wrote to his son
Gargantua
Chapter 1.
XXX.--How Ulric Gallet was sent unto Picrochole
Chapter 1.
XXXI.--The speech made by Gallet to Picrochole
Chapter 1.
XXXII.--How Grangousier, to buy peace, caused the cakes to be
restored
Chapter 1.
XXXIII.--How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel,
put him in extreme danger
Chapter 1.
XXXIV.--How Gargantua left the city of Paris to succour his country,
and how Gymnast encountered with the enemy
Chapter 1.
XXXV.--How Gymnast very souply and cunningly killed Captain
Tripet and others of Picrochole's men
Chapter 1.
XXXVI.--How Gargantua demolished the castle at the ford of Vede,
and how they passed the ford
Chapter 1.
XXXVII.--How Gargantua, in combing his head, made the great
cannon-balls fall out of his hair
Chapter 1.
XXXVIII.--How Gargantua did eat up six pilgrims in a salad
Chapter 1.
XXXIX.--How the Monk was feasted by Gargantua, and of the jovial
discourse they had at supper
Chapter 1.
XL.--Why monks are the outcasts of the world; and wherefore some
have bigger noses than others
Chapter 1.
XLI.--How the Monk made Gargantua sleep, and of his hours and
breviaries
Chapter 1.
XLII.--How the Monk encouraged his fellow-champions, and how he
hanged upon a tree
Chapter 1.
XLIII.--How the scouts and fore-party of Picrochole were met with by
Gargantua, and how the Monk slew Captain Drawforth, and then was
taken prisoner by his enemies
Chapter 1.
XLIV.--How the Monk rid himself of his keepers, and how Picrochole's
forlorn hope was defeated
Chapter 1.
XLV.--How the Monk carried along with him the Pilgrims, and of the
good words that Grangousier gave them
Chapter 1.
XLVI.--How Grangousier did very kindly entertain Touchfaucet his
prisoner
Chapter 1.
XLVII.--How Grangousier sent for his legions, and how Touchfaucet
slew Rashcalf, and was afterwards executed by the command of
Picrochole
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
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 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
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
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