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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

and would have been gone had not Epistemon prevail'd with him to stay and see the End of the Farce he then ask'd the Skipper what the idle Lobcocks us'd to sacrifice to their gorbellied God on interlarded Fish-days For his first Course said the Skipper they give him Caviar Botargoes Fresh Butter Pease soupe Spinage Fresh Herrings full-roed Salats a hundred Varieties of Creeses sodden Hop-tops Bishops-Cods Sellery Sives Rampions Jew's-Ears a sort of Mushrooms that sprout out of old Elders Sparagus Woodbind and a World of others Red-herrings Pilchards Anchovies Fry of Tunny Colly flowers Beans Salt Salmon Pickled Griggs Oysters in the Shell Then he must drink or the Devil would gripe him at the Throat This therefore they take care to prevent and nothing's wanting Which being done they give him Lampreys with Hippocras sawce Gurna●ds Salmon-Trouts Barbels great and small Roaches Cockrells Menews Thornbacks Sleeves Sturgeons Sheath fish Mackerels Maids Plaice Fry'd Oysters Cockles Prawnes Smelts Rock fish Gracious Lords Sword fish Skate-fish Lamprills ●●gs Pickerells Golden Carps Burbates Salmons Salmon-perls Dolphins Barn Trouts Miller's-Thumbs Preeks Bret-fish Flounders Sea nettles Mullets Gudgeons Dabs and Sandings Haddocks Carpes Pyk●s Bot●toes Rochets Sea-Bears Sharplings Tunnyes Silver Eels Chevins Cray-fish Pallours Shrimps Congers Porposes Bases Shads Murenes a sort of Lampreys Graylings Smys Turbots Trouts not above a foot long Salmons Meagers Sea-Breams Halibuts Soles Dog's tongue or Kind-fool Muskles Lobsters Great-Prawnes Dace Bleaks Tenches Ombers Fresh Cods Dried Melwells Darefish Fausens and Griggs Eel-pouts Tortoises Serpents i. e. Wood-Eeles Dorces Moor-game Pearches Loaches Crab fish Snails and Whelks Froggs If when he had cramm'd all this down his Guttural Trap-door he did not immediately make the Fish swim again in his Paunch Death would pack him off in a trice Special care is taken to Antidote his Godship with Vine-tree-Syrup Then is Sacrific'd to him Haberdines Poor-Jack minglemangled mishmash'd c. Eggs fry'd beaten butter'd poach'd hardened boyl'd broyl'd stew'd slic'd roasted in the Embers toss'd in the Chimney c. Stock fish Green fish Sea-Batts Cod's-Ounds Sea-Pikes Which to concoct and digest the more easily Vinegar is Multiply'd For the latter part of their Sacrifices they offer Rice Milk and hasty Pudding Butter'd Wheat and Flummery Watergruel and Milk-Porradge Frumenty and Bony-claber Stew'd Prunes and bak'd Bullies Pistachoes or Fistick-Nuts Figgs Almond-Butter Skirret-Root White-Pot Raisins Dates Chestnuts and Wallnuts Filberds Parsenips Artichoakes Perpetuity of Soaking with the whole 'T was none of their Fault I 'll assure you if this same God of theirs was not publickly preciously and plentifully serv'd in his Sacrifices better yet than Heliogabalus's Idol nay more than Bell and the Dragon in Babylon under King Balshazzar Yet Gaster had the Manners to own that he was no God but a poor vile wretched Creature And as King Antigonus first of the Name when one Hermodotus as Poets will flatter espepecially Princes in some of his Fustian dubb'd him a God and made the Sun adopt him for his Son said to him My Lasanophore or in plain English my Groom of the Close stool can give thee the Lye so Master Gaster very civilly us'd to send back his Bigotted Worshipers to his Close-stool to see smell taste philosophise and examin what kind of Divinity they could pick out of his Sir-reverence CHAP. LXI How Gaster invented Means to get and preserve Corn. THose Gastrolatrous Hobgoblins being withdrawn Pantagruel carefully minded the Famous Master of Arts Gaster You know that by the Institution of Nature Bread has been assign'd him for Provision and Food and that as an addition to this Blessing he should never want the means to get Bread Accordingly from the beginning he invented the Smith's Art and Husbandry to manure the ground that it might yield him Corn he invented Arms and the Art of War to defend Corn Physick and Astronomy with other parts of Mathematicks which might be useful to keep Corn a great number of years in safety from the injuries of the Air Beasts Robbers and Purloiners he invented Water Wind and Hand-Mills and a thousand other Engines to grind Corn and turn it into Meal Leaven to make the Dough ferment and the use of Salt to give it a savour for he knew that nothing bred more Diseases than heavy unleaven'd unsavoury Bread He found a way to get Fire to Bake it Hour-glasses Dials and Clocks to mark the time of its Baking and as some Countries wanted Corn he contriv'd means to convey some out of one Country into another He had the Wit to Pimp for Asses and Mares Animals of different species that they might Copulate for the Generation of a third which we call Mules more strong and fit for hard service than the other two He invented Carts and Waggons to draw him along with greater ease and as Seas and Rivers hindred his Progress he devis'd Boats Gallies and Ships to the astonishment of the Elements to waft him over to barbarous unknown and far distant Nations thence to bring or thither to carry Corn. Besides seeing that when he had tilled the ground some years the Corn perish'd in it for want of Rain in due season in others rotted or was drown'd by its excess sometimes spoil'd by Hail eat by Worms in the Ear or beaten down by Storms and so his Stock was destroy'd on the ground we were told that ever since the days of Yore he has found out a way to Conjure the Rain down from Heaven only with cutting certain Grass common enough in the Field yet known to very few some of which was then shown us I took it to be the same as the Plant one of whose Boughs being dipp'd by Jove's Priest into the Agrian Fountain on the Lycian Mountain in Arcadia in time of Drought rais'd Vapours which gather'd into Clouds and then dissolv'd into Rain that kindly moisten'd the whole Country Our Master of Arts was also said to have found a way to keep the Rain up in the Air and make it fall into the Sea also to annihilate the Hail suppress the Winds and remove Storms as the Methanensians of Troezene us'd to do And as in the Fields Thieves and Plunderers sometimes stole and took by force the Corn and Bread which others had toyl'd to get he invented the Art of Building Towns Forts and Castles to hoard and secure that staff of Life on the other hand finding none in the Fields and hearing that it was hoarded up and secur'd in Towns Forts and Castles and watch'd with more care than ever were the Golden Pippins of the Hesperides he turn'd Ingenier and found ways to beat storm and demolish Forts and Castles with Machines and Warlike Thunderbolts battering Rams Balists and Catapults whose shapes were shown us not over-well understood by our Ingeniers Architects and other Disciples of Vitruvius as Master Philebert de l'Orme King Megistus's principal Architect has own'd to us And seeing that sometimes all these Tools of Destruction were baffled by the cunning subtilty