The Comic Romance of Monsieur Scarron Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1775 edition. Excerpt: ... G H A P. XIV. How she curate of Domfront was carried away. THOSE who have had so much spare time to throw away upon the reading of the foregoing chapters, may remember, if they have not forgot it, that the curate of Domfront was in one of. those litters, which met four in a company in a little village, by an accident which perhaps had never happened be- fore; though every one knows four littersmay sooner meet together than four mountains. This curate then, who lodged in the same inn where our players quartered, having had a consultation of the physicians of Mans about his disease, and be ing told by those grave doctors in very elegant Latin, that he was troubled with; the gravel, which the poor man knew but too well before; and likewise having dispatched some business which never came to my knowledge: this good priest, I, say, having done all this, set out from that inn about nine o'clock in the morning, to return to the spiritual conduct of. his flock. One of his nieces, dressed like ac a gentlewoman, but whether flie was fa or not, signifies little, placed herself at the fore part of the litter, at the good man's feet, who was very thick and short. A pealant, by name William, led the fore-horse by the bridle, by special order from the curate, for fear he should stumble; and the curate's servant, one Julian, took care to drive the hinder; which was however so restive, that he was often obliged to push him forward with his shoulders. The curate's chamber-pot, which was of yellow brass, and glittered like gold, having been newly scoured in the inn, hung on the right fide of the litter, which made it look more magnificent than the left, which was only adorned with a hat in a pasteboard case, which the curate had received from the Paris...