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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2

by François Rabelais

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Contents

Book II. Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux
The Second Book. For the Reader
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 judgm
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 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 a-hunting 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 fi
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

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