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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

and runs on in a long Antithesis to prove that Bells are the signs of the true Church and Guns the mark of the bad all Bells says he sound but all Guns thunder all Bells have a melodious Sound all Guns make a dreadful Noise Bells open Heaven Guns open Hell Bells drive away Clouds and Thunder Guns raise Clouds and mock the Thunder He has a great deal more such Stuff to prove that the Church of Rome is the true Church because forsooth it has Bells which the other had not The taking away the Bells of a Place implys its Conquest and even Towns that have Articled are oblig'd to redeem their Bells perhaps the taking away the great Bells at Paris was the taking away the Privileges of its University or some other for Paris may only be nam'd for a Blind Thus the Master Beggar of the Fryars of St. Anthony coming for some Hog's Purtenance St. Anthony's Hog is always pictur'd with a Bell at its Neck who to be heard afar off and to make the Beacon shake in the very Chimneys had a mind to filch and carry those Bells away privily but was hindered by their weight that Master Beggar I say must be the head of some Monks perhaps of that Order in the Fauxbourg St. Antoine who would have been substituted to those that had been deprived and the Petition of Master Ianotus is the pardon which the University begs perhaps for some affront resented by the Prince for those that escap'd the Flood cry'd we are wash'd Par ris that is for having laugh'd Rabelais en passant there severely inveighs against the grumblers and factious Spirits at Paris Which makes me think that whether the Scene lies there or elsewhere as in Gascoigny some people of which Country were Henry d' Albret's Subjects still this was a remarkable Event In the Prologue to the fourth Book Iupiter busied about the Affairs of Mankind crys Here are the Gascons Cursing Damning and Renouncing demanding the re-establishment of their Bells I suppose that more is meant than Bells or he would not have us'd the word Re-establishment But 't is time to speak of the great strife and debate raised betwixt the Cake-bakers of Lerné and those of Gargantua 's Country whereupon were wag'd great Wars We may easily apply many things concerning these Wars to those of Navarre between the House of d'Albret and King Ferdinand and Charles the fifth Thus Les Truans or as this Translation renders it the Inhabitants of Lerné who by the command of Picrochole their King invaded and plunder'd Vtopia Gargantua's Country are the Spanish Soldiers and Lerné is Spain The word Truand in old French signifies an idle lazy Fellow which hits pretty well the Spaniards Character the Author having made choice of that name of a place near Chinon because it alludes to the Lake Lerna where Hercules destroyed the Lernaean Hydra which did so much hurt in the Country of Argos that thence came the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malorum Lerna Thus Spain was a Lerna of Ills to all Europe while like France now it aspir'd to universal Monarchy but it was so more particularly to Navarre in Iuly 1512 when King Iohn d' Albret and Queen Catharine de Foix the lawful Sovereign were dispossess'd by Ferdinand King of Arragon almost without any resistance The said King Iohn desirous of Peace sent Don Alphonso Carillo Constable of Navarre in the quality of his Embassador to Ferdinand to prevent the approaching mischief but he was so ill receiv'd says the History of Navarre Dedicated to King Henry IV. and printed with his Privilege that he was glad to return to his King with speed and related to him that there was no hope left to persuade the King of Arragon to a Peace and that Lewis de Beaumont Earl of Lerins who had forsaken Navarre daily incourag'd Ferdinand to attack that Kingdom So that this Embassie resembles much that of Vlric Gallet to Picrochole who swears by St. Iames the Saint of the Spaniards In November 1512. Francis Duke of Angoulesme afterwards King was sent with King Iohn d' Albret by Lewis XII to recover Navarre having with him several of the greatest Lords in France and a great Army which possess'd it self of many Places but the rigour of the Season oblig'd them to raise the Siege of Pampelune And in 1521. another Army under the Command of Andrew de Foix Lord of Asperault enter'd Navarre and wholly regain'd it but it was lost again soon after by the imprudence of that General and the Avarice of St. Colombe one of his chief Officers Those that will narrowly examin History will find that many particulars of the Wars in the first Book of Rabelais may be reconcil'd to those of Navarre but I believe that he means something more than a Description of the Fights among the Soldiers by the debate rais'd betwixt the Cake-sellers or Fouassiers of Lerné and the Shepherds of Gargantua Those Shepherds or Pastors should be the Lutheran and Calvinist Ministers whom Iohn and Henry d' Albert favour'd being the more dispos'd to adhere to the reviving Gospel which they preach'd by the provoking Remembrance of the Pope's and King of Spain's injurious usage and for that Reason Queen Margarite did not only profess the Protestant Religion but after the Death of Henry d' Albert Queen Iane their Daughter Married to Anthony de Bourbon was a Zealous Defender of it till she dy'd and her Son Henry afterwards rais'd to the Throne of France publickly own'd himself a Protestant till his impatient desire of being peaceably seated on it made him leave the better Party to pacifie the worse The Cake sellers of Lerné are the Priests and other Ecclesiastics of Spain as also all the Missificators of the Church of Rome Rabelais calls them Cake-mongers or Fouassiers by reason of the Host or Sacramental Wafer which is made of Dough between a pair of Irons like the Cakes or Fouasses in Poitou where Rabelais liv'd and is said to be transubstantiated into the Corpus-Christi when consecrated by the Priest The Subject of the Debate as Rabelais terms it between those Cake-sellers and the Shepherds is the first 's refusal to supply the latter with Cakes to eat with the Grapes which they watch'd For as Rabelais observes 'T is a Celestial Food to eat for Break-fast fresh Cakes with Grapes by which he alludes to the way of receiving the Communion among the Protestants who generally take that Celestial Food fasting and always with the juice of the Grape that is with Wine according to the Evangelical Institution Now the Cake-mongers or Popish Priests would not consent to give Cakes that is to say Bread but would only give the accidents of the Cakes or to speak in their own Phrase the accidents of the Bread and it is well known that this was the chief occasion of our separation from the Church of Rome Upon the reasonable request of the Shepherds the Cake-sellers instead of granting

sooner unto their knowledge had arrived the great Renown of the good Pantagruel Remark therefore here honest Drinkers that the manner of preserving and retaining Countries newly Conquered in Obedience is not as hath been the Erronious Opinion of some Tyrannical Spirits to their own Detriment and Dishonour to pillage plunder force spoil trouble oppress vex disquiet ruine and destroy the People ruling governing and keeping them in awe with Rods of Iron and in a word eating and devouring them after the fashion that Homer calls an unjust and wicked King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say a Devourer of his People I will not bring you to this purpose the Testimony of Ancient Writers it shall suffice to put you in mind of what your Fathers have seen thereof and your selves too if you be not very Babes New-born they must be given suck to rocked in a Cradle and dandled Trees newly planted must be supported underpropped strengthened and defended against all Tempests Mischiefs Injuries and Calamities And one lately saved from a long and dangerous Sickness and new upon his Recovery must be forborn spared and cherished in such sort that they may harbour in their own Breasts this Opinion that there is not in the World a King or a Prince who does not desire fewer Enemies and more Friends Thus Osiris the great King of the Egyptians conquered almost the whole Earth not so much by Force of Arms as by easing the People of their Troubles teaching them how to live well and honestly giving them good Laws and using them with all possible Affability Curtesie Gentleness and Liberality Therefore was he by all Men deservedly Entituled The Great King Evergetes that is to say Benefactor which Style he obtained by vertue of the Command of Iupiter to Pamyla And in effect Hesiod in his Hierarchy placed the good Demons call them Angels if you will or Geniuses as Intercessors and Mediators betwixt the Gods and Men they being of a degree inferiour to the Gods but superiour to Men and for that through their Hands the Riches and Benefits we get from Heaven are dealt to us and that they are continually doing us good and still protecting us from evil He saith that they exercise the Offices of Kings because to do always good and never ill is an Act most singularly Royal. Just such another was the Emperor of the Universe Alexander the Macedonian After this manner was Hercules Sovereign Possessor of the whole Continent relieving Men from monstrous Oppressions Exactions and Tyrannies governing them with Discretion maintaining them in Equity and Justice instructing them with seasonable Policies and wholsom Laws convenient for and suitable to the Soil Climate and Disposition of the Country supplying where was wanting abating what was superfluous and pardoning all that was past with a sempiternal forgetfulness of all preceding Offences as was the Amnestie of the Athenians when by the Prowess Valour and Industry of Thrasybulus the Tyrants were exterminated afterwards at Rome by Cicero exposed and renewed under the Emperor Aurelian These are the Philtres Allurements Iynges Inveiglements Baits and Enticements of Love by the means whereof that may be peaceably revived which was painfully acquired Nor can a Conqueror Reign more happily whether he be a Monarch Emperor King Prince or Philosopher than by making his Justice to second his Valour His Valour shows it self in Victory and Conquest his Iustice will appear in the good Will and Affection of the People when he maketh Laws publisheth Ordinances establisheth Religion and doth what is right to every one as the noble Poet Virgil writes of Octavian Augustus Victorque volentes Per populos dat jura Therefore is it that Homer in his Iliads calleth a good Prince and great King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is The Ornament of the People Such was the Consideration of Numa Pompilius the Second King of the Romans a just Politician and wise Philosopher when he ordained that to God Terminus on the day of his Festival called Terminales nothing should be Sacrificed that had died teaching us thereby that the Bounds Limits and Frontiers of Kingdoms should be guarded and preserved in Peace Amity and Meekness without polluting our Hands with Blood and Robbery Who doth otherways shall not only lose what he hath gained but also be loaded with this Scandal and Reproach That he is an unjust and wicked Purchaser and his Acquests perish with him Iuxta illud malae parta male dilabuntur And although during his whole Life-time he should have peaceable possession thereof yet if what hath been so acquired moulder away in the Hands of his Heirs the same Opproby Scandal and Imputation will be charged upon the Defunct and his Memory remain accursed for his unjust and unwarrantable Conquest Iuxta illud de male quaesitis vix gaudet tertius haeres Remark likewise Gentlemen you Gouty Feoffees in this main Point worthy of your Observation how by these means Pantagruel of one Angel made two which was a Contingency opposite to the Council of Charlemaine who made two Devils of one when he transplanted the Saxons into Flanders and the Flemins into Saxony For not being able to keep in such Subjection the Saxons whose Dominion he had joyned to the Empire but that ever and anon they would break forth into open Rebellion if he should casually be drawn into Spain or other remote Kingdoms He caused them to be brought unto his own Country of Flanders the Inhabitants whereof did naturally obey him and transported the Haynaults and Flemens his ancient loving Subjects into Saxony not mistrusting their Loyalty now that they were transplanted into a strange Land But it hapned that the Saxons persisted in their Rebellion and primitive Obstinacy and the Flemins dwelling in Saxony did imbibe the stubborn Manners and Conditions of the Saxons CHAP. II. How Panurge was made Laird of Salmygoudin in Dypsodie and did waste his Revenue before it came in WHilst Pantagruel was giving Order for the Government of all Dypsodie he assigned to Panurge the Lairdship of Salmygoudin which was yearly worth 6789106789 Ryals of certain Rent besides the uncertain Revenue of the Locusts and Periwinkles amounting one year with another to the value of 435768 or 2435769 French Crowns of Berry Sometimes it did amount to 1230554321 Seraphs when it was a good Year and that Locusts and Periwinkles were in request but that was not every Year Now his Worship the new Laird husbanded this his Estate so providently well and prudently that in less than fourteen days he wasted and dilapidated all the certain and uncertain Revenue of his Lairdship for three whole Years Yet did not he properly dilapidate it as you might say in founding of Monasteries building of Churches erecting of Colledges and setting up of Hospitals or casting his Bacon-Flitches to the Dogs but spent it in a thousand little Banquets and jolly Collations keeping open House for all Comers and Goers yea to all good Fellows young Girls and pretty

a Fire-brand with his Mouth on the Turn-spit's Lap may be the hot words which he used to clear himself and with which he charged his Adversaries and his spitting and burning the Turkish Lord may perhaps mean the advantage which he had over them The Spectacles which afterward he wore on his Cap may signify the Caution which he was always oblig'd to take to avoid a surprise and his having a Flea in his Ear in French signifies the same His forbearing to wear any longer his Magnificent Codpiece and clothing himself in four French Ells of a course brown Russet Cloth shows that as he was a Monk he could not weare a Codpiece as was the fashon in those Days for the Laity or perhaps it denotes his affecting to imitate the simplicity of Garb which was observable in Calvinist Preachers This Subaltern Hero of the Farce now found to be the Bishop of Valence by the Circumstances and Qualifications already discovered that cannot properly belong to any other may help us to know not only Pantagruel to whom he had devoted himself but also Gargantua and Grangousier the Father and grand-Father of Pantagruel History assures us that Montluc Bishop of Valence ow'd his advancement to Marguerite Devalois Queen of Navarre and Sister to King Francis the I. She took him out of a Monastery where he was no more than a Iacobin Fryar and sent him to Rome whereby he was raised to the Rank of an Embassador which was the first step to his Advancement Thus Pantagruel should be Anthony de Bourbon Duke of Vendosme King Henry the IV.'s Father and Lewis the XIV's great grand-Father He was married to Ieanne de Albret the only Daughter of the said Queen Margaret and of Henry d' Albret King of Navarre Thus he became their Son and King of Navarre after the Death of the said Henry d' Albret whom I take to be Gargantua consequently his Father Iohn d' Albret King of Navarre excommunicated by Pope Iulius the III. and depriv'd of the best part of his Kingdom by Ferdinand King of of Arragon should be Grangousier The Verses before the third Book discover that Pantagruel is Anthony d' Bourbon afterwards King of Navarre The Author dedicates it to the Soul of the deceas'd Queen of Navarre Margaret Devalois who dy'd in Britany in the Year 1549. She had openly professed the Protestant Religion and in 1534 her Ministers of whom the most famous were Girard Rufly since Bishop of Oleron in Navarre Couraud and Berthaud preach'd publickly at Paris by her direction upon which a fierce Persecution ensued Her Learning and the Agreableness of her Temper were so extraordinary as well as her Vertue that she was sti●●d The Tenth Muse and the fourth Grace she has written several Books Particularly one of Poetry called Marguerite des Marguerites and another in Prose called the Hexameron or Les Nouuelles No●●elles Of which Novels some might in this Age seem too free to be penned by a Lady but yet the reputation of her Vertue has always been very great which shows that tho in that Age both Sexes were less reserved in their writings than we are generally in this they were not more remiss in their Actions Among many Epitaphs She was honour'd with that which follow● Quae fui exemplum coelestis nobile form●● In quam tot laudes tot co●ere bona Margareta sub hoc tegitur Valesia saxo I nunc atque mori numina posse nega I thought fit to premise this concerning that Princess that the following Verses might be better understood Francois Rabelais A l' Esprit de la Reine de Navarre ESprit abstrait ravy ecstatie Qui frequentant les cieux ton origine As delaissé ton hoste domestic Ton corps concords qui tant se morigine A tes edits en vie peregrine Sans Sentiment et comme en apathie Voudrois point faire quelque sortie De ton manoir divin perpetuel Et ca-bas voir vne tierce partie Des faits joyeux du bon Pantagruel Francis Rabelais To the Soul of the Queen of Navarre ABstracted Spirit rapt with Extasies Soul now familiar in thy native Skies Who did'st thy flight from thy weak Mansion sake And thy kind Mate thy other self forsake Who by thy Rules himself so wisely guides And here as in a foreign World resides From sence of its fantastic Pleasures free Since thou his Soul art fled in Apathy Wouldst thou not leave a while the heav'nly plain And our World with thy Presence grace again To see this Book where a third Part I tell Of the rare Deeds of good Pantagruel This Corps concords this conjugate Body that grows so conformable to that Queen's Rules and leads the Life of a Traveller who only desires to arrive at his Journey 's end being as it were in Apathy What should it be but Henry d' Albret who had surviv'd that Queen his Consort and could love nothing after her in this World Endeavouring at the same time to wea● himself from its Vanities to aspire to a better according to that wise Princess's pious Admonitions nor can the good Pantagruel be any other than Anthony de Bourbon whom we have already named To this Proof I add another which admits of no Reply it is That the Language which Pantagruel owns to be that of Vtopia and his Country is the same that is spoken in the Provinces of Bearn and Gascony the first of which was yet enjoy'd by the King of Navarre Panurge having spoke to him in that Language Methinks I understand him said Pantagruel for either it is the Language of my Country of Utopia or it sounds very like it Now those who are acquainted with the different Dialects of the French Tongue need but read to find that Panurge had spoke in that of Gascony Agonou dont oussys vous desdaignez algarou c. Besides Gargantua who is King of Vtopia is said to be born in a State near the Bibarois by which the Author perhaps does not only allude to bibere drinking but to Bigorre a Province which was still possest by the King of Navarre or at least to the Vivarez which may be reckoned among the Provinces that are not far distant from that of Foix which also belonged to that King his Mother being Catherine de Foix. That in which Gargantua was born is Beusse which though it also alludes to drinking yet by the transmutation of B into V generally made by those Nations as well as by many others seems to be the ancient Name of Albret viz. Vasat●● I might add That Grangousier is described as one that was well furnish'd with H●ms of Bayonne Sawsages of Bigorre and Rouargue c. but none of Bolonia for he fear'd the Lombard B●osone or poison'd Bit the Pope being indeed his Enemy We are told that he could not endure the Spaniards and mention is made also by Grangousier of the Wine that grows not says he in Britany but in this good Country