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A57015	The fifth book of The works of Francis Rabelais, M.D., contaning the heroic deeds and sayings of the great Pantagruel to which is added the Pantagruelian prognostication, Rabelais's letters, and several other pieces by that author / done out of French by P.M.; Selections. 1694	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553? Pantagruel. English.; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553? Pantagruéline prognostication. English.; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553? Correspondence. English.; Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718.	1694 (1694)	Wing R104A; ESTC R2564	128,470	325

fully acquainted with the Subtilty which 't is said he made use of at Naples hereafter I may give you an account of it The Prince of Piedmont the Duke of Savoy's Eldest Son dy'd at Naples fifteen days ago the Emperor order'd him a very honourable Interment at which he assisted in Person The King of Portugal six days since commanded his Embassador at Rome that immediately upon receipt of his Letter he should return to him in Portugal which he did the same hour and came ready Booted and Spurr'd to take his leave of the Most Reverend the Lord Cardinal du Bellay Two days after was kill'd near the Bridge of St. Angelo in open day a Portuguese Gentleman who sollicited here for the whole Body of the Jews that were baptiz'd under King Emanuel and have been since molested by the present King of Portugal that he might succeed to their Estates when they dy'd That King has also exacted several things of them against the Edict and Ordinance of the King Emanuel I doubt we shall hear of some Sedition in Portugal LETTER IX My Lord IN the last Pacquet I sent you I gave you an account that part of the Turk's Army was defeated by the Sophy near Betelis The Turk did not very long delay his Revenge for two Months after he fell upon the Sophy with the greatest Fury imaginable and after having put to Fire and Sword a great part of the Country of Mesopotamia he has driven back the Sophy on the other side of Mount Taurus In the mean time he causes a great number of Gallies to be built upon the River Tanais by which they may come to Constantinople Barbarossa is still at Constantinople to secure the Country and has left several Garrisons at Bona and Algiers lest the Emperor should by chance Attack him I have sent you his Picture drawn by the Life as also the Map of Tunis and of the Sea-port-towns adjacent The Lanskenets whom the Emperor sent into the Dutchy of Milan to keep the strong Places are all drown'd and lost at Sea to the number of fifteen hundred in one of the biggest and stoutest Ships belonging to the Genoeses and it was near to a Port belonging to the Commonwealth of Lucca call'd Lerza The occasion was because they being weary of the Sea and desirous to get ashoar which they could not for the Tempest and Stress of Weather imagin'd that the Pilot of the Ship would still keep them off at Sea longer than he needed For which cause they kill'd him with some other of the Officers of the said Ship after whose Death the Ship remain'd without a Commander and instead of taking in their Sails the Lanskenets hoisted them as being unpractic'd in Sea-affairs and in this Confusion they perish'd within a stone's throw of the aforesaid Port. My Lord I understand that my Lord Bishop de l' Avaur who was the King's Embassador at Venice has had his Audience of Leave and is returning to France The Bishop of Rhodez goes in his place and is now at Lyons with all his Retinue ready to go when the King has given him his Instructions My Lord I humbly recommend my self to your Favour praying to our Lord to give you a long Life in good Health Rome Jan. 28. 1536. Your most humble Servant Francis Rabelais LETTER X. My Lord I Writ to you at large all the News I could learn the 28th of January last past by a Gentleman Servant to Monsieur de Montreuil call'd Tremeliere who return'd from Naples where he had bought some Horses of that Kingdom for his Lord and was returning to him with all speed The same day I receiv'd the Pacquet that you were pleas'd to send me from Legugé dated the 10th of the said Month in which you may see the method I have taken for the delivery of your Letters by which they are safely and suddenly brought to me here Your said Letters and Pacquet were deliver'd at the Arms of Basil on the one and twentieth of the same Month the eight and twentieth they were deliver'd to me here And to encourage at Lyons for that 's the Point and principal Place the Bookseller at the Arms of Basil to be diligent in this Affair I repeat what I writ to you in my aforemention'd Pacquet if you chance to write to me about any thing of Consequence That it is my advice that on the first occasion of writing to me you write a word or two to him in a Letter in which be pleas'd to inclose some Gold-crowns or some other piece of old Gold as a Royal an Angel or Salutation in consideration of the pains and care he takes of them so small a matter will more and more endear him to your Service Now to Answer your Letters I have diligently search'd the Registers of the Palace since the time that you commanded me that is the year 1529 1530 and 1531 to see if Dom. Phillippe's Act of Resignation to his Nephew were to be found and have given the Clerks of the Register two Gold-crowns which is but a small recompence for the great and tedious Trouble in it In short they have found nothing of it nor ever heard news of his Procurations wherefore I doubt there is some foul play in his Case or the Instructions you writ to me were not sufficient to find ' em And that I may be more certifi'd in it you should tell me cujus Diocesis of what Diocess the said Friar Dom. Phillippe was and if you have heard nothing to give more light in the matter as if it was pure simpliciter or causâ permutationis LETTER XI My Lord WHat I writ to you of my Lord Cardinal du Bellay's Answer when I presented him your Letters ought not to displease your Lordship My Lord of Mascon has sent you an Account of the whole Matter and we are not yet like to have a Legate in France 'T is certain that the King has presented the Cardinal of Lorrain to the Pope But I believe that the Cardinal du B●llay will endeavour by all means possible to get it for hims●lf The old Proverb is true which says Nemo sibi secundus And I shrewdly suspect by certain signs that I see that my Lord Cardinal du B●llay will engage the Pope on his behalf and thus be made acceptable to the King Nevertheless be not uneasy if his Answer be a little ambiguous in your concern LETTER XII My Lord THe Grains which I sent you I can assure you are the best of Naples of the same which his Holiness has caus'd to be sow'd in his Privy-Garden of Belveder There are no other kinds of Sallads on this side but those of Nasidord and Arroussa but those of Legugé seem to me altogether as good and somewhat more sweet and grateful to the Stomach and particularly better for you for those of Naples in my opinion are too hot and tough As for the Season for sowing 'em you must caution your Gardeners

not to sow 'em altogether so early as they do on this side for it is not warm Weather so soon with you as here They may very well sow your Sallads twice a year that is to say in Lent and in November and they may sow the white Cardes or Thistles in August and September the Melons Pompions and the others in March fencing them for some days with Mats and a thin Layer of Horse-dung not altogether rotten when they fear it will freeze Many other Grains besides are sold here as Alexandria Gilliflowers Matronal-Violets and Shrubs with which they refresh their Chambers in the Summer call'd Belvedere and other Physical Herbs But this would be more for my Lady d'Estissac's turn If you please to have of all sorts I will send them you without fail But I am forc'd to have recourse again to your Alms for the Thirty Crowns which you order'd to be paid me here are almost gone yet I have converted none of them to any ill use nor for eating for I Eat and Drink at my Lord Cardinal du Bellay's or at my Lord of Masc●n's But a great deal of Money goes away in these silly Postage of Letters Chamber-rent and wearing Apparel tho I am as frugal as I can be If you will be pleased to send me a Bill of Exchange I hope I shall make use of it wholly to your Service and not remain ungrateful I see in this City a thousand pretty cheap things which are brought from Cyprus Candia and Constantinople If you think fit I will send what I think fittest of them to you and my Lady d'Estissac The Carriage from hence to Lyons will cost nothing Thanks be to God I have made an end of my business and it has cost me no more than the taking out of the Bulls his Holiness having of his own good Nature given me the Composition And I believe you will find the Proceedings right enough and that I have obtain'd nothing by them but what is just and lawful But I have been oblig'd to advise very much with able Counsel that every thing might be according to due form and I dare modestly tell you that I have in a manner hardly made use of my Lord Cardinal du Bellay or my Lord Embassador tho out of their kindness they not only offer'd me their own good Word and Favour but absolutely to make use of the King's Name LETTER XIII My Lord I Have not as yet presented your first Letters to the Bishop of Saintes for he is not yet return'd from Naples whither he went as I writ to you before He is expected here within these three days Then I will give him your second and intreat an Answer of it I understand that neither he nor the Cardinals Salviati and Rodolph nor Phillip Stozzi with his Money have done any thing with the Emperor in their Affair tho they were willing to pay him a Million of Gold upon the Nail in the Name of all the Foreigners and Exiles of Florence also to finish la Rocca the Fortress begun at Florence to maintain a sufficient Garison in it for ever in the Name of the Emperor and to pay him yearly an Hundred thousand Ducates provided and upon Condition he restor'd them to their former Goods Lands and Liberty On the contrary the Duke of Florence was most honourably receiv'd by him at his arrival the Emperor went out before him and Post manus oscula he order'd him to be attended to the Castle of Capua in the same Town where his Natural Daughter has an Apartment she is affianc'd to the said Duke of Florence by the Prince of Salerne Viceroy of Naples the Marquiss de Vast the Duke D'Alva and other Principal Lords of his Court He held discourse with her as long as he staid Kiss'd her and Supp'd with her afterwards the above-mention'd Cardinals the Bishop of Xaintes and Strozzi never left solliciting The Emperor has put them off for a final Resolution to his coming to that Town to the Rocca which is a place of prodigious Strength that the Duke has built at Florence Over the Portico he has caus'd an Eagle to be painted with Wings as large as the Sails of the Wind-mills of Mirebalais thereby declaring and insinuating that he holds of no body but the Emperor And in fine he has so cunningly carried on his Tyranny that the Florentines have declar'd before the Emperor nomine Communitatis in the Name of the Commonalty that they will have no other Lord but him 'T is certain that he has severely punish'd the Foreigners and Exiles A Pasquil has been lately set up wherein 't is said To Strozzi Pugna pro patriâ Fight for thy Country To Alezander Duke of Florence Datum serva What 's given thee keep To the Emperor Quae nocitura tenes quamvis fint chara relinque Quit what will hurt thee tho 't is ne'r so dear To the King Quod potes id tenta Dare what thou canst To the Cardinals Salviati and Rodolph Hos brevitas sensus fecit conjungere bines Pure want of Sense unites these Blocks As petty Tradesmen joyn their Stocks LETTER XIV My Lord I Writ to you that the Duke of Ferrara is return'd from Naples and retir'd to Ferrara Her Highness the Lady Renee is brought to Bed of a Daughter she had another fine Daughter before between Six and Seven years of Age and a little Son of Three years old He could not agree with the Pope because he demanded an excessive Sum of Money for the Investiture of his Lands Notwithstanding he had abated fifty thousand Crowns for the love of the said Lady and this by the Solicitations of my Lords the Cardinals du Bellay and Mascon still to increase the Conjugal Affection of the said Duke towards her This was the occasion of Lyon Jamet's coming to this Town and they only differ'd for Fifteen thousand Crowns but they could not agree because the Pope would have him acknowledg that he held and possess'd all his Lands intirely in see of the Apostolical See which the other would not For he would acknowledg no more than his deceas'd Father had acknowledg'd and what the Emperor had adjudg'd at Bolonia by a Decree in the time of the deceas'd Pope Clement Thus he departed re infectâ without doing any thing and went to the Emperor who promis'd him at his coming that he would easily make the Pope consent and come to the Point contain'd in his said Decree and that he should go home leaving an Embassador with him to sollicite the Affair when he came on this side and that he should not pay the Sum already agreed upon before he heard further from him The Craft lies here that the Emperor wants Money and seeks it on all hands and Taxes all the world he can and borrows it from all Parts When he comes hither he will demand some of the Pope 't is a plain case For he will represent to him That he has made all