Gargantua and Pantagruel | Page 2

François Rabelais
in a salad

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XXXIX.--How the Monk was feasted by Gargantua, and of the jovial discourse they had at supper

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XL.--Why monks are the outcasts of the world; and wherefore some have bigger noses than others

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XLI.--How the Monk made Gargantua sleep, and of his hours and breviaries

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XLII.--How the Monk encouraged his fellow-champions, and how he hanged upon a tree

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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

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XLIV.--How the Monk rid himself of his keepers, and how Picrochole's forlorn hope was defeated

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XLV.--How the Monk carried along with him the Pilgrims, and of the good words that Grangousier gave them

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XLVI.--How Grangousier did very kindly entertain Touchfaucet his prisoner

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XLVII.--How Grangousier sent for his legions, and how Touchfaucet slew Rashcalf, and was afterwards executed by the command of Picrochole

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XLVIII.--How Gargantua set upon Picrochole within the rock Clermond, and utterly defeated the army of the said Picrochole

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XLIX.--How Picrochole in his flight fell into great misfortunes, and what Gargantua did after the battle

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L.--Gargantua's speech to the vanquished

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LI.--How the victorious Gargantuists were recompensed after the battle

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LII.--How Gargantua caused to be built for the Monk the Abbey of Theleme

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LIII.--How the abbey of the Thelemites was built and endowed

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LIV.--The inscription set upon the great gate of Theleme

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LV.--What manner of dwelling the Thelemites had

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LVI.--How the men and women of the religious order of Theleme were apparelled

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LVII.--How the Thelemites were governed, and of their manner of living

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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

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III.--Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec

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IV.--Of the infancy of Pantagruel

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V.--Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age

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VI.--How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language

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VII.--How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor

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VIII.--How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them

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IX.--How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime

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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

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XI.--How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney

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XII.--How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel

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XIII.--How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords

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XIV.--How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks

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XV.--How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris

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XVI.--Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge

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XVII.--How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris

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XVIII.--How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge

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XIX.--How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs

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XX.--How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge

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XXI.--How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris

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XXII.--How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well

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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

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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

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XXV.--How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly

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XXVI.--How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison

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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

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XXVIII.--How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants

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XXIX.--How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain

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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

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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

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XXXII.--How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth

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