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Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK m, 132b-c✓ correct

Abstracted soul, ravished with ecstasies, Gone back, and now familiar in the skies, Thy former host, thy body, leaving quite, Which to obey thee always took delight — Obsequious, ready — now from motion free, Senseless, and as it were in apathy, Wouldst thou not issue forth for a short space, From that divine, eternal, heavenly place, To see the third part, in this earthy cell, Of the… Read the rest of this passage →

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK n, 117d✓ correct

Reader here may be pleased to take notice that the copy of verses by the title of ‘Rablophila’, premised to the first book of this translation, being but a kind of mock poem, in imitation of somewhat lately published (as to any indifferent observer will easily appear, by the false quantities in the Latin, the abusive strain of the English, and extravagant subscription to both), and as such, by a… Read the rest of this passage →

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK iv, 247d-248b✓ correct

I must write to find thee courteous, an epithet too often bestowed without a cause. The author of this work has been as sparing of what we call good nature, as most readers are nowadays. So I am afraid his translator and commentator is not to expect much more than has been showed them. What’s worse, there are but two sorts of taking prefaces, as there are but two kinds of prologues to plays; for… Read the rest of this passage →

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK i, 14a-b✓ correct

I must refer you to the great chronicle of Pantagruel for the knowledge of that genealogy and antiquity of race by which Gargantua is come unto us. In it you may understand more at large how the giants were born in this world, and how from them by a direct line issued Gargantua, the father of Pantagruel: and do not take it ill, if for this time I pass by it, although the subject be such, that the… Read the rest of this passage →

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK n, 85c-87c 388c / Rhetoric. BK i, CH 2 [1358*3-26] S97d- 598b; CH 4 [1359^18] 599d; BK in; CH i [1404*1-12] 654a✓ correct

Reader here may be pleased to take notice that the copy of verses by the title of ‘Rablophila’, premised to the first book of this translation, being but a kind of mock poem, in imitation of somewhat lately published (as to any indifferent observer will easily appear, by the false quantities in the Latin, the abusive strain of the English, and extravagant subscription to both), and as such, by a… Read the rest of this passage →

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK i✓ correct

Rabelais, whose wit prodigiously was made, All men, professions, actions to invade, With so much furious vigour, as if it Had lived o’er each of them, and each had quit, Yet with such happy sleight and careless skill, As, like the serpent, doth with laughter kill, So that although his noble leaves appear Antic and Gottish, and dull souls forbear To turn them o’er, lest they should only… Read the rest of this passage →

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK HI, 143a-144c SECT 11-15 140b-141a; BK in, CH vr, SECT 12 271d-272b✓ correct

Abstracted soul, ravished with ecstasies, Gone back, and now familiar in the skies, Thy former host, thy body, leaving quite, Which to obey thee always took delight — Obsequious, ready — now from motion free, Senseless, and as it were in apathy, Wouldst thou not issue forth for a short space, From that divine, eternal, heavenly place, To see the third part, in this earthy cell, Of the… Read the rest of this passage →

Gargantua and Pantagruel, BK HI, 18 AUGUSTINE City of God, BK xfrx, CH 13, 5l9a; : 181d-182b * , 25( MONTAIGNE- Essays* 33b-c; ^ A 2 2b-4a; A 3, REP 3 4b-Sa; A 4, ANS 5a-6a; 394a-395b; 406c-408b 20 SHAKESPEARE: 1st Henry VI, ACT u, sc v [i- ; -. Q 50, A i, ANS and REP 2-3 6a-7b; A 3; REP 2 , 16} 12d-13a / As you Ufy It, ACT u, sc vn 8b-9a; Q 51, A i, ANS 12b-13c; Q 52, A t, ANS [137-166] 608d-609a * 15d48a; A 2, ANS 18a-19a; Q 54, A i, ANS 22d-✓ correct

Abstracted soul, ravished with ecstasies, Gone back, and now familiar in the skies, Thy former host, thy body, leaving quite, Which to obey thee always took delight — Obsequious, ready — now from motion free, Senseless, and as it were in apathy, Wouldst thou not issue forth for a short space, From that divine, eternal, heavenly place, To see the third part, in this earthy cell, Of the… Read the rest of this passage →