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A91655	The first [second] book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds, and sayings of Gargantua, and his sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline prognostication, the oracle of the divine Bachus, and response of the bottle. Hereunto are annexed the navigations unto the sounding isle, and the isle of the Apedests: as likewise the philosophical cream with a Limosm epistle. / All done by Mr. Francis Rabelais, in the French tongue, and now faithfully translated into English.; Gargantua et Pantagruel. English. 1653	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.; Hall, John, 1627-1656.	1653 (1653)	Wing R105; Thomason E1429_1; ESTC R202203	215,621	504

mangy whoores by this inconvenient the cotyledons of her matrix were presently loosed through which the childe sprung up and leapt and so entering into the hollow veine did climbe by the diaphragm even above her shoulders where that veine divides it self into two and from thence taking his way towards the left side issued forth at her left eare as soone as he was borne he cried not as other babes use to do miez miez miez miez but with a high sturdy and big voice shouted a loud some drink some drink some drink as inviting all the world to drink with him the noise hereof was so extreamly great that it was heard in both the Countreys at once of Beauce and Bibarois I doubt me that you do not throughly beleeve the truth of this strange nativity though you beleeve it not I care not much but an honest man and of good judgement beleeveth still what is told him and that which he findes written Is this beyond our Law or our faith against reason or the holy Scripture for my part I finde nothing in the sacred Bible that is against it but tell me if it had been the will of God would you say that he could not do it ha for favour sake I beseech you never emberlucock or inpulregafize your spirits with these vaine thoughts and idle conceits for I tell you it is not impossible with God and if he pleased all women henceforth should bring forth their children at the eare was not Bacchus engendred out of the very thigh of Jupiter did not Roquetaillade come out at his mothers heele and Crocmoush from the slipper of his nurse was not Minerva born of the braine even through the eare of Jove Adonis of the bark of a Myrre-tree and Castor and Pollux of the doupe of that Egge which was laid and hatched by Leda But you would wonder more and with farre greater amazement if I should now present you with that chapter of Plinius wherein he treateth of strange births and contrary to nature and yet am not I so impudent a lier as he was Reade the seventh book of his Natural History chapt 4. and trouble not my head any more about this CHAP. VII After what manner Gargantua had his name given him and how he tippled bibbed and curried the canne THE good man Grangousier drinking and making merry with the rest heard the horrible noise which his sonne had made as he entered into the light of this world when he cried out Some drink some drink some drink whereupon he said in French Que grand tuas et souple le gousier that is to say How great and nimble a throat thou hast which the company hearing said that verily the childe ought to be called Gargantua because it was the first word that after his birth his father had spoke in imitation and at the example of the ancient Hebrewes whereunto he condescended and his mother was very well pleased therewith in the meane while to quiet the childe they gave him to drink a tirelarigot that is till his throat was like to crack with it then was he carried to the Font and there baptized according to the manner of good Christians Immediately thereafter were appointed for him seventeen thousand nine hundred and thirteen Cowes of the towns of Pautille and Breemond to furnish him with milk in ordinary for it was impossible to finde a Nurse sufficient for him in all the Countrey considering the great quantity of milk that was requisite for his nourishment although there were not wanting some Doctors of the opinion of Scotus who affirmed that his own mother gave him suck and that she could draw out of her breasts one thousand four hundred two pipes and nine pailes of milk at every time Which indeed is not probable and this point hath been found duggishly scandalous and offensive to tender eares for that it savoured a little of Heresie thus was he handled for one yeare and ten moneths after which time by the advice of Physicians they began to carry him and then was made for him a fine little cart drawn with Oxen of the invention of Jan Denio wherein they led him hither and thither with great joy and he was worth the seeing for he was a fine boy had a burly physnomie and almost ten chins he cried very little but beshit himself every hour for to speak truly of him he was wonderfully flegmatick in his posteriors both by reason of his natural complexion and the accidental disposition which had befallen him by his too much quaffing of the septembral juyce Yet without a cause did not he sup one drop for if he happened to be vexed angry displeased or sorry if he did fret if he did weep if he did cry and what grievous quarter soever he kept in bringing him some drink he would be instantly pacified reseated in his own temper in a good humour againe and as still and quiet as ever One of his governesses told me swearing by her fig how he was so accustomed to this kinde of way that at the sound of pintes and flaggons he would on a sudden fall into an extasie as if he had then tasted of the joyes of Paradise so that they upon consideration of this his divine complexion would every morning to cheare him up play with a knife upon the glasses on the bottles with their stopples and on the pottle-pots with their lids and covers at the sound whereof he became gay did leap for joy would loll and rock himself in the cradle then nod with his head monocorsing his fingers and barytonising with his taile CHAP. VIII How they apparelled Gargantua BEing of this age his father ordained to have clothes made to him in his owne livery which was white and blew To work then went the Tailors and with great expedition were those clothes made cut and sewed according to the fashion that was then in request I finde by the ancient Records or Pancarts to be seene in the chamber of accounts or Count of the Exchequer at Montforeo that he was accoutred in manner as followeth To make him every shirt of his were taken up nine hundred ells of Chatelero linnen and two hundred for the guissets in manner of cushions which they put under his arm-pits his shirt was not gathered nor plaited for the plaiting of shirts was not found out till the Seamsters vvhen the point of their needles vvas broken began to vvork and occupie vvith the taile there vvere taken up for his doublet eight hundred and thirteen ells of white Satin and for his points fifteen hundred and nine dogs skins and a half Then vvas it that men began to tie their breeches to their doublets and not their doublets to their breeches for it is against nature as hath most amply been shewed Ockam upon the explonibles of Master Hautechaussade For his breeches were taken up eleven hundred and five ells and a third of white broad cloth They were cut in

An old paultry book say you sold by the hawking Pedlars and Balladmongers entituled The Blason of Colours Who made it whoever it was he was wise in that he did not set his name to it but besides I know not what I should rather admire in him his presumption or his sottishnesse his presumption and overweening for that he should without reason without cause or without any appearance of truth have dared to prescribe by his private authority what things should be denotated and signified by the colour which is the custome of Tyrants who will have their will to bear sway in stead of equity and not of the wise and learned who with the evidence of reason satisfie their Readers His sottishnesse and want of spirit in that he thought that without any other demonstration or sufficient argument the world would be pleased to make his blockish and ridiculous impositions the rule of their devices In effect according to the Proverb To a shitten taile failes never ordurre he hath found it seems some simple Ninnie in those rude times of old when the wearing of high round Bonnets was in fashion who gave some trust to his writings according to which they carved and ingraved their apophthegms and motto's trapped and caparisoned their Mules and Sumpter-horses apparelled their Pages quartered their breeches bordered their gloves fring'd the courtains and vallens of their beds painted their ensignes composed songs and which is worse placed many deceitful juglings and unworthy base tricks undiscoveredly amongst the very chastest Matrons and most reverend Sciences In the like darknesse and mist of ignorance are wrapped up these vain-glorious Courtiers and name-transposers who going about in their impresa's to signifie esperance that is hope have portrayed a sphere and birds pennes for peines Ancholie which is the flower colombine for melancholy A waning Moon or Cressant to shew the increasing or rising of ones fortune A bench rotten and broken to signifie bankrout non and a corslet for non dur habit otherwise non durabit it shall not last un lit sanc ciel that is a bed without a testerne for un licencié a graduated person as Batchelour in Divinity or utter Barrester at law which are aequivocals so absurd and witlesse so barbarous and clownish that a foxes taile should be fastened to the neck-piece of and a Vizard made of a Cowsheard given to every one that henceforth should offer after the restitution of learning to make use of any such fopperies in France by the same reasons if reasons I should call them and not ravings rather and idle triflings about words might I cause paint a panier to signifie that I am in peine a Mustard-pot that my heart tarries much for 't one pissing upwards for a Bishop the bottom of a paire of breeches for a vessel full of farthings a Codpiece for the office of the Clerks of the sentences decrees or judgements or rather as the English beares it for the taile of a Cod-fish and a dogs turd for the dainty turret wherein lies the love of my sweet heart Farre otherwise did heretofore the Sages of Egypt when they wrote by letters which they called Hieroglyphicks which none understood who were not skilled in the vertue propertie and nature of the things represented by them of which Orus Apollon hath in Greek composed two books and Polyphilus in his dream of love set down more In France you have a taste of them in the device or impresa of my Lord Admiral which was borne before that time by Octavian Augustus But my little skiffe alongst these unpleasant gulphs and sholes will saile no further therefore must I return to the Port from whence I came yet do I hope one day to write more at large of these things and to shew both by Philosophical arguments and authorities received and approved of by and from all antiquity what and how many colours there are in nature and what may be signified by every one of them if God save the mould of my Cap which is my best Wine-pot as my Grandame said CHAP. X. Of that which is signified by the Colours white and blew THe white therefore signifieth joy solace and gladnesse and that not at random but upon just and very good grounds which you may perceive to be true if laying aside all prejudicate affections you will but give eare to what presently I shall expound unto you Aristotle saith that supposing two things contrary in their kinde as good and evill vertue and vice heat and cold white and black pleasure and pain joy and grief And so of others if you couple them in such manner that the contrary of one kinde may agree in reason with the contrary of the other it must follow by consequence that the other contrary must answer to the remanent opposite to that wherewith it is conferred as for example vertue and vice are contrary in one kinde so are good and evil if one of the contraries of the first kinde be consonant to one of those of the second as vertue and good nesse for it is clear that vertue is good so shall the other two contraries which are evil and vice have the same connexion for vice is evil This Logical rule being understood take these two contraries joy and sadnesse then these other two white and black for they are Physically contrary if so be then that black do signifie grief by good reason then should white import joy Nor is this signification instituted by humane imposition but by the universal consent of the world received which Philosophers call Jus Gentium the Law of Nations or an uncontrolable right of force in all countreyes whatsoever for you know well enough that all people and all languages and nations except the ancient Syracusans and certain Argives who had crosse and thwarting soules when they mean outwardly to give evidence of their sorrow go in black and all mourning is done with black which general consent is not without some argument and reason in nature the which every man may by himself very suddenly comprehend without the instruction of any and this we call the Law of nature By vertue of the same natural instinct we know that by white all the world hath understood joy gladnesse mirth pleasure and delight In former times the Thracians and Crecians did mark their good propitious and fortunate dayes with white stones and their sad dismal and unfortunate ones with black is not the night mournful sad and melancholick it is black and dark by the privation of light doth not the light comfort all the world and it is more whitet hen any thing else which to prove I could direct you to the book of Laurentius Valla against Bartolus but an Evangelical testimony I hope will content you Matth. 7. it is said that at the transfiguration of our Lord Vestimenta ejus facta sunt alba sicut lux his apparel was made white like the light by which lightsome whitenesse he gave

fidler in the middle of a crosse lane shall draw a greater confluence of people together then an Evangelical Preacher and they prest so hard upon him that he was constrained to rest himself upon the towers of our Ladies Church at which place seeing so many about him he said with a loud voice I beleeve that these buzzards wil have me to pay them here my welcom hither and my Proficiat it is but good reason I will now give them their wine but it shall be only in sport then smiling he untied his faire Braguette and drawing out his mentul into the open aire he so bitterly all-to-bepist them that he drowned two hundred and sixty thousand foure hundred and eighteen besides the women and little children some neverthelesse of the company escaped this piss-flood by meer speed of foot who when they were at the higher end of the University sweating coughing spitting and out of breath they began to swear and curse some in good hot earnest and others in jest Carimari Carimara Golynoly Golynolo by my sweet Sanctesse we are wash't in sport a sport truly to laugh at in French Parris for which that city hath been ever since called Paris whose name formerly was Leucotia as Strabo testifieth lib. quarto from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whitenesse because of the white thighs of the Ladies of that place and forasmuch as at this imposition of a new name all the people that were there swore every one by the Sancts of his parish the Parisians which are patch'd up of all nations and all pieces of countreyes are by nature both good Jurers and good Jurists and somewhat overweening whereupon Joanninus de Barrauco libro de copiositate reverentiarum thinks that they are called Parisians from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies boldnesse and liberty in speech This done he considered the great bells which were in the said tours and made them sound very harmoniously which whilest he was doing it came into his minde that they would serve very well for tingling Tantans and ringing Campanels to hang about his mares neck when she should be sent back to his father as he intended to do loaded with Brie cheese and fresh herring and indeed he forthwith carried them to his lodging In the mean while there came a master begar of the Fryers of S. Anthonie to demand in his cantting way the usual benevolence of some hoggish stuffe who that he might be heard afar off and to make the bacon he was in quest of shake in the very chimneys made account to filch them away privily Neverthelesse he left them behinde very honestly not for that they were too hot but that they were somewhat too heavy for his carriage This was not he of Bourg for he was too good a friend of mine All the city was risen up in sedition they being as you know upon any slight occasion so ready to uproars and insurrections that forreign nations wonder at the patience of the Kings of France who do not by good justice restrain them from such tumultuous courses seeing the manifold inconveniences which thence arise from day to day Would to God I knew the shop wherein are forged these divisions and factious combinations that I might bring them to light in the confraternities of my parish Beleeve for a truth that the place wherein the people gathered together were thus sulfured hoparymated moiled and bepist was called Nesle where then was but now is no more the Oracle of Leucotia There was the case proposed and the inconvenience shewed of the transporting of the bells after they had well ergotedpro and con they concluded in Baralipton that they should send the oldest and most sufficient of the facultie unto Gargantua to signifie unto him the great and horrible prejudice they sustain by the want of those bells and notwithstanding the good reasons given in by some of the University why this charge was fitter for an Oratour then a Sophister there was chosen for this purpose our Master Janotus de Bragmardo GHAP. XVIII How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to Gargantua to recover the great bells MAster Janotus with his haire cut round like a dish a La caesarine in his most antick accoustrement Liripipionated with a graduates hood and having sufficiently antidoted his stomack with Oven Marmalades that is bread and holy water of the Cellar transported himself to the lodging of Gargantua driving before him three red muzled beadles and dragging after him five of six artlesse masters all throughly bedagled with the mire of the streets At their entry Ponocrates met them who was afraid seeing them so disguised and thought they had been some maskers out of their wits which moved him to enquire of one of the said artlesse masters of the company what this mummery meant it was answered him that they desired to have their bells restored to them Assoon as Ponocrates heard that he ran in all haste to carry the newes un-unto Gargantua that he might be ready to answer them and speedily resolve what was to be done Gargantua being advertised hereof called apart his Schoolmaster Ponocrates Philotimus Steward of his house Gymnastes his Esquire and Eudemon and very summarily conferred with them both of what he should do and what answer he should give They were all of opinion that they should bring them unto the goblet-office which is the Buttery and there make them drink like Roysters and line their jackets soundly and that this cougher might not be puft up with vain-glory by thinking the bells were restored at his request they sent whilest he was chopining and plying the pot for the Major of the City the Rector of the facultie and the Vicar of the Church unto whom they resolved to deliver the bells before the Sophister had propounded his commission after that in their hearing he should pronounce his gallant Oration which was done and they being come the Sophister was brought into a full hall and began as followeth in coughing CHAP. XIX The Oration of Master Jonatus de Bragmardo for recovery of the bells HEm hem Gudday Sirs Gudday vobis my masters it were but reason that you should restore to us our bells for we have great need of them Hem hem aihfuhash we have often-times heretofore refused good money for them of those of London in Cahors yea and of those of Bourdeaux in Brie who would have bought them for the substantifick quality of the elementary complexion which is intronificated in the terrestreity of their quidditative nature to extraneize the blasting mists and whirlwindes upon our Vines indeed not ours but these round about us for if we lose the piot and liquour of the grape we lose all both sense and law If you restore them unto us at my request I shall gaine by it six basketfuls of sauciges and a fine paire of breeches which will do my legs a great deal of good or else they will not keep their promise to