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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

of the Leaves thereof is not much different from that of those of the Ash-tree or of Egrimony the Herb it self so being like the Eupatorian Plant that many skilful Herbalists have called it the Domestick Eupator and the Eupator the wild Pantagruelion These Leaves are in equal and parallel Distances spread around the Stalk by the number in every Rank either of Five or Seven Nature having so highly favoured and cherish'd this Plant that she hath richly adorned it with these two odd divine and mysterious Numbers The Smell thereof is somewhat strong and not very pleasing to nice tender and delicate Noses The Seed inclosed therein mounteth up to the very top of its Stalk and a little above it This is a numerous Herb for there is no less abundance of it than of any other whatsoever Some of these Plants are Spherical some Romboid and some of an oblong shape and all of those either black bright-coloured or tawny rude to the touch and mantled with a quickly-blasted-away Coat yet such a one as is of a delicious Taste and Savour to all shrill and sweetly singing Birds such as Linnets Goldfinches Larks Canary Birds Yellow-hammers and others of that Airy chirping Quire but it would quite extinguish the Natural Heat and Procreative Vertue of the Semence of any Man who would eat much and often of it And although that of old amongst the Greeks there was certain kinds of Fritters and Pancakes Buns and Tarts made thereof which commonly for a lickorish Daintiness were presented the Table after Supper to delight the Palat and make the Wine relish the better Yet is it of a difficult Concoction and offensive to the Stomach for it engendreth bad and unwholsom Blood and with its exorbitant Heat woundeth them with grievous hurtful smart and noysom Vapours And as in divers Plants and Trees there are two Sexes Male and Female which is perceptible in Lawrels Palms Cypresses Oaks Holmes the Daffadil Mandrake Fearn the Agarick Mushrum Birthwort Turpentine Penny-royal Peony Rose of the Mount and many other such like Even so in this Herb there is a Male which beareth no Flower at all yet it is very copious of and abundant in Seed There is likeways in it a Female which hath great store and plenty of whitish Flowers serviceable to little or no purpose nor doth it carry in it Seed of any worth at all at least comparable to that of the Male. It hath also a larger Leaf and much softer than that of the Male nor doth it altogether grow to so great a height This Pantagruelion is to be sown at the first coming of the Swallows and is to be plucked out of the Ground when the Grashoppers begin to be a little hoarse CHAP. L. How the famous Pantagruelion ought to be prepared and wrought THE Herb Pantagruelion in September under the Autumnal Equinox is dressed and prepared several ways according to the various Fancies of the People and Diversity of the Climates wherein it groweth The first Instruction which Pantagruel gave concerning it was to divest and dispoil the Stalk and Stem thereof of all its Flowers and Seeds to macerate and mortifie it in Pond Pool or Lake-water which is to be made run a little for five days together if the Season be dry and the Water hot or for full nine or twelve days if the weather be cloudish and the Water cold Then must it be parched before the Sun till it be drained of its Moisture After this it is in the Shadow where the Sun shines not to be peeled and its Rind pulled off Then are the Fibres and Strings thereof to be parted wherein as we have already said consisteth its prime Vertue Price and Efficacy and severed from the woody part thereof which is improfitable and serveth hardly to any other use than to make a clear and glistering Blaze to kindle the Fire and for the Play Pastime and Disport of little Children to blow up Hogs Bladders and make them rattle Many times some use is made thereof by tipling sweet-lipped Bibbers who out of it frame Quills and Pipes through which they with their Liquor-attractive Breath suck up the new dainty Wine from the Bung of the Barrel Some modern Pantagruelists to shun and avoid that manual Labour which such a separating and partitional Work would of necessity require employ certain Catarractick Instruments oomposed and formed after the same manner that the froward pettish and angry Iuno did hold the Fingers of both her hands interwovenly clenched together when she would have hindred the Child-birth Delivery of Alcmena at the Nativity of Hercules and athwart those Cataracts they break and bruise to very Trash the woody parcels thereby to preserve the better the Fibres which are the precious and excellent parts In and with this sole Operation do these acquiesce and are contented who contrary to the received Opinion of the whole Earth and in in a manner paradoxical to all Philosophers gain their Livelihoods backwards and by recoiling But those that love to hold it at a higher rate and prize it according to its Value for their own greater Profit do the very same which is told us of the recreation of the three fatal Sister Parques or of the nocturnal Exercise of the noble Circe or yet of the Excuse which Penelope made to her fond wooing Youngsters and effeminate Courtiers during the long Absence of her Husband Ulysses By these means is this Herb put into a way to display its inestimable Vertues whereof I will discover a part for to relate all is a thing impossible to do I have already interpreted and exposed before you the Denomination thereof I find that Plants have their Names given and bestowed upon them after several ways Some got the Name of him who first found them out knew them sowed them improved them by Culture qualified them to a tractability and appropriated them to the uses and subserviences they were fit for As the Mercuriale from Mercury Panacee from Panace the Daughter of Esculapius in Armois from Artemis who is Diana Eupatorie from the King Eupator Telephion from Telephus Euphorbium from Euphorbus King Iuba's Physician Clymenos from Clymenus Alchibiadium from Alcibiades Gentiane from Gentius King of Sclavonia and so forth through a great many other Herbs or Plants Truly in ancient Times this Prerogative of imposing the Inventors Name upon an Herb found out by him was held in a so great account and estimation that as a Controversie arose betwixt Neptune and Pallas from which of them two that Land should receive its Denomination which had been equally found out by them both together though thereafter it was called and had the Apellation of Athens from Athene which is Minerva Just so would Lynceus King of Scythia have treacherously slain the young Triptolemus whom Ceres had sent to shew unto Mankind the Invention of Corn which until then had been utterly unknown to the end that after the murther of the Messenger whose Death he

formidable baton of the Cross got to the breach which the Enemies had made and there stood to snatch up those that endeavoured to escape Some of the Monkitos carried the Standards Banners Ensigns Guidons and Colours into their Cells and Chambers to make Garters of them But when those that had been shriven would have gone out at the gap of the said Breach the sturdy Monk quash'd and fell'd them down with blows saying These Men have had Confession and are peni●ent Souls they have got their Absolution and gained the Pardons They go into Paradise as streight as a sickle or as the way is to Fare like Crooked-Lane at Eastcheap Thus by his Prowess and Valour were discomfited all those of the Army that entred into the Closs of the Abbey unto the number of Thirteen thousand six hundred twenty and two besides the Women and little Children which is always to be understood Never did Maugis the Hermite bear himself more valiantly with his Pilgrims staff against the Saracens of whom is written in the Acts of the four Sons of Haymon then did this Monk against his Enemies with the staff of the Cross. CHAP. XXVIII How Picrochole stormed and took by assault the Rock Clermond and of Grangousier's unwillingness and aversion from the Undertaking of War WHilst the Monk did thus skirmish as we have said against those which were entred within the Closs Picrochole in great haste passed the Ford Vede with all his Souldiery and set upon the Rock Clermond where there was made him no resistance at all And because it was already Night he resolved to quarter himself and his Army in that Town and to refresh himself of his pugnative Choler In the Morning he stormed and took the Bulwarks and Castle which afterwards he fortified with Rampiers and furnish'd with all Ammunition requisite intending to make his retreat there if he should happen to be otherwise worsted for it was a strong place both by Art and Nature in regard of the stance and scituation of it But let us leave them there and to return to our good Gargantua who is at Paris very assiduous and earnest at the study of good Letters and athletical Exercitations and to the good old Man Grangousier his Father who after Supper warmeth his Ballocks by a good clear great fire and whilst his Chesnut a are a-rosting is very serious in drawing scratches on the Hearth with a stick burnt at the one end wherewith they did stir up the fire telling to his Wife and the rest of the Family pleasant old Stories and Tales of of former times Whilst he was thus employ'd one of the Shepherds which did keep the Vines named Pillot came towards him and to the full related the enormous abuses which were committed and the excessive spoil that was made by Picrochole King of Lerne upon his Lands and Territories and how he had pillaged wasted and ravaged all the Country except the inclosure at Sevile which Friar Iohn des Entoumeures to his great honour had preserved And that at the same present time the said King was in the Rock Clermond And there with great Industry and Circumspection was strengthening himself and his whole Army Halas halas alas said Grangousier what is this good People Do I dream or is it true that they tell me Picrochole my ancient Friend of old time of my own Kindred and Alliance comes he to invade me What moves him What provokes him What sets him on What drives him to it Who hath given him this Counsel Ho ho ho ho ho my God my Saviour help me inspire me and advise me what I shall do I protest I swear before thee so be thou favourable to me if ever I did him or his Subjects any damage or displeasure or committed any the least Robbery in his Country but on the contrary I have succoured and supplied him with Men Money Friendship and Counsel upon any occasion wherein I could be steadable for his good that he hath therefore at this nick of time so outraged and wronged me it cannot be but by the malevolent and wicked Spirit Good God thou knowest my Courage for nothing can be hidden from thee if perhaps he be grown mad and that thou hast sent him hither to me for the better recovery and re-establishment of his brain Grant me power and wisdom to bring him to the yoke of thy holy will by good discipline Ho ho ho ho my good People my Friends and my faithful Servants must I hinder you from helping me Alas my old age required henceforward nothing else but rest and all the days of my Life I have laboured for nothing so much as Peace But now I must I see it well load with Arms my poor weary and feeble shoulders and take in my trembling hand the Lance and Horseman's Mace to succour and protect my honest Subjects Reason will have it so for by their labour am I maintain'd and with their sweat am I nourish'd I my Children and my Family This notwithstanding I will not undertake War until I have first tried all the ways and means of Peace that I resolve upon Then assembled he his Counsel and proposed the matter as it was indeed whereupon it was concluded that they should send some discreet Man unto Picrochole to know wherefore he had thus suddenly broken the Peace and invaded those Lands unto which he had no Right nor Title Furthermore that they should send for Gargantua and those under his command for the Preservation of of the Country and Defence thereof now at need All this pleased Grangousier very well and he commanded that so it should be done Presently therefore he sent Basque his Lackey to fetch Gargantua with all diligence and wrote to him as followeth CHAP. XXIX The Tenor of the Letter which Grangousier wrote to his Son Gargantua THe fervency of thy studies did require that I should not in along time recall thee from that Philosophical rest thou now enjoyest If the confidence reposed in our Friends and ancient Confederates had not at this present Disappointed the assurances of my old age But seeing such is my fatal Destiny that I should be now disquieted by those in whom I trusted most I am forced to call thee back to defend the People and Goods which by the right of Nature belong unto thee for even as Arms are weak abroad if there be not Counsel at home so is that Study vain and Counsel unprofitable which in a due and convenient time is not by Vertue executed and put in effect My Intention is not to Provoke but Appease Not to Assault but to Defend Not to Conquer but to preserve my faithful Subjects and hereditary Dominions into which Picrochole is entred in a hostile manner without any Ground or Cause and from day to day pursueth his furious Enterprise with great height of Insolence that is intolerable to free-born Spirits I have endeavoured to moderate his tyrannical Choler offering him all that which I thought might

who had that day met with a Mischief for want of crossing themselves with a good hand in the Morning Nor did they forget to apply to Forgier's Leg some fair great red and medicinal Grapes and so handsomly drest it and bound it up that he was quickly cured CHAP. XXVI How the Inhabitants of Lerne by the commandment of Picrochole their King assaulted the Shepherds of Gargantua unexpectedly and on a sudden THE Cake-bakers being returned to Lerne went presently before they did either eat or drink to the Capitol and there before their King called Pichrochole the third of that name made their complaint shewing their Paniers broken their Caps all crumpled their Coats torn their Cakes taken away but above all Marquet most enormously wounded saying that all that mischief was done by the Shepherds and Herdsmen of Grangousier near the broad high way beyond Sevile Picrochole incontinent grew angry and furious and without asking any further what how why or wherefore commanded the Ban and Arrier Ban to be sounded throughout all his Country that all his Vassals of what condition soever should upon pain of the halter come in the best arms they could unto the great place before the Castle at the hour of Noon and the better to expedite his design he caused the Drum to be beat about the Town Whilst his dinner was making ready he went himself to see his Artillery mounted upon the Carriage to display his Colours and set up the great royal Standard and loaded Wains with store of Ammunition both for the Field and for the Belly Arms and Victuals At dinner he dispatch'd his Commissions and by his express Edict my Lord Shagrag was appointed to command the Vanguard wherein were numbred Sixteen thousand and fourteen Harquebusiers together with Thirty thousand eleven Volunteers The great Tonquedillion Master of the Horse had the charge of the Ordnance wherein were reckon'd Nine hundred and fourteen of Brass in Cannons Double-cannons Basilisks Serpentines Culverins Bombards Falcons Passevolans Spiroles and other sort of great Guns The Reerguard was committed to the Duke of Scrapegood In the main Battle was the King and the Princes of his Kingdom Thus being hastily equipp'd before they would set forward they sent Three hundred light Horsemen under the Conduct of Captain Swillwind to discover the Country clear the Avenues and see whether there was any ambush laid for them But after they had made diligent search they found all the Land round about in Peace and Quiet without any meeting or convention at all which Picrochole understanding commanded that every one should march speedily under his Colours Then in all disorder without keeping either rank or file they took the Fields one amongst another wasting spoiling destroying and making havock of all where ever they went not sparing poor nor rich privileged nor unprivileged Places Church or Laity drove away Oxen and Cows Bulls Calves Heifers Wethers Ewes Lambs Goats Kids Hens Capons Chickens Geese Ganders Goslings Hogs Swine Pigs and such like Beating down the Walnuts plucking the Grapes tearing the Hedges shaking the Fruit-trees and committing such incomparable abuses that the like abomination was never heard of Nevertheless they met with none to resist them for every one submitted to their mercy beseeching them that they might be dealt with courteously in regard that they had always carried themselves as became good and loving Neighbours and that they had never been guilty of any wrong or outrage done upon them to be thus suddenly surprized troubled and disquieted and that if they would not desist God would punish them very shortly To which Expostulations Remonstrances no other answer was made but that they would teach them to eat Cakes CHAP. XXVII How a Monk of Sevile saved the Closs of the Abbey from being Ravag'd by the Enemy SO much they did and so far they went pillaging and stealing that at last they came to Sevile where they robbing both Men and Women and took all they could catch Nothing was either too hot or too heavy for them Although the Plague was there in the most part of all the Houses they nevertheless entred every where then plundered and carried away all that was within and yet for all this not one of them took any hurt which is a most wonderful case For the Curates Vicars Preachers Physicians Chirurgions and Apothecaries who went to visit to dress to cure to heal to preach unto and admonish those that were sick were all dead of the Infection and these devillish Robbers and Murtherers caught never any harm at all Whence comes this to pass my Masters I beseech you think upon it The Town being thus pillaged they went unto the Abbey with a horrible noise and tumult but they found it shut and made fast against them Whereupon the Body of the Army marched forward towards a Ford called the Sue de vede except seven Companies of Foot and Two hundred Lanciers who staying there broke down the Walls of the Closs to waste spoil and make havock of all the Vines and Vintage within that place The Monks poor Devils knew not in that extremity to which of all their Sancts they should vow themselves nevertheless at all adventures they rang the Bells ad capitulum capitulantes There it was decreed that they should make a fair Procession stuffed with good Lectures Prayers and Litanies contra hostium insidias and jolly Responses pro pace There was then in the Abbey a claustral Monk called Freer Iohn de Entoumeures young gallant frisk lusty nimble quick active bold adventurous resolute tall lean wide-mouthed long nosed a rare mumbler of Mattins unbridler of Masses and runner over of Vigils And to conclude summarily in a word a right Monk if ever there were any since the Monking World monked a Monkery For the rest a Clerk even to the Teeth in matter of Breviary This Monk hearing the noise that the Enemy made within the inclosure of the Vineyard went out to see what they were doing and perceiving that they were cutting and gathering the Grapes whereon was grounded the foundation of all their next Years Wine returned unto the Quire of the Church where the other Monks were all amazed and astonished like so many Bell-melters whom when he heard sing im nim pe ne ne ne ne nede tum ne num num ini i mi co o no o o neno ne no no no rum nenum num This is said he Bien chié chanté Well shit well sung by the Vertue of God why do not you sing Paniers farewel Vintage is done the Devil snatch me if they be not already within the middle of our Closs and cut so well both Vines and Grapes that by cods body there will not be found for these four Years to come so much as a gleaning in it By the Belly of Sanct Iames what shall we poor Devils drink the while Lord God! da mihi potum Then said the Prior of the Convent What should this drunken Fellow

give him Satisfaction And oftentimes have I sent lovingly unto him to understand wherein by whom and how he found himself to be wronged But of him could I obtain no other answer but a meer defiance and that in my Lands he did pretend only to the right of a civil Correspondency and good Behaviour Whereby I knew that the Eternal God hath given him over to the disposure of his own free Will and sensual Appetite which cannot chuse but be wicked if by divine Grace it be not continually guided And to contain him within his Duty and bring him to know himself hath sent him hither to me by a grievous Token Therefore my Beloved Son as soon as thou canst upon sight of these Letters repair hither with all diligence to succour not me so much which nevertheless by natural Piety thou oughtest to do as thine own People which by reason thou oughtest to save and preserve The Exploit shall be done with as little Effusion of Blood as may be and if possible by Means more expedient by Policy and Stratagems of War We shall save all the Souls and send them home merry unto their own Houses My dearest Son the Peace of Jesus Christ our Redeemer be with thee salute from me Ponocrates Gymnastes and Eudemon the Twentieth of September Thy Father Grangousier CHAP. XXX How Ulrich Gallet was sent unto Picrochole THE Letters being dictated signed and sealed Grangousier ordained that Vlrich Gallet Master of the Requests a very wise and discreet Man of whose Prudence and found Judgment he had made trial in several difficult and debateful matters to go unto Picrochole to shew what had been resolved amongst them At the same hour departed the good Man Gallet and having past the Ford asked the Miller in what condition Picrochole was who answer'd That his Souldiers had left neither Cock nor Hen that they were retir'd and shut up into the Rock Clermond and that he would not advise him to go any further for fear of the Scouts because they were enormously furious which he easily believed and therefore lodged that night with the Miller The next morning he went with a Trumpeter to the Gate of the Castle and requir'd the Guards he might be admitted to speak with the King of somewhat that concern'd him These words being told unto the King he would by no means consent that they should open the Gate but getting upon the top of the Bulwark said unto the Ambassador What is the news what have you to say Then the Ambassador began to speak as followeth CHAP. XXXI The Speech made by Gallet to Picrochole THere cannot arise amongst Men a juster cause of Grief then when they receive hurt and damage where they may justly expect for favour and good will and not without cause though without reason have many after they had fallen into such a calamitous accident esteemed this indignity less supportable then the loss of their own Lives in such sort that if they could not by force of Arms or otherwise correct it they have deprived themselves of this Light It is therefore no wonder if King Grangousier my Master be full of high displeasure and much disquieted in mind upon thy outragious and hostile coming but truly it would be a marvel if he were not sensible of and moved with the incomparable Abuses and Injuries perpetrated by thee and thine upon those of his Country towards whom there hath been no Example of Inhumanity omitted Which in it self is to him so grievous for the cordial Affection wherewith he hath always cherish'd his Subjects that more it cannot be to any mortal Man yet in this above human Apprehension is it to him the more grievous that these Wrongs and sad Offences have been committed by thee and thine who time out of mind from all antiquity thou and thy Predecessors have been in a continual League and Amity with him and all his Ancestors which even until this time you have as sacred together inviolably preserved kept and maintained so well that not he and his only but the very barbarous Nations of the Poictevins Bretons Manceaux and those that dwell beyond the Isles of the Canaries and that of Isabella have thought it as easie to pull down the Firmament and to set up depths above the Clouds as to make a breach in your Alliance and have been so afraid of it in their Enterprises that they have never dared to provoke incense or indamage the one for fear of the other Nay which is more this sacred League hath so filled the World that there are few Nations at this day inhabiting throughout all the Continent and Isles of the Ocean who have not ambitiously aspired to be received into it upon your own Covenants and Conditions holding your joint Confederacy in as high Esteem as their own Territories and Dominions in such sort that from the memory of Man there hath not been either Prince or League so wild and proud that durst have offered to invade I say not your Countries but not so much as those of your Confederates And if by rash and heady Counsel they have attempted any new design against them as soon as they heard the Name and Title of your Alliance they have suddenly desisted from their Enprises What Rage and Madness therefore doth now incite thee all old Alliance infringed all Amity trod under foot and all right violated thus in a hostil manner to invade his Country without having been by him or his in any thing prejudiced wronged or provoked Where is Faith Where is Law Where is Reason Where is Humanity Where is the fear of God Dost thou think that these atr●cious Abuses are hidden from the eternal Spirits and the Supream God who is the just rewarder of all our Vndertakings If thou so think thou deceivest thy self for all things shall come to pass as in his incomprehensible Judgment he hath appointed Is it thy fatal Destiny or influences of the Stars that would put an end to thy so long enjoyed Ease and Rest For that all things have their end and period so as that when they are come to the superlative point of their greatest height they are in a trice tumbled down again as not being able to abide long in that state This is the Conclusion and End of those who cannot by Reason and Temperance moderate their Fortunes and Prosperities But if it be predestinated that thy Happiness and Ease must now come to an end must it needs be by wronging my King him by whom thou were establish'd If thy House must come to ruin should it therefore in its fall crush the heels of him that set it up The matter is so unreasonable and so dissonant from common Sense that hardly can it be conceived by human Vnderstanding and altogether incredible unto Strangers till by the certain and undoubted effects thereof it be made apparent that nothing is either sacred or holy to those who having emancipated themselves from God and Reason do meerly

so did all these who were with him and immediately thereafter without resistance putting to the edge of the Sword the guard that was at that Gate they opened it to the Horsemen with whom most furiously they altogether ran towards the East-gate where all the hurly burly was and coming close upon them in the Reer overthrew all their Forces The besiged seeing that the Gargantuists had won the Town upon them and that they were like to be secure in no corner of it submitted themselves unto the mercy of the Monk and asked for quarter which the Monk very nobly granted to them yet made them lay down their Arms. Then shutting them up within Churches gave order to seize upon all the Staves of the Crosses and placed Men at the Doors to keep them from coming forth Then opening the East-gate he issued out to succour and assist Gargantua But Picrochole thinking it had been some Relief coming to him from the Town adventured more forwardly than before and was upon the giving of a most desperate Home charge when Gargantua cried out Ha Friar Ihon my Friend Friar Ihon you are come in a good hour which unexpected accident so affrighted Picrochole and his Men that giving all for lost they betook themselves to their Heels and fled on all Hands Gargantua chased them till they came near to Vaugaudry killing and slaying all the way and then sounded the retreat CHAP. XLIX How Picrochole in his flight fell into great Misfortunes and what Gargantua did after the Battle PIcrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island and in the way to Rivere his Horse stumbled and fell down whereat he was on a sudden so incensed that he with his Sword without more ado killed him in his Choler Then not finding any other whereon to remount he was about to have taken an Ass at the Mill that was thereby but the Millers Men did so baste his Bones and so soundly bethwack'd him that they made him both black and blew with strokes then striping him of all his Clothes gave him a scurvy old Canvas Jacket wherewith to cover his Nakedness Thus went along this poor choleric Wretch who passing the Water at Porthuaux and relating his misadventurous Disasters was foretold by an old Lourpidon Hag that his Kingdom should be restored to him at the coming of the Cocklicranes What is become of him since we cannot certainly tell yet was I told that he is now a Porter at Lyons as testy and chorelic as ever and always with great Lamentation enquiring at all strangers of the coming of the Cocklicranes expecting assuredly according to the old Woman's Prophesie that at their coming he shall be re-establish'd in his Kingdom The first thing Gargantua did after his return into the Town was to call the Muster-roll of his Men which when he had done he found that there were very few either kill'd or wounded only some few Foot of Captain Tolmeres Company and Ponocrates who was shot with a Musket Ball through the Doublet Then he caused them all at and in their several Posts and Divisions to take a little Refreshment which was very plenteously provided for them in the best Drink and Victuals that could be had for Money And gave order to the Treasurers and Commissaries of the Army to pay for and defray that Repast and that there should be no Outrage at all nor Abuse committed in the Town seeing it was his own And furthermore commanded that immediately after the Souldiers had done with eating and drinking they should be drawn up on the Piazza before the Castle there to receive six months pay All which was done After this by his direction were brought before him in the said place all those that remained of Picrochole's Party unto whom in the presence of the Princes Nobles and Officers of his Court and Army he spoke as followeth CHAP. L. Gargantua's Speech to the Vanquished OVR Fore fathers and Ancestors of all times have been of this Nature and Disposition that upon the winning of a Battel they have chosen rather for a sign and memorial of their Triumphs and Victories to erect Trophies and Monuments in the Hearts of the Vanquish'd by Clemency then by Architecture in the Lands which they had conquer'd For they did hold in greater estimation the lively remembrance of Men purchased by liberality than the dumb Inscription of Arches Pillars and Pyramids subject to the Injury of Storms and Tempests and to the Envy of every one You may very well remember of the Courtesie which by them was used towards the Bretons in the Battle of St. Aubin of Comier and at the demolishing of Partenay You have heard and hearing admire their gentle Comportment towards those at the Barriers of Spaniola when they had plundered wasted and ransack'd the maritime Borders of Olone and Talmondois All this Hemisphere of the World was filled with the Praises and Congratulations which your selves and your Fathers made when Alpharbal King of Canarre not satisfied with his own Fortunes did most furiously invade the Land of Onyx and with cruel Piracies molest all the Armoric Islands and confine Regions of Britany Yet was he in a set naval Fight justly taken and vanquished by my Father whom God preserve and protect But what Whereas other Kings and Emperors yea those who entitle themselves Catholics would have dealt roughly with him kept him a close Prisoner and put him to an extream high ransom He intreated him very courteously lodged him kindly with himself in his own Palace and out of his incredible mildness and gentle disposition sent him back with a safe Conduct loaden with Gifts loaden with Favours loaden with all Offices of Friendship What fell out upon it Being returned into his Country he called a Parliament where all the Princes and States of his Kingdom being assembled he shewed them the Humanity which he had found in us and therefore wished them to take such course by way of Compensation therein as that the whole World might be edified by the Example as well of their honest Graciousness to us as of our gracious Honesty towards them The result hereof was that it was voted and decreed by an unanimous Consent that they should offer up entirely their Lands Dominions and Kingdoms to be disposed of by us according to our Pleasure Alpharbal in his own Person presently returned with Nine Thousand and thirty eight great Ships of burden bringing with him the Treasures not only of his House and Royal Lineage but almost of all the Country beside For he imbarking himself to set Sail with a West-North-East Wind every one in heaps did cast into the Ship Gold Silver Rings Iewels Spices Drugs and Aromatical Perfumes Parrets Pelicans Monkies Civet-cats black-spotted Weesils Porcupines c. He was accounted no good Mother's Son that did not cast in all the rare and precious things he had Being safely arrived he came to my said Father and would have kist his Feet That Action was found too