The Third Book/Chapter XXXVIII.

by François Rabelais

How Triboulet is set forth and blazed by Pantagruel and Panurge

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
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
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Pantagruel. Panurge.
Fatal f.                Jovial f.               
Natural f.                Mercurial f.               
Celestial f.                Lunatic f.               
Erratic f.                Ducal f.               
Eccentric f.                Common f.               
Aethereal and Junonian f.                Lordly f.               
Arctic f.                Palatine f.               
Heroic f.                Principal f.               
Genial f.                Pretorian f.               
Inconstant f.                Elected f.               
Earthly f.                Courtly f.               
Salacious and sporting f.                Primipilary f.               
Jocund and wanton f.                Triumphant f.               
Pimpled f.                Vulgar f.               
Freckled f.                Domestic f.               
Bell-tinging f.                Exemplary f.               
Laughing and lecherous f.                Rare outlandish f.               
Nimming and filching f.                Satrapal f.               
Unpressed f.                Civil f.               
First broached f.                Popular f.               
Augustal f.                Familiar f.               
Caesarine f.                Notable f.               
Imperial f.                Favourized f.               
Royal f.                Latinized f.               
Patriarchal f.                Ordinary f.               
Original f.                Transcendent f.               
Loyal f.                Rising f.               
Episcopal f.                Papal f.               
Doctoral f.                Consistorian f.               
Monachal f.                Conclavist f.               
Fiscal f.                Bullist f.               
Extravagant f.                Synodal f.               
Writhed f.                Doting and raving f.               
Canonical f.                Singular and surpassing f.               
Such another f.                Special and excelling f.               
Graduated f.                Metaphysical f.               
Commensal f.                Scatical f.               
Primolicentiated f.                Predicamental and categoric f.               
Train-bearing f.                Predicable and enunciatory f.               
Supererogating f.                Decumane and superlative f.               
Collateral f.                Dutiful and officious f.               
Haunch and side f.                Optical and perspective f.               
Nestling, ninny, and youngling f.                Algoristic f.               
Flitting, giddy, and unsteady f.                Algebraical f.               
Brancher, novice, and cockney f.                Cabalistical and Massoretical f.               
Haggard, cross, and froward f.                Talmudical f.               
Gentle, mild, and tractable f.                Algamalized f.               
Mail-coated f.                Compendious f.               
Pilfering and purloining f.                Abbreviated f.               
Tail-grown f.                Hyperbolical f.               
Grey peckled f.                Anatomastical f.               
Pleonasmical f.                Allegorical f.               
Capital f.                Tropological f.               
Hair-brained f.                Micher pincrust f.               
Cordial f.                Heteroclit f.               
Intimate f.                Summist f.               
Hepatic f.                Abridging f.               
Cupshotten and swilling f.                Morrish f.               
Splenetic f.                Leaden-sealed f.               
Windy f.                Mandatory f.               
Legitimate f.                Compassionate f.               
Azymathal f.                Titulary f.               
Almicantarized f.                Crouching, showking, ducking f.               
Proportioned f.                Grim, stern, harsh, and wayward f.               
Chinnified f.                Well-hung and timbered f.               
Swollen and puffed up f.                Ill-clawed, pounced, and pawed f.               
Overcockrifedlid and lified f.                Well-stoned f.               
Corallory f.                Crabbed and unpleasing f.               
Eastern f.                Winded and untainted f.               
Sublime f.                Kitchen haunting f.               
Crimson f.                Lofty and stately f.               
Ingrained f.                Spitrack f.               
City f.                Architrave f.               
Basely accoutred f.                Pedestal f.               
Mast-headed f.                Tetragonal f.               
Modal f.                Renowned f.               
Second notial f.                Rheumatic f.               
Cheerful and buxom f.                Flaunting and braggadocio f.               
Solemn f.                Egregious f.               
Annual f.                Humourous and capricious f.               
Festival f.                Rude, gross, and absurd f.               
Recreative f.                Large-measured f.               
Boorish and counterfeit f.                Babble f.               
Pleasant f.                Down-right f.               
Privileged f.                Broad-listed f.               
Rustical f.                Duncical-bearing f.               
Proper and peculiar f.                Stale and over-worn f.               
Ever ready f.                Saucy and swaggering f.               
Diapasonal f.                Full-bulked f.               
Resolute f.                Gallant and vainglorious f.               
Hieroglyphical f.                Gorgeous and gaudy f.               
Authentic f.                Continual and intermitting f.               
Worthy f.                Rebasing and roundling f.               
Precious f.                Prototypal and precedenting f.               
Fanatic f.                Prating f.               
Fantastical f.                Catechetic f.               
Symphatic f.                Cacodoxical f.               
Panic f.                Meridional f.               
Limbecked and distilled f.                Nocturnal f.               
Comportable f.                Occidental f.               
Wretched and heartless f.                Trifling f.               
Fooded f.                Astrological and figure-flinging f.               
Thick and threefold f.                Genethliac and horoscopal f.               
Damasked f.                Knavish f.               
Fearney f.                Idiot f.               
Unleavened f.                Blockish f.               
Baritonant f.                Beetle-headed f.               
Pink and spot-powdered f.                Grotesque f.               
Musket-proof f.                Impertinent f.               
Pedantic f.                Quarrelsome f.               
Strouting f.                Unmannerly f.               
Wood f.                Captious and sophistical f.               
Greedy f.                Soritic f.               
Senseless f.                Catholoproton f.               
Godderlich f.                Hoti and Dioti f.               
Obstinate f.                Alphos and Catati f.               
Contradictory f.               
Pedagogical f.               
Daft f.               
Drunken f.               
Peevish f.               
Prodigal f.               
Rash f.               
Plodding f.               

Pantagruel. If there was any reason why at Rome the Quirinal holiday of
old was called the Feast of Fools, I know not why we may not for the like
cause institute in France the Tribouletic Festivals, to be celebrated and
solemnized over all the land.

Panurge. If all fools carried cruppers.

Pantagruel. If he were the god Fatuus of whom we have already made
mention, the husband of the goddess Fatua, his father would be Good Day,
and his grandmother Good Even.

Panurge. If all fools paced, albeit he be somewhat wry-legged, he would
overlay at least a fathom at every rake. Let us go toward him without any
further lingering or delay; we shall have, no doubt, some fine resolution
of him. I am ready to go, and long for the issue of our progress
impatiently. I must needs, quoth Pantagruel, according to my former
resolution therein, be present at Bridlegoose's trial. Nevertheless,
whilst I shall be upon my journey towards Mirelingues, which is on the
other side of the river of Loire, I will despatch Carpalin to bring along
with him from Blois the fool Triboulet. Then was Carpalin instantly sent
away, and Pantagruel, at the same time attended by his domestics, Panurge,
Epistemon, Ponocrates, Friar John, Gymnast, Ryzotomus, and others, marched
forward on the high road to Mirelingues.