Gargantua and Pantagruel eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,126 pages of information about Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Gargantua and Pantagruel eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,126 pages of information about Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Caviare. tops, bishop’s-cods, Red herrings. 
Botargoes. celery, chives, ram- Pilchards. 
Fresh butter. pions, jew’s-ears (a Anchovies. 
Pease soup. sort of mushrooms Fry of tunny. 
Spinach. that sprout out of Cauliflowers. 
Fresh herrings, full old elders), spara- Beans.
  roed. gus, wood-bind, Salt salmon. 
Salads, a hundred and a world of Pickled grigs.
  varieties, of cres- others.  Oysters in the shell.
  ses, sodden hop-

Then he must drink, or the devil would gripe him at the throat; this, therefore, they take care to prevent, and nothing is wanting.  Which being done, they give him lampreys with hippocras sauce: 

Gurnards.  Thornbacks.  Fried oysters. 
Salmon trouts.  Sleeves.  Cockles. 
Barbels, great and Sturgeons.  Prawns.
  small.  Sheath-fish.  Smelts. 
Roaches.  Mackerels.  Rock-fish. 
Cockerels.  Maids.  Gracious lords. 
Minnows.  Plaice.  Sword-fish. 
Skate-fish.  Sharplings.  Soles. 
Lamprels.  Tunnies.  Mussels. 
Jegs.  Silver eels.  Lobsters. 
Pickerels.  Chevins.  Great prawns. 
Golden carps.  Crayfish.  Dace. 
Burbates.  Pallours.  Bleaks. 
Salmons.  Shrimps.  Tenches. 
Salmon-peels.  Congers.  Ombres. 
Dolphins.  Porpoises.  Fresh cods. 
Barn trouts.  Bases.  Dried melwels. 
Miller’s-thumbs.  Shads.  Darefish. 
Precks.  Murenes, a sort of Fausens, and grigs. 
Bret-fish. lampreys.  Eel-pouts. 
Flounders.  Graylings.  Tortoises. 
Sea-nettles.  Smys.  Serpents, i.e. wood-
Mullets.  Turbots. eels. 
Gudgeons.  Trout, not above a Dories. 
Dabs and sandings. foot long.  Moor-game. 
Haddocks.  Salmons.  Perches. 
Carps.  Meagers.  Loaches. 
Pikes.  Sea-breams.  Crab-fish. 
Bottitoes.  Halibuts.  Snails and whelks. 
Rochets.  Dog’s tongue, or kind Frogs. 
Sea-bears. fool.

If, when he had crammed all this down his guttural trapdoor, 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 sacrificed to him haberdines, poor-jack, minglemangled, mismashed, &c.

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