Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete - The Original Classic Edition. Rabelais François
Chapter 1.XLVIII.--How Gargantua set upon Picrochole within the rock
Clermond, and utterly defeated the army of the said Picrochole
Chapter 1.XLIX.--How Picrochole in his flight fell into great misfortunes,
and what Gargantua did after the battle
Chapter 1.L.--Gargantua's speech to the vanquished
Chapter 1.LI.--How the victorious Gargantuists were recompensed after the battle
Chapter 1.LII.--How Gargantua caused to be built for the Monk the Abbey of
Theleme
Chapter 1.LIII.--How the abbey of the Thelemites was built and endowed Chapter 1.LIV.--The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme Chapter 1.LV.--What manner of dwelling the Thelemites had
Chapter 1.LVI.--How the men and women of the religious order of Theleme were apparelled
Chapter 1.LVII.--How the Thelemites were governed, and of their manner of living
Chapter 1.LVIII.--A prophetical Riddle
8
THE SECOND BOOK.
For the Reader
Mr. Hugh Salel to Rabelais
The Author's Prologue
Chapter 2.I.--Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel
Chapter 2.II.--Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel
Chapter 2.III.--Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec
Chapter 2.IV.--Of the infancy of Pantagruel
Chapter 2.V.--Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age
Chapter 2.VI.--How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language
Chapter 2.VII.--How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor
Chapter 2.VIII.--How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his
9
father Gargantua, and the copy of them
Chapter 2.IX.--How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime
Chapter 2.X.--How Pantagruel judged so equitably of a controversy, which was wonderfully obscure and difficult, that, by reason of his just decree therein, he was reputed to have a most admirable judgment
Chapter 2.XI.--How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before
Pantagruel without an attorney
Chapter 2.XII.--How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel
Chapter 2.XIII.--How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords
Chapter 2.XIV.--How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks
Chapter 2.XV.--How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of
Paris
Chapter 2.XVI.--Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge
Chapter 2.XVII.--How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris
Chapter 2.XVIII.--How a great scholar of England would have argued against
Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge
10
Chapter 2.XIX.--How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs
Chapter 2.XX.--How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge
Chapter 2.XXI.--How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris
Chapter 2.XXII.--How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well
Chapter 2.XXIII.--How Pantagruel departed from Paris, hearing news that the Dipsodes had invaded the land of the Amaurots; and the cause wherefore the leagues are so short in France
Chapter 2.XXIV.--A letter which a messenger brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, together with the exposition of a posy written in a gold
ring
Chapter 2.XXV.--How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly
Chapter 2.XXVI.--How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still
salt meats; and how Carpalin went ahunting to have some venison
Chapter 2.XXVII.--How Pantagruel set up one trophy in memorial of their valour, and Panurge another in remembrance of the hares. How Pantagruel likewise with his farts begat little men, and with his fisgs little women;
11
and how Panurge broke a great staff over two glasses
Chapter 2.XXVIII.--How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the
Dipsodes and the Giants
Chapter 2.XXIX.--How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed
with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain
Chapter 2.XXX.--How Epistemon, who had his head cut off, was finely healed by Panurge, and of the news which he brought from the devils, and of the damned people in hell
Chapter 2.XXXI.--How Pantagruel entered into the city of the Amaurots, and how Panurge married King Anarchus to an old lantern-carrying hag, and made him a crier of green sauce
Chapter 2.XXXII.--How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth
Chapter 2.XXXIII.--How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered
Chapter 2.XXXIV.--The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author
THE THIRD BOOK.
12
Francois Rabelais to the Soul of the Deceased Queen of Navarre
The Author's Prologue
Chapter 3.I.--How Pantagruel transported a colony of Utopians into Dipsody
Chapter 3.II.--How Panurge was made Laird of Salmigondin in Dipsody, and
did waste his revenue before it came in
Chapter 3.III.--How Panurge praiseth the debtors and borrowers
Chapter 3.IV.--Panurge continueth his discourse in the praise of borrowers
and lenders
Chapter 3.V.--How Pantagruel altogether abhorreth the debtors and borrowers Chapter 3.VI.--Why new married men were privileged from going to the wars Chapter 3.VII.--How Panurge had a flea in his ear, and forbore to wear any
longer his magnificent codpiece
Chapter 3.VIII.--Why the codpiece is held to be the chief piece of armour
amongst warriors
Chapter 3.IX.--How Panurge asketh counsel of Pantagruel whether he should
marry, yea, or no
Chapter 3.X.--How Pantagruel representeth unto Panurge the difficulty of giving advice in the matter of marriage; and to that purpose mentioneth
13
somewhat of the Homeric and Virgilian lotteries
Chapter 3.XI.--How Pantagruel showeth the trial of one's fortune by the
throwing of dice to be unlawful
Chapter 3.XII.--How Pantagruel doth explore by the Virgilian lottery what
fortune Panurge shall have in his marriage
Chapter 3.XIII.--How Pantagruel adviseth Panurge to try the future good or
bad luck of his marriage by dreams
Chapter 3.XIV.--Panurge's dream, with the interpretation thereof