Crossword-Solution: DICTS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Poems by Ronsard; Rabelais' "Les Faits et Dicts Heroisques du Bon Pantegruel," "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare, and "The Life and Adventures of Guzman d'Alfarache" by Mateo Aleman.

Finding Margaret unable to believe the good news, and sceptical as to the affairs of holy Church being administered by dwarfs, he narrated as follows: "When the princess sent for me to her bedroom as of custom, to keep her out of languor, I came not mirthful nor full of country dicts, as is my wont, but dull as lead.

Lequel assy de sa main propre a pourtraict ces figures duysantes à l’impression d’ycelles.” From another of the cuts we thus learn the time of his death: “Marie Verhulst vefue du dict Pierre d’Alost, trespasse en l’anne MDL, a faict imprimer les dicts figures soubz Grace et Privilege de l’Imperialle Maiestie.

Who was the “Father of Ridicule”? Francois Rabelais (1495?-1553), the most original and remarkable of all humorists, and the first noteworthy comic romancer of modern times, is chiefly noted for his great satirical work, _Les Faits et Dicts du Geant Gargantua et de son Fils Pantagruel_, which continues to take rank as one of the world’s masterpieces of humor and grotesque invention.