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.
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 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
Chapter 3.XV.--Panurge’s excuse and exposition of the monastic mystery concerning powdered beef
Chapter 3.XVI.--How Pantagruel adviseth Panurge to consult with the Sibyl of Panzoust
Chapter 3.XVII.--How Panurge spoke to the Sibyl of Panzoust
Chapter 3.XVIII.--How Pantagruel and Panurge did diversely expound the verses of the Sibyl of Panzoust
Chapter 3.XIX.--How Pantagruel praiseth the counsel of dumb men
Chapter 3.XX.--How Goatsnose by signs maketh answer to Panurge
Chapter 3.XXI.--How Panurge consulteth with an old French poet, named Raminagrobis
Chapter 3.XXII.--How Panurge patrocinates and defendeth the Order of the Begging Friars
Chapter 3.XXIII.--How Panurge maketh the motion of a return to Raminagrobis
Chapter 3.XXIV.--How Panurge consulteth with Epistemon
Chapter 3.XXV.--How Panurge consulteth with Herr Trippa
Chapter 3.XXVI.--How Panurge consulteth with Friar John of the Funnels
Chapter 3.XXVII.--How Friar John merrily and sportingly counselleth Panurge
Chapter 3.XXVIII.--How Friar John comforteth Panurge in the doubtful matter of cuckoldry
Chapter 3.XXIX.--How Pantagruel convocated together a theologian, physician, lawyer, and philosopher, for extricating Panurge out of the perplexity wherein he was
Chapter 3.XXX.--How the theologue, Hippothadee, giveth counsel to Panurge in the matter and business of his nuptial enterprise
Chapter 3.XXXI.--How the physician Rondibilis counselleth Panurge
Chapter 3.XXXII.--How Rondibilis declareth cuckoldry to be naturally one of the appendances of marriage
Chapter 3.XXXIII.--Rondibilis the physician’s cure of cuckoldry
Chapter 3.XXXIV.--How women ordinarily have the greatest longing after things prohibited
Chapter 3.XXXV.--How the philosopher Trouillogan handleth the difficulty of marriage
Chapter 3.XXXVI.--A continuation of the answer of the Ephectic and Pyrrhonian philosopher Trouillogan
Chapter 3.XXXVII.--How Pantagruel persuaded Panurge to take counsel of a fool
Chapter 3.XXXVIII.--How Triboulet is set forth and blazed by Pantagruel and Panurge
Chapter 3.XXXIX.--How Pantagruel was present at the trial of Judge Bridlegoose, who decided causes and controversies in law by the chance and fortune of the dice
Chapter 3.XL.--How Bridlegoose giveth reasons why he looked upon those law- actions which he decided by the chance of the dice
Chapter 3.XLI.--How Bridlegoose relateth the history of the reconcilers of parties at variance in matters of law
Chapter 3.XLII.--How suits at law are bred at first, and how they come afterwards to their perfect growth
Chapter 3.XLIII.--How Pantagruel excuseth Bridlegoose in the matter of sentencing actions at law by the chance of the dice
Chapter 3.XLIV.--How Pantagruel relateth a strange history of the perplexity of human judgment
Chapter 3.XLV.--How Panurge taketh advice of Triboulet
Chapter 3.XLVI.--How Pantagruel and Panurge diversely interpret the words of Triboulet
Chapter 3.XLVII.--How Pantagruel and Panurge resolved to make a visit to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle
Chapter 3.XLVIII.--How Gargantua showeth that the children ought not to marry without the special knowledge and advice of their fathers and mothers
Chapter 3.XLIX.--How Pantagruel did put himself in a readiness to go to sea; and of the herb named Pantagruelion
Chapter 3.L.--How the famous Pantagruelion ought to be prepared and wrought
Chapter 3.LI.--Why it is called Pantagruelion, and of the admirable virtues thereof
Chapter 3.LII.--How a certain kind of Pantagruelion is of that nature that the fire is not able to consume it
THE FOURTH BOOK.
The Translator’s Preface
The Author’s Epistle Dedicatory
The Author’s Prologue
Chapter 4.I.--How Pantagruel went to sea to visit the oracle of Bacbuc, alias the Holy Bottle
Chapter 4.II.--How Pantagruel bought many rarities in the island of Medamothy
Chapter 4.III.--How Pantagruel received a letter from his father Gargantua, and of the strange way to have speedy news from far distant places
Chapter 4.IV.--How Pantagruel writ to his father Gargantua, and sent him several curiosities
Chapter 4.V.--How Pantagruel met a ship with passengers returning from Lantern-land
Chapter 4.VI.--How, the fray being over, Panurge cheapened one of Dingdong’s sheep
Chapter 4.VII.--Which if you read you’ll find how Panurge bargained with Dingdong
Chapter 4.VIII.--How Panurge caused Dingdong and his sheep to be drowned in the sea
Chapter 4.IX.--How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Ennasin, and of the strange ways of being akin in that country
Chapter 4.X.--How Pantagruel went ashore at the island of Chely, where he saw King St. Panigon
Chapter 4.XI.--Why monks love to be in kitchens
Chapter 4.XII.--How Pantagruel passed by the land of Pettifogging, and of the strange way of living among the Catchpoles
Chapter 4.XIII.--How, like Master Francis Villon, the Lord of Basche commended his servants
Chapter 4.XIV.--A further account of catchpoles who were drubbed at Basche’s house
Chapter 4.XV.--How the ancient custom at nuptials is renewed by the catchpole
Chapter 4.XVI.--How Friar John made trial of the nature of the catchpoles
Chapter 4.XVII.--How Pantagruel came to the islands of Tohu and Bohu; and of the strange death of Wide-nostrils, the swallower of windmills
Chapter 4.XVIII.--How Pantagruel met with a great storm at sea
Chapter 4.XIX.--What countenances Panurge and Friar John kept during the storm
Chapter 4.XX.--How the pilots were forsaking their ships in the greatest stress of weather
Chapter 4.XXI.--A continuation of the storm, with a short discourse on the subject of making testaments at sea
Chapter 4.XXII.--An end of the storm
Chapter 4.XXIII.--How Panurge played the good fellow when the storm was over
Chapter 4.XXIV.--How Panurge was said to have been afraid without reason during the storm
Chapter 4.XXV.--How, after the storm, Pantagruel went on shore in the islands of the Macreons
Chapter 4.XXVI.--How the good Macrobius gave us an account of the mansion and decease of the heroes
Chapter 4.XXVII.--Pantagruel’s discourse of the decease of heroic souls; and of the dreadful prodigies that happened before the death of the late Lord de Langey
Chapter 4.XXVIII.--How Pantagruel related a very sad story of the death of the heroes
Chapter 4.XXIX.--How Pantagruel sailed by the Sneaking Island, where Shrovetide reigned
Chapter 4.XXX.--How Shrovetide is anatomized and described by Xenomanes
Chapter 4.XXXI.--Shrovetide’s outward parts anatomized
Chapter 4.XXXII.--A continuation of Shrovetide’s countenance
Chapter 4.XXXIII.--How Pantagruel discovered a monstrous physeter, or whirlpool, near the Wild Island
Chapter 4.XXXIV.--How the monstrous physeter was slain by Pantagruel
Chapter 4.XXXV.--How Pantagruel went on shore in the Wild Island, the ancient abode of the Chitterlings
Chapter 4.XXXVI.--How the wild Chitterlings laid an ambuscado for Pantagruel