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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

fallow ground are bred But on a Tanners mill are winnowed Run thither all of you th' alarmes sound clear You shall have more then you had the last year Short while thereafter was the bird of Jove Resolv'd to speak though dismal it should prove Yet was afraid when he saw them in ire They should or'throw quite flat down dead th' empire He rather chus'd the fire from heaven to steale To boats where were red Herrings put to sale Then to be calm ' gainst those who strive to brave us And to the Massorets fond words enslave us All this at last concluded galantly In spight of Ate and her Hern-like thigh Who sitting saw Penthesilea tane In her old age for a cresse-selling quean Each one cry'd out thou filthy Collier toad Doth it become thee to be found abroad Thou hast the Roman Standard filtch'd away Which they in rags of parchment did display Juno was borne who under the Rainbow Was a bird-catching with her Duck below When her with such a grievous trick they plyed That she had almost been bethwacked by it The bargain was that of that throat full she Should of Proserpina have two egges free And if that she thereafter should be found She to a Haw-thorn hill should be fast bound Seven moneths thereafter lacking twenty two He that of old did Carthage town undo Did bravely midd'st them all himself advance Requiring of them his inheritance Although they justly made up the division According to the shoe-welt-lawes decision By distributing store of brews and beef To those poor fellows that did pen the Brief But th' year will come signe of a Turkish Bowe Five spindles yarnd and three pot-bottomes too Wherein of a discourteous King the dock Shall pepper'd be under an Hermits frock Ah that for one she hypocrite you must Permit so many acres to be lost Cease cease this vizard may become another Withdraw your selves unto the Serpents brother 'T is in times past that he who is shall reigne With his good friends in peace now and againe No rash nor heady Prince shall then rule crave Each good will its arbitrement shall have And the joy promised of old as doome To the heavens guests shall in its beacon come Then shall the breeding mares that benumm'd were Like royall palfreys ride triumphant there And this continue shall from time to time Till Mars be fettred for an unknown crime Then shall one come who others will surpasse Delightful pleasing matchlesse full of grace Chear up your hearts approach to this repast All trusty friends of mine for hee 's deceast Who would not for a world return againe So highly shall time past be cri'd up then He who was made of waxe shall lodge each member Close by the hinges of a block of timber We then no more shall master master whoot The swagger who th' alarum bell holds out Could one seaze on the dagger which he bears Heads would be free from tingling in the eares To baffle the whole storehouse of abuses And thus farewell Apollo and the Muses CHAP. III. How Gargantua was carried eleven moneths in his mothers belly GRangousier was a good fellow in his time and notable jester he loved to drink neat as much as any man that then was in the world and would willingly eate salt meat to this intent he was ordinarily well furnished with gammons of Bacon both of Westphalia Mayence and Bayone with store of dried Neats tongues plenty of Links Chitterlings and Puddings in their season together with salt Beefand mustard a good deale of hard rows of powdered mullet called Botargos great provision of Sauciges not of Bolonia for he feared the Lombard boccone but of Bigorre Longaulnay Brene and Rouargue In the vigor of his age he married Gargamelle daughter to the King of the Parpaillons a jolly pug and well mouthed wench These two did often times do the two backed beast together joyfully rubbing frotting their Bacon ' gainst one another insofarre that at last she became great with childe of a faire sonne and went with him unto the eleventh moneth for so long yea longer may a woman carry her great belly especially when it is some master-piece of nature and a person predestinated to the performance in his due time of great exploits as Homer saies that the childe which Neptune begot upon the Nymph was borne a whole year after the conception that is in the twelfth moneth for as Aulus Gellius saith libr. 3. this long time was suitable to the majesty of Neptune that in it the childe might receive his perfect forme for the like reason Jupiter made the night wherein he lay with Alcmena last fourty eight houres a shorter time not being sufficient for the forging of Hercules who cleansed the world of the Monstres and Tyrants wherewith it was supprest My masters the ancient pantagruelists have confirmed that which I say and withall declared it to be not onely possible but also maintained the lawful birth and legitimation of the infant borne of a woman in the eleventh moneth after the decease of her husband Hypocrates lib. de alimento Plinius lib. 2. cap. 5. Plautus in his Cistellaria Marcus Varo in his Satyr inscribed The Testament alledging to this purpose the authority of Aristotle Censorinus lib. de die natali Arist lib. 2. cap. 3. 4. de natura animalium Gellius lib. 3. cap. 16. Servius in his exposition upon this verse of Virgils Eclogues Matri longa decem c. and a thousand other fooles whose number hath been increased by the Lawyers ff de suis Leg. intestato paragrapho sin and in Auth. de restitu ea quae patit in xi mense moreover upon these grounds they have foysted in their Robidilardick or Lapiturolive Law Gallus ff de libr. posth L. sept ff de stat hom And some other Lawes which at this time I dare not name by means whereof the honest widows may without danger play at the close buttock game with might and maine and as hard as they can for the space of the first two moneths after the decease of their husbands I pray you my good lusty springal lads if you finde any of these females that are worth the paines of untying the cod-peece-point get up ride upon them and bring them to me for if they happen within the third moneth to conceive the childe shall be heire to the deceased if before he died he had no other children and the mother shall passe for an honest woman When she is known to have conceived thrust forward boldly spare her not whatever betide you seeing the paunch is full as Julia the daughter of the Emperour Octavian never prostituted her self to her belly-bumpers but when she found her self with childe after the manner of Ships that receive not their steers-man till they have their ballast and lading and if any blame them for this their rataconniculation and reiterated lechery upon their pregnancy and big-belliednesse seeing beasts in the like