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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

Thinking they might be related to the Catchpole that was bastinado'd We ask'd them the occasion of their grief They reply'd That they had too much cause to weep for that very hour from an exalted Triple Tree two of the honestest Gentlemen in Catchpoleland had been made to cut a Caper on nothing Cut a Caper on nothing said Gymnast my Pages use to cut Capers on the Ground to cut a Caper on nothing should be hanging and choaking or I am out Ay ay said Fryar Jhon you speak of it like St. John de la Palisse We ask'd them why they treated those worthy Persons with such a choaking Hempen Sallat They told us they had only borrow'd alias stol'n the Tools of the Mass and hid them under the handle of the Parish This is a very Allegorical way of speaking said Epistemon CHAP. XVII How Pantagruel came to the Island of Tohu and Bohu and of the strange death of Widenostrils the Swallower of Windmills THAT day Pantagruel came to the two Islands of Tohu and Bohu where the Devill a bit we could find any thing to fry with For one Widenostrils a huge Giant had swallowed every individual Pan Skillet Kettle frying-Pan dripping-Pan and Brass and Iron Pot in the Land for want of Windmils which were his daily food Whence it happen'd that somewhat before Day about the hour of his digestion the greedy Churle was taken very ill with a kind of a Surfeit or Crudity of stomach occasion'd as the Physicians said by the weakness of the concocting faculty of his stomach naturally dispos'd to digest whole Windmils at a gust yet unable to consume perfectly the Pans and Skillets though it had indeed pretty well digested the Kettles and Pots as they said they kn●w by the Hypostases and Encoresmes of four Tubs of second hand Drink which he had evacuated at two different times that morning They made use of diverse remedies according to art to give him ease But all would not do the Distemper prevail'd over the remedies in so much that the famous Widenostrils dy'd that morning of so strange a death that I think you ought no longer to wonder at that of the Poet Aeschylus's It had been foretold him by the Sooth-sayers that he would dye on a certain Day by the ruin of something that should fall on him that fatal day being come in its Turn he remov'd himself out of Town far from all Houses Trees or any other things that can fall and indanger by their ruin and stay'd in a large field trusting himself to the open Sky there very secure as he thought unless indeed the Sky should happen to fall which he held to be impossible Yet they say that the Larks are much afraid of it for if it should fall they must all be taken The Celix that once liv'd near the Rhine they are our noble valiant French in ancient times were also afraid of the Sky's falling for being ask'd by Alexander the great what they fear'd most in this World hoping well they would say that they fear'd none but him considering his great Atchievements they made answer That they fear'd nothing but the Sky's falling however not refusing to enter into a confederacy with so brave a King If you believe Strabo Lib. 7. and Arrian Lib. 1. Plutarch also in his book of the Face that appears on the body of the Moon speaks of one Phoenaces who very much fear'd the Moon should fall on Earth and pity'd those that live under that Planet as the Aethiopians and Taprobanians if so heavy a Mass ever happened to fall on them and would have fear'd the like of Heaven and Earth had they not been duely propt up and born by the Atlantic Pillars as the ancients believ'd according to Aristotles testimony Lib. 5. Metaphis Notwithstanding all this poor Aeschylus was kill'd by the fall of the shell of a Tortoise which falling from betwixt the Claws of an Eagle high in the Air just on his head dash'd out his brains Neither ought you to wonder at the death of another Poet I mean old Jolly Anacreon who was choak'd with a grape-stone nor at that of Fabius the Roman Praetor who was smothered with a single Goat's-hair as he was supping up a porringer of Milk Nor at the death of that bashfull Fool who by holding in his Wind and for want of letting out a Bumgunshot dy'd suddenly in the presence of the Emperor Claudius Nor at that of the Italian buried on the Via Flaminia at Rome who in his Epitaph complains that the bite of a she-Puss on his little Finger was the cause of his death Nor of that of Q. Lecanius Bassus who dyed suddenly of so small a prick with a needle on his left thumb that it could hardly be descern'd Nor of Quenelault a Norman Physician who dy'd suddenly at Montpellier meerely for having sideways took a worm out of his hand with a Pen-knife Nor of Philomenes whose Servant having got him some new Figs for the first course of his dinner whilst he went to fetch wine a straggling welhung Ass got into the House and seeing the figs on the Table without further invitation soberly fell to Philomenes coming into the Room and nicely observing with what gravity the Ass eat its Dinner said to his Man who was come back since thou hast set figs here for this reverent Guest of ours to eat methinks it 's but reason thou also give him some of this Wine to drink He had no sooner said this but he was so excessively pleased and fell into so exorbitant a fit of Laughter that the use of his spleen took that of his breath utterly away and he immediately dy'd Nor of Spurius Saufeius who dy'd supping up a soft Egg as he came out of a bath Nor of him who as Boccace tells us dy'd suddenly by picking his grinders with a Sage-stalk Nor of Philipot Placut who being brisk and hale fell dead as he was paying and old debt which causes perhaps many not to pay theirs for fear of the like accident Nor of the Painter Zeuxis who kill'd himself with laughing at the sight of the Antick Jobbernol of an old hagg drawn by him Nor in short of a thousand more of which Authors write as Verrius Pliny Valerius J. Baptista Fulgosius and Bacabery the elder In short Gaffer Widenostrils choak'd himself with eating a huge lump of fresh Butter at the mouth of a hot Oven by the advice of Physicians They likewise told us there that the King of Cullan in Bohu had routed the Grandees of King Mecloth and made sad work with the Fortresses of Belima After this we sail'd by the Islands of Nargues and Zargues also by the Islands of Teleniabin and Geneliabin very fine and fruitful in Ingredients for Clysters and then by the islands of ●nig and Evig on whose account formerly the Landgrave of Hesse was swindg'd off with a vengeance CHAP. XVIII How Pantagruel met with a great Storm at Sea THe next day we espied

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