third a Maker of Paper Pope Alexander a Rat-catcher Pope Sixtus an Anointer of those that have the Pox. What said Pantagruel have they the Pox there too Surely said Epistemon I never saw so many there are there I think above a hundred Millions For believe that those who have not had the Pox in this World must have it in the other Cotsbody said Panurge then am I free for I have been as far as the Hole of Gibralter reached unto the outmost Bounds of Hercules and gathered of the ripest Ogier the Dane was a Furbisher of Armour The King Tigranes a Mender of thatched Houses Galien Restored a Taker of Moldwarps The four Sons of Aymon were all Tooth-drawers Pope Calixtus was the Barber of a Woman's sine quo non Pope Vrban a Bacon-pecker Melusina was a Kitchin Drudg-Wench Mettabrune a Laundress Cleopatra a