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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...ligent curiosity of his which is evi- denced by his familiarity with three languages and the large 14 Gargantua & Pantagruel library which he brought... ...ned in many directions, an enthusi- astic mathematician, master of several languages, occasion- ally full of wit and humour, and even good sense, yet ... ...es it all come from? As a fact, he had at his command something like three languages, which he used in turn, or which he mixed according to the effect... ...all Barbary. Furthermore, you shall take into your hands Majorca, Minorca, Sardinia, Corsica, with the other islands of the Ligustic and Balearian sea...