W. B. H.
Manchester.
J. M. G. quotes Sir John Mandeville for the story of the congealed words falling like hail from the rigging of his ship in the Arctic regions. I do not remember the passage, but there is one almost identical in Rabelais' Pantagruel, lib. iv. ch. lv., headed—
"Comment en haulte mer Pantagruel ouït diverses parolles desgelées."
In the notes to Bohn's translation it is said:
"Rabelais has borrowed these from the Courtisan of Balthasar de Castillon, of which a French translation was printed in 1539, and from the Apologues of Cælius Caleagnnius of Ferrara, published in 1544."
W. J. Bernhard Smith.
Temple.