the Mystery the Cod is the Emblem and outward Dress which is good for nothing but to wrap up what is within it neither ought we to feed upon it but solely on what it contains So we might fix the period of Ignorance and the beginning of the New Aera or Restoration of Learning at the Year 1550. at which time it began to bear good Fruit and this Fifth Book was written though it was not publish'd till after our Author's death perhaps because it spoke too plain This makes him foretell the speedy oblivion of whole Cartloads of Books that were dull dark and mischievous though they seem'd florid florishing and flowry gay and gawdy as so many Papillons Butterflies by which he seems to play upon the Word Papa as in Papimany and in the Sixth Chapter of the Pantagruelian Prognostication where the King of the Papil'ons or Butterflies undoubtedly means the Pope After all as that pretended Prophesy is written in the stile of those of Nostradamus it appears at first as dark and unintelligible as that Astrologer's Rhim'd Whimsies and though there is a meaning in our Author's and none in the dreaming Stargazer's I would as little have troubled my self to find out things past in the first as I would look for things to come in the latter were not this needful to confirm what I have said of our Author's Design and to shew the uniformity of this Mystical Work which tho much admir'd had doubtless been much more beneficial if most of it had been explain'd soon after it was written I mean after the Author's death for as to have done that before would undoubtedly have hasten'd it and have expos'd him and his Writings to the Flames he did not desire to be understood by every one and only wrote for the Learned as the Cardinals Du Bellay and de Chastillon the Bishop of Maillezais Andrew Tiraquel his Patrons and such men as hated Ignorance that they might effectually though underhand forward the downfal of Superstition its Offspring Therefore to blind the Vulgar he turns off the sense of the Prophesy and falls a praising Colinet Marot Saingelais c. the greatness of whose Wit and the Elegancy of whose Stile he extolls to the Skies not without some little touch of Panegyrical Satire all the while as appears by what he says of their Crimsin Alamode Rhetorical Stile This he chiefly runs upon to insinuate to those whom he fear'd that what he said of the Jubile's Year is only meant of the Improvements made in Learning and more particularly in the French Tongue So we find him begging of the French Writers his Contemporaries that they would be pleas'd to admit him as Puny Rhyparographer or Riffraffscribler of the Sect of Pyrrichus that Painter having that Epithete bestow'd on him from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sordidus because like some of our Modern Boor-Painters he only drew mean Figures as Coblers-stalls Barbers-shops and Asses yet he hints as if he understood by it the Office of Apologuemonger in France which Aesop had obtain'd among the best Orators and Philosophers in Greece and at the same time he invites his Reader to shell this Basketful of Beans in Cod gather'd in the very individual Garden whence the former came and says That observing the great Mysteries of which these Books treat they shall gain a singular Profit and Fame as in the like Case was done by Alexander with the Books of prime Philosophy compos'd by Aristotle doubtless he means those Acroamatic Books which that Philosopher made publick in such a stile as was hardly to be understood saying that he had done it on purpose Our Author might have said as much as will appear by the Remarks on this his last and finest Book Explanatory Remarks ON THE First Chapter of the Fifth Book· THE Ringing Island can mean nothing but the Clergy of the Church of Rome whose Mysteries are all perform'd at the sound of large middlesiz'd little and very little Bells They are rung at Matins Mass Noon Vespers Sermons and the Salutation to the Virgin every day on the Eves or Vigiles of Holy-days at Processions and at Stations and whenever the Priest lifts up the Wafer-god a little Bell is rung that the People may fall down and adore that piece of Dough which they must believe made Heaven and Earth though 't were made that very morning by the Baker and some of the same stamp be shown in every Parish Besides when the Priest carries the Viaticum a diminutive Bell always tingles before him Thus Bells are often rung where-ever there is a Monastery Church Chappel or Hermitage to awaken the People's Devotion summon them together dismiss them and make them come again Add to this That whatever is said of the Ringing Island in the following Chapters cannot well be adapted to any thing but the Popish Ecclesiastics so those who pretended to explain these Books only by printing at the end of some French Editions twenty or thirty Names which without the least reason they call a Key either never read them or had a design to impose on the Reader more than our Author else they would never have said that the Ringing Island is England I own there is much Ringing there and the English are famous for making that a Recreation but this Book was writ during King Edward the Sixth's Reign at which time the Reformation had prevail'd here and though our Author mentions the Knights of the Garter in the Fifth Chapter while he speaks of the Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island it does not follow that he meant England since he only places the Knights of Malta among the Roman Ecclesiastics which was judiciously done because they make a vow never to marry read the Breviary and have Livings like Abbots Even that Passage proves that the Ringing Island is not England since Aedituus makes one of his Island 's Knight-hawks look wistfully on the Pantagruâ—lian Strangers to see whether he might not find among their Company a stately gawdy kind of huge dreadful Birds of Prey so untoward that they could never be brought to the lure nor to perch on the Glove which may mean that other Knights claim'd a preheminence over those of Malta Aedituus adds He is told there are such in your World who wear goodly Garters below the Knee with an Inscription about them which condemns him who shall think ill of it qui mal y pense to be bewtay'd and conskited So 't is plain there were none such in the Ringing Island Then in the Sixth Chapter Aedituus says that all the good things which they have in his Island come from every part of the other World except some of the Northern Regions particularly from Touraine our Author 's Native Country and that the Income of the Duke of that Country could not afford him to eat his Belly full of Beans and Beacon because his Predecessors had been more than liberal to the Birds of the Ringing Island that they might there munch
who seem to have drudg'd all their Youth long only that they might enjoy the sweet blessing of getting Drunk every night in their old Age. But those men of Sense and Honour who love Truth and the good of Mankind in general above all other things will undoubtedly countenance this Work I 'll not gravely insist upon its usefulness having said enough of it in the Preface to the First Part. I 'll only add That as Homer in his Odysses makes his Hero wander ten years through most Parts of the then known World so Rabelais in a Three-months-Voyage makes Pantagruel take a view of almost all sorts of People and Profâ—ssions With this difference however between the Ancient Mythologist and the Modern That while the Odysses has been compar'd to a setting Sun in respect to the Iliads Rabelais's last Work which is this Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle by which he means Truth is justly thought his Master-piece being writ with more Spirit Salt and Flame than the First Part of his Works At near 70 Years of Age his Genius far from being drain d seem'd to have acquir'd fresh Vigor and new Graces the more it exerted itself like those Rivers which grow more deep large majestic and useful by their course Those who accuse the French of being as sparing of their Wit as lavish of their Words will find an Englishman in our Author I must confess indeed that my Countrymen and other Southern Nations temper the one with the other in a manner as they do their Wine with Water often just dashing the latter with a little of the first Now here Men love to drink their Wine pure nay sometimes it will not satisfy unless in its very quintessence as in Brandies though an Excess of this betrays want of Sobriety as much as an Excess of Wit betrays a want of Judgment But I must conclude lest I be justly tax'd with wanting both I will only add That as every Language has its peculiar Graces seldom or never to be acquir'd by a Foreigner I cannot think I have given my Author those of the English in every place But as none compell'd me to write I fear to ask a Pardon which yet the generous Temper of this Nation makes me hope to obtain Albinus a Roman who had written in Greek desir'd in his Preface to be forgiven his Faults of Language but Cato ask'd in derision Whether any had forc'd him to write in a Tongue of which he was not an absolute Master Lucullus wrote an History in the same Tongue and said He had scatter'd some false Greek in it to let the World know it was the work of a Roman I 'll not say as much of my Writings in which I study to be as little incorrect as the hurry of Business and shortness of Time will permit but I may better say as Tully did of the History of his Consulship which he also had written in Greek That what Errors may be found in the Diction are crept in against my Intent Indeed Livius Andronicus and Terence the one a Greek the other a Carthaginian wrote successfully in Latin and the latter is perhaps the most perfect Model of the Purity and Urbanity of that Tongue But I ought not to hope for the success of those great Men. Yet am I ambitious of being as subservient to the useful Diversion of the Ingenious of this Nation as I can which I have endeavour'd in this Work and still do in my Gentleman's Iournal with Hopes to attempt some greater Tasks if ever I am happy enough to have more Leisure In the mean Time it will not displease me if 't is known that this is given by one who though born and educated in France has the Love and Veneration of a Loyal Subject for this Nation One who by a Fatality which with many more made him say Nos patriam fugimus dulcia linquimus arva Is oblig'd to make the Language of these happy Regions as natural to him as he can and thankfully say with the rest under this Protestant Government Deus nobis haec otia fecit Explanatory Remarks ON THE Prologue to the Fourth Book of Rabelais being the first of the Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle THE main design of this Prologue is to teach us to be moderate in our Wishes The Author brings several Examples to prove what Advantages arise from it particularly he makes use of a Fable in which after some long but most diverting Excursions the Moderation of a poor Country Fellow who had lost his Hatchet and wish'd only to have it again was largely rewarded and others who lost theirs on purpose to be thus made rich were undone This is thought by some to mean a Gentleman of Poictoâ— who came to Paris with his Wife about some Business where Francis the First fell in Love with her and having bestow'd large Sums of Money on the Husband who some time after return'd into the Country some of the Neighbouring Gentlemen who had handsome Wives or Daughters made their appearance with them at Court in hopes of the like Fortune but instead of it were forc'd to sneak into the Country after they had spent their Estates which was all they got for their pains Jupiter is brought in complaining of Ramus and Galland who surrounded with a swarm of their Scullions Ragamuffins Sizers Vouchers c. set together by the Ears the whole University of Parts Petrus Ramus or de la Ramée was Royal Philosophy and Oratory Professor at that time and Petrus Gallandus or Galland Royal Greek Professor both were Learned Men and Ramus particularly famous for Rhetoric and Oratory he also wrote three Books of Dialectic Institutions But what divided the University was his Elegant but too Passionate Animadversions on Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics Carpentarius Scheckius and Riolanus answer'd him and particularly the first I cannot find that Gallandus wrote against Ramus yet either he has done it or oppos'd him vivá voce Priapus is of Opinion they ought to be turned into Stone and associated to their Name-sake Master Peter du Coignet formerly petrified for such a Subject This Du Coignet can be no other than Peter de Coigneres the King's Advocate in his Parliament mentioned by Pasquier In 1329 he caus'd all the Prelates of France to be summon'd before King Philip who sat in his Court of Parliâ—ment attended by several Princes and Lords There the Advocate represented many Abuses committed by the Ecclesiastical Court which had encroach'd upon the Parliament's Rights and us'd to take Cognizance of all Civil Matters under divers pretences of Conscience and unjustly favour'd those that appeal'd or remov'd their Causes to the Spiritual Court The Archbishop of Sens and the Bishop of Autun spoke in behalf of the Church's Right grounded on Custome time out of mind and of equal validity to the Law then proffer'd to rectiâ—y every thing and in short so cunningly work'd upon the King that he told them
Vow Perhaps this is also design'd to ridicule the Vows and behaviour of Seamen in a Storm Pantagruell's holding the Mast of the Ship tight with both his hands all the while by the Skipper's advice implies that as the Family of Navarre and particularly Anthony of Bâ—urbon was best able to protect the Great Ones who were imbark'd together for a Reformation it was fit he should do it with all his Power and accordingly Du Tillet tells us that none but Miserables poor Wretches suffer'd If any one will say that perhaps Rabelais did not in this Voyage mean any particular Persons I hope at least they 'll grant he has admirably describ'd the different Behaviour of most men in danger and chiefly in persecuting Times On Chapter 25 26 27 and 28. THE Island of the Macreons where the Fleet went into Harbour after the Storm signifies the Island where men are long-liv'd It s Eldest Elderman is nam'd Maâ—robâ—us or long-liv'd We are told in the 26th Chapter that it was in the Dominions of the Ruler of Britain consequently it was a safe Port against the Tempest of Persecution the Reformation being openly profess'd at that time in England under King Edward the Sixth This causes Rabelais to make his persecuted Fleet take shelter there and to say that men liv'd long in that Island because none were put to death on account of their Religion The Ruins of Temples Obelisks Pyramids Ancient Tombs and Monuments which they see there denote the Decay Downfal and Ruin of Popery unfrequented and left in a dismal solitude The Souls of the Heroes who are lodg'd in those Ruin'd Mansions are the true Christians who had cast off the Yoke of Popery and of the blind Worship of Saints many of them Fabulous to which the Superstition of the Papists had made them raise Temples Obelisks and Monuments as formerly the Heathens did to their false gods The Old Macrobius says That the Death of one of those Heroes had occasion'd the Storm by which our Author gives us to understand that Troubles and Commotions are often rais'd in Kingdoms at the death of those Eminent Persons who have govern'd them under their Kings and probably he may have had a mind to mark the death of Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarre Sister to King Francis the first which happen'd towards the latter end of the Year 1549. about a year after the Lady Jane d' Albret Princess of Navarre had been married to Anthony de Bourbon Duke of Vendosme Rabelais's Pantagruel That Princess who had always protected the Reformers and the Reform'd as has been observ'd in the Preface to the first Three Books was not less eminent by her Piety Wit Learning and Virtue than by her Royal Extraction Valentine d' Alsmois a French Lady made the following Epitath for her Musarum decima Charitum quarta inclyta Regum Et soror conjux Margaris illa jacet On Chapter 29 30 31 and 32. THE Sneaking Island which Pantagruel sail'd by when he left that of the Macreons is the Dwelling of Shrovetide by which we must understand Lent For the Ecclesiastics of the Church of Rome begin their Lent before the Layity Shrove-tuesday is to them a Day of Humiliation and is properly the time when men are shriven Our Author calls it Quaresmeprenant that is the Beginning of Quadragesima in opposition to Mardigras Shrovetuesday The Cardinal de Lorraine says a Book call'd l' Heraclite Francois made three Clergymen in a manner Titular Bishops of Metz Toul and Verdun reserving the whole Income of those Bishopricks to himself and leaving them little of them besides the Title of Bishops For this reason they were call'd les Evesques de Caresmeprenant because they look'd as meager and starv'd as if it had been Lent with them all the year But I cannot think that our Author reflects here on that Cardinal His Design seems rather to expose the Superstition of the Papists about Lent and how much the practise of it their way shock'd good Sense This made him run on for two or three Chapters with an odd description of that Ridiculous Monster and probably also to secure himself from the Informations of his Prying Enemies by that mixture of Comical seeming Nonsense For as in the time of Lent the Superstition Grimaces and Hypocrisy of the Papists are most observable and they look on it in a manner as the Basis of the Christian Religion 't would have been dangerous to have attack'd them openly in Point We find that the wise Xenomanes one of Pantagruel's most experienced Companions advises him not to go where Shrovetide reign'd and says it would be much out of their way to the Oracle of Truth that there is very lean Cheer at his Court that he is a double Shaveling Banner-bearer to the Fish-eating Tribe a Flogger of little Children because Papists do pennance and whip themselves then a Calciner of Ashes because of Ash-wednesday that he swarms with Pardons Indulgences and Stations which makes the Author say in the 31st Chapter that Shrovetide being married to Mid-lent only begot a good number of Local Adverbs that is the Stations the Churches and Chappels whither the gull'd Mob must go whence they come and through which they must pass to gain the Indulgences We are told besides that he never assists at Weddings but give the Devil his dâ—e the most industrious Larding-stick and Scure-maker in forty Kingdoms because the Butchers have then little else to do but to make some Lent is an Enemy to Sawsidges and Chitterlings because as well as all other Flesh I mean dead Flesh the People are forbid to taste of any then Friar Ihon always daring and hasty is for destroying Lent but Panurge still fearful and wary is not of his mind Rabelais calls that Island Tapinois that word in French is generally us'd adverbially with the Preposition en to signify an underhand way of acting Some derive it from the Greek Verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 humilem reddo and so it suits with the true design of Lent to humble man and make him look sneakingly Besides Lent sneaking in some years sooner and others later may also for that reason well be said to dwell in Tapinois The Ingenious Fable of Nature and her Counterpart is brought iâ— to shew that those who enjoin things that shock Nature as is the Church of Rome â—s way of keeping Lent have the confidence 〈◊〉 make Laws contrary to those of God and the Impudence to pretend to justify them by Reason So Rabelais tells us That Antiphysts the Mother of Lâ—nt begot also thâ— Evesdropping Dissenâ—â—â—â—rs Superstitious Popâ—mongers and Priest-ridden Bigots Scrapers of Benefices mad Herb-stinking Hermits Gulligutted Dunces of the Coul Church-vermin Devourers of the Substance of men and other deform'd and ill-favour'd Monsters made in spight of Nature On Chapter 33 and 34. THE Monstrous Physeter or Whirlpool a huge Fish which dies of the Wounds given him by Pantagruel near the Wild Island where liv'd
Sail are not to be brib'd or pacified so easily One of These whose Poetry and Criticisms are deservedly esteemed among us has reflected on our Author's admirable Satire too severely for a man of his Sense tho not for one of his Order I mean Father Rapin but who could expect less from a Jesuit and a Jesuit too whose Sodality is satiriz'd in this Work Yet after all that able Critic durst not but own that it is a most Ingenious Satire Panurge asks whether there be not something of the Feminine Gender among them and whether they would not take a small Hypocritical Touch by the by To which answer is made by Xenomanes That were there not some pretty kind-hearted Hypocritesses Hermitesses and Spiritual Actresses who beget a race of young Hypocritillons and Sham-sanctitoes the Island of Chaneph had long since been without Inhabitants This is true in more than one sense for did not Hypocrites beget others some parts of the world would be very thin of people then those Sham-sanctitoes and Hermitillons whom our Author means are chiefly the young bastardly Monastic Fry the only Fruit many Nuns bear by the means of the Father Confessor's kind applications for such of those By-blows as escape Abortion or an untimely Death are rear'd up for a while as the pious Father's or Sister 's poor Relations and then cag'd with Father or Mother to sing Mattins and Vespers and increase the larger Tribe of Hypocrites world without end On Chapter 66. THE Island of Ganabin is the Island of Thieves from Gannab a Thief in Hebrew Xenomanes says that the people of that Island are all such and commends Pantagruel for not going ashore there Friar John advises Pantagruel to cause a Gun to be fir'd as it were to salute the Muses of that Antiparnassus By this perhaps our Author may have a mind to reflect on most of the Authors of that Age who as well as some of this were very great Plagiaries The faiâ— Fountain on that Hill may mean the great number of Subjects which might employ their Pens more to the purpose than in Translating many foolish Romances as the best hands of France did at that time That Spring may also signify the French Tongue which our Author commends so much in the Prologue to the Fifth Book and inveighs against such sorts of Plagiaries whom he calls Brokers and Retailers of Ancient Rhapsodies and such mouldy Trash Botchers of old Thredbare stust a hundred and a hundred times clouted up and piec'd together wretched Bunglers that can do nothing but new vamp old rusty Saws beggarly Scavengers that rake the muddiest Canals of Antiquity c. By which he would encourage his Countreymen to follow his Example study it and write something that might chiefly spring from their Fancies without being wholly indebted to Foreign Nations for what they publish'd yet not disdaining to make improvements from the Thoughts of the Greek and the Latin Authors as he himself has done and enrich the Moderns with Translations of the best Works of the Ancients The large Forest that is round the Fountain may mean the wild dark intangled voluminous Writings of some of that Age The Mountain is called Antiparnassus in opposition to that where the true Muses were said to dwell and is plac'd in the Island of Thieves properly enough because Poets as well as they are the Children of Penia or Poverty according to our Author Panurge who was afraid Pantagruel would land in the Island of Ganabin uses all the Arguments which Fear could suggest to a Coward to persuade him not to do it and among other things says Do not go among 'em I beseech you 't were safer to take a Journey to Hell Hark! by Cob's Body I hear 'em ringing the Alarum Bell most dreadfully as the Gascons about Bourdeaux us'd formerly to do against the Commissaries and Officers for the Tax on Salt or my Ears tingle This refers to what has been said in the Remarks on the Prologue concerning the Rebellion at Angoulesme and Bourdeaux Rabelais seems to have describ'd part of this War in his second Book when he makes Pantagruel leave Paris to repulse the Dipsodes who had besieg'd the great City of the Amaurotes For tho I have prov'd out of History that what is said of the Dipsodes may reasonably be adapted to the War of Picardy yet I hope I have shew'd that our Ingenious Author sometimes describes two things by one and so this may relate to two different Actions of the same person This Rebellion of Augoumois and Bâ—rdeaux happen'd about the Time when Anthony of Bourbon our Pantagruel was married to the Queen of Navarre's Daughter Now Francis I. that Queen's Brother and their Father had been Earls of Angoulesme which makes our Author say in his second Book that Gargantua's Queen was the Daughter of the King of the Amaurots And indeed as there were no more Earls of Angoulesme that Name which signifies being vanish'd was not altogether improper then Thus Pantagruel comes from Paris to relieve that Country and has a Bark full of Salt tied to his Girdle with which he fills the mouths of the Dipsodes which may imply the heat and combustion in which the People were there about the Tax on Salt and because several of those Mutineers were hang'd at Bourdeoux where they were most outragious and stubborn Rabelais makes Pantagruel the Inventer of the use of Pantagruelion which is Hemp probably because he advis'd to have many of them put to death Indeed I have not yet found that Anthony de Bourbon came thither to assist the King of Navarre his Father-in-law Governor of that Country for Henry the Second of France but as the Conestable of Montmorency who with that Duke of Vendosme had commanded in Picardy that year came into Xaintonge to punish the Rebels 't is very likely the Duke came thither also and perhaps Historians are silent in the matter because he only came as a Volunteer and the Case did not seem worth employing at once a King of Navarre a High Conestable of France and a Prince of the Royal Family And this may be the Reason why our Satirical Historian has chus'd to burlesque that Expedition for doubtless there could be no honour to the Duke in being concern'd in it principally under others though it were but in complaisance to the Princess of Navarre his new Wife and her Royal Parents the Honey-Moon being then hardly past On Chapter 67. PAnurge's Fear encreas'd by the noise of the Guns makes him run mad for a while and lay hold on the huge Cat Rodilardus by which he was scratch'd He saith he took it to be a young soft-chin'd Devil and thought he had snatch'd it up in the great Hutch of Hell as thievishly as any Sizar of Mountague Colledge cou'd have done Rodilardus stands for Croquelardon Lick-sawce a Parasitical Smell-feast This Passage doubtless refers to some of Montluc's Adventures hardly to be discover'd in our Age yet known in
cur'd by them in an unaccountable manner if you will believe them Now Rabelais who as Thuâ—nus says was a most learned and experienced Physician gives us freely to understand that all those Pretenders are so many Cheats who sometimes deceive themselves but generally others For this Reason the first Port of that Island whereat he makes his Fleet touch is Mateâ—techny 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the study of foolish improfitable Arts Yet he makes those who profess them give thâ—iâ— Country the Name of Eâ—telechy from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Actus â—eâ—fectâ—â—â— as it is rendred in Aristotle's second Book de Anima Tully Tuscul l 1. would have it to signify a Perpetual Motion Now as several Learned Mâ—n in former Ages have almost as largely descanted upon the Word as some in This have lost Time about the Thing Rabelais reflects upon them for it in this Chapter and at the same time those Grammarians who diâ—pute so â—otly about Words and neglect Things may be 〈…〉 as deserving to be plac'd among those who apply themselves to unprofitable Studies On Chapter 20. RAbelais ridicules here those Empiriâ—â— whose chief Talent is Impudence and Lyes while they pretend to cure â—â— Incurable Diseases and also those who seek an Universal Remedy Rosaâ—â—ucians Disciples of Trismegistus Raimond Lullius Arnold of Villeâ—â—uve and such who are said to have understood the great Work or Arâ—â—num Philosophicum and if you will believe them the only true Sons of Wisdom This makes him say That Queen-Whims cur'd â—â— all manner of Diseases with a Song full as effectually as some Kings rid Mâ—n of the Eâ—il that takes its Name from their Dignity by which he meant that all those pretended Cures are just as solid as a Song and are nothing but vain Talk The Quâ—en's affected pâ—dâ—ntiâ— Speech mimics the way of Talk of some of our Demy-Vertuâ—sa's who cannot think any one speaks well unless he express himself with far-fetch'd Metaphors long Tropes uncommon Words per Ambages tedious Circonlocutions and such fulsom stuff Accordingly we find that Panurge could not tell how to answer her in the same Cant neither did Pantagruel return a word However they din'd never the worse after it while the Queen fed on nothing but Categories Abstractions Second Intentions Metempsycoses Transcendent Prolepsâ—â—s Expressions Deceptions Dreams c. in Greek and Hebrew On Chapter 21. OUR Travellers see the Queen and some of her Subjects who sift searse boult range and pass away Time and revive ancient Sports This reflects on those who wholly apply themselves to the Study of the Customs of the Ancients while many times they are ignorant in those of the Moderns a sort of Book worms some of which conversing with none but the Dead are hardly qualify'd for tho Company of the Living Our Author who seldom forgets the Monks says That one of the Queen's Officers cur'd the Consumptive by turning them into Monks by which means they grew fat and plump What he says of the Nine Gentlemen who were rid of their Poverty having a Rope put about their Necks at the end of which hang'd a Box with Ten thousand Crowns in 't may refer to some in those Times who either had or fanci'd they were to have the Collar of the Order of St. Michael or some other bestow'd on them with a Pension On Chapter 22. THIS Chapter ridicules those who attempt Impossibilities accordingly our Author says they made Blackamoors white rubbing their Bellies with the bottom of a Pannier plow'd a sandy Shoar with three Couples of Foxes in one Yoke and did not lose their Seed which Undertakings have given occasion to several Proverbs among the Ancients to denote Labour in vain as Aâ—thiâ—pem dealbar arenas arare laterem lavare pumice aridius ex asino lanam and othâ—rs which oâ—â— Author has purposely mention'd Some Mathematicians Dialectitians Naturalists and Metaphysicians are ingeniously satiriz'd in this Chapter On Chapter 23. QVeen-Whims or Quintessence's Supper is not more substantial than her Dinner for she eats nothing but Ambrosia drinks nothing but Nectar and the Lords and Ladies that were there far'd on such Diâ—hes as Apicius dream'd of All this is Dream and Poetical Food and consequently of easy Digestion An Olla or Hotch-podge follows which may represent a mixture of confus'd Notions jumbled together The Cards Dice Chequers and Bâ—wls full of Gold for those who would play the Mules in stately Trappings Velvet Litters and Coaches are the vain hopes of those who are subject to Whims and dream of finding the Philosopher's Stone The Queen tastes and chews nothing her Praegustators and Masticators her Tasters and Chewers do that for her and she never visits a Close-stool but by Proxy This signifies That those who employ those Cheats who pretend to make Gold swallow every thing that comes from them without examining the sense of it oâ— chewing the 〈◊〉 upon the matter all goes down glibly with them so greedy they are of possessing such a mighty Secret But the Alchymists whom they trust bestir their Grinders lustily in the mean time and do not feed altogether on Smoke as do their Patroâ—s who are here said never to go to Stool but by Proxy because they are only fed with Words and Promises all vanishes in Smoke The word Spâ—â—ziater signifies one who fairly gets Sâ—â—t from Brass by trying and melting it down On Chapter 24. THE Ball in the manner of a Turnament which was perform'd before the Queen is a most lively and ingenious description of the Game of Chess The Floor of the Hall which is cover'd with a large piece of velveted white and yellow chequer'd Tapistry means the Chequer-Board The 32 young Persons one half drest in Cloth of Gold and the other in Cloth of Silver are the 32 Chess-men Kings Queens Bishops Knights Rooks and Pawns They play three Games the two first are won by the Silver'd King and the last by his Adversary Our Author who cannot â—e too much admir'd for his Art in raising Satirical Reflections of great moment most naturally out of Trifles where they are least to be expected in the midst of this admirable Allegory seems to have reflected upon his King Francis's Rashness which made him be taken Prisoner at the Battel of Pavia For speaking of the Golden Queen who in this Latruncularian War if I may â—se the expression skirmish'd too boldly and was taken he says the rest were soon routed after the taking of their Queen who without doubt from that Time resolv'd to be more wary and not venture so far amidst her Enemies unless with more Forces to defend her He also brought in very pleasantly Cardinal Cusa's Boyish Observation in his Simile on a Top or Gigg and so he has done almost all over this Work He is not less Artful in bringing off his â—antagruelists that they may no longer be hinder'd by Whims from arriving at the Oracle of Truth For he says that while they minded this pleasing Entertainment and were
Tyrant Nero alter'd saying While I live as Suetonius affirms it This detestable saying of which Cicero lib. 3. de finib and Seneca lib. 2. de Clementia make mention is ascrib'd to the Emperour Tiberius by Dion Nicaus and Suidas CHAP. XXVII Pantagruel's Discourse of the Decease of Heroic Souls and of the dreadful Prodigies that happen'd before the Death of the late Lord de Langey I Would not continu'd Pantagruel have miss'd the Storm that hath thus disorder'd us were I also to have miss'd the relation of these thing told us by this good Macrobius Neither am â— unwilling to believe what he said of a Coâ—â— that appears in the Sky some days before such a Decease For some of those Souls are so Noble so Pretious and so Heroic that Heaven gives us notice of their departing some days before it happens And as a Prudent Physician seeing by some Symptoms that his Patient draws towards his end some days before gives notice of it to his Wife Children Kindred and Friends that in that little time he hath yet to live they may admonish him to settle all things in his Family to tutor and instruct his Children as much as he can recommend his Relict to his Friends in her Widowhood declare what he knows to be necessary about a Provision for the Orphans that he may not be surpris'd by Death without making his Will and may take care of his Soul and Family In the same manner the Heavens as it were joyful for the approaching reception of those blessed Souls seem to make Bonfires by those Comets and blazing Meteors which they at the same time kindly design should Prognosticate to us here that in few days one of those venerable Souls is to leave her Body and this Terrestrial Globe Not altogether unlike this was what was formerly done at Athens by the Judges of the Areâ—pagus For when they gave their Verdict to cast or clear the Culprits that were try'd before them they us'd certain notes according to the substance of the Sentences by Θ. signifying Condemnation to Death by T. Absolution by A. Ampliation or a Demur when the case was not sufficiently examin'd Thus having publickly set up those Letters they eas'd the Relations and Friends of the Prisoners and such others as desir'd to know their Doom of their doubts Likewise by these Comets as in etherial Characters the Heavens silently say to us Make haste Mortals if you would know or learn of these blessed Souls any thing concerning the publick good or your private Interest for their Catastrophe is near which being past you will vainly wish for them afterwards The good natur'd Heavens still do more and that Mankind may be declar'd unworthy of the injoyment of those Renown'd Souls they fright and astonish us with Prodigies Monsters and other foreboding Signs that thwart the Order of Nature Of this we had an instance several days before the decease of the Heroick Soul of the Learned and Valiant Chevalier de Langey of whom you have already spoken I remember it said Epistemon and my Heart still trembles within me when I think on the many dreadful Prodigies that we saw five or six days before he dy'd For the Lords of D'assâ—â— Câ—emant one-ey'd Mailly St. Ayl Villeneuâ—ue-la Guyart Master Gabriel Physician of Saâ—â—llan Rabelais Cohuau Massuau Maâ—â—rici Bullou Cereu alias Bourgmaistre Francis Proust Ferron Charles Girard Francis Bourré and many other Friends and Servants to the Deceased all dismay'd gaz'd on each other without uttering one word yet not without foreseeing that France would in a short time be depriv'd of a Knight so accomplish'd and necessary for its Glory and Protection and that Heaven claim'd him again as its due By the tufted Tip of my Cowle cry'd Fryar Jhon I am e'en resolv'd to become a Scholar before I die I have a pretty good Head-piece of my own you must own Now pray give me leave to ask you a civil Question Can these same Heroes and Demigods you talk of die May I never be damn'd if I was not so much a Lobcock as to believe they had been Immortal like so many fine Angels Heaven forgive me but this most Reverend Father Macroby tells us They die at lâ—st We all must return'd Pantagruel The Stoicks held them all to be Morâ—â—l except one who alone is Immortal Impossible Invisible Pindar plainly saith That there is no more Thread that is to say no more Life spun from the Distaff and Flax of the hard-hearted Fates for the Goddesses â—amâ—dâ—yades than there is for those Trees 〈◊〉 are preserv'd by them which are good sturdy downright Oaks whence they deriv'd their Original according to the Opinion of Callimachus and Pausanias in Phâ—â—i with whom concurs Martianus Capella As for the Demigods Fâ—â—â—â—s Satyrs Sylvans Hobgoblins Aegpanes Nâ—mphs Heroes and Daemons several Men â—aâ—e from the total Sum which is the resâ—lt of the divers Ages Calculated by Heâ—ied reckon'd their life to be 9720 years that 〈◊〉 consisting of four special numbers orderly arising from one the same added together â—â—d multiplied by four every way amounts to forty these forties being reduc'd into Triangles by five times make up the total of the aforesaid number See Plutarch in his Book about the Cessation of Oracles This said Fryar Jhon is not matter of Breviary I may believe as little or as much of it as you and I please I believe said Pantagruel that all Intellectual Souls are exempted from Atropos's Scissers They are all immortal whether they be of Angels of Demons or Human Yet I 'll tell you a story concerning this that 's very strange but is written and affirm'd by several learned Historians CHAP. XXVIII How Pantagruel related a very sad story of the Death of the Heroes EPITHERSES the Father of Emiliaâ— the Rhetorician sailing from Greece to Italy in a Ship freighted with divers Goods and Passengers at night the wind fail'd'em near the Echinades some Islands that lye between the Morea and Tunis and the Vessel was driven near Paxos When they were got thither some of the passengers being asleep others awake the rest eating and drinking a voice was heard that call'd aloud Thamous which cry surpris'd them all This same Thamous was their Pilot an Egyptian by birth but known by name only to some few Travellers The voice was heard a second time calling Thamous in a frigthful Tone and none making answer but trembling and remaining silent the Voice was heard a third time more dreadfull than before This caus'd Thamous to answer here am I What dost thou call me for What wilt thou have me do Then the Voice louder than before bad him publish when he should come to Paloda That the great God Pan was dead Epitherses related that all the Mariners and Passengers having heard this were extreamly amaz'd and frighted and that consulting among themselves whether they had bâ—st conceal or divulge what the Voice had injoyn'd Thamous said his advice was That if they happen'd to have a
out and got the famous Mule Thacor Then the Hang-man by his order clap'd a Fig into the Mules Jim-crack in the Presence of the inslav'd Citts that were brought into the middle of the great Market-Place and proclaim'd in the Emperor's Name with Trumpets that whosoever of them would save his own Life should publickly pull the Fig out with his Teeth and after that put it in again in the very individual Cranny whence he had draw'd it without using his hands and that whoever refus'd to do this should presently swing for 't and die in his Shoes Some sturdy Fools standing upon their Punctilio chose Honourably to be hang'd rather than submit to so shameful and abominable a Disgrace and others less nice in Point of Ceremony took heart of Grace and ev'n resolv'd to have at the Fig and a Fig for 't rather than make a worse Figure with a hempen Collar and die in the Air at so short Warning accordingly when they had neatly pick'd out the Fig with their Teeth from old Thacor's Snatch-blatch they plainly show'd it the Heads-man saying Ecco lo fico behold the Fig. By the same Ignominy the rest of these poor distress'd Guallardets sav'd their Bacon bâ—coming Tributaries and Slaves and the Name of Pope-Figs was given them because they had said A Fig for the Popeâ—s Image Since this the poor Wretches never prosper'd but every year the Devil was at their Doors and they were plagu'd with Hail Storms Famine and all manner of Woes as an everlasting Punishment for the Sin of their Ancestors and Relations Perceiving the Misery and Calamity of that Generation we did not care to go further up into the Country contenting our selves with going into a little Chappel near the Haven to take some Holy water It was dilapidated and ruin'd wanting also a Cover like St. Peter at Rome When we were in as we dip'd our Fingers in the sanctifi'd Cistern we spy'd in the middle of that Holy Pickle a Fellow muffled up with Stoles all under water like a diving Duck except the tip of his Snout to draw his Breath About him stood three Priests true shavelings clean shorn and poli'd who were muttering strange words to the Devils out of a Conjuring Book Pantagruel was not a little amaz'd at this and inquiring what kind of sport these were at was told that for Three years last past the Plague had so dreadfully rag'd in the Island that the better half of it had been utterly depopulated and the Lands lay Fallow without Owners Now the mortality being over this same Fellow who was crept into the Holy Tub having a large piece of Ground chanc'd to be Sowing it with White winter Wheat at the very minute of an hour that a kind of a Silly sucking Devil who could not yet Write or Read or Hail and Thunder unless it were on Parsly or Colworts had got leave of his Master Lucifer to go into this Island of Pope-figs where the Devils were very familiar with the Men and Women and often went to take their Pastime This same Devil being got thither diâ—â—cted his Discourse to the Husband-man and ask'd him what he was doing The poor Man told him that he was Sowing this ground with Corn to help him to subsist the next year Ay but the Ground is none of thine Mr. Plough â—obber cry'd theâ— Devil but mine For since the time that you mock'd the Pope all this Land has been proscrib'd adjudg'd and abandon'd to us However to sow Corn is not my Province therefore I will give thee leave to sow the Field that is to say provided we share the Profit I will reply'd the Farmer I mean said the Devil that of what the Land shall bear two Lots shall be made one of what shall grow above Ground the other of what shall be cover'd with Earth the right of chusing belongs to me for I am a Devil of noble and ancient Race thou art a base Clown I therefore chuse what shall lye under ground take thou what shall be above When dost thou reckon to reap hah About the middle of July quoth the Farmer Well said the Devil I 'll not fail thee then In the mean time slave as thou oughtest Work Clown woâ—k I am going to tempt to the pleasing Sin of whoring the Nuns of Dâ—â—fart the Sham-saints of the Cowle and the Gluttonish Crew I am more than sure of these There needs but meet and the Job's done true Fire and Tinder touch and take down falls Nun and up gets Fryar CHAP. XLVI How a Junior Devil was fool'd by a Husband-man of Pope-Figland ON the middle of July the Devil came to the place aforesaid with all his Crew at his Heels a whole Quire of the younger Fry of Hell and having met the Farmer said to him Well Clod-pate how hast thou done since I went Thou and I must now share the Concern Ay Master Devil quoth the Clown 't is but reason we should Then he and his Men began to cut and reap the Corn And on the other side the Devil's Imps fell to work grubbing up and pulling out the stubble by the Root The Country-man had his Corn thrash'd Winnow'd it put it into Sacks and went with it to Market The same did the Devil's Servants and sate them down there by the Man to sell their Straw The Country-man sold off his Corn at a good rate and with the Money fill'd an old kind of a Demy-Buskin which was fasten'd to his Girdle but the Devil a Sous the Devils took far from taking Hansel they were flouted and jeer'd by the Country Louts Market being over quoth the Devil to the Farmer well Clown thou hast chous'd me once 't is thy Fault chouse me twice 't will be mine Nay good Sir Devil reply'd the Farmer how can I be said to have chous'd you since 't was your worship that chose first The truth is that by this trick you thought to cheat me hoping that nothing would spring out of the Earth for my share and that you should find whole under ground the Corn which I had sow'd and with it tempt the poor and needy the close Hypocrite or the Covetous Gripe thus making them fall into your snares But troth you must e'n go to School yet you are no Conjurer for ought I see For the Corn that was sow'd is dead and rotten its Corruption having caus'd the generation of that which you saw me sell so you chose the worst and therefore are curs'd in the Gospel Well talk no more on 't quoth the Devil what can'st thou sow our Field with for next Year If a Man would make the best on 't answer'd the Ploughman 't were fit he sow it with Radish Now cry'd the Devil thou talkst like an honest Fellow Bumpkin well sow me good store of Radish I 'll see and keep them safe from storms and will not hail a bit on them but harke ' e me this time I bespeak for my share what shall be above ground
purple Liveries had been given to all of us in the Morning contriv'd a merry Mask with store of Cockle-shells shells of Snails Periwinkles and such other Then for want of Cuckoe-pint or Priest-pintle Lousebur Clote and Paper we made our selves false Faces with the Leaves of an old Sextum that had been thrown by and lay there for any one that would take it up cutting out holes for the Eyes Nose and Mouth Now did you ever hear the like since you were born when we had play'd our little Boyish Antick Tricks and came to take off our sham-faces we appear'd more hideous and ugly than the little Devils that acted the Passion at Douay For our Faces were utterly spoyl'd at the places which had been touch'd by those â—eaves one had there the Small Pox another God's Token or the Plague spot a third the Crinckums a fourth the Measles a fifth Botches Pushes and Carbuncles in short he came off the least hurt who only lost his Teeth by the bâ—rgain Miracle bawl'd out Homenas Miracâ—e Hold hold cry'd Rhizotome 't is n't yet time to clap my Sister Kate and my Sister Râ—n had put the Crepines of their Hoods their Ruffles Snoffekins and Neck-Ruffs row wash'd starch'd and iron'd into that very Book of Decretals for you must know it was cover'd with thick Boards and had strong Clasps now by the virtue of God Hold interrupted Homenas what God do you mean There is but one answer'd Rhizotome In Heaven I grant reply'd Homenas but we have another here on Earth d' ye see Ay marry have we said Rhizotome but on my Soul I protest I had quite forgot it well then by the virtue of God the Pope their Pinners Neck-ruffs Bibs Coifs and other Linnen turn'd as black as a Char-coalman's Sack Miracle cry'd Homenas Here Clerica light me here and pr'ythee Girl observe these rare Stories How comes it to pass then ask'd Fryar Jhon that People say Ever since Decrees had Tails And Gens-d ' Arms lugg'd heavy Mails Since each Monk would have a Horse All went here from bad to worse Depuis que Decrets eurent Ales Et Gens-d'Armes porterent Males Moines allerent à Cheval En ce monde abonda à tout mal I understand you answer'd Homenas this is one of the quirks and little satires of the new fangl'd Hereticks CHAP. LIII How by the Virtue of the Decretals Gold is subtilly drawn out of France to Rome I would said Epistemon it had cost me a a pint of the best Tripe that ever can enter into Gut so we had but compar'd with the Original the dreadful Chapters Execrabilis De multa Si plures De Annatis per totum Nisi essent Cum ad Monasterium Quod dilectio Mandatum and certain others that draw every year out of France to Rome four hundred thousand Ducats and more Do you make nothing of this ask'd Homenas Tho' methinks after all 't is but little if we consider that France the most Christian is the only Nurse the See of Rome has However find me in the whole World a Book whether of Philosophy Physic Law Mathematicks or other humane Learning nay even by my God of the Holy Scripture it self that will draw as much Money thence None none pshaw tush blurt pish none can You may look till your Eyes drop out of your Head nay till Dooms-day in the afternoon before you can find another of that Energy I 'll pass my word for that Yet these Devillish Heretics refuse to learn and know it Burn 'em tear 'em nip 'em with hot Pincers drown 'em hang 'em spit 'em at the Bung-hole pelt 'em paut 'em bruise 'em beat 'em cripple 'em dismember 'em cut 'm gut 'em bowell 'em paunch 'em thrash 'em slash 'em gash 'em chop 'em slice 'em slit 'em carve 'em saw 'em bethwack em pare 'em hack 'em hew 'em mince 'em flea 'em boyl 'em broyl 'em roast 'em toast 'em bake 'em fry 'em crucifie 'em crush 'em squeeze 'em grind 'em batter 'em burst 'em quarter 'em unlimb 'em bebump 'em bethump 'em belam me'em belabour 'em pepper 'em spitchcock 'em and carbonade 'em on Grind irons these wicked Heretics Decretalifuges Decretalicides worse than Homicides worse than Patricides Decretalictones of the Devil of Hell As for you other good People I most earnestly pray and beseech you to believe no other thing think on say undertake or do no other thing than what 's contain'd in our Sacred Decretals and their Corollaries this fine Sextum these fine Clementinae these fine Extravagantes O Deific Books So shall you enjoy Glory Honour Exaltation Wealth Dignities and Preferments in this World be rever'd and dreaded by all preferr'd Elected and Chosen above all Men. For there is not under the Cope of Heaven a condition of Men out of which you 'll find Persons fitter to do and handle all things than those who by Divine Prescience Eternal Predestination have applied themselves to the Study of the Holy Decretals Would you chuse a worthy Emperor a good Captain a fit General in time of War one that can well foresee all inconveniencies avoid all dangers briskly and bravely bring his Men on to a Breach or Attack still be on sure grounds always overcome without loss of his Men and know how to make a good use of his Victory Take me a Decreâ—ist No no I mean a Decretalist Ho the foul Blunder whisper'd Epistemon Would you in time of Peace find a Man capable of wisely governing the State of a Commonwealh of a Kingdom of a Empire of a Monarchy sufficient to maintain the Clergy Nobility Senate and Commonâ— in Wealth Friendship Unity Obedience Virtue and Honesty Take a Decretalist Would you find a Man who by his exemplary Life Eloquence and pious Admonitions may in a short time without effusion of humane blood Conquer the Holy Land and bring over to the Holy Church the misbelieving Turks Jews Tartars Muscovites Mammelus and Sarrabonites Take me a Decretalist What makes in many Countries the People Rebellious and deprav'd Pages sawcy and mischievous Students sottish and duncical Nothing but that their Governours Esquires and Tutors were not Decretalists But what on your Conscience was it d' ye think that establish'd confirm'd and authoris'd these fine Religious Orders with whom you see the Christian World every where adorn'd grac'd and illustrated as the Firmament is with its glorious Stars The Holy Decretals What was it that founded underpropt and fix'd and now maintains nourishes and feeds the devout Monks and Fryars in Convents Monasteriâ—s and Abbeys so that did they not daily and mightily pray without ceasing the World would be in evident danger of returning to its Primitive 〈◊〉 The Sacred Decretals What 〈…〉 the famous and celebrated Patrimony of St. Peter in plenty of all Temporal Corporeal and Spiritual Blessings The Holy Decretals What made the Holy Apostolick See and Pope of Rome in all times and at this present so dreadful in the Universe that
the same Name is given them in Ionian by Hippocrates in his Fifth Book of Epid. as Men who speak from the Belly Sophocles calls them Sternomanteâ— These were Southsayers Enchanters Cheats who gull'd the Mob and seem'd not to speak and give Answers from the Mouth but from the Belly Such a one about the Year of our Lord 1513. was Jacoba Rodogina an Italian Woman of mean Extract From whose Belly we as well as an infinite Number of others at Ferrara and elsewhere have often heard the Voice of the Evil Spirit speak low feeble and small indeed but yet very distinct articulate and intelligible when she was sent for out of Curiosity by the Lords and Princes of the Cisalpine Gaul To remove all Manner of Doubt and be assur'd that this was not a Trick they us'd to have her Stripp'd stark naked and caus'd her Mouth and Nose to be stopp'd This Evil Spirit would be call'd Curlâ—d-Pate or Cincinnatulo seeming pleas'd when any call'd him by that Name at which he was always ready to Answer If any Spoke to him of things past or present he gave pertinent Answers sometimes to the Amazement of the Hearers but if of things to come then the Devil was gravell'd and us'd to Lye as fast as a Dog can Trot. Nay sometimes he seem'd to own his Ignorance instead of an Answer letting out a rouzing â—art or muttering some words with barbarous and uncouth Inflexions and not to be understood As for the Gastrolaters they stuck close to one another in Knots and Gangs Some of them Merry Wanton and Soft as so many Milksops others lowring grim dogged demure and crabbed all idle mortal foes to business spending half their Time in sleeping and the rest in doing nothing a Rent-charge and dead unnecessary Weight on the Earth as Hesiod saith afraid as we judg'd of offending or lâ—ssening their Paunch Others were mask'd disguis'd and so oddly dress'd that 't would have done you good to have seen them There 's a Saying and several Ancient Sages write That the Skill of Nature appears wonderful in the Pleasure which she seems to have taken in the Configuration of Sea-shells so great is their Variety in figures colours streaks and inimitable shapes I protest the Variety we perceiv'd in the Dresses of the Gastrolatrous Coquillons was not less They all own'd Gaster for their Supreme God ador'd him as a God offer'd him Sacrifices as to their Omnipotent Deity own'd no other God serv'd lov'd and honour'd him above all things You would have thought that the Holy Apostle spoke of those when he said Phil. Chap. 3. Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you even weeping that they are Enemies of the Cross of Christ whose End is Destruction whose God is their Belly Pantagruel compar'd them to the Cyclops Polyphemus whom Euripides brings in speaking thus I only Sacrifice to my self not to the Gods and to this Belly of Mine the greatest of all the Gods CHAP. LIX Of the ridiculous Statue Manduce and how and what the Gastrolaters Sacrifice to their Ventripotent God WHile we fed our Eyes with the sight of the Phyzzes and Actions of these lozelly Gulligutted Gastrolaters we on a sudden heard the Sound of a Musical Instrument call'd a Bell at which all of them plac'd themselves in Rank and File as for some mighty Battel every one according to his Office Degree and Seniority In this Order they mov'd towards Master Gaster after a plump young lusty gorbellied Fellow who on a long Staff fairly gilt carried a wooden Statue grosly carv'd and as scurvily daub'd o'r with Paint such a one as Plautus Juvenal and Pomp. Festus describe it At Lions during the Carnaval 't is call'd Masche-crouste or Gnaw crust they call'd this Manduce It was a monstrous ridiculous hideous Figure fit to fright little Children Its Eves were bigger than its Belly and its Head larger than all the rest of its Body well Mouth-cloven however having a goodly Pair of wide broad Jaws lin'd with two Rows of Teeth upper Teer and under Teer which by the Magic of a small Twine hid in the hollow part of the Golden Staff were made to clash clatter and rattle dreadfully one against another as they do at Metz with St. Clement's Dragon Coming near the Gastrolaters I saw they were follow'd by a great Number of fat Waiters and Tenders laden with Baskets Dossers Hampers Dishes Wallets Pots and Kettles Then under the Conduct of Manduce and singing I don't know what Dithyrambics Crepalocomes and Epenons opening their Baskets and Pots they offer'd their God White Hippocras with dry Toasts White-Bread Brown Bread Carbonadoes six sorâ—s Brawn Sweet-breads Fricassâ—es nine sorts Monastical Browess Gravy-soupe Hotch-pots Soft-Bread Houshold Bread Capâ—rotadoes Cold Loins of Veal with Spice Zinziberine Beatille Pyes Brewess Marrow Bones Toast and Cabbidge Hashes Eternal Drink intermix'd Brisk delicate White-wine led the Van Claret and Champaign follow'd cool nay as cold as the very Ice I say fill'd and offer'd in large Silver Cups Then they offer'd Chitterlins garnish'd with Mustard Saucidges Neats Tongues Hung Beef Chines and Pease Hogs-haslets Scotch Collops Puddings Cervelats Bolonia Sawcidges Hams Brawn-Heads Powder'd Venison with Turnips Pickled Olives All this associated with Sempiternal Liquor Then they hous'd within his Muzzle Legs of Mutton with Shallots Ollas Lumber-Pyes with hot Sauce Ribs of Pork with Onion Sauce Roast Capons basted with their own Dripping Caponets Caviar and Toast Fawns Deer Hares Leverets Partridges young Partridges Pluvers Dwarfe herons Teals Duckers Bittors Shovelers Curluâ—s Wood-hens Coots with Leeks Fat Kids Shoulders of Mutton with Capers Sir-Loins of Beef Breasts of Veal Phesants and Phesant poots Peacocks Storks Woodcocks Snipes Hortolans Turkey-Cocks Hen-Turkeys and Turkey-poots Stock doves and Wood-culvers Pigs with Wine sauce Blackbirds Owsels and Rayles Moor-hens Bâ—stards and Bâ—stard poots Fig peckers Young Guiny hens Flemmings Cignets A Renforcement of Vinegar intermixt Veniâ—on Pâ—stâ—es Lark Pyes Dormiâ—e Pyes Cabretto Pasties Roe-buck Pasties Pigeon Pyes Kid Pasties Capon Pyes Bacon Pyes Souc'd Hogs feet Fry'd Pasty crust Forc'd Capons Parmesan Cheese Red and Pale Hippocras Gold-peaches Artichokes Dry and wet Sweet-meats 78 sorts Boyl'd Hens and fat Capons maronated Pullets with Eggs. Chickens Rabbets and sucking Rabbets Quails and young Quails Pigeons Squobbs and Squeakers Herons and young Herons Feldivers Olaves Thrushes Young Sea-Ravens Geese Goslins Queests Widgeons Mavises Grouses Turtles Doe-Connys Hedge hogs Snytes Then large Puffs Thistle-Finches Whore's-Farts Fritters Cakes sixteen sorts Crisp Wafers Quince Tarts Curds and Cream Whipp'd Cream Preserv'd Myrabolans Gellies Welch Barrapyclids Macaroons Tarts twenty sorts Lemon Cream Rasberry Cream c. Comfits 100 Colours Cream Wafers Cream Cheese Vinegar brought up the Reer to wash the Mouth and for fear of the Squinsy Also Toasts to scower the Grinders CHAP. LX. What the Gastrolaters Sacrific'd to their God on interlarded Fish-Days PAntagruel did not like this Pack of Rascally Scoundrels with their manifold Kitchen Sacrifices