It is not an author's rough draft; still less is it his manuscript.

If I had not printed this enigmatical text with scrupulous and painful fidelity, I would do it now.

It was necessary to do it so as to clear the way.

But as the thing is done, and accessible to those who may be interested, and who wish to critically examine it, there is no further need of reprinting it.

All the editions of Rabelais continue, and rightly, to reproduce the edition of 1564.