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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

quoth Friar Ihon when you are Sped that is when you are Married we 'll make a Tryal of this on thy Spouse meerly for Charity-sake since you are pleas'd to give us so beneficial an Instruction Ay ay return'd Panurge and then immediately I 'll give you a pretty gentle Agregative Pill of God made up of two and twenty kind Stabs with a Dagger after the Cesarian way Cat ' so cry'd Friar Ihon I had rather take off a Bumper of good cool Wine I saw there the golden Fleece formerly conquer'd by Jason and can assure you on the word of an honest man that those who have said it was not a Fleece but a golden Pippin because 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies both an Apple and a Sheep were utterly mistaken I saw also a Chameleon such as Aristotle describes it and like that which had been formerly show'd me by Charles Maris a famous Physician of the noble City of I●ons on the Rosne and the said Chameleon liv'd on air just as the other did I saw three Hydra's like those I had formerly seen They are a kind of a Serpent with seven different Heads I saw allso fourteen Phoenixes I had read in many Authors that there was but one in the whole World in every Century but if I may presume to speak my mind I declare that those who said this had never seen any unless it were in the land of Tapestry tho 't were vouch'd by Claudian or Lactantius Firmianus I saw the Skin of Apuleius's golden Ass I saw three hundred and nine Pelicans Item Six thousand and sixteen Seleucid Birds marching in Battalia and picking up stragling Grashoppers in Corn-Fields Item Some Cynamologi Argatiles Caprimulgi Thynnunculs Onocrotals or Bitterns with their wide Swallows Stymphalides Harpies Panthers Dorcas's or Bucks Cemas's Cynocephalis's Satyrs Cartasons Tarands Uri Monops's or Bonasi Neades Stera's Marmosets or Monkeys Bugles Musimons Byturos's Ophyri Scriech Owls Goblins Fairies and Gryphins I saw Mid-Lent o' horseback with Mid-August and Mid-March holding its Stirrups I saw some Mankind-Wolves Centaurs Tigers Leopards Hyena's Camelopardals and Orix's or huge wild Goats with sharp Horns I saw a Remora a little Fish call'd Echineis by the Greeks and near it a tall Ship that did not get o' head an inch tho she was in the Offin with Top and Top-gallants spread before the Wind I am somewhat inclind to believe that 't was the very numerical Ship in which Periander the Tyrant happen'd to be when it was stopt by such a little Fish in spight of Wind and Tide 'T was in this Land of Satin and in no other that Mutianus had seen one of them Fryar Ihon told us that in the days of Yore two sorts of Fishes us'd to abound in our Courts of Judicature and rotted the Bodies and tormented the Souls of those who were at Law whether noble or of mean Descent high or low rich or poor the first were your April Fish or Makerel Pimps Panders and Bawds the others your beneficial Remorae's that is the Eternity of Law-Suits the needless Lets that keep 'em undecided I saw some Sphynges some Raphes some Oinces and some Cepphi whose fore-feet are like Hands and their hind-feet like Man's Aso some Crocuta's and some Eales as big as Sea-horses with Elephant's Tails Boar's Jaws and Tusks and Horns as pliant as an Asse's Ears The Crocuta's most fleet Animals as big as our Asses of Mirebalais have Necks Tails and Breasts like a Lyon's Legs like a Stag's have Mouths up to the Ears and but two Teeth one above and one below they speak with human Voices but when they do they say nothing Some people say that none e're saw an Airy or Nest of Sakers If you 'll believe me I saw no less than Eleven and I 'm sure I reckon'd right I saw some left-handed Halberts which were the first that I had ever seen I saw some Menticores a most strange sort of Creatures which have the Body of a Lyon red Hair a Face and Ears like a man's three Rows of Teeth which close together as if you join'd your hands with your fingers between each other they have a Sting in their Tails like a Scorpions and a very melodious Voice I saw some Catablepas's a sort of Serpents whose Bodies are small but their Heads large without any Proportion so that they 've much ado to lift them up and their Eyes are so infectious that whoever sees 'em dies upon the spot as if he had seen a Basilisk I saw some Beasts with two Backs and those seem'd to me the merriest Creatures in the World they were most nimble at wriggling the Buttocks and more diligent in Tail wagging than any Water-wagtails perpetually jogging and shaking their double Rumps I saw there some milch'd Craw-fish Creatures that I never had heard of before in my Life and these mov'd in very good order and 't would have done your heart good to have seen ' em CHAP. XXXI How in the Land of Satin we saw Hear-say who kept a School of Vouching WE went a little higher up into the Country of Tapistry and saw the Mediterranean Sea open'd to the Right and left down to the very bottom just as the Red-Sea very fairly left its bed at the Arabian Gulph to make a Lane for the Jews when they left Egypt There I found Triton winding his silver Shell instead of a Horn and also Glaucus Proteus Nereus and a thousand other Godlings and Sea-monsters I also saw an infinite number of Fish of all kinds dancing flying vaulting fighting eating breathing billing shoving milting spawning hunting fishing skirmishing lying in Ambuscado making Truces cheapning bargaining swearing and sporting In a blind Corner we saw Aristotle holding a Lantern in the Posture in which the Hermit uses to be drawn near St. Christopher watching prying thinking and setting every thing down Behind him stood a Pack of other Philosophers like so many Bums by a Head-Bailiff as Appian Heliodorus Athenaeus Porphyrius Pancrates Archadian Numenius Possidonius Ovidius Opianus Olympius Selenus Leonides Agathocles Theophrastus Demostratus Metianus Nymphodorus Aelian and five hundred other such plodding Dons who were full of business yet had little to do like Chryfippus or Aristarchus of Soli who for eight and fifty years together did nothing in the world but examin the state and concerns of Bees I spy'd Peter Gilles among these with an Urinal in his hand narrowly watching the water of those goodly Fishes When we had long beheld every thing in this Land of Satin Pantagruel said I have sufficiently fed my Eyes but my Belly is empty all this while and chimes to let me know 't is time to go to dinner Let 's take care of the Body left the Soul abdicate it and to this effect let 's taste some of these Anacampserotes that hang over our heads Pshaw cry'd one they are meer Trash stark naught o' my word they 're good for nothing I then went to pluck some Mirabolans off of a Piece

of Tapistry whereon they hang'd but the Devil a bit I could chew or swallow 'em and had you had them betwixt your Teeth you would have sworn they had been thrown Silk there was no manner of savour in ' em One might be apt to think Heliogabalus had taken a Hint from thence to feast those whom he had caus'd to fast a long time promising them a sumptuous plentiful and imperial Feast after it For all the Treat us'd to amount to no more than several sorts of Meat in Wax Marble Earthen-Ware painted and figur'd Table-Cloths While we were looking up and down to find some more substantial Food we heard a loud various noise like that of Paper-mills so with all speed we went to the place whence the noise came where we found a diminitive monstrous mishapen old Fellow call'd Hear-say his Mouth was slit up to his Ears and in it were seven Tongues each of 'em cleft into seven parts However he chatter'd tattled and prated with all the seven at once of different Matters and in divers Languages He had as many Ears all-over his head and the rest of his body as Argus formerly had Eyes and was as blind as a Beetle and had the Palsie in his Legs About him stood an innumerable number of men and women gaping list'ning and hearing very intensely among 'em I observ'd some who strutted like Crows in a Gutter and principally a very handsome bodied man in the Face who held then a Map of the World and with little Aphorisms compendiously explain'd every thing to 'em so that those men of happy Memories grew learned in a Trice and would most fluently talk with you of a world of prodigious Things the hundredth part of which would take up a man's whole Life to be fully known Among the rest they descanted with great Prolixity on the Pyramids and Hieroglyphics of Egypt of the Nile of Babylon of the Troglodytes the Hymantopodes or Crumpfooted Nation the Blaemiae People that wear their Heads in the middle of their Breasts the Pygmies the Cannibals the Hyperborei and their Mountains the Aegypanes with their Goat's-feet and the Devil and all of others Every individual word of it by Hear-say I am much mistaken if I did not see among them Herodotus Pliny Solinus Berofus Philostratus Pomponius Mela Strabo and God knows how many other Antiquaries Then Albert the great Jacobin-Fryar Peter Tesmoin alias Witness Pope Pius the Second Volaterran Paulius Jovus the Valiant Jemmy Cartier Chaton the Armenian Marco Paulo the Venetian Ludovico Romano Pedro Aliares and forty Cart-loads of other modern Historians lurking behind a piece of Tapistry where they were at it ding-dong privately scribling the Lord knows what and making rare work on 't and all by Hear-say Behind another piece of Tapistry on which Naboth's and Susanna's Accusers were fairly represented I saw close by Hear-say good store of men of the Country of Perche and Maine notable Students and young enough I ask'd what sort of study they apply'd themselves to and was told that from their youth they learn'd to be Evidences Affidavit-men and Vouchers and were instructed in the Art of Swearing in which they soon became such Proficients that when they left that Country and went back into their own they set up for themselves and very honestly liv'd by their Trade of Evidencing Positively giving their Testimony of all things whatsoever to those who feed them most roundly to do a Job of Journey work for them and all this by Hear-say You may think what you will of it but I can assure you they gave some of us Corners of their Cakes and we merrily help'd to empty their Hogsheads Then in a friendly manner they advis'd us to be as sparing of Truth as possibly we could if ever we had 〈◊〉 mind to get Court-preferment CHAP. XXXII How we came in sight of Lantern-Land HAving been but scurvily entertain'd in the Land of Satin we went o' board and having set Sail in four days came near the Coast of Lantern-Land We then saw certain little hovering Fires on the Sea For my part I did not take them to be Lanterns but rather thought they were Fishes which loll'd their flaming Tongues on the surface of the Sea or Lampyris's which some call Cicindela's or Glow-worms shining there as ripe Barley do's o' nights in my Country But the Skipper satisfy'd us that they were the Lanterns of the Watch or more properly Light-houses set up in many places round the Precinct of the Place to discover the Land and for the safe Piloting in of some outlandish Lanterns which like good Franciscan and Jacobin Fryars were coming to make their personal Appearance at the Provincial Chapter However some of us were somewhat suspicious that these Fires were the forerunners of some Storm but the Skipper assur'd us again they were not CHAP. XXXIII How we Landed at the Port of the Lychnobii and came to Lantern-land SOon after we arriv'd at the Port of Lantern-land where Pantagruel discover'd on a high Tower the Lantern of Rochel that stood us in good stead for it casted a great light We also saw the Lantern of Pharos that of Nauplion and that of Acropolis at Athens sacred to Pallas Near the Port there 's a little Hamblet inhabited by the Lychnobii that live by Lanterns as the gulligutted Friars in our Country live by Nuns They are studious People and as honest Men as ever shit in a Trumpet Demosthenes had formerly lanternis'd there We were conducted from that place to the Palace by three Obeliscolichnys Military-Guards of the Port with high-crown'd Hats whom we acquainted with the cause of our Voyage and our Design which was to desire the Queen of the Country to grant us a Lantern to light and conduct us during our Voyage to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle They promis'd to assist us in this and added that we could never have come in a better time for then the Lanterns held their Provincial Chapter When we came to the Royal Palace we had Audience of her Highness the Queen of Lanternland being introduc'd by two Lanterns of Honour that of Aristophanes and that of Cleanthes Mistresses of the Ceremonies Panurge in few words acquainted her with the Causes of our Voyage and she receiv'd us with great Demonstrations of Friendship desiring us to come to her at Supper-time that we might more easily make choice of one to be our guide which pleas'd us extreamly We did not fail to observe intensely every thing we could see as the Garbs Motions and Deportment of the Queens subjects principally the manner after which she was serv'd The bright Queen was dress'd in Virgin Christal of Tutia wrought Damask-wife and beset with large Diamonds The Lanterns of the Royal Blood were clad partly with Bastard-diamonds partly with Diaphanous Stones the rest with Horn Paper and Oyl'd-cloath The Cresset-lights took place according to the Antiquity and Lustre of their Families An Earthen-dark-lantern shap'd like a Pot

Ringing Island and indeed we heard a kind of a confus'd and often-repeated Noise that seem'd to us at a great distance not unlike the sound of great middle-siz'd and little Bells rung all at once as 't is customary at Paris Tours Gergeau Nantes and elsewhere on high Holidays and the nearer we came to the Land the louder we heard that Jangling Some of us doubted that this was the Dodonoan Kettles or the Portico call'd Heptaphone in Olympia or the Eternal humming of the Colossus rais'd on Memnon's Tomb in Thebes of Egypt or the horrid Din that us'd formerly to be heard about a Tomb at Lipara one of the Eolian Islands But this did not square with Chorography I don't know said Pantagruel but that some swarms of Bees here abouts may be taking a Ramble in the Air and so the Neighbourhood make this dingle dangle with Pans Kettles and Basons the Co●ibanting Cimbals of Cybele Grand-Mother of the gods to call them back Let 's harken when we were nearer among the everlasting Ringing we heard the indefatigable Singing as we thought of some Men. For this Reason before we offer'd to Land on the Ringing Island Pantagruel was of opinion that we should go in the Pinnace to a small Rock near which we discover'd an Hermitage and a little Garden There we found a diminutive old Hermit whose name was Braguibus born at Glenay He gave us a full Account of all the Jangling and regal'd us after a strange sort of a fashion four live-long-days did he make us fast assuring us That we should not be admitted into the Ringing Island otherwise because 't was then one of the four Fasting or Ember-Weeks As I love my Belly quoth Panurge I by no means understand this Riddle methinks this should rather be one of the four Windy-weeks for while we fast we are only puff'd up with wind Pray now good Father Hermit have not you here some other pastime besides Fasting methinks 't is somewhat of the leanest we might well enough be without so many Palace-holidays and those fasting Times of yours In my Donatus quoth Fryar Ihon I could find yet but three Times or Tenses the Preterit the Present and the Future doubtless here the fourth ought to be a work of Supererogation That Time or Tense said Epistemon is Aorist deriv'd from the Preterimperfect Tense of the Greeks admitted in War and odd Cases Patience per force is a Remedy for a Mad dog Saith the Hermit 't is as I told you fatal to go against this whoever does it is a rank Heretick and wants nothing but Fire and Faggot that 's certain To deal plainly with you my dear Pater cri'd Panurge being at Sea I much more fear being wet than being warm and being drown'd than being burnt Well however let us fast a God's Name yet I have fasted so long that it has quite undermin'd my Flesh and I fear that at last the Bastions of this Bodily Fort of mine will fall to ruin Besides I am much more affraid of vexing you in this same Trade of Fasting for the Devil a bit I understand any thing in it and it becomes me very scurvily as several People have told me and I am apt to believe them For my part I have no great Stomach to Fasting for alas 't is as easy as pissing a Bed and a Trade of which any body may set up there needs no Tools I am much more inclin'd not to fast for the future for to do so there 's some Stock requir'd and some Tools are set a work No matter since you are so stedfast and have us fast let 's fast as fast as we can and then breakfast in the name of Famine now we are come to these esurial idle Days I vow I had quite put them out of my head long ago If we must fast said Pantagruel I see no other Remedy but to get rid of it as soon as we can as we would out of a bad way I 'll in that space of time somewhat look over my Papers and examine whether the Marine Study be as good as ours at Land For Plato to describe a silly raw ignorant Fellow compares him to those that are bred on Ship-board as we would do to one bred up in a Barrel who never saw any thing but through the Bunghole To tell you the short and long of the matter our Fasting was most hideous and terrible for the first day we fasted at Fisticuffs the second at Cudgels the third at Sharps and the fourth at Blood and Wounds such was the Order of the Fairies CHAP. II. How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines who were become Birds HAving fasted as aforesaid the Hermit gave us a Letter for one whom he call'd Albiam Camar Master Aedituus of the Ringing Island but Panurge greeting him call'd him Master Antitus He was a little quear old Fellow bald pated with a Snout whereat you might easily have lighted a Card-match and a Phiz as red as a Cardinal's Cap. He made us all very wellcome upon the Hermits Recommendation hearing that we had fasted as I have told you When we had well-stuff'd our Puddings he gave us an Account of what was Remarkable in the Island affirming That it had been at first inhabited by the Siticines but that according to the course o● Nature as all things you know are subject to change they were become Birds There I had a full Account of all that Atteius Capito Paulus Marcellus A. Gellius Atheneus Suidas Ammonius and others had writ of the Siticines and Sicinnists and then we thought we might as easily believe the Transmutations of Nectimene Progne Itys Alcyone Antigone Tereus and other Birds Nor did we think it more reasonable to doubt of the Transmogrification of the Macrobian Children into Swans or that of the Men of Pallene in Thrace into Birds as soon as they have bath'd themselves in the Tritonie Lake After this the Devil a word we could get out of him but of Birds and Cages The Cages were spacious costly magnificent and of an admirable Architecture The Birds were large fine and neat accordingly looking as like the men in my Country as one Pea do's like another for they eat and drank like men muted like men endued or digested like men farted like men but stunk like Devils slept bill'd and trod their Females like men but somewhat oftener in short had you seen and examin'd 'em from Top to Toe you would have laid your head to a Turnip that they had been meer men However they were nothing less as Master Aedituus told us assuring us at the same time that they were neither Secular nor Layick and ' truth is the diversity of their Feathers and Plumes did not a little puzzle us Some of them were all over as white as Swans others as black as Crows many as grey as Owls others black and white like Magpyes some all red like Red-birds and others purple and white like some Pigeons He

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

against its being supprest tho I think that time is at hand I know they will and have heard 'em say Were it not for Lent their Art would soon fall into Contempt and they 'd get nothing for hardly any Body would be sick All Distempers are sow'd in Lent 't is the true Seminary and native Bed of all Diseases nor do's it only weaken and putrifie Bodies but it also makes Souls mad and uneasy For then the Devils do their best and drive a subtle Trade and the Tribe of canting Dissemblers come out of their holes 'T is then Term-time with your cucullated Pieces of Formality that have one Face to God and another to the Devil and a wretched clutter they make with their Sessions Stations Pardons Syntereses Confessions Whipping Anathematizations and much Prayer with as little Devotion However I 'll not offer to infer from this that the Arimaspians are better than we are in that Point yet I speak to the purpose Well quoth Panurge to the Semiquaver Fryar who happen'd to be by Dear bumbasting shaking trilling quavering Cod what think'st thou of this Fellow is he a rank Heretic Fry Much. Pan. Ought he not to be sindg'd Fry Well Pan. As soon as may be Fry Right Pan. Should not he be scalded first Fry No. Pan. How then should he be roasted Fry Quick Pan. Till at last he be Fry Dead Pan. What has he made you Fry Mad. Pan. What d' ye take him to be Fry Damn'd Pan. What place is he to go to Fry Hell Pan. But first how would you have 'em serv'd here Fry Burnt Pan. Some have been serv'd so Fry Store Pan. That were Heretics Fry Less Pan. And the number of those that are t● be warm'd thus hereafter is Fry Great Pan. How many of 'em d' ye intend to save Fry None Pan. So you 'd have them burnt Fry All. I wonder said Epistemon to Panurge what pleasure you can find in talking thus with this lowsy Tatterdemallion of a Monk I vow did not I know you well I might be ready to think you had no more wit in your head than he has in both his shoulders Come come scatter no words return'd Panurge every one as they like as the Woman said when she kiss'd her Cow I wish I might carry him to Gargantua when I 'm married he might be my Wife's Fool. And make you one cry'd Epistemon Well said quoth Fryar Ihon now poor Panurge take that along with thee thou' rt e'en fitted 't is a plain case thou 'lt never scape wearing the Bull 's Feather thy Wife will be as common as the high-way that 's certain CHAP. XXX How we came to the Land of Satin HAving pleas'd our selves with observing that new Order of Semiquaver Fryars we set Sail and in three days our Skippermade the finest and most delightful Island that ever was seen he call'd it the Island of Frize for all the ways were of Frize In that Island is the Land of Satin so celebrated by our Court Pages Its Trees and Shrubs never lose their Leaves or Flowers and are all Damask and flower'd Velvet As for the Beasts and Birds they are all of Tapestry-work There we saw many Beasts Birds and Trees of the same Colour Bigness and Shape of those in our Country with this difference however that these did eat nothing and never sung or bit like ours and we also saw there many sorts of Creatures which we had never seen before Among the rest several Elephants in various Postures twelve of which were the six Males and six Females that were brought to Rome by their Governour in the Time of Germanicus Tiberius's Nephew some of them were Learned Elephants some Musicians others Philosophers Dancers and Showers of Tricks and all sat down at Table in good Order silently eating and drinking like so many Fathers in a Fratry-room With their Snouts or Proboscis's some two Cubits long they draw up water for their own drinking and take hold of Palm Leaves Plumbs and all manner of Edibles using them offensively or defensively as we do our Fists with them tossing men high into the Air in Fight and making them burst out with laughing when they come to the ground They have Joints whatever some men who doubtless never saw any but Painted may have written to the contrary Between their Teeth they have two huge Horns thus Juba call'd 'em and Pausanias tells us they are no Teeth but Horns However Philostratus will have 'em to be Teeth and not Horns 'T is all one to me provided you will be pleas'd to own them to be true Ivory These are some three or four Cubits long and are fixt in the upper Jaw-bone and consequently not in the lowermost If you hearken to those who will tell you the contrary you 'll find your selves damnably mistaken for that 's a Lye with a Latchet Tho 't were Aelia● that Long-Bow-man that told you so never believe him for he lyes as fast as a Dog can trot 'T was in this very Island that Pliny his Brother tell-truth had seen some Elephants dance on the Rope with Bells and whip over the Tables Presto be gone while people were at Feasts without so much as touching the Toping Topers or the Topers toping I saw a Rhinoceros there just such a one as Harry Clerberg had formerly shew'd me methought it was not much unlike a certain Boar which I had formerly seen at Limoges except the sharp Horn on its Snout that was about a Cubit long by the means of which that Animal dares encounter with an Elephant that is sometimes kill'd with its Point thrust into its Belly which is its most tender and defenceless part I saw there two and thirty Unicorns they are a curst sort of Creatures much resembling a fine Horse unless it be that their Heads are like a Stags their Feet like an Elephants their Tails like a wild Boar's and out of each of their Foreheads sprouts out a sharp black Horn some six or seven Foot long commonly it dangles down like a Turkey-Cock's Comb. When an Unicorn has a mind to fight or put it to any other use what does it do but make it stand and then 't is as straight as an Arrow I saw one of them which was attended with a Throng of other wild Beasts purify a Fountain with its Horn. With that Panurge told me that his Prancer alias his Nimble-Wimble was like the Unicorn not altogether in length indeed but in Vertue and propriety For as the Unicorn purify'd Pools and Fountains from Filth and Venom so that other Animals came and drank securely there afterwards In the like manner others might water their Nags and dabble after him without fear of Shankers Carnosities Gonorrhaea's Buboes Crinckams and such other Plagues caught by those who venture to quench their Amorous Thirst in a common Puddle for with his Nervous Horn he removed all the Infection that might be lurking in some blind Cranny of the Mepbitic sweet-scented Hole Well

with long Claws and crooked Paws and of terrible Adventures and Monsters there 22 Chap. 8. How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the Fable of the Horse and the Ass 32 Chap. 9. How with much ado we got a sight of the Popehawk 40 Chap. 10. How we arriv'd at the Island of Tools pag 44 Chap. 11. How Pantagruel arriv'd at the Island of Sharping 48 Chap. 12. How we past through the Wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all Archduke of the Furr'd Law-Cats 51 Chap. 13. How Gripe-men-all propounded a Riddle to us 57 Chap. 14. How Panurge solv'd Gripe-men-all's Riddle 61 Chap. 15. How the Furr'd Law-Cats live on Corruption 65 Chap. 16. How Fryar Ihon talks of rooting out the Furr'd Law-Cats 68 Chap. 17. How we went For-wards and how Panurge had like to have been kill'd 76 Chap. 18. How our Ships were stranded and we were reliev'd by some People that were subject to Queen Whims qui tenoient de la Quinte 79 Chap. 19. How we arriv'd at the Queendom of Whims or Entelechy 85 Chap. 20. How the Quintessence cur'd the Sick with a Song 89 Chap. 21. How the Queen pass'd her Time after Dinner 94 Chap. 22. How Queen Whims's Officers were employ'd and how the said Lady retain'd us among her Abstractors 99 Chap. 23. How the Queen was serv'd at Dinner and of her way of eating pag 104 Chap. 24. How there was a Ball in the manner of a Turnament at which Queen Whim was present 108 Chap. 25. How the Thirty two Persons at the Ball fought 112 Chap. 26. How we came to the Island of Odes where the Ways go up and down 122 Chap. 27. How we came to the Island of Sandals or Slaves and of the Order of Semiquaver Fryars 125 Chap. 28. How Panurge ask'd a Semiquaver Fryar many Questions and was only answer'd in Monosyllables 135 Chap. 29. How Epistemon dislik'd the Institution of Lent 146 Chap. 30. How we came to the Land of Satin 151 Chap. 31. How in the Land of Satin we saw Hearsay who kept a School of Vouching 159 Chap. 32. How we came in sight of Lantern-Land 164 Chap. 33. How we landed at the Port of the Lychnobians and came to Lantern-Land 165 Chap. 34. How we arriv'd at the Oracle of the Bottle 167 Chap. 35. How we went Vnder ground to come to the Temple of the Holy-Bottle and how Chinon is the oldest City in the World pag 17● Chap. 36. How we went down the Tetradic Steps and of Panurge's Fear 175 Chap. 37. How the Temple Gates in a wonderful manner open'd of themselves 179 Chap. 38. Of the Temple's admirable Pavement 182 Chap. 39. How we saw Bacchus's Army drawn up in Battalia in Mosaic Work 94 Chap. 40. How the Battel in which the Good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in Mosaic Work 188 Chap. 41. How the Temple was illuminated with a wonderful Lamp 192 Chap. 42. How the Priestess Bacbuc shew'd us a Fantastic Fountain in the Temple 195 Chap. 43. How the Fountain-water had the taste of Wine according to the Imagination of those who drank of it ib Chap. 44. How the Priestess Bacbuc equipt Panurge in order to have the Word of the Bottle 205 Chap. 45. How Bacbuc the High Priestess brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle 208 Chap. 46. How Bacbuc explain'd the Word of the Goddess Bottle 211 Chap. 47. How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetic Fury 214 Chap. 48. How we took our Leave of Bacbuc and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle pag 219 The most Certain True and Infallible Pantagruelian Prognostication OF the Golden Number pag. 227 Chap. 1. Of the Governor and Lords Ascendant this Year 228 Chap. 2. Of the Eclipses this Year 229 Chap. 3. Of the Diseases this Year 230 Chap. 4. Of the Fruits of the Earth this Year 232 Chap. 5. Of the Disposition of the People this Year 233 Chap. 6. Of the Condition of some Countries 239 Of the Four Seasons of the Year Chap. 7. Of the Spring 242 Chap. 8. Of Summer 244 Chap. 9. Of Autumn 245 Chap. 10. Of Winter 246 An Epistle by Pantagruel's Lymosin Grand Excoriator of the Latial Tongue c. pag. 247 The Philosophical Cream of Encyclopedic Questions 254 Two Epistles to Two Women of different Humours To an Old Woman 257 To another Woman of a quite different Humour 260 Letters written by Francis Rabelais M. D. during his stay in Italy in the Year 1536. LEtter 1. To my Lord Bishop of Maillezais pag. 1 Letter 2. 7 Letter 3. pag. 8 Letter 4. 9 Letter 5. 10 Letter 6. ib. 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