Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation.

Footnotes initialled 'M.' are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translator.

Urquhart's translation of Book III.

appeared posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I.and II., under Motteux's editorship.
Motteux's rendering of Books IV.

and V.followed in 1708.