Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete.

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MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS


FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF

GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL



Translated into English by

Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty

and

Peter Antony Motteux




The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the
first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation. Footnotes initialled 'M.'
are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the
translator. Urquhart's translation of Book III. appeared posthumously in
1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under Motteux's editorship.
Motteux's rendering of Books IV. and V. followed in 1708. Occasionally (as
the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from
the 1738 copy edited by Ozell.



CONTENTS.

Introduction

THE FIRST BOOK.

J. De la Salle, to the Honoured, Noble Translator of Rabelais.

Rablophila

The Author's Prologue to the First Book

Rabelais to the Reader

Chapter 1.I.--Of the Genealogy and Antiquity of Gargantua

Chapter 1.II.--The Antidoted Fanfreluches: or, a Galimatia of extravagant
Conceits found in an ancient Monument

Chapter 1.III.--How Gargantua was carried eleven months in his mother's
belly

Chapter 1.IV.--How Gargamelle, being great with Gargantua, did eat a huge
deal of tripes

Chapter 1.V.--The Discourse of the Drinkers

Chapter 1.VI.--How Gargantua was born in a strange manner

Chapter 1.VII.--After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how
he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can

Chapter 1.VIII.--How they apparelled Gargantua

Chapter 1.IX.--The colours and liveries of Gargantua

Chapter 1.X.--Of that which is signified by the colours white and blue

Chapter 1.XI.--Of the youthful age of Gargantua

Chapter 1.XII.--Of Gargantua's wooden horses

Chapter 1.XIII.--How Gargantua's wonderful understanding became known to
his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech

Chapter 1.XIV.--How Gargantua was taught Latin by a Sophister

Chapter 1.XV.--How Gargantua was put under other schoolmasters

Chapter 1.XVI.--How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the huge great mare
that he rode on; how she destroyed the oxflies of the Beauce

Chapter 1.XVII.--How Gargantua paid his welcome to the Parisians, and how
he took away the great bells of Our Lady's Church

Chapter 1.XVIII.--How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to Gargantua to recover
the great bells

Chapter 1.XIX.--The oration of Master Janotus de Bragmardo for recovery of
the bells

Chapter 1.XX.--How the Sophister carried away his cloth, and how he had a
suit in law against the other masters

Chapter 1.XXI.--The study of Gargantua, according to the discipline of his
schoolmasters the Sophisters

Chapter 1.XXII.--The games of Gargantua

Chapter 1.XXIII.--How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such
sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the day

Chapter 1.XXIV.--How Gargantua spent his time in rainy weather

Chapter 1.XXV.--How there was great strife and debate raised betwixt the
cake-bakers of Lerne, and those of Gargantua's country, whereupon were
waged great wars

Chapter 1.XXVI.--How the inhabitants of Lerne, by the commandment of
Picrochole their king, assaulted the shepherds of Gargantua unexpectedly
and on a sudden

Chapter 1.XXVII.--How a monk of Seville saved the close of the abbey from
being ransacked by the enemy

Chapter 1.XXVIII.--How Picrochole stormed and took by assault the rock
Clermond, and of Grangousier's unwillingness and aversion from the
undertaking of war

Chapter 1.XXIX.--The tenour of the letter which Grangousier 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 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 fisgs little women;
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.

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

Chapter 4.XXXVII.--How Pantagruel sent for Colonel Maul-chitterling and
Colonel Cut-pudding; with a discourse well worth your hearing about the
names of places and persons

Chapter 4.XXXVIII.--How Chitterlings are not to be slighted by men

Chapter 4.XXXIX.--How Friar John joined with the cooks to fight the
Chitterlings

Chapter 4.XL.--How Friar John fitted up the sow; and of the valiant cooks
that went into it

Chapter 4.XLI.--How Pantagruel broke the Chitterlings at the knees

Chapter 4.XLII.--How Pantagruel held a treaty with Niphleseth, Queen of the
Chitterlings

Chapter 4.XLIII.--How Pantagruel went into the island of Ruach

Chapter 4.XLIV.--How small rain lays a high wind

Chapter 4.XLV.--How Pantagruel went ashore in the island of Pope-Figland

Chapter 4.XLVI.--How a junior devil was fooled by a husbandman of Pope-
Figland

Chapter 4.XLVII.--How the devil was deceived by an old woman of Pope-
Figland

Chapter 4.XLVIII.--How Pantagruel went ashore at the island of Papimany

Chapter 4.XLIX.--How Homenas, Bishop of Papimany, showed us the Uranopet
decretals

Chapter 4.L.--How Homenas showed us the archetype, or representation of a
pope

Chapter 4.LI.--Table-talk in praise of the decretals

Chapter 4.LII.--A continuation of the miracles caused by the decretals

Chapter 4.LIII.--How, by the virtue of the decretals, gold is subtilely
drawn out of France to Rome

Chapter 4.LIV.--How Homenas gave Pantagruel some bon-Christian pears

Chapter 4.LV.--How Pantagruel, being at sea, heard various unfrozen words

Chapter 4.LVI.--How among the frozen words Pantagruel found some odd ones

Chapter 4.LVII.--How Pantagruel went ashore at the dwelling of Gaster, the
first master of arts in the world

Chapter 4.LVIII.--How, at the court of the master of ingenuity, Pantagruel
detested the Engastrimythes and the Gastrolaters

Chapter 4.LIX.--Of the ridiculous statue Manduce; and how and what the
Gastrolaters sacrifice to their ventripotent god

Chapter 4.LX.--What the Gastrolaters sacrificed to their god on interlarded
fish-days

Chapter 4.LXI.--How Gaster invented means to get and preserve corn

Chapter 4.LXII.--How Gaster invented an art to avoid being hurt or touched
by cannon-balls

Chapter 4.LXIII.--How Pantagruel fell asleep near the island of Chaneph,
and of the problems proposed to be solved when he waked

Chapter 4.LXIV.--How Pantagruel gave no answer to the problems

Chapter 4.LXV.--How Pantagruel passed the time with his servants

Chapter 4.LXVI.--How, by Pantagruel's order, the Muses were saluted near
the isle of Ganabim

Chapter 4.LXVII.--How Panurge berayed himself for fear; and of the huge cat
Rodilardus, which he took for a puny devil



THE FIFTH BOOK.

The Author's Prologue

Chapter 5.I.--How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the
noise that we heard

Chapter 5.II.--How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines,
who were become birds

Chapter 5.III.--How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island

Chapter 5.IV.--How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers

Chapter 5.V.--Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island

Chapter 5.VI.--How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island

Chapter 5.VII.--How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the
horse and the ass

Chapter 5.VIII.--How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk

Chapter 5.IX.--How we arrived at the island of Tools

Chapter 5.X.--How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping

Chapter 5.XI.--How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all,
Archduke of the Furred Law-cats

Chapter 5.XII.--How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us

Chapter 5.XIII.--How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle

Chapter 5.XIV.--How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption

Chapter 5.XV.--How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats

Chapter 5.XVI.--How Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or
Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures
and monsters there

Chapter 5.XVII.--How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have
been killed

Chapter 5.XVIII.--How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some
people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte)

Chapter 5.XIX.--How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy

Chapter 5.XX.--How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song

Chapter 5.XXI.--How the Queen passed her time after dinner

Chapter 5.XXII.--How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said
lady retained us among her abstractors

Chapter 5.XXIII.--How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of
eating

Chapter 5.XXIV.--How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at
which Queen Whims was present

Chapter 5.XXV.--How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought

Chapter 5.XXVI.--How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up
and down

Chapter 5.XXVII.--How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of
Semiquaver Friars

Chapter 5.XXVIII.--How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and
was only answered in monosyllables

Chapter 5.XXIX.--How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent

Chapter 5.XXX.--How we came to the land of Satin

Chapter 5.XXXI.--How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school
of vouching

Chapter 5.XXXII.--How we came in sight of Lantern-land

Chapter 5.XXXIII.--How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to
Lantern-land

Chapter 5.XXXIV.--How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle

Chapter 5.XXXV.--How we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy
Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world

Chapter 5.XXXVI.--How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's
fear

Chapter 5.XXXVII.--How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of
themselves

Chapter 5.XXXVIII.--Of the temple's admirable pavement

Chapter 5.XXXIX.--How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic
work

Chapter 5.XL.--How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the
Indians was represented in mosaic work

Chapter 5.XLI.--How the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp

Chapter 5.XLII.--How the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in
the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to
the imagination of those who drank of it

Chapter 5.XLIII.--How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to
have the word of the Bottle

Chapter 5.XLIV.--How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the
Holy Bottle