Excerpt from The Sequel to Pantagruel: Being Books III, IV, and V of Rabelais GargantuaIt was not less di¿icult to come up to the author's sublime expres sions. Nor would I have attempted such a task, but that I was ambitious of giving a view of the most valuable work of the greatest genius of his age, to the Meceenas and best genius of this. For I am not overfond of so ungrateful a task as translating, and would rejoice to see less versions and more originals, so the latter were not as bad as many of the first are, through want of encouragement. Some indeed have deservedly gained esteem by translating, yet not many condescend to translate, but such as cannot invent, though to do the first well requires often as much genius as to do the latter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.