Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete - The Original Classic Edition. Rabelais François

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       cannon-balls fall out of his hair

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       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

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       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

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       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

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       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

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       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;

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       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

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