Motteux

Jervas no doubt prejudiced readers against himself in his preface, where among many true words about Shelton, Stevens, and Motteux, he rashly and unjustly charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but from the Italian version of

Don Quixote 2002

Occasionally (as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

[The words in brackets have been omitted by Motteux.]

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[Motteux reads ‘Joachas.’] the Indian magician, with as much ease as the sun outshines and dims the stars with his meridian rays.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

[This sentence, restored by Ozell, is omitted by Motteux.]

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

This noble beggar has scared me worse than thunder in autumn [Motteux gives ‘than the thunder would do them.’].

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Occasionally (as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The continuation by Motteux, who was also the translator of Don

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Motteux the idea of completing the work, and a second edition, in two volumes, appeared in 1708, with the translation of the fourth and fifth books, and notes.

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Apis, or by the Euboeans, at Rhamnus [Motteux gives ‘or by the Embrians, or at Rhamnus.’], to Rhamnusia, or to Jupiter

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002