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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

Vow Perhaps this is also design'd to ridicule the Vows and behaviour of Seamen in a Storm Pantagruell's holding the Mast of the Ship tight with both his hands all the while by the Skipper's advice implies that as the Family of Navarre and particularly Anthony of B●urbon was best able to protect the Great Ones who were imbark'd together for a Reformation it was fit he should do it with all his Power and accordingly Du Tillet tells us that none but Miserables poor Wretches suffer'd If any one will say that perhaps Rabelais did not in this Voyage mean any particular Persons I hope at least they 'll grant he has admirably describ'd the different Behaviour of most men in danger and chiefly in persecuting Times On Chapter 25 26 27 and 28. THE Island of the Macreons where the Fleet went into Harbour after the Storm signifies the Island where men are long-liv'd It s Eldest Elderman is nam'd Ma●rob●us or long-liv'd We are told in the 26th Chapter that it was in the Dominions of the Ruler of Britain consequently it was a safe Port against the Tempest of Persecution the Reformation being openly profess'd at that time in England under King Edward the Sixth This causes Rabelais to make his persecuted Fleet take shelter there and to say that men liv'd long in that Island because none were put to death on account of their Religion The Ruins of Temples Obelisks Pyramids Ancient Tombs and Monuments which they see there denote the Decay Downfal and Ruin of Popery unfrequented and left in a dismal solitude The Souls of the Heroes who are lodg'd in those Ruin'd Mansions are the true Christians who had cast off the Yoke of Popery and of the blind Worship of Saints many of them Fabulous to which the Superstition of the Papists had made them raise Temples Obelisks and Monuments as formerly the Heathens did to their false gods The Old Macrobius says That the Death of one of those Heroes had occasion'd the Storm by which our Author gives us to understand that Troubles and Commotions are often rais'd in Kingdoms at the death of those Eminent Persons who have govern'd them under their Kings and probably he may have had a mind to mark the death of Margaret de Valois Queen of Navarre Sister to King Francis the first which happen'd towards the latter end of the Year 1549. about a year after the Lady Jane d' Albret Princess of Navarre had been married to Anthony de Bourbon Duke of Vendosme Rabelais's Pantagruel That Princess who had always protected the Reformers and the Reform'd as has been observ'd in the Preface to the first Three Books was not less eminent by her Piety Wit Learning and Virtue than by her Royal Extraction Valentine d' Alsmois a French Lady made the following Epitath for her Musarum decima Charitum quarta inclyta Regum Et soror conjux Margaris illa jacet On Chapter 29 30 31 and 32. THE Sneaking Island which Pantagruel sail'd by when he left that of the Macreons is the Dwelling of Shrovetide by which we must understand Lent For the Ecclesiastics of the Church of Rome begin their Lent before the Layity Shrove-tuesday is to them a Day of Humiliation and is properly the time when men are shriven Our Author calls it Quaresmeprenant that is the Beginning of Quadragesima in opposition to Mardigras Shrovetuesday The Cardinal de Lorraine says a Book call'd l' Heraclite Francois made three Clergymen in a manner Titular Bishops of Metz Toul and Verdun reserving the whole Income of those Bishopricks to himself and leaving them little of them besides the Title of Bishops For this reason they were call'd les Evesques de Caresmeprenant because they look'd as meager and starv'd as if it had been Lent with them all the year But I cannot think that our Author reflects here on that Cardinal His Design seems rather to expose the Superstition of the Papists about Lent and how much the practise of it their way shock'd good Sense This made him run on for two or three Chapters with an odd description of that Ridiculous Monster and probably also to secure himself from the Informations of his Prying Enemies by that mixture of Comical seeming Nonsense For as in the time of Lent the Superstition Grimaces and Hypocrisy of the Papists are most observable and they look on it in a manner as the Basis of the Christian Religion 't would have been dangerous to have attack'd them openly in Point We find that the wise Xenomanes one of Pantagruel's most experienced Companions advises him not to go where Shrovetide reign'd and says it would be much out of their way to the Oracle of Truth that there is very lean Cheer at his Court that he is a double Shaveling Banner-bearer to the Fish-eating Tribe a Flogger of little Children because Papists do pennance and whip themselves then a Calciner of Ashes because of Ash-wednesday that he swarms with Pardons Indulgences and Stations which makes the Author say in the 31st Chapter that Shrovetide being married to Mid-lent only begot a good number of Local Adverbs that is the Stations the Churches and Chappels whither the gull'd Mob must go whence they come and through which they must pass to gain the Indulgences We are told besides that he never assists at Weddings but give the Devil his d●e the most industrious Larding-stick and Scure-maker in forty Kingdoms because the Butchers have then little else to do but to make some Lent is an Enemy to Sawsidges and Chitterlings because as well as all other Flesh I mean dead Flesh the People are forbid to taste of any then Friar Ihon always daring and hasty is for destroying Lent but Panurge still fearful and wary is not of his mind Rabelais calls that Island Tapinois that word in French is generally us'd adverbially with the Preposition en to signify an underhand way of acting Some derive it from the Greek Verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 humilem reddo and so it suits with the true design of Lent to humble man and make him look sneakingly Besides Lent sneaking in some years sooner and others later may also for that reason well be said to dwell in Tapinois The Ingenious Fable of Nature and her Counterpart is brought i● to shew that those who enjoin things that shock Nature as is the Church of Rome ●s way of keeping Lent have the confidence 〈◊〉 make Laws contrary to those of God and the Impudence to pretend to justify them by Reason So Rabelais tells us That Antiphysts the Mother of L●nt begot also th● Evesdropping Dissen●●●●rs Superstitious Pop●mongers and Priest-ridden Bigots Scrapers of Benefices mad Herb-stinking Hermits Gulligutted Dunces of the Coul Church-vermin Devourers of the Substance of men and other deform'd and ill-favour'd Monsters made in spight of Nature On Chapter 33 and 34. THE Monstrous Physeter or Whirlpool a huge Fish which dies of the Wounds given him by Pantagruel near the Wild Island where liv'd

never heard to crow there CHAP. LXIII How Pantagruel fell asleep near the Island of Chaneph and of the Problems propos'd to be solv'd when he wak'd THE next day merrily pursuing our Voyage we came in sight of the Island of Chan●ph where Pantagruel's Ship could not arrive the Wind chopping about and then failing us so that we were becalm'd and could hardly get o' head tacking about from Starboard to La●board and from Latboard to Starboard tho to our Sails we had added Drablers With this accident we were all out of sorts moping drooping metagrabolized as dull as Dun in the Mire in Csol fa ut flat out of Tune off the hinges and I don't know howish without caring to speak one single syllable to each other Pantagruel was taking a Nap slumbering and nodding on the Quarter-deck by the Cuddy with an Heliodorus in his hand for still 't was his custom to sleep better by Book than by Heart Epistemon was Conjuring with his Astrolabe to know what Latitude we were in Fryar Ihon was got into the Cook-room examining by the Ascendant of the Spits and the Horoscope of Ragousts and Fricassees what time o' day it might then be Panurge sweet Baby held a stalk of Pantagruelion alias Hemp next his Tongue and with it made pretty Bubbles and Bladders Gymnast was making Tooth-pickers with Lentisk Ponocrates dozing doz'd and dreaming dream'd tickled himself to make himself laugh and with one Finger scratch'd his Noddle where it did not itch Carpalim with a Nut-shell and a Trencher of Verne that 's a Card in Gascony was making a pretty little merry Wind-mill cutting the Card long-ways into four slips and fastning them with a Pin to the Convex of the Nut and its Concave to the tarr'd side of the Gunnel of the Ship Eusthenes bestriding one of the Guns was playing on it with his Fingers as if it had been a Trump-marine Rhizotome with the soft Coat of a Field-Tortoise alias eclip'd a Mole was making himself a Velvet Purse Xenomanes was patching up an old weather-beaten Lantern with a Hawk's Jesses Our Pilot good Man was pulling Maggots out of the Seamen's Noses At last Fryar Ihon returning from the Fore-castle perceiv'd that Pantagruel was awake Then breaking this obstinate silence he briskly and cheerfully ask'd him how a Man should kill Time and raise good Weather during a Calm at Sea Panurge whose Belly thought his Throat cut back'd the Motion presently and ask'd for a Pill to purge Melancholy Epistemon also came on and ask'd how a Man might be ready to bepiss himself with Laughing when he has no heart to be merry Gymnast arising demanded a Remedy for a dimness of Eyes Ponocrates after he had a while rub'd his Noddle and shak'd his Ears ask'd How one might avoid Dog-sleep Hold cry'd Pantagruel the Peripateticks have wisely made a Rule that all Problems Questions and Doubts which are offer'd to be solv'd ought to be certain clear and intelligible what do you mean by Dog-sleep I mean answer'd Ponocrates to sleep fasting in the Sun at Noon-day as the Dogs do Rhizotome who lay stooping on the Pump rais'd his drowsy Head and lazily yawning by natural sympathy set almost every one in the Ship a yawning too then ask'd for a Remedy against Oscitations and Gapings Xenomanes half puzzled and tir'd out with new vamping his antiquated Lantern ask'd How the Hold of the Stomach might be so well ballasted and freighted from the Keel to the Main hatch with stores well stowed that our humane Vessels might not heeld or be walt but well trimm'd and stiff Carpalim twirling his diminutive Wind-mill ask'd how many Motions are to be felt in Nature before a Gentleman may be said to be hungry Eusthenes hearing them talk came from between Decks and from the Capstern call'd out to know why a Man that 's fasting bit by a Serpent also fasting is in greater danger of death than when Man and Serpent have eat their Breakfasts Why a Man's fasting-spittle is poysonous to Serpents and venemous Creatures One single solution may serve for all your Problems Gentlemen answer'd Pantagruel and one single Medicine for all such symptoms and accidents My answer shall be short not to the you with a long needless train of pedantick Cant The Belly has no Ears nor is it to be fill'd with fair words you shall be answer'd to content by signs and gestures As formerly at Rome Tarquin the Proud its last King sent an answer by signs to his Son Sextus who was among the Gabii saying this he pull'd the string of a little Bell and Fryar Ihon hurried away to the Cock-room The Son having sent his Father a Messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection the King mistrusting the Messenger made him no answer and only took him into his Privy-garden and in his presence with his Sword lopt off the Heads o● the tall Poppies that were there The Express return'd without any other dispatch yet having related to the Prince what he had seen his Father do he easily understood that by those signs he advis'd him to cut off the Heads of the chief Men in the Town the better to keep under the rest of the people CHAP. LXIV How Pantagruel gave no answer to the Problems PAntagruel then ask'd what sorts of people dwell'd in that Damn'd Island They are answer'd Xenomanes all Hypocrites holy Mountebanks Tumblers of Beads Mumblers of Ave Maries spiritual Comedians sham Saints Hermits all of them poor Rogues who like the Hermit of Lormont between Blaye and Bordeaux live wholly on Alms given them by Passengers Catch me there if you can cry'd Panurge may the Devil's Head-cook conjure my Bum-gut into a pair of Bellows if ever you find me among them Hermits sham Saints living Forms of Mortification holy Mountebanks avaunt in the Name of your Father Sathan get out of my sight when the Devil 's a Hog you shall eat Bacon I shall not forget yet a while our fat Concilipetes of Chesil O that Beelzebub and Astaroth had counsell'd them to hang themselves out of the way and they had do●e't we had not then suffer'd so much by devilish Storms as we did for having seen ' em Harkee me dear Rogue Xenomanes my Friend I pr'y thee are these He●●●i●s Hypocrites and Eves-droppers Maids ●r Married Is there any thing of the Feminine Gender among them Could a Body Hypocritically take there a small hypocritical Touch Will they lye backwards and let out their fore-rooms There 's a fine question to be ask'd cry'd Pantagruel Yes yes answer'd Xenomanes you may find there many goodly Hypocritesses ●olly spiritual Actresses kind Hermitesses Women that have a plaguy deal of Religion then there 's the Copies of 'em little Hypocritillons Sham-sanctitos and Hermitillons Foh away with them cry'd Fryar Ihon a young Saint an old Devil mark this an old saying and as true a one as a young Whore an old Saint Were there not such continu'd Xenomanes the