beat off those who approached.
Original French: debouter ceulx qui approcheroient.
Modern French: debouter ceulx qui approcheroient.
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Fragment 520953
easily they could with stones and clubs
Original French: facilement on pouoit auecques pierres & liuiers
Modern French: facilement on povoit avecques pierres & liviers
levier
Barre de bois ou de fer servant à soulever les fardeaux. Par extension, Barre de bois ou de fer, gros bâton (utilisé en partic. comme arme).
Le Dictionnaire du Moyen Français
Le Dictionnaire du Moyen Français
Le Dictionnaire du Moyen Français
levier
A Leauer; an Iron crow, or woodden barre to lift up things with.
liviers
Levier. Cf. l. I, ch XII, n. 41.
François Rabelais [ca. 1483-ca. 1553]
Oeuvres. Tome Cinquieme: Tiers Livre
Abel Lefranc, editor
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1931
Archive.org
Oeuvres. Tome Cinquieme: Tiers Livre
Abel Lefranc, editor
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1931
Archive.org
from the machicolations
that from the machicolations
Original French: que des machicoulis
Modern French: que des machicoulis
Notes
Machicolations
An illustration showing an object being dropped from a machicolation that is supported by stone corbels.
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machicolations
A machicolation (French, machicoulis) is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which stones, or other objects, could be dropped on attackers at the base of a defensive wall. The design was adopted in the Middle Ages in Europe when Norman crusaders returned from the Holy Land. A machicolated battlement projects outwards from the supporting wall in order to facilitate this.
The word derives from the Old French word machecol, mentioned in Medieval Latin as machecollum and ultimately from Old French macher ‘crush’, ‘wound’ and col ‘neck’. Machicolate is only recorded in the 18th century in English, but a verb machicollāre is attested in Anglo-Latin. A variant of a machicolation, set in the ceiling of a passage or over a gateway, was known as a meutrier or colloquially as a murder-hole.
Machicolation. Wikipedia
Fragment 520946
continuing to such a height,
Original French: continuans en telle haulteur,
Modern French: continuans en telle haulteur,
Fragment 520934
laid one on the other alternately, like a pile of wood,
Original French: laſſez l’un ſus l’aultre alternatiuement comme vne pyle de boys,
Modern French: lasses l’un sus l’aultre alternativement comme une pyle de boys,
Fragment 520905
To chastise them for this refusal, the emperor made straight to the place march his army.
Original French: Pour les chaſtier de ce refus, l’Empereur feiſt droict au lieu acheminer ſon armée.
Modern French: Pour les chastier de ce refus, l’Empereur feist droict au lieu acheminer son armée.
Fragment 520901
refused the contribution.
Original French: refuſèrent a la contribution.
Modern French: refusèrent à la contribution.
Fragment 520891
who were trusting to the natural strength of the place,
Original French: les quelz ſoy confians en la force naturelle du lieu,
Modern French: les quelz soy confians en la force naturelle du lieu,
To which they were all obedient, except those who were within Larigno
To which they were all obedient, except those who were within Larigno,
Original French: Au quel tous feurent obeiſſans, exceptez ceulx qui eſtoient dedans Larigno,
Modern French: Au quel tous feurent obeissans, exceptez ceulx qui estoient dedans Larigno,
Larigno
Plutarque, Vies des hommes illustres, «César».
François Rabelais [ca. 1483–1553]
Œuvres complètes
p. 510, n. 13
Mireille Huchon, editor
Paris: Gallimard, 1994
Œuvres complètes
p. 510, n. 13
Mireille Huchon, editor
Paris: Gallimard, 1994
for his host as they passed out
for his host as they passed out.
Original French: pour ſon ouſt paſſant oultre.
Modern French: pour son oust passant oultre.
Notes
oust
Ost, armée.
Rabelais, François (1483?–1553), Œuvres de F. Rabelais. Nouvelle edition augmentée de plusieurs extraits des chroniques admirables du puissant roi Gargantua… et accompagnée de notes explicatives…. L. Jacob (pseud. of Paul Lacroix) (1806–1884), editor. Paris: Charpentier, 1840. p. 313.