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.

       Table of Contents

      He Did Cry Like a Cow—frontispiece

      Titlepage

      Rabelais Dissecting Society—portrait2

      Francois Rabelais—portrait

       With This I Ran Away—2–13-159

       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

       Table of Contents

      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

       Table of Contents

      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

       Friar John—4–23-452

       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

       Table of Contents

      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

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      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


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