The works of Rabelais / faithfully translated from the French with variorum notes and numerous illustrations by Gustave Doré.
- François Rabelais
- Date:
- 1871
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The works of Rabelais / faithfully translated from the French with variorum notes and numerous illustrations by Gustave Doré. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![•n uniform cylinders: for the soling of them were made use of eleven hundred hides of brown cows, shapen like the tail of a ^Eor his coat, were taken up eighteen hundred ells of blue velvet, dyed in rain, embroidered in its borders with fair gilhnowers, in the middle decked with silver purl, intermixed with plaits of gold, and store of pearls, hereby showing that in his time he would prove an especial good fellow, and singular whip-can. His irdle was made of three hundred ells and a half of silken =erge half white and half blue, if I mistake it not. His sword was not of Valentia, nor his dagger of Saragosa, for his father could not endure these Hidalgos borracM maranisados como diablos; but he had a fair sword made of wood, and the dagger of boiled leather, as well painted and gilded as any man could wish. His purse was made of the cod of an elephant, which was given him by Her Pracontal, proconsul of Lybia. ' For his gown, were employed nine thousand six hundred ells, wanting two-thirds, of blue velvet, as before, all so diagonally purled, that by true perspective issued thence an unnamed colour, like that you see in the necks of turtle-doves or turkey-cocks, which wonderfully rejoiceth the eyes of the beholders. For his bonnet, or cap, were taken up three hundred two ells and a quarter of white velvet, and the form thereof was wide and round, of the bigness, of Ins head ; for his father said, that the caps of the Marrabaise fashion, made like the cover of a pasty, would, one time or other, bring a mischief on those that wore them. For his plume, he wore a fair great blue feather, plucked from an Ono- crotal of the country of Hircania the Wild, very prettily hanging down over his right ear : for the jewel or broach, which in his cap he carried, he had in a cake of gold, weighing threescore and .eight marks, a fair piece of enamelled work, wherein were por- traved a man's body with two heads, looking towards one another; four arms, four feet, two arses, such as Plato, in Symposio, says was the mystical beginning of man's nature ; and about it was written in Ionic letters, 'AyuTrq ov ^relra eaurrjs-.* To wear about his neck he had a golden chain, weighing twenty- five thousand and sixty-three marks of gold, the link thereof being made after the manner of great berries, amongst which were set in work green jaspers, engraven, and cutdragon-like, all environed with beams and sparks, as King Nicepsos of old was wont to wear them, and it reached down to the very bust of the rising of his belly, whereby he reaped great benefit all his life long, as the Greek physicians knew well enough. For his gloves, were put in work sixteen otters'skins, and three of Lougarous, or men-eating wolves, for the bordering of them: and of this stuff were they made, by * 'Ayairr], &c] Charity seeketh not her own. I think ayairt] looks bal witliotj* the orenrsitive article h.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24750207_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
