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A57023	Pantagruel's voyage to the oracle of the bottle being the fourth and fifth books of the works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. : with the Pantagruelian prognostication, and other pieces in verse and prose by that author : also his historical letters ... : never before printed in English / done out of French by Mr. Motteux ; with explanatory remarks on every chapter by the same hand.; Gargantua et Pantagruel. 4.-5. Livre. English	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718.	1694 (1694)	Wing R107; ESTC R2564	192,165	472

Churches and Palaces We strove to outdo one another in giving them their due when a certain Monk of Amiens Bernard Lardon by name quite angry scandaliz'd and out of all Patience told us I don't know what the Devill you can find in this same Town that 's so much to be cry'd up For my Part I have look't and por'd and stared as well as the best of you I think my Eye sight 's as clear as another body's and what can one see after all There are fine Houses indeed and that 's all But the Cage does not feed the Birds God and Monsieur St. Bernard our good Patron be with us in all this same Town I have not seen one poor Lane of roasting Cooks and yet I have not a little look'd about and sought for so necessary a part of a Commonwealth Ay and I dare assure you that I have pry'd up and down with the exactness of an Informer as ready to number both to the right and left how many and on what side we might find most roasting Cooks as a Spy would be to reckon the Bastions of a Town Now at Amiens in four nay five times less ground than we have trod in our contemplations I could have shown you above fourteen Streets of roasting Cooks most ancient Savoury and Aromatic I can't imagin what kind of pleasure you can have taken in gazing on the Lyons and Africans so methinks you call their Tigers near the Belfrey or in ogling the Porcupines and Estridges in the Lord Philip Strozzi's Palace Faith and Troth I had rather see a good fat Goose at the Spit This Porphyry those Marbles are fine I say nothing to the contrary but our Cheescakes at Amiens are far better in my mind These antient Statues are well made I am willing to believe it but by St. Ferreol of Abbeville we have young Wenches in our Country which please me better a thousand times What is the reason ask'd Fryar Ihon that Monks are always to be found in Kitchins and Kings Emperours and Popes are never there Is there not said Rhizotome some latent Vertue and specific propriety hid in the Kettles and Pans which as the Load-stone attracts Iron draws the Monks there and cannot attract Emperors Popes or Kings or is it a natural induction and inclination● fix'd in the frocks and cowles which of it self leads and forceth those good Religious Men into Kitchins whether they will or no He would speak of forms following matter as Averr●es names them answer'd Epistemon Right said Fryar Ihon. I 'll not offer to solve this problem said Pantagruel for it is somewhat ticklish and you can hardly handle it without coming off scurvily but I 'll tell you what I have heard Antigonus King of Macedon one day coming into one of the Tents where his Cooks use to dress his Meat and finding there Poet Antagoras frying a Conger and holding the pan himself merrily ask'd him Pray Mr. Poet was Homer frying Congers when he writ the Deeds of Agamemnon Antagoras readily answer'd But do you think Sir that when Agamemnon did them he made it his business to know if any in his Camp were frying Congers The King thought it an Indecency that a Poet should be thus a frying in a Kitchin and the Poet let the King know that it was a more indecent thing for a King to be found in such a place I 'll clap another story upon the Neck of this quoth Panurge and will tell you what Briton Villandray answer'd one day to the Duke of Guise They were saying that at a certain Battle of King Francis against Charles the Fifth Briton arm'd Capape to the Teeth and mounted like St. George yet sneack'd off and play'd least in sight during the Ingagement Blood and Oons answer'd Briton I was there and can prove it easily nay even where you my Lord dar'd not have been The Duke began to resent this as too rash and sawcy But Briton easily appeas'd him and set them all a laughing I gad my Lord quoth he I kept out of harm's way I was all the while with your Page Jack sculking in a certain place where you had not dar'd hide your head as I did Thus discoursing they got to their Ships and left the Island of Chely CHAP. XII How Pantagruel pass'd by the Land of Petifogging and of the strange way of living among the Catchpoles STeering our course forwards the next day we pass'd by Pettifogging a Country all blurr'd and blotted so that I could hardly tell what to make on 't There we saw some Pettifoggers and Catchpoles Rogues that will hang their Father for a Groat They neither invited us to eat or drink but with a multiplyed train of scrapes and cringes said they were all at our service for the Legem pone One of our Droggermen related to Pantagruel their strange way of living diametrically oppos'd to that of our modern Romans for at Rome a world of Folks get an honest livelyhood by Poysoning Drubbing Lambasting Stabbing and Murthering but the Catchpoles earn theirs by being Thrash'd so that if they were long without a tight Lambasting the poor Dogs with their Wives and Children would be starv'd This is just quoth Panurge like those who as Galen tells us cannot erect the Cavernous nerve towards the Equinoctial Circle unless they are soundly flogg'd By St. Patrick's Slipper who ever should jirk me so would soon in stead of setting me right throw me off the Saddle in the Devils Name The way is this said the Interpreter when a Monk Levite close fisted Usurer or Lawyer owes a grudge to some neighboring Gentleman he sends to him one of those Catchpoles or Apparitors who nabs or at least cites him serves a Writ or Warrant upon him thumps abuses and affronts him impudently by natural instinct and according to his pious instructions in so much that if the Gentleman hath but any guts in his Brains and is not more Stupid than a Girin Frog he will find himself oblig'd either to apply a faggot-stick or his sword to the Rascal 's Jobbornol give him the gentle lash or make him cut a caper out at the Window by way of Correction This done Catchpole is rich for four Months at least as if Bastinadoes were his real harvest for the Monk Levite Usurer or Lawyer will reward him roundly and my Gentleman must pay him such swindging damages that his acres may bleed for 't and he be in danger of miserably rotting within a stone Doublet as if he had struck the King Quoth Panurge I know an excellent remedy against this us'd by the Lord of Basché what is it said Pantagruel The Lord of Basché said Panurge was a brave honest noble-spirited Gentleman who at his return from the long war in which the Duke of Ferrara with the help of the French bravely defended himself against the fury of Pope Julius the II. was every day cited warn'd and prosecuted at the Suit and for the Sport and Fancy of the

ignorant hypocritical Informer who grounded a mortal heresy on an N put instead of an M by the carelesness of the Printers As much was done by his Son our most gracious virtuous and blessed Sovereign Henry whom Heaven long preserve so that he granted you his Royal privilege and particular protection for me against my slandering adversaries You kindly condescended since to confirm me these happy News at Paris and also lately when you visited my Lord Cardinal du Bellay who for the benefit of his health after a lingring distemper was retired to St. Maur that place or rather Paradise of salubrity serenity conveniency and all desireable Country-Pleasures Thus my Lord under so glorious a Patronage I am emboldened once more to draw my pen undaunted now and secure with hopes that you will still prove to me against the power of Detraction a second Galli● Hercules in Learning Prudence and Eloquence and Alexicacos in virtue power and authority you of whom I may truly say what the wise Monarch Solomon saith of Moses that great Prophet and Captain of Israel Ecclesiast 45. A Man fearing and loving God who found favour in the sight of all flesh whose memorial is blessed God made him like to the glorious Saints and magnified him so that his enemies stood in fear of him and for him made Wonders made him glorious in the sight of Kings gave him a Commandment for his People and by him shew'd his light he sanctified him in his faithfulness and meekness and chose him out of all Men. By him he made us to hear his Voice and caused by him the Law of life and knowledge to be given Accordingly if I shall be so happy as to hear any one commend those merry Composures they shall be adjur'd by me to be oblig'd and pay their thanks to you alone as also to offer their prayers to Heaven for the continuance and encrease of your Greatness and to attribute no more to me than my humble and ready obedience to your Commands For by your most honourable Incouragement you at once have inspir'd me with Spirit and with Invention and without you my heart had fail'd me and the fountain-head of my Animal Spirits had been dry May the Lord keep you in his blessed Mercy My Lord Your most Humble and most Devoted Servant FRANCIS RABELAIS Physicia● Paris this 28 of January MDLII THE AUTHOR'S PROLOGUE TO THE FOURTH BOOK GOOD People God save and keep you Where are you I can●t see you stay I 'll saddle my Nose with Spectacles Oh oh 't will be fair anon I see you Well you have had a good Vintage they say this is 〈◊〉 bad News to Frank you may swear 〈◊〉 have got an infallible Cure against Thirst rarely perform'd of you my Friends You your Wives Children Friends and Families are in as good Case as heart can wish 't is well ' ●● as I 'd have it God be praised for it and if such be his will may you long 〈◊〉 so For my part I am thereabout● thanks to his blessed Goodness and by the means of a little Pantagruelism which you know is a certain Jollity of Mind pickled in the scorn of Fortune you see me now Hale and Cheery as sound as a Bell and ready to drink if you will Would you know why I 'm thus Good People I 'll e'en give you a positive answer such ●s the Lord's Will which I obey and revere it being said in his word in great Derision to the Physician neglectful of his own Health Physician heal thy self Galen had some knowledge of the Bible and had convers'd with the Christians of his time as appears Lib. 11. De Usu Partium Lib. 2. de differentiis Pulsuum cap. 3 and ibid. Lib. 3. cap. 2. and Lib. de rerum affectibus if it be Galen's Yet 't was not for any such Veneration of Holy-Writ that he took Care of his own Health No 't was for fear of being twitted with the saying so well known among Physicians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He boasts of healing Poor and Rich Yet is himself all over Itch. This made him boldly say that he did not desire to be esteem'd a Physician if from his twenty eighth Year to his old Age he had not liv'd in perfect health except some ephemerous Fevers of which he soon rid himself Yet he was not naturally of the soundest Temper his Stomach being evidently bad Indeed as he saith Lib. 5. de Sanitate tuendâ that Physician will hardly be thought very carefull of the health of others who neglects his own Asclepiades boasted yet more than this for he said that he had articled with Fortune not to be reputed a Physician if he could be said to have been sick since he began to practise Physic to his latter Age which he reach'd lusty in all his Members and Victorious over Fortune till at last the Old Gentleman unluckily tumbled down from the Top of a certain ill-propt and rotten Stair-Case and so there was an end of him If by some Disaster Health is fled from your Worships to the right or to the left above or below before or behind within or without far or near on this side or t'other side wheresoever it be may you presently with the help of the Lord meet with it having found it may you immediately claim it seize it and secure it The Law allows it the King would have it so nay you have my advice for 't neither more nor less than the Law-Makers of Old did fully impower a Master to claim and seize his run-away Servant whereever he might be found Ods-bodikins is it not written and warranted by the Ancient Customs of this so Noble so rich so flourishing Realm of France That the Dead seizes the Quick See what has been Declar'd very lately in that Point by that Learned Wise Courteous and Just Civiilan Andrè Tiraquell one of the Judges in the most Honourable Court of Parliament at Paris Heal●● is our Life as Antiphron the Sicyonian wisely has it without Health Life is no Life 't is not living Life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Without Health Life is only a Languishment and an Image of Death Therefore you that want your Health that is to say that are Dead Seize the Quick secure Life to your selves that is to say Health I have this hope in the Lord that he will hear our Supplications considering with what Faith and Zeal we Pray and that he will grant this our Wi●e because 't is moderate and mean Medi●●rity was held by the ancient Sages to be Golden that is to say precious prais'd by all Men and pleasing in all Places Read the Sacred Bible you 'll find the Prayers of those who ask'd moderately were never unanswer'd For example little dapper Zacheus whose Body and Reliques the Monks of St. Garlick near Orleans boast of having and nick-name him St. Sylvanus he only wish'd to see our Blessed Saviour near Jerusalem 'T was but a small Request and no more