TAILIEUCHUNG - GargantuaRabelais, François

Therefore is it, that you must open the book, and seriously consider of the matter treated in it. Then shall you find that it containeth things of far higher value than the box did promise; that is to say, that the subject thereof is not so foolish as by the title at the first sight it would appear to be. | feedboo is Gargantua Rabelais Francois Translator Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux Published 1534 Categorie s Fiction Source http 1 About Rabelais Francois Rabelais c. 1494 - April 9 1553 was a major French Renaissance writer. Also available on Feedbooks for Rabelais Pantagruel 1532 The Third Book 1546 Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 The Author s Prologue to the First Book Most noble and illustrious drinkers and you thrice precious pockified blades for to you and none else do I dedicate my writings Alcibiades in that dialogue of Plato s which is entitled The Banquet whilst he was setting forth the praises of his schoolmaster Socrates without all question the prince of philosophers amongst other discourses to that purpose said that he resembled the Silenes. Silenes of old were little boxes like those we now may see in the shops of apothecaries painted on the outside with wanton toyish figures as harpies satyrs bridled geese horned hares saddled ducks flying goats thiller harts and other suchlike counterfeited pictures at discretion to excite people unto laughter as Silenus himself who was the foster-father of good Bacchus was wont to do but within those capricious caskets were carefully preserved and kept many rich jewels and fine drugs such as balm ambergris amomon musk civet with several kinds of precious stones and other things of great price. Just such another thing was Socrates. For to have eyed his outside and esteemed of him by his exterior appearance you would not have given the peel of an onion for him so deformed he was in body and ridiculous in his gesture. He had a sharp pointed nose with the look of a bull and countenance of a fool he was in his carriage simple boorish in his apparel in fortune poor unhappy in his wives unfit for all offices in the commonwealth always laughing tippling and merrily carousing to .

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