Gargantua and Pantagruel. Francois Rabelais
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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.
Chapter 5.XLV.—How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle.
Chapter 5.XLVI.—How Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury.
Chapter 5.XLVII.—How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle.
BOOK II.
He Did Cry Like a Cow—frontispiece
Titlepage
Rabelais Dissecting Society—portrait2
Francois Rabelais—portrait
When the Dogs Have You—2–14-164
Laid a Train of Gunpowder—2–16-168
After Dinner Panurge Went to See Her—2–21-184
Horseman Very Cunningly Vanquished—2–25-192
Striking Them Down As a Mason Does—2–29-204
Epictetus There Making Good Cheer—2–30-208
Seeking of Rusty Pins and Old Nails—2–30-210
BOOK III.
He Did Cry Like a Cow—frontispiece
Titlepage
Rabelais Dissecting Society—portrait2
Francois Rabelais—portrait
Panurge Seeks the Advice of Pantagruel—3–08-240
Found the Old Woman Sitting Alone—3–17-225
The Chamber is Already Full of Devils—3–23-294
Rondibilus the Physician—3–30-322
Altercation Waxed Hot in Words—3–37-346
Bridlegoose—3–39-352
Relateth the History of The Reconcilers—3–41-356
Sucking Very Much at the Purses of The Pleading Parties—3–42-360
Serving in the Place of a Cravat—3–51-386
BOOK IV.
He Did Cry Like a Cow—frontispiece
Titlepage
Rabelais Dissecting Society—portrait2
Francois Rabelais—portrait
Prologue4
My Hatchet, Lord Jupeter—4–00-400
He Comes to Chinon—4–00-406
Cost What They Will, Trade With Me—4–07-420
All of Them Forced to Sea and Drowned—4–08-422
Messire Oudart—4–12-430
Two Old Women Were Weeping and Wailing—4–19-446
Physetere Was Slain by Pantagruel—4–35-472
Pantagruel Arose to Scour the Thicket—4–36-474
Cut the Sausage in Twain—4–41-482
The Devil Came to the Place—4–48-496
Appointed Cows to Furnish Milk—4–51-500
We Were All out of Sorts—4–63-524
BOOK V.
He Did Cry Like a Cow—frontispiece
Titlepage
Rabelais Dissecting Society—portrait2
Francois Rabelais—portrait
The Master of Ringing Island—5–03-544
Furred Law Cats Scrambling After the Crowns—5–13-564
Friar John and Panurge—5–28-600
Humbly Beseech Your Lanternship—5–35-618
Introduction.
Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other things—a mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur, of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personalities and broad generalization, of the comic and the serious, of the impossible and the familiar. Throughout the whole there is such a force of life and thought, such a power of good sense, a kind of assurance so authoritative, that he takes rank with the greatest; and his peers are not many. You may like him or not, may attack