Gargantua and Pantagruel | Page 4

François Rabelais
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
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