Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III

<SPAN name="2HCH0038"></SPAN> <h2> Chapter 3.XXXVIII.&mdash;How Triboulet is set forth and blazed by Pantagruel and Panurge. </h2> <p>By my soul, quoth Panurge, that overture pleaseth me exceedingly well. I will therefore lay hold thereon, and embrace it. At the very motioning thereof my very right entrail seemeth to be widened and enlarged, which was but just now hard-bound, contracted, and costive. But as we have hitherto made choice of the purest and most refined cream of wisdom and sapience for our counsel, so would I now have to preside and bear the prime sway in our consultation as very a fool in the supreme degree. Triboulet, quoth Pantagruel, is completely foolish, as I conceive. Yes, truly, answered Panurge, he is properly and totally a fool, a</p> <p>Pantagruel. Panurge.<br/> Fatal f. Jovial f.<br/> Natural f. Mercurial f.<br/> Celestial f. Lunatic f.<br/> Erratic f. Ducal f.<br/> Eccentric f. Common f.<br/> Aethereal and Junonian f. Lordly f.<br/> Arctic f. Palatine f.<br/> Heroic f. Principal f.<br/> Genial f. Pretorian f.<br/> Inconstant f. Elected f.<br/> Earthly f. Courtly f.<br/> Salacious and sporting f. Primipilary f.<br/> Jocund and wanton f. Triumphant f.<br/> Pimpled f. Vulgar f.<br/> Freckled f. Domestic f.<br/> Bell-tinging f. Exemplary f.<br/> Laughing and lecherous f. Rare outlandish f.<br/> Nimming and filching f. Satrapal f.<br/> Unpressed f. Civil f.<br/> First broached f. Popular f.<br/> Augustal f. Familiar f.<br/> Caesarine f. Notable f.<br/> Imperial f. Favourized f.<br/> Royal f. Latinized f.<br/> Patriarchal f. Ordinary f.<br/> Original f. Transcendent f.<br/> Loyal f. Rising f.<br/> Episcopal f. Papal f.<br/> Doctoral f. Consistorian f.<br/> Monachal f. Conclavist f.<br/> Fiscal f. Bullist f.<br/> Extravagant f. Synodal f.<br/> Writhed f. Doting and raving f.<br/> Canonical f. Singular and surpassing f.<br/> Such another f. Special and excelling f.<br/> Graduated f. Metaphysical f.<br/> Commensal f. Scatical f.<br/> Primolicentiated f. Predicamental and categoric f.<br/> Train-bearing f. Predicable and enunciatory f.<br/> Supererogating f. Decumane and superlative f.<br/> Collateral f. Dutiful and officious f.<br/> Haunch and side f. Optical and perspective f.<br/> Nestling, ninny, and youngling f. Algoristic f.<br/> Flitting, giddy, and unsteady f. Algebraical f.<br/> Brancher, novice, and cockney f. Cabalistical and Massoretical f.<br/> Haggard, cross, and froward f. Talmudical f.<br/> Gentle, mild, and tractable f. Algamalized f.<br/> Mail-coated f. Compendious f.<br/> Pilfering and purloining f. Abbreviated f.<br/> Tail-grown f. Hyperbolical f.<br/> Grey peckled f. Anatomastical f.<br/> Pleonasmical f. Allegorical f.<br/> Capital f. Tropological f.<br/> Hair-brained f. Micher pincrust f.<br/> Cordial f. Heteroclit f.<br/> Intimate f. Summist f.<br/> Hepatic f. Abridging f.<br/> Cupshotten and swilling f. Morrish f.<br/> Splenetic f. Leaden-sealed f.<br/> Windy f. Mandatory f.<br/> Legitimate f. Compassionate f.<br/> Azymathal f. Titulary f.<br/> Almicantarized f. Crouching, showking, ducking f.<br/> Proportioned f. Grim, stern, harsh, and wayward f.<br/> Chinnified f. Well-hung and timbered f.<br/> Swollen and puffed up f. Ill-clawed, pounced, and pawed f.<br/> Overcockrifedlid and lified f. Well-stoned f.<br/> Corallory f. Crabbed and unpleasing f.<br/> Eastern f. Winded and untainted f.<br/> Sublime f. Kitchen haunting f.<br/> Crimson f. Lofty and stately f.<br/> Ingrained f. Spitrack f.<br/> City f. Architrave f.<br/> Basely accoutred f. Pedestal f.<br/> Mast-headed f. Tetragonal f.<br/> Modal f. Renowned f.<br/> Second notial f. Rheumatic f.<br/> Cheerful and buxom f. Flaunting and braggadocio f.<br/> Solemn f. Egregious f.<br/> Annual f. Humourous and capricious f.<br/> Festival f. Rude, gross, and absurd f.<br/> Recreative f. Large-measured f.<br/> Boorish and counterfeit f. Babble f.<br/> Pleasant f. Down-right f.<br/> Privileged f. Broad-listed f.<br/> Rustical f. Duncical-bearing f.<br/> Proper and peculiar f. Stale and over-worn f.<br/> Ever ready f. Saucy and swaggering f.<br/> Diapasonal f. Full-bulked f.<br/> Resolute f. Gallant and vainglorious f.<br/> Hieroglyphical f. Gorgeous and gaudy f.<br/> Authentic f. Continual and intermitting f.<br/> Worthy f. Rebasing and roundling f.<br/> Precious f. Prototypal and precedenting f.<br/> Fanatic f. Prating f.<br/> Fantastical f. Catechetic f.<br/> Symphatic f. Cacodoxical f.<br/> Panic f. Meridional f.<br/> Limbecked and distilled f. Nocturnal f.<br/> Comportable f. Occidental f.<br/> Wretched and heartless f. Trifling f.<br/> Fooded f. Astrological and figure-flinging f.<br/> Thick and threefold f. Genethliac and horoscopal f.<br/> Damasked f. Knavish f.<br/> Fearney f. Idiot f.<br/> Unleavened f. Blockish f.<br/> Baritonant f. Beetle-headed f.<br/> Pink and spot-powdered f. Grotesque f.<br/> Musket-proof f. Impertinent f.<br/> Pedantic f. Quarrelsome f.<br/> Strouting f. Unmannerly f.<br/> Wood f. Captious and sophistical f.<br/> Greedy f. Soritic f.<br/> Senseless f. Catholoproton f.<br/> Godderlich f. Hoti and Dioti f.<br/> Obstinate f. Alphos and Catati f.<br/> Contradictory f.<br/> Pedagogical f.<br/> Daft f.<br/> Drunken f.<br/> Peevish f.<br/> Prodigal f.<br/> Rash f.<br/> Plodding f.<br/> <br/> Pantagruel. If there was any reason why at Rome the Quirinal holiday of<br/> old was called the Feast of Fools, I know not why we may not for the like<br/> cause institute in France the Tribouletic Festivals, to be celebrated and<br/> solemnized over all the land.<br/> <br/> Panurge. If all fools carried cruppers.<br/> <br/> Pantagruel. If he were the god Fatuus of whom we have already made<br/> mention, the husband of the goddess Fatua, his father would be Good Day,<br/> and his grandmother Good Even.<br/> <br/> Panurge. If all fools paced, albeit he be somewhat wry-legged, he would<br/> overlay at least a fathom at every rake. Let us go toward him without any<br/> further lingering or delay; we shall have, no doubt, some fine resolution<br/> of him. I am ready to go, and long for the issue of our progress<br/> impatiently. I must needs, quoth Pantagruel, according to my former<br/> resolution therein, be present at Bridlegoose's trial. Nevertheless,<br/> whilst I shall be upon my journey towards Mirelingues, which is on the<br/> other side of the river of Loire, I will despatch Carpalin to bring along<br/> with him from Blois the fool Triboulet. Then was Carpalin instantly sent<br/> away, and Pantagruel, at the same time attended by his domestics, Panurge,<br/> Epistemon, Ponocrates, Friar John, Gymnast, Ryzotomus, and others, marched<br/> forward on the high road to Mirelingues.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />