The works of François Rabelais / translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart, M. Le Motteux and others ; revised and edited by Wm. M. Thomson.

  • François Rabelais
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[1896]
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Credit: The works of François Rabelais / translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart, M. Le Motteux and others ; revised and edited by Wm. M. Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In this arrest by Hercules the raven Was flayed at lier [luis] return from Lybia haven. Why am not I, said Minos, there invited ? Unless it be rnyself, not one’s omitted : And then it is their mind, I do no more Of frogs and oysters send them any store : In case they spare my life and prove but civil, I give their sale of distaffs to the devil. To quell him cornes Q. B. who limpimg frets At the safe pass of trixy crackarets ; The boulter, the grand Cyclops’ cousin, those Did massacre, whilst each one wip’d his nose : Eew ingles in this fallow ground are bred, But on a tanner’s mill are winnowed. Run thither ail of you, th’ alarms sound clear, You shall hâve more than you had the last year. Short while thereafter was the bird of Jove Resolv’d to sp.eak, though dismal it should prove , Yet was afraid, when he saw them in ire, They should o’erthrow quite fiat, down dead, tli’ empire. He rather chus’d the fire from heaven to steal, To boats where were red-herrings put to sale ; Than to be c^lm ’gainst those who strive to brave us, And to the Massorets fond words enslave us. Ail this at last concluded gallantly, In spite of Até and her hern-like thigh, Who, sitting, saw Penthesilea ta’en, In her old âge, for a cresse-selling quean. Each one cried out, thou filthy collier toad, Doth it become thee to be found abroad ? Thou hast the Roman standard filch’d away, Wliich they in rags of parchment did display. Juno was born, who under the rainbow, Was a bird-catching with her duck below ! When her with such a grievous trick they plyed, That she had almost been bethwacked by it. The bargain was, that, of that throat-full, she Should of Proserpina hâve two eggs free ; And if that she thereafter should be found, She to a hawthorn hill should be fast bound. Seven months thereafter lacking twenty-two, He, that of old did Carthage town undo, Did bravely midst them ail liimself advance, Requiring of them his inlieritance ;
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