Chapter 118 Chapter Twenty Two

How Bannurges Justified the Confession of the Beggar Priests Panurge came out of Lamina Grobis's house, and said worriedly: "By God, I consider him a heretic, or let me die. He has insulted the good Franciscan beggars and the Benedictines, who are equal to the two hemispheres of the Church and follow the rotation of the sundial pointer. , two symmetrical forces, as if created in heaven, maintain the balance of the whole institution of the Church of Rome, and surround the center when the senses are disturbed or when the pressure of heresy is felt. But, damn him! Those pointed hats and Where did the poor ghosts of the small church offend him? Poor sinners who only eat fish, aren’t they suffering enough? Brother John, according to you, can this old man be saved? God is there He must have decided like a viper that thirty thousand baskets of the devil should punish him! Slandering the pillars of goodness and valor of the church, that's all right! You call this 'poet's fury'

④Is it?I cannot agree; it seems to me a vile crime, and a blasphemy of religion.I am very angry. " "I don't care," said Brother John. "These people scold everybody; and if others scold them, it doesn't interest me at all. Now let's study what he writes." Banu Rizai recited the old man's poems carefully, and said after reading: "The old drunkard is talking nonsense. But I forgive him; he's not long to live anyway. Let's make him a tombstone! I'm as wise as ever after hearing him. Abby Simon, my little boy." , let me ask you a question. Don't you think the old man is prejudiced? For God's sake, I see him as a goblin, horned, pompous sophist. I'll bet he's a converted Moor. Bull Stomach! How careful he is! What he says is double-edged, double-entendre, no matter how you explain it, but there is always a face-to-face. Oh, how he can deceive people! St. James of Brethel does not Do you know if it's the same as him?"

Abesdemon said: "Every time the great prophet Tirezias ② before prophesying, he always explained to the people who listened to him: 'What I said may or may not be fulfilled.' ③This The usual tone of wise prophets." Banurge said: "But Juno still gouged out his eyes." Ebisdemon said: "That's right, although he spoke better than Juno about Jupiter's question." "But what kind of madness is this Raminagrobis," said Panurge, "to slander honest Franciscans, Benedictines, and small church priests for no reason? I am very angry, I I tell you, I can't keep silent. His crime is serious. His soul must go to thirty thousand baskets of devils."

① Refers to Franciscan monks. ② Small Church: The sect founded by St. Francis de Paul in 1435. ③ It means that one can only eat fish when fasting. ④ "The poet's fury" (furor poeticus) is a word Plato likes to use, see Plato's Phaedrus. ① Blaschul: The place name of the Vendée province, where there is the Monastery of St. James, which is a pilgrimage site. ② Tirezias: The prophet of Thebes, whom the citizens regard as gods. ③ See the fifty-ninth line of the fifth volume of the second volume of Horace's "Satirical Poems". ④ Jupiter asked where men and women had the most pleasure in intercourse. Tirezias had done it for both men and women, and said that women's pleasure is nine times greater than that of men. See lines 316-338 in Volume III of Ovid.

⑤ In the first edition, the printer mistakenly listed "soul" (asme) as "donkey" (asne), which caused a great misunderstanding in the church and insulted the author. "I don't understand you," said Abesdemon; "you misinterpret the old poet's black, yellow, etc. monsters into begging fratres, and that offends me very much. From what I understand, he has no intention of Sophisticated, capricious similes. He is honest and exact lice, bugs, fleas, flies, gnats, and other similar vermin, black, yellow, gray, and sorrel And bronzed, they are not only annoying, annoying, and harmful to sick people, but also to healthy people without disease. He may also say that he has roundworms, hookworms, pinworms in his intestines. Perhaps (this is in common in Egypt and near the Red Sea, no wonder) he was stung on the arm or leg by a stinging lizard which the Arabs call 'medang. This kind of insult and misinterpretation, and then referring to the fratres, is also disrespectful to them. In any case, you should always think of the best about others."

Banurge said: "You tell me to look for flies in the milk! By God, he's a heretic. I'm sure he's a real, deep-seated heresy that should be burned like that little clock. His soul goes to thirty thousand baskets of devils. Do you know where? God, God! I tell you, my friend, that's right, under that pierced seat of Proserpina's, receiving the excrement from her bowels In the dirty pot used, on the left side of the boiling pot, only three 'twaz' away from Lucifer's claws, leading to the dark house of Demiugon ④. Ah, that scoundrel!" ① Latin: "priest".

② It is equivalent to saying "seeing the sun on a sunny day". ③ In the early days of the Reformation, La Rocher's clockmaker Clavier was accused of heresy and sentenced to the stake, even the clocks he made were to be tortured together. ④ Demiugon: A god living in the center of the earth in Greek mythology.